isting ones, one turns to reform to seek their utopia. Mao Zedong, Peter the Great, Thomas Jefferson, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr all used reform to try and attain their utopia.While Mao tried to do away with the "four olds" of ancient China and turn toward a Communist society, Peter the Great was more interested in gaining ideas from the west and modernizing to their standards. Both Jefferson and King had ideas of freedom and equality in mind when they presented their reforms. (However Jefferson and King probably had different ideas on equality.) Reform is a more modern tool than conquest. Reform is often geared towards a group utopia as opposed to a personal utopia. Conquest normally satisfys no one but the conqueror, whereas reform is ordinarily beneficial to the general public. Reform can happen on a small scale or a large scale. Mao certainly acheived reform on a large scale by reforming an entire country's governmental system. The theatre department at Newton North High School, however, acheived reform on a large scale when they made the Senior Cup award available to any student, not just athletes.Isolation is another technique that is rarely used, but used nonetheless to acheive utopia. The Native Americans, and Japanese emperor Tokugawa achieved isolation in order to accomplish utopia for their civilization. The Native Americans did not attempt to conquer any lands, nor did they feel it necesarry to reform their ways. The only major problem that they encountered was the invasion of their land by the Explorers. Ever since they have seeked isolation from the ever-growing civilization around them. Because they were inferior to their conquerors technologically, isolation was their only hope to survive. Emperor Tokugawa faced many of the same problems as the Native Americans.The Japanese culture was being threatened by conquerors much as the Native Americans were. Until Commodore Perry triggered the Meigi Restoration, Japan isolat...
