utopia

Utopia

·         Based on my own knowledge utopia to me is the perfect place or the perfect world.

·         The internet definition of utopia is: often Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.
A work of fiction describing a utopia.
An impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform.
also Utopia - utopia: any ideal place or state, esp. in its laws and social conditions; any visionary, sometimes impractical scheme for social improvement.(source: http://www.answers.com/topic/utopia)

·         Internet pages relating to Utopia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

http://utopia-game.com/shared/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29

http://www.safarinow.com/go/Utopia

 http://www.sleeping-out.co.za/member_details-MemberID-1068.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042210/

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/utopia

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utopia

http://www.roomsforafrica.com/establishment.do?id=1038

·         With the search of utopia I found that there is some places that they describe as utopia for holidays and also what I found is that Utopia is placed in the New World and More links Raphael's travels in with Amerigo Vespucci's real life voyages of discovery. He suggests that Raphael is one of the 24 men Vespucci, in his Four Voyages of 1507, says he left for six months at Cabo Frio, Brazil. Raphael then travels further and finds the island of Utopia, where he spends five years observing the customs of the natives.

According to More, the island of Utopia is two hundred miles across in the middle part, where it is widest and nowhere much narrower than this except towards the two ends, where it gradually tapers. These ends, curved round as if completing a circle five hundred miles circumference, make the island crescent-shaped, like a new moon.(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29)

·         It was difficult because utopia can mean so many different things so i just went with the one source that can define and explain utopia and that was the Wikipedia one.

·         In this case the context is important when searching for utopia there is allot of vacation places that use the word utopia to describe their resorts so the context of some of the internet pages where pretty un-useful.

Some images that relates to the word utopia:

 

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·         The site that interested me the most was “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28book%29”.