DIVERGENT By: Veronica Roth Characters: * Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior (protagonist) – our stunning‚ sixteen year old. Tris comes from Abnegation‚ a faction devoted entirely to selflessness. But Tris desires a better‚ more exciting life for herself and‚ during Choosing Day‚ makes a difficult decision. Turning from her family and the only lifestyle she’s ever known‚ Tris makes a startling choice when she chooses Dauntless‚ the brave. * Tobias ‘Four’ Eaton - mysterious and dark‚ eighteen year
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Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica Roth CHAPTER ONE THERE IS ONE mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month‚ the day my mother cuts my hair. I sit on the stool and my mother stands behind me with the scissors‚ trimming. The strands fall on the floor in a dull‚ blond ring. When she finishes‚ she pulls my hair away from my face and twists it into a knot. I note how calm she looks
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What role should divergent thinking play in education? Divergent thinking is a process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. Learning through play‚ creative projects and imaginary are ways that encourage divergent thinking. Teaching methods for divergent thinking involve offering schools many ideas and solutions for problem as well as encouraging children to find creative ways to learn. Divergent thinking encourages children to take risks‚ learn how to be
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Chapter 11 “Evolution of Health Care Policy:Deconstructing Divergent Approaches” summarizes both American and Canadian health care structure through a psychological perspective. Both nations are compared by its ideological perspective regarding the health care. the three main factors that drive to this common goal are social protection‚ redistribution‚ and efficiency. Social protections helps enable those with fewer resources to access health care‚ redistribution helps distributes costs amongst individuals
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emotions because at sixteen years old‚ her aptitude test and choosing day have arrived. However‚ Beatrice’s test results are leading to no conclusion or definite result. She is one of a very rare subset of the population of dystopian chicago: a Divergent. Her tests show that she does not neatly fall into one factions but displays traits paramount in Erudite‚ Abnegation and Dauntless clans. When the time arrives to choose a faction‚ she follows her heart and chooses to be selfish but brave abandoning
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Tazrian Maliha Muhiba Tahir English 201 17 June 2010 Miscommunication in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants.” The story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is described through the conversations of a couple which proves the miscommunication and lack of understanding between the couple. In my paper I am going to show how the relationship between the American and the girl failed to be a good relationship due to this lack of communication and understanding.
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Divergent Boundaries Speech The diverging plates below us are moving everyday; reshaping our world‚ slowly‚ but surely. These divergent boundaries are being studied around the world and they teach us about our evolved world‚ and its continuing evolution today. There are two types of divergent boundaries‚ the oceanic and the continental. These occur where their names have defined‚ within the oceanic crust and the continental crust. Both begin at the movement of the convection currents‚ which push
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Examining the Characteristics of Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games In typical examples of literature‚ women are generally presented as dependent and weak‚ requiring the assistance of men to save them. However‚ in The Hunger Games‚ Suzanne Collins presents a female protagonist who breaks the stereotype of these women; Katniss Everdeen is an independent‚ logical‚ yet doubtful character. To begin with‚ Katniss is independent. Ever since her father died and her mother went through
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to you today is called Divergent by Veronica Roth. The genre of the book is science fiction‚ dystopian society‚ action and adventure. You guys are probably wondering what does divergent mean? Or what does it mean being a divergent? Firstly‚ divergent means tending to be different or develop in different directions. Secondly‚ being a divergent is very different. It is different because the world they live in is based on having each person fit into a faction and since Divergents don’t‚ they are more
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The Divergent series by Veronica Roth centralizes on a society with faction‚ separating every person by their personality. There are five factions: Erudite which is where the intelligent people are‚ Abnegation which values the need of others over the need of themselves‚ Candor which values honesty‚ Amity are the kind ones they value peace‚ Dauntless they are the soldiers of all factions they protect the city of Chicago‚ there is also the factionless they are the ones that don’t fit in anywhere basically
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