What is a utopia? Detailed answer

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What is Utopia?

No matter how much we love our country, our people and our government, we never feel completely satisfied. And there is no such place on Earth where a person would feel completely satisfied.

However, many of the people often dreamed of an absolutely perfect life. To not be poor and rich. Yes, and why wealth - after all, everyone will receive everything that he needs for life. And you can always be happy. There is no great need for government, as each person will be very tactful and considerate of others. However, there is no absolutely perfect life.

There is no perfect place in the world anywhere. The word "utopia" was formed from the Greek words, which can literally be translated as "there is no place anywhere." But we use the word "utopia" in the sense of "an ideal place to live." The word "utopia" was first used by Thomas More, an English writer who lived in the 1516th century. In XNUMX, he wrote the book "Utopia", in which he describes a beautiful state - an island with that name. The book was very popular. However, the very idea of utopia appeared much earlier than this book.

It is known that More borrowed the idea from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who wrote the book "Republic", which describes what an ideal state would be like. Many legends about the beautiful land that allegedly existed in the Atlantic Ocean were also among the Scandinavians, Celts, and Arabs.

With the beginning of geographical discoveries in the Western Hemisphere, many such legends ceased to be believed. But after Thomas More's book Utopia, the word came to mean an imaginary place for a perfect life. In our time, when they want to define unrealistic ideas about society and its forms of government, they say that this is a utopia. This means one thing: all the talk that a person can create an ideal place to live is unrealistic. This is impossible to do, although, of course, one must strive.

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If it were possible to follow one of the species of this fish, then it could be found either in the ocean, swimming hundreds of miles, or rising along rivers, or even crawling in the grass over land to where, as instinct tells it, there is a rich pond food. Every eel caught in America or Europe or even in rivers on the mainland comes from one of the approximately 20 million eggs laid by its mother at a depth of 180 to 275 meters in a certain area of the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda! The common eel has a dark brown color and is covered with smooth skin, on which, as a rule, scales or not, or it is very delicate, small.

Only recently have people learned about the origin of young eels. It is now known that they originally appear as transparent creatures floating near the surface of the ocean. After a while, these creatures gradually decrease and take on the definite shape of an adult eel. Then the eels of a certain section of this breeding zone swim in the direction of Europe by the millions. But they do not enter the fresh waters of European rivers until they reach the third year of life. Eels from another part of the breeding zone swim towards America and, after reaching one year, rise along all American rivers from the St. Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico.

After living in fresh water from four to twelve years old and reaching an average length of 60 to 90 centimeters, they descend the rivers, never to return. Eels swim back to Bermuda, breed in the depths and die! Eels are caught as they travel down the rivers from July to late October - sometimes later - and on their way to Bermuda. The annual catch of eels along the Atlantic coast exceeds 900 kilograms.

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