The book I read for the this class is Uglies. Uglies is about a girl named Tally. In this dystopian world when you turn sixteen‚ there is a operation done to make everyone stunningly beautiful. When Tally sneaks into New Pretty Town to see her friend Piris. When she sees him she notices that his personality has changed along with his face. When she gets back to Uglevill she meets Shay. Shay is a rebellious girl who doesn’t want to be pretty. She talks about a place called the smoke. When she runs
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While making documentaries for discovery channel‚ Thomas Friedman got an idea to go to call centres across the world and document young people on America’s standing. He says that Globalization took over when he was sleeping and that he couldn’t explain it. Tom travels to Bangalore and meets Nandan Nilekani who casually mentions that the world’s economic playing field was being levelled. This propelled him to write a book on globalization and outsourcing called “The world is flat”. The Flatteners
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The giver Jonas is a ordinaire kid in a utopia world. As a kid he was different not wanting to say anything because different is bad he let it pass. As he got older he started to realize things that no other human was. Color as he watched it go and then leave he then realized he was different. The ceremony of 12 was coming up for Jonas the ceremony of 12 is the change in adulthood. As the newborns were brought into their families it went to the ceremony of release to elsewhere. As it got closer
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Chapter 1 Summary Bryon and Mark start this chapter in a pool hall where they are planning to make some money hustling pool. They are only sixteen years old‚ so it is illegal for them to be in a pool hall with a bar in it but they are usually successful at hustling because they look so innocent. After checking for an undercover cop and not finding one‚ Bryon asks Charlie‚ the bartender for a CCoke. Charlie reminded him that he and Mark already owed for three dollars worth of CokeCokes and refused
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Hunter Porterfield Sociology Chapter 1 summary Sociology is the study of the society and the way people interact within it. The field of sociology and trying to study and understand it is very complicating due to the fact that it is such a wide topic. Feelings change along people and nobody can truly explain why people do the things they do. A student attempting suicide out of nowhere is unexplainable or even a random divorce. The unexplainable minds of people and random occurrences really interests
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After Aunt Harriet runs away from Waknuk‚ she peacefully rides down the road cradling her dear baby Laia‚ as she hears a loud thump and the horses cries and glances over to where Joseph is standing holding arrows‚ just as Aunt Harriet starts to scream an arrow goes through the side of her chest. Aunt Harriet knew her life had come to an end for her‚ but not to her baby. She quickly tosses her baby to a big soft bush to her left. That was the end for Aunt Harriet‚ but just maybe‚ her baby had a chance
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The title of the book introduces one of the main characters‚ Digory‚ who is the nephew of Mr. Andrew Ketterly‚ a minor magician. The story begins in London during the summer of 1900 where two children‚ Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer who live in a row of connected houses‚ meet while playing in their gardens and decide to travel through the passages in the attic to get into a vacant house and explore it. In place of discovering an abandoned house‚ the children find themselves to have appeared into
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The caseworker at the foster care tells Bud and his friend‚ Bugs at breakfast that they found new foster homes for them. When the boys groan the caseworker tells them‚ although the nation is in depression‚ they are lucky to have foster families. Bud gets mistreated by his new foster brother named Todd. Todd shoves a pencil up in Bud’s nose‚ and claims that he got the pencil further in his nose than any other child before. As a reason‚ Bud runs away or as he says he is "on the lam." Bud wants
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Chapter 30 - Summary: Juli is deeply troubled by the news of Basilio’s capture and imprisonment. People convince her to approach Padre Camorra and ask him to intercede for the youth. Juli is afraid to follow their advice and approach the friar because he is known to be frisky and quite fond of women. However‚ when news reaches Juli that Basilio is about to be killed‚ the young lady is compelled to go and ask the friar’s help. El Filibusterismo: Summary and Analysis of Chapter 31 (The High Official)
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Despite the assumption that the United States has attained full democracy‚ there are still many incidences of biases. The main motive for Banaji Mahzarin R. to write the book was to bring to light the biases that people keep in their minds or brains as well as showing how those bits of knowledge about individuals and about their skin color‚ education‚ age‚ and religion can manipulate behavior. In the book‚ Karen Zach is presented to be training in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. She had always
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