Patterns of Evolution Humans alter our environment to suit our needs rather than adapt to our environment based on environmental stressors. Due to this fact‚ we are unlikely to be affected by the pressures of natural selection. We will not likely be affected by further evolution. In convergent evolution‚ unrelated species living in the similar environments become more and more alike in appearance as they adapt to the same kind of environment. Dolphins and sharks are examples of convergent
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The Class Structure in the book Divergent is divided into 5 categories called factions. These are: Abnegation‚ Erudite‚ Amity‚ Candor and Dauntless. Each faction seeks or practice their own beliefs; Abnegation is selfless‚ Erudite is always seeking knowledge‚ Candor is always honest‚ Amity is peaceful‚ and finally‚ dauntless practice bravery. The main character‚ or the protagonist from the book‚ is an Abnegation 16 year old teenager called Beatrice Prior. In the day of the Choosing Ceremony
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the love for others and the social impact it has. Help by teaching the people that look up to you a lesson. You don’t know what the person you can be until you be it. First‚ identity is helping people understand them about others. In the movie Divergent they use names to help identify people and the different groups for society. They took a test to help see where they are at and belong in society. Identification in the movie was people wearing different types of clothes and austere colors. The color
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A dystopia is an imagined world in which everything is unpleasant‚ which is typically an environmentally degraded society. Divergent‚ is a movie based off of the novel series Divergent which was published in 2012. The setting of the movie is based in Chicago at an unknown future date‚ and the main characters are Tris and Four. This movie is an example of a dystopia because the events are not real‚ and it is in an environmentally degraded society‚ where everyone believes that there was a war that
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Divergent is more than a story about social injustice it’s also about personal development. With Jeanine wanting to have full control of the government the factions turn against each other and their only hope is to grow stronger‚ to fight for their beliefs. Jeanine uses a serum to control the minds of the dauntless and the people once again feel fear instead of the peace they were promised‚ and with abnegation being doubted and hated by the other factions their only ray of hope is Tris and the divergent
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In Divergent by Veronica Roth‚ the protagonist is Tris Prior‚ the main character‚ and the antagonist is Jeanine Matthews‚ the Erudite Leader. Tris’s role in the story is to hide her divergence‚ an unknown secret and danger and to pass the Dauntless initiation to become a Dauntless member. As the story progresses‚ Tris along with Four must save their previous faction‚ Abnegation‚ and stop the Erudite and Dauntless revolt to overthrow and run the government. In Veronica Roth’s book‚ Divergent‚ Tris
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The novel‚ Divergent‚ by Veronica Roth‚ takes place in Chicago where society is divided into five factions. Candor‚ the honest‚ Abnegation‚ the selfless‚ Dauntless‚ the brave‚ Amity‚ the peaceful‚ and Erudite‚ the intelligent. A girl named Beatrice Prior‚ also known as‚ Tris is often overshadowed by her brother Caleb’s apparent selflessness‚ she was pondering over what she wants. She knew she was selfish and she loved being selfish. She wasn’t selfless like an Abnegation should be. She watches the
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direction and make everything seem clear. These influences can be something small‚ like someone saying a sentence‚ or something big‚ like a political crisis in the world. This is shown in the short stories‚ “Initiation”‚ “Divergent Paths”‚ and “Harrison Bergeron”. In “Divergent Paths” and “Harrison Bergeron”‚ the major influence was a large group of people with authority. However‚ in “Initiation”‚ only a stranger on a bus influenced the main character. In the story‚ “Initiation”‚
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Divergent theme Veronica Roth’s novel Divergent is not necessarily one that I would have chosen to read on my own‚ at first it was hard to get into the plot itself. However about a hundred pages into the book I found myself interested in the plot of the story. Divergent is a book with truly many themes such as fear‚ family‚ society and class‚ and power. But to me the main theme is choice. The main character’s name is Beatrice Prior‚ who later changed her name to Tris. The entire premise of the
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In Veronica Roth’s Divergent‚ the reader enters a world where sixteen year olds must choose the faction they will remain in for the entirety of their lives. Each faction holds its own set of morals and values‚ as well as has a specific job in order to fulfill its role in society. The story is from Tris Prior’s point of view‚ so the reader is thrown directly into her world in order to experience firsthand what it is like to have to leave your family and deal with something completely new and potentially
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