Hunger games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield What if violence and obsession were much more common than usual and the government was corrupt‚ what would you do? Could you do anything? Imagine that was your life every single day. That was the life of the protagonists in both Uglies and The Hunger Games. Both trilogies take place in a very futuristic world. The Hunger Games is based in a dystopian society‚ while Uglies is based in a utopian society‚ or so the government
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) is the largest youth mentoring organization in the United States. The organization provides one-to-one mentoring relationships between children and adults. Its purpose is to provide friendship‚ emotional support‚ and guidance to youth through their involvement with positive role models. BBBSA’s national motto is "making a difference‚ one child at a time." According to the Big Brother Big Sister Association of Cincinnati‚ the idea of developing one-to-one
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scientifically brilliant‚ fiction book called the Uglies. Reading can also open a door to a world of romance‚ mysteries‚ drama‚ and education; creating a magical allusion for the reader. In the book‚ Uglies‚ by Scott Westerfeld‚ he did more than open a door to another world‚ he actually “created” his own world! Most of the books on the fiction reading list offer romance‚ mysteries‚ drama‚ and education; but few offer an equal balance of all four. Uglies is a book that offers all four of these elements
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"Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro - Summary In "Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro‚ the narrator as a woman who is telling the first person point of view of when she was a girl. The girl’s father was a fox farmer. Every the father killed the foxes that he raised and sold their pelts. The narrator had a little brother‚ named Laird. The girl took great pride in the fact that she helped her father with the chores on the farm. The mother tried to get the daughter to work inside doing work deemed appropriate
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The passage “Girl”‚ by Jamaicia Kincaid I believe is about a mother explaining to her daughter the ways she must act to be the ideal women. The mother gives her guidance throughout the passage wanting her to have social manners and domesticity. The mother gives instructions and commands‚ I believe to give her the tools to be independent‚ strong‚ and respected as a young aspiring women. The mother is setting out rules and giving commands to her daughter to lead her daughter into a better path and
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In the article “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs” Sady Doyle proposed the idea that teenage girls are the main reason the Twilight series made its big debut‚ though clearly to Sady the series and the girls did not deserve this much negative attention. Doyle discusses many points in the article a big part of it is that girls play such a huge role in the progression of the series success. Doyle address both the movies and the books in this article. As Sady states “Twilight isn’t a literary masterpiece
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FACIAL PAIN Clinicians involved in the orofacial pain field should not encounter particular difficulties to make a differential diagnoses between PDAP and other neuropathic facial pain conditions‚ simply relying on the clinical history. Burning mouth syndrome has a characteristic clinical presentation that is easy to differentiate with PDAP (36). Persistent idiopathic facial pain (PIFP) is still an “ill-defined” entity and there is not enough data to consider or not PDAP as a localized form of
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Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film‚ directed by Mark Waters. The screenplay was written by Tina Fey and based in part on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman‚ which describes how female high school social cliques operate‚ and the effect they can have on girls. The film stars Lindsay Lohan and features a supporting cast of Rachel McAdams‚ Amanda Seyfried‚ Lacey Chabert‚ and Lizzy Caplan. The film is produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. Screenwriter
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skateboards. They were big‚ mean and ugly. They were the neighborhood bullies. I was new to the neighborhood‚ so naturally I was the one they picked on. They skated by and stopped at the edge of the sidewalk were I was playing with my Gameboy. They left their skateboards on the sidewalk and walked toward me. Before I knew it I was being picked up by my underwear and held high above the ground. Due to the severe pain I dropped my Gameboy; they picked it up‚ and then said “Were big and you’re not.” They
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“Throwing Like a Girl‚” p. 63 1. He described their outfits because their pictures were posted in a lot of newspapers. In the pictures they didn’t look too bad‚ what the author was mostly concerned is that they both threw the ball “like a girl”. I think the author would expect them to dress different for a big ceremony like that so it may also be one of the reasons why he described their outfits. 2. I think Fallows stereotypes the people that do something “like a girl” because to him and
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