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	Walden Two - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walden Two is a novel published in 1948 by B.
		Walden Two describes a fictional community designed around behavioral principles.
		Walden Two champions a lifestyle that doesn't foster competition and social strife and doesn't support war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walden_Two (235 words)

	Walden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walden (also known as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American.
		Walden (available at wikisource) was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions.
		Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walden (433 words)

	Skinner's Walden Two -- a review
		However, Walden Two is also the Gospel of a politically significant discipleship of institutional functionaries for whose old wines of compulsion and torture Skinner has provided the new bottles of Operant Theory.(2) Therein lies Walden Two's continued importance.
		Walden Two is a parody on Plato's Republic.
		Toward the end of Walden Two, Frazier, arguing with Castle, explains what has gone wrong with "Russia," despite its having sprung from "humanitarian impulses which are a commonplace in Walden Two." Four factors undermining the Russian Communist program are: a decline in the experimental spirit (ibid.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /erozycki/Walden.html (4267 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Walden Two at Epinions.com
		Walden Two is a utopian community organized based on Frazier’s idea of a good life including good health, minimal unpleasant labor, opportunity to direct one's talents and abilities, and the experience of true leisure.
		Through Walden Two, Skinner tries to validate that people are the product of their environments and by controlling, work, learning and the raising of children you can make a society that is perfect.
		In Walden Two, it is extremely important to start the conditioning the moment they are born, so that no undesirable environmental aspects influence their shaping behavior.
	www.epinions.com /content_114393058948 (2256 words)

	Comunidad de Los Horcones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		For a Walden Two community the behavior of its members is as important that it studies and analyzes it from a scientific perspective, not subjective- not based on opinions.
		A Walden Two community is one where concepts and principles of behavior analysis are applied to the design of each one of their areas.
		Walden Two communities are not "hippy" communes where drugs are used and where people escape from their responsibilities.Of course, Walden Two communities respect other types of communities,other alternative lifestyles.
	www.loshorcones.org.mx /walden.html (2120 words)

	Walden Two's Bastard Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Walden Two, however, is also based on notions of autocratic philosopher-kings, submission to behavioral control by benevolent scientists, and reason dominant over emotion.
		In Walden Two, Frasier said, "Give me the specifications, and I'll give you the man!" while hippies would counter, "Just be yourself and don't put your trips on other people, man." It is not surprising that Walden Two was left behind when hippies became the majority at Twin Oaks.
		Walden Two members who feel constrained by behaviorist dogma might leave to join Twin Oaks where they believe they can more directly exercise their will in the political arena.
	anarchistnexus.com /walden2/bastard.htm (2395 words)

	Walden Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Something like a Walden Two would not be a bad start.'' The title is an allusion to Henry David Thoreau's book ''Walden''.
		Walden is a village located in the Town of Montgomery in Orange County, New York.
		There are two waterfalls and dams on the river within the village limits, known as the Great and Little Falls; and two auto bridges, the High (Route 52) and Low (Oak Street) bridges).
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/198/walden-quotes.html (1831 words)

	WALKING TOUR OF WALDEN TWO
		Burris wonders whether an undesirable new member is capable of corrupting the Walden Two children or causing trouble in the community.
		Walden Two, Frazier proclaims, does not need personal figures, either as specialists or as a means of holding power.
		In Walden Two, therefore, the members are not taught history, which usually promotes heroes.
	www.coedu.usf.edu /bostow/mcohen/walden/Chapters27.htm (4166 words)

	Walden Two Live
		Drinking isn't prohibited in Walden Two, but we all give it up as soon as we gratify the needs which are responsible for the habit in the world at large.
		The average age of the Walden Two mother is eighteen at the birth of her first child, and we hope to bring that figure down still further.
		Walden Two replaces the family, not only as an economic unit, but to some extent as a social and psychological unit as well.
	www.twinoaks.org /clubs/walden-two/waldentwo-live.html (20164 words)

	The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		In late March 1845 Thoreau went to Walden Pond, a sixty-two acre body of water, a few miles from his parents' home in Concord, Massachusetts, and selected a spot to build a house.
		Walden was reprinted several times in both America and England during the second half of the nineteenth century.
		In 1966, a project to edit and publish all of Thoreau's writings was undertaken by a group of scholars under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
	www.thoreau.niu.edu /thoreau_walden.html (1673 words)

