12 may 11 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: BOOK REVIEW OF THE UGLY AMERICAN First published in 1958‚ The Ugly American became a national bestseller for its explanation of American arrogance‚ incompetence‚ and corruption in Southeast Asia. Based on fact‚ the book’s eye opening stories and sketches drew a devastating picture. Combining “gripping storytelling” with an urgent call to action‚ the book prompted the President at the time President Eisenhower to launch a study of our military aid
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Uglies Essay Imagine a world where there is segregation based on looks‚ and everyone can either get an operation at age 16 to become an imprisoned pretty or run away before the operation to stay a free ugly. What is better? Being a controlled pretty or a free ugly? Tally Youngblood has to make this decision in Scott Westerfeld’s novel‚ Uglies. In Tally’s futuristic society rejected uglies has an operation at age 16 to adapt perfect looks but in the mean time the patients receive brain lesions which
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The Ugly Truth A person is hungry‚ they need a quick and cheap fix‚ and conveniently they happen to see those bright golden arches not too far off in the distance. The person stops at the restaurant‚ pulls up to the drive-thru‚ and someone instantly asks them for their order. This is the sad truth about the fast food world we live in today. It is cheap and‚ just like the name says‚ it is fast‚ but there has to be more to it then just that. Today’s market is full of hungry consumers on extremely
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control of ourselves and the choices that we make. However‚ the examples that Dr. Airely gave back up his argument that external factors can make people pick certain options over another. My favorite example that he used was the example of “Ugly Tom and Ugly Jerry”. In this example‚ he showed people pictures of individuals named Tom and Jerry and asked which one the person
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Chelsea Dowding-Hopkins Year 9 – Mrs Graham INS essay Uglies by Scott Westerfield One of the main themes in Scott Westerfield’s text Uglies is the conflict teenagers have with where they stand in society and learning to respect and value themselves. Using examples from the text compare them with today’s world for teenagers. Word count: Date Due: Uglies illustrates many issues that young teenagers will go through in life. The reader has an insight of three main characters and their
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is these times that we neglect to see how great our lives already are. This is the theme of Scott Westerfeld’s novel‚ Uglies. Like all great writers‚ Scott Westerfