Doyle
English 101 Section 3500
Professor Cathey
September 26, 2006
World peace, an ideal immortalized in songs by idols such as John Lennon and Edwin Starr. Americans may be familiar with the term from simple beauty pageants wherein contestants wish for world peace in order to appeal to judge's expectations. But is it plausible? Well in order to answer this question, one must ask even more.
To discover whether or not world peace is truly able to exist we must define what is meant by the term. If by world peace we imply Utopianism, we perceive a conflict-free society. This may be seen as improbable due to the changing in circumstance and action of human beings. But in order to be a conflict-free people it would either require us to be totally independent from one another or to lose our individuality, which characteristically makes us human.
To translate the word utopia, which comes from Greek, one would find that it can mean either of two things. Utopia can be......
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