	Skinner
		Walden Two is Skinner's early attempt to apply his principles of learning to create a utopian society.
		In addition, we find out that, even though Frazier is the cheif founder of Walden two, many people in the community do not know him: he is not a hero.
		The people here do NOT say their community is inspired by Walden Two, but instead, is inspired by the principles of a behavioral science.
	www.stolaf.edu /people/huff/classes/Intro/Skinner.html (1751 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Walden Two (Trade Book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Walden Two is an excellent portrayal of a working utopian society contrasted with the relatively gloomy style of life as we know it.
		Walden Two is a work of fiction that gives us an outline for a modern utopia.
		Walden Two and "The Case Against B.F. Skinner" are very "hard reads," and take a lot of time to fully understand the points that are being made.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/002411510X (1463 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Together
		Walden Two founder T.E. Frazier is more than aware of the individual's need for assurance and their intrinsic need to flock to those than can provide necessities of life.
		Both Skinner's Walden Two and Moodysson's commune fail to account for the unpredictable and the role of their pre-political children.
		Walden Two is as classic a behavioral primer as it is a fantastical farce on the sacrifice of personal freedom.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=424 (685 words)

	SparkNotes: Walden Two: Summary
		Rogers ("Rodge") and Steve Jamnik, two young men returning from service at the end of WWII, stop by the office of Professor Burris to ask if he knows anything about a man named Frazier, and the new society Frazier is trying to build.
		Over the course of their three-day visit, they are given a tour of Walden Two, a taste of what it is like to live and work there, and an earful of talk from Frazier about the planning that lies behind this utopian community.
		Everything that is done at Walden Two is based on principles of behaviorism, the idea that human behavior can be controlled by manipulating contingencies of reward and, to a lesser extent, punishment.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/walden2/summary.html (568 words)

	Indexing a Classic ... "Walden"
		In between two of those 794 days, Thoreau spent only one night, albeit a historic one, in jail rather than pay taxes which he said supported slavery and unjust war.
		Walden is so loaded with verbal play that more puns are being excavated with each passing year.
		Walden is part autobiography, and the customary entries used in biographies were put to use.
	www.calliope.org /thoreau/thoradv/thorindex.html (3143 words)

	Thoreau Walden Two Essays - Lessons from Walden Two
		Walden Two is a novel about a fictional community in present day America.
		Walden Two is a work of fiction; such a society has never been attempted.
		What we can do, however, is take apart Walden Two; find the aspects that are most needed in our society today and work towards applying them.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=10460 (1543 words)

	Oliver James Walden : two // I'm going under, drowning in you (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		His mother always loved spending time with the two men in her life; whether it be at something small like church, or big family gatherings such as someone's birthday or Christmas time.
		But now, leaving his room, he wandered into the bathroom that was about two doors down from his bedroom.
		Hopping down the steps two at a time, he found his dad and mom both at the kitchen table reading newspapers.
	www.greatestjournal.com /go.bml?journal=ojw&itemid=928&dir=prev (1263 words)

	Mikey's Blog: Walden : Round Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		And of they could even just catch a glimpse of Walden, Thoreau's very own Eden, they would be reminded of the glory and miracle of their own existance.
		Walden is fed by a spring deep within the heart of the pond (and maybe the Earth).
		Like Walden, blemishes on one's soul can be washed away, lives can be renewed, and spirits can be restored.
	piergamj.blogspot.com /2004/10/walden-round-two.html (301 words)

	Discovery at Walden, Roland Wells Robbins
		Surviving two or three movings, its ruins were finally pulled down June 4, 1868 and its boards used in the construction of a barn on the old Brooks Clarke farm, in the north part of Concord.
		Consequently, while Thoreau writes in Walden, "a mink steals out of a marsh", in reality it is not what he actually saw from his window, but only a figment of his imagination or his memory of such an incident observed as he stood by Walden's shore.
		Walden Pond reservation is property of the State of Massachusetts, under the jurisdiction of the Middlesex County Commissioners.
	www.walden.org /Institute/thoreau/about2/R/Robbins_Roland_Wells/Discovery_at_Walden.htm (16951 words)

	Walden Two Fan Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Walden Two's Bastard Child Nexus explores the strained relationship between the novel and Twin Oaks Community.
		Utopia 2000 Another proposed community based on a sort of Walden Two idea, and heavy on the socialist political aspects.
		Walden Two A folk-grunge band from the Netherlands.
	anarchistnexus.com /walden2 (455 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Walden Two (Cliffs Notes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Author B.F. Skinner is considered the Patriarch of Behaviorism, and Walden Two is his allegorical yet practical treatise on creating Utopia.
		Walden Two is an engaging book that paints a compelling picture for a new type of society.
		But for a book like Walden Two, you should be able to interpret it yourself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822013614?v=glance (413 words)

