Part one of term paper
was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to have kept nearly all of it’s meaning for the past 67 years, mostly because of its story of a tightly controlled, homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant today as in 1932, perhaps more so. Reproductive technolo ...

Part two of term paper
... the potential of becoming a separate but identical embryo. These buds are then subjected to various chemicals such as alcohol, until they also "bud". This process is repeated many times until an average harvest of 11,000 identical embryos can be created from one egg. These 11,000 identical embryos become a "Bokanovsky group". Each embryo is then bottled, labelled and sent down the conveyor belt to the "Social Predestination Room". It is here that they are given a caste designation (Alpha, Beta, Del ...