After having learned about social utopias both past and present, it changes my interepretation of my sources. It helps me to understand that utopais change overtime and that what may have been a utopia is defintetly not a utopia now. Also even though t…
Throughout this semester we have been challenged to interpret and discuss utopia – often in the purest and most original forms, as seen with More and Rousseau. But the actual implementation of utopia is much more complicated and muddy. Through my…
One of the biggest issues I had at the beginning of this semester was the idea of utopia. Fundamentally, I, personally, don’t think it is possible, viable, or reasonable. So as I have researched and discusses the Icarians, my stance on the …
Icaria is defined as a utopian community, but is it truly a utopia. I would argue that for the time Icaria was a utopia, especially for women. However, by today’s standards it is no where near a utopia. Women at the time were given many rights su…
Aside from organizing my information in chronological order I can organize my information by importance. Marie’s first hand account of being a female is particularly important as it and my other source on women will be the basis of information fo…
I organized my information centered on themes. Since Cabet’s teachings stand in the middle of my argument, I take different aspects of his writings and arguments and build my points around his themes. Most central (and the main focus of my pa…
Why should anyone care if Icarian women were happy with their society. Well I believe that the Icarian society was ahead of its time when it comes to women’s rights. Women having an education and having a say in government was very rare during …
The Icarians. No one really has ever heard of them. Why spend so much time to learn about a detailed aspect of the lives of a group of people who had too much internal strife to survive even half a century? Mankind has always searched for the perfect…
After having read my background source on the Icarian community I found the idea of the Icarian culture quite interesting. The background source had mentioned festivals and music which interested me quite a bit as I was curious to whether these cultura…
“How did this research help me come to my final research question?” Reflect on the ways the workshop shaped your topic and refined your research question.
Having a good source is one thing, but knowing how to use it is different, and knowing how to…