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		Which is a nice segue into my next topic Progress within Walden Two Progress was seen this way within Walden Two, and I believe with great benefit.
		In sum, whereas Walden Two’s idea of progress stems from the Scientific Method, and constantly attempting things to make society better for its denizens, Brave New World’s idea of progress is no progress at all, for the sake of stability.
		Walden Two is a book of my own mind.
	www.uwm.edu /People/cadary/utopiapaper2.doc (930 words)

	Walden Two (Trade Book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		His Walden Two book was influenced by the writings of such greats as: Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" and E. Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful".
		Kat Kinkade is now the longest standing member and although she left the community for some time and then returned, she has a substantial history and intimate view of the project.
		Her assessments are an open, frank and honest look at intentional, communal living with all of it's inherrant ups and downs and is a fascinating follow-up to Skinner's Walden Two.
	494018.onlinesportdiscount.com /3436373937302d312d30303234313135313058.html (2287 words)

	Walden Two, Postmodern Utopia and the Problems of Power, Choice and the Rule of Law - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Frederic Jameson is one primary theorist of this movement, and arguably B. Skinner, whose Walden Two provides a fictional account of how a community reformed by such aesthetic reeducation might look, is one of the movement's de facto social architects.
		Typical, for example, of the rhetoric of both these thinkers is the idea that it is a failure primarily of the imagination that limits human progress.
		The community plans to introduce a new age in which man's (so-called) "nature" is disintegrated and remolded by reflexive conditioning into a new entity capable of imagining and then living in a new economic order.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=97368301 (384 words)

	Free Essays on Walden Two
		Below is free essays on Walden Two by 123Student, your one-stop source for free essays, free college term papers, and free term papers.
		Well written and entertaining, Walden Two is directed to the layman rather than to the professional psychologist.
		Skinner's technique as a propagandist is to show us Walden Two through the eyes of various outsiders who possess varying degrees of skepticism and enthusiasm for the community.
	www.123student.com /4324.htm (4069 words)

	B. F. Skinner
		They had two daughters, the second of which became famous as the first infant to be raised in one of Skinner’s inventions, the air crib.
		While not successful as a writer of fiction and poetry, he became one of our best psychology writers, including the book Walden II, which is a fictional account of a community run by his behaviorist principles.
		But he will probably be most remembered by the general run of readers for his book Walden II, wherein he describes a utopia-like commune run on his operant principles.
	www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/skinner.html (3001 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| The Westminster Hour \| Brian Walden on political rivalries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		In two series for The Westminster Hour, bearing the name of Bevin's supposed comment, the former Labour MP and television interviewer Brian Walden examines the intense and often destructive rivalries of leading politicians.
		In the spring and summer of 2002, Walden dissected the Labour relationships between Bevin and Morrison and Harold Wilson and George Brown in the sixties, as well as the friction between Steel and Owen in the Alliance in the eighties and Margaret Thatcher and her Chancellor, Nigel Lawson.
		And in the second series, in the autumn of 2003, Brian Walden turned his attention to the Tory rivalries between Macmillan and Butler and Heath and Powell and two within Labour ranks, between Roy Jenkins and Anthony Crosland and Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/the_westminster_hour/3178427.stm (707 words)

	Beyond Walden Two, by The Walden Community.
		For the people who initiated the Walden Community, reading the novel Walden Two by B.F. Skinner was our first contact with the idea of intentional community.
		At that time, we reflected and debated deeply about the strengths and limitations of the Walden Two model, and we concluded that, in order to build a feasible and truly developed culture, it was necessary "to go beyond Walden Two".
		Los Horcones state that they are a "Walden Two Community" not because they follow the book, but because they are based on Behavior Experimental Analysis and its philosophy, Radical Behaviorism (trend of psychology and vision of the world to which Skinner devoted his life).
	perso.wanadoo.es /waldencm/w2en.htm (327 words)

	Walden Two
		I finally got the opportunity as I was browsing my grandmother's bookshelf and found a copy that had belonged to my dad when he was my age.
		This book is a depiction of a modern-day (or at least "modern-day" in 1948) utopian society based on Thoreau's Walden of the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist movement.
		Written as a narrative, the book is basically an outline of Skinner's behaviorism and how it could be used to create a form of heaven on earth.
	www.isye.gatech.edu /~mdrake/waldentwo.htm (158 words)

	finalrvw
		To address this criticism, the first image of Walden Two is the sheep herd enclosed by the string.
		This is an example of the industrialization of housework.(huzzyfry) By being see-through, the dishes at Walden Two were able to be washed without being turned over.
		Walden Two creates an rational environment where this destructive social behavior isn't necessary.
	www.uiowa.edu /~lsa/bkh/lla/FINALRVW.HTM (3520 words)

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