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Lesson 4-Wisdom of Bear Wood I.Author Stephen Leacock(1869-1944)was born in England but at the age of 7,moved with his parents to Canada,where he spent most of his life.But it was in America at the University of Chicago that he completed his formal education in economics and political science before returning to Canada to begin his career as a professor at McGill University.During his life time,he wrote over 40 books,half of which were on serious matters.But it was the other half that won him the fame as one of the outstanding humorists of the English-speaking world. The end of Author. BACK

W B T L E Stephen Leacock (1869—1944) was born in England ,but at the age of 7,moved with his parents to Canada, where he spent most of his life. But it was in America at the University of Chicago that he completed his formal education in economics and political science before returning to Canada to begin his career as a professor at McGill University. During his life time , he wrote over 40 books , half of which were on serious matters . But it was the other half that won him the fame as one of the outstanding humorists of the English-speaking world. Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood I. Author The end of Author

Lesson 4-Wisdom of Bear Wood II. Utopian and dystopia Utopian people who tend to paint rosy pictures of the world's future and believed that human wisdom would give us happy solutions to all our problems. Dystopia it is a fictional society,usually described as existing in a future time when the conditions of life are extremely bad due to deprivation,oppression,or terror. Most dystopian fiction takes place in the future but often purposely incorporates contemporary social trends taken to extremes.Dystopias are frequently written as warnings,or as satires,showing current trends leading to a nightmarish conclusion. WB T L E To be continued on the next page

W B T L E Utopian :people who tend to paint rosy pictures of the world’s future and believed that human wisdom would give us happy solutions to all our problems. Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood II. Utopian and dystopia To be continued on the next page. Dystopia :it is a fictional society , usually described as existing in a future time ,when the conditions of life are extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror. Most dystopian fiction takes place in the future but often purposely incorporates contemporary social trends taken to extremes. Dystopias are frequently written as warnings, or as satires, showing current trends leading to a nightmarish conclusion

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