Part 1 of Essay
The dictionary defines civilized as "advanced in social customs, art, and science". The keyword here is social customs. A persons idea of what is civilized is relative to his culture. Through out the history of man, one can see many changes in customs, and customs is what defines our idea of what is civilized. The wor ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... head. Even today in Japan, tradition says that women are supposed to walk ten feet behind their husbands. This may seem like demeaning women to us but who are we to judge when the United States has had a long history of racial and ethnic discrimination and only now are we changing. The society in Brave New World has not lost their values but has simple changed their idea of what is right and wrong. After all, how much have we changed in the past 600 years. Six-hundred years ago in England, we killed peop ....