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In the community of Twin Oaks people weren't racist or sexist. They treated people with caring manner. The community made money by selling handcrafted hammocks and other furniture. They were still connected to the world they listen to the radio and read newspapers. No television though some videos and films. Everyone worked 42 hours a week and were given food, healthcare and some personal spending money.

Twin oaks and Icaria are similar in some ways but also very different. In Twin Oaks they are connected to the world and do offer much more then Icaria. In Icaria people ended up sick and the community couldn't help them. Twin Oaks was able to stay running unlike Icaria.

Icaria, Nauvoo Illinois vs. Twin Oaks, Lousia Virgina

By:Dani Noack

Steps they took to achieve this community.

How it ended

Twin Oaks

Icaria

Steps they took to achieve it

Some of the first people started pooling money together. They came up with $2,000 to buy 123 acres of land. Small business and small farms were formed to get them going.

Founder: Etienne Cabet

Year started: 1848

Year ended: 1898

People started hearing things about a better place. They then started moving west and kept to some of the same ways. Also the people of Icaria didn't want to get stuck with the debt.

They bought land from the Mormons. They also tried to eschew money and private property.

Founder: Kathleen Kinkade

Year started: 1967

Year Ended: Still happening today

Extra: What the community was like

What caused these people to start a utopia?

Problems they encountered

Why did they try to form a utopia?

The people of Icaria started to become very ill with Malaria and didn't have any medicine to cure it. They also had big financial and political problems.

The people of Icaria wanted a place that was a "truly second promised land, and Eden, and Elysium and a new earthly paradise."

In Icaria the people had communal meals. At the age of 4 children left their parents and went to a boarding school. The only time they were aloud to go home was on Sunday for a few hours. There was no set religion but they all met up to talk about the Christian morality. Everyone was taught to love the community not their family. At the weekly assemblies women and men both had equal voices.

They wanted a lifestyle that reflected their values of equality and nonviolence. Also wanted to make a model of human scale solutions to problems of land use, food production, energy conservation and good use of technology. They got inspired by B.F. Skinners novel "Walden Two".

Twin Oaks, and Icaria

Extra: What the community was like

They didn't mention having any problems and it didn't end because it is still happening.

Bibliography

The End!

"America and the utopian Dream" Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

December 10, 2013

http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/utopia/uc11.html

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