dystopian sci-fi novel for young adults. It is the first book in an epic trilogy that is continued in Prodigy and Champion. Based on a retelling of Les Miserables‚ Legend is “impossible to put down and even harder to forget” (Kami Garcia‚ author of Beautiful Creatures). Set in a futuristic Los Angeles‚ Legend is told from the perspective of two main characters from contrasting backgrounds‚ June and Day. In this novel‚ the United States of America no longer exists‚ but has been replaced by two warring
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Some music video’s use socio-cultural codes to construct the visual narrative and structure of their work. For example the music video of Christina Aguilera’s song ‘Beautiful’‚ ‘packed with a message of holding one’s self up against criticism from the outside.’¹‚ shows the insecurities people have with what society portrays to be beautiful. Such as showing characters throughout the video struggling with body image‚ sexual preference and bullying. The characters develop throughout the video‚ showing
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments The author of the ten most beautiful experiments‚ George Johnson‚ plays an important role in the book by writing it from his own perspective. Johnson is an American journalist and a science writer. He even cohosts "Science Saturday" which is a live online weekly discussion‚ clearly related to science. These facts could help readers know that the author knows what he’s talking about and has legitimate reasons behind each and every opinion he has.
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The drama film “A Beautiful Mind‚” directed by Ron Howard is an excellent movie. The uplifting film is the biography of mathematician genius John Nash (Crowe)‚ who while at Princeton University he discovers a principle equation that changed economic theory. His tremendous career was diverted by his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia‚ which almost destroys his family and himself. The irony of his dilemma was that the drugs that kept his psychosis controlled also prevented his mind from
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The Beautiful Fool The Great Gatsby is a well-known novel written through an outsider’s perspective of the lives of those of elite society with opulent wealth. It is set in the 1920’s‚ where women had very little rights and were inferior to men. Within the novel‚ the main female character Daisy is seen as an appealing character that many assume to be very simple-minded and unintelligent. Although looking deeper into the character’s choice of words one can suggest otherwise. Daisy is in fact
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Beautiful Child When I picked Beautiful Child off the bookshelf‚ I was expecting something a little different. I was prepared to read another run-of-the-mill book about child abuse‚ neglect‚ and the difficulties in saving one child from a horrific home life. However‚ I decided to read this book‚ even though it didn’t look very interesting; after all‚ I was taught not to judge a book by its cover. Sitting down to read later that night‚ I was pleasantly surprised. Not only is Beautiful Child a good
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In both Elie Wiesel’s “Night” and Roberto Benigni’s “ Life is Beautiful” the element of chance played a major role in the outcome of each character. It impacts the paths of each family in negative and positive way’s. Throughout each family’s time in the concentration camps they are so heavily influenced by greed‚ anger and corruption that without the role of chance‚ hope and love surviving would have been impossible. With displays of unknowingly running from the enemy to randomly
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them to school; yet they are the most willing to learn. Behind the Beautiful Forevers has a central theme of child labor. It homes in on families who are forced to send their children to work to make income for the family. Child labor in itself is morally wrong‚ but if it is too survive what choice do they have. This research paper will discuss the basic meaning of child labor and compare the labor in that of Behind the Beautiful Forever’s to the rest of the world; furthermore go in depth into the
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Individuals are sometimes secretly ashamed of the physical characteristics common to their ethnicity and strive to look like something deemed beautiful by everyone else. In the article “Beautiful?” by Kiri Davis‚ the author describes how children in America are collectively influenced into following the dominant culture. “As children growing up in America we are acculturated by mainstream society to believe as the dominant
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Beautiful Boy by David Sheff 1. Sheff intrigued me with his story just by the back of the book. The entire story is about his eldest son‚ Nic‚ who is an amazing student as a child; however‚ his childhood begins to fade when he gets into the life of drugs and alcohol. The experiences and hardships that the author goes through is very emotional which really kept me reading. 2. The setting affects the author and his story. The book takes place in modern day times as in 2008. This impacts the
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