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 question “why should anyone care about my research?” is perfectly fair. It’s not like I’ve learned or uncovered anything groundbreaking that will redefine the way we understand the world and humanity. However, that’s n…
I feel that I have learned quite a bit after further researching Robert Owen’s New Harmony community. I originally wanted to focus my research on why New Harmony did not withstand the test of time, and why social utopian communities never seem to…
What intrigues me about Robert Owen’s New Harmony community is how and why it did not last. We have discussed many examples of utopias and where we have seen elements of utopia throughout history. We have only looked at conceptual ideas of utop…
I think an exceptionally important premise that has evolved from this course that studies utopias is that these perfect societies did/do not actually exist. We have analyzed readings and books and case studies, all about individuals striving to create …
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…
A lot of my research has helped me explore my interests and meander between topics. After reading the first Foster source I really enjoyed the style of writing and so I sought out another source from Foster entitled Free Love and Feminism. This delved …
When I first came up with my initial research question, I began looking through the primary sources to see one that fits best. However, looking at the sources made me realize my initial question “how did Noyes’ idea of Heaven on Earth lead …
How did this week’s research help me come to my final research question?
From the time I read the primary resource, I have strong interest in the education function that Owen using in his new community. As a finding father of kindergarten, Owen’…
When I started researching more about the Fourierest publications, I decided to settle on a specific one. Although they had a few circulating at the time, The Harbinger was a newspaper specific to Brook Farm. Starting the newspaper was an idea initia…