1 February 2013 Comparative Essay: TKAM‚ TJLC‚ Uglies “Conventional behavior is not always moral.” Conventional behavior is any behavior considered “normal” and “right” for a given environment or society as a whole. Moral behavior is any behavior that one person considers and believes is right and wrong‚ which can contradict the thoughts of the society’s conventional behavior. In each book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ and Uglies‚ there was some sort of struggle that made some of
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The Antagonist in Uglies is Special Circumstance The group leader‚ . They are the ones that take part in doing the operations to turn the uglies into pretties. They feel that the uglies are lower quality based on their looks and feel that by creating an operation where people can all look and have the same mind that everything will by peacefully. During the operation‚ they change out the uglies so that everyone has the perfect body. But what the new pretty don’t know is they install lesion‚ which
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In this part of the story Tally becomes 16 and is off to do her operation when she has a surprise visitor‚ Shay! Tally asks Shay what she wants to do for their final trick and when Shay tells Tally she’s leaving with David to avoid taking the operation. For a while Tally thinks Shay is talking outlandish‚ but when she notices that her plans are not lies Tally is completely perplexed. She declines Shay’s offer to follow her to the smoke and just ponders why wouldn’t anyone want to be a pretty. She
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is one concept that is easily influential‚ though it can be destroyed by society. There are aspects that strengthen who we are as an individual‚ or weaken by conforming to society’s pressured expectations of how and who to be in life.In the novel‚ Uglies by Scott Westerfeld‚ and in The Twilight zone episode “Number 12 Looks Just Like You”‚ identity is weakened when it comes to society’s values. In the articles “It’s a Personal Choice” by Dorris Day and “Mannequins Give Shape to a Venezuelan Fantasy”
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the way in which the story develops through each of the topics outlined in his work (identify the relationship between the different topics). The Heart of the Old Testament written by Ronald Youngblood is an extraordinary book that makes logical sense to the Youngblood’s approach to the OT. Youngblood identifies the nine themes that form the pillar of the Old Testament. These themes show that the Old Testament is not any different from the New Testament and should not be consider entirely irrelevant
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every other New Pretty. Now that she is beautiful‚ the next goal she must reach is to become a Crim. Zane‚ the leader of the Crims‚ and Tally start seeing each other‚ but soon find out that there is a way they wouldn’t have to be like all the others. They have to find a way to leave the city and save all their friends in the process without alarming the Wardens. Tally searches for love through her relationship with Zane‚ truth by finding out what happens to all the New Pretties‚ and Identity by trying
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By reading books‚ people can learn how to get through problems in their own lives by relating to characters. Readers can see what characters did to get out of bad situations‚ and what they learned from them. In Uglies by Scott Westerfield the reader grasps that what someone looks like on the outside doesn’t matter‚ and it is what is on the inside that counts. The Fault In Our Stars and Looking For Alaska by John Green both deal with death at a young age and losing loved ones. Love is a serious topic
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threatens to fire Fielding so he actually abides. Additionally‚ Becker resolves conflict between the character‚ especially between Turnbo and Youngblood. For instance‚ when Youngblood brings Turnbo coffee and Turnbo does not want to pay back the thirty cents. Another instance is when Turnbo and Youngblood get in a quarrel because Turnbo accuses Youngblood of running around with peaches and such. Wilson creates a very interesting patriarchal figure with Becker‚ in regards to his relationship with
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Good evening Tally Youngblood‚ so where do you think you would have ended up if the Rangers or also known as Bug Eyes didn’t give you a ride to the Smoke? Honestly if the rangers would have gave me a ride I do believe that i would have found my own way to The Smoke. I feel that way because for one I was already over halfway there but also most importantly as the farther I ventured the more I was thinking like Shay. And if I was thinking like shay then I would have arrived at The Smoke in no time
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Georgi Romano Patrick Swayze was born August 18‚ 1952‚ in Houston‚ Texas. He was an actor‚ singer‚ and song writer. He was voted the most sexist man alive and is best known for playing the roles of the tough guys and the romantic leading man. Some of the famous films that he has played a role in are‚ Dirty Dancing‚ Ghost‚ and the T.V. mini-series North and South. The Swayze family was a Roman Catholic family‚ his father Jesse Wayne Swayze worked as an engineering draftsman and his mother Pasty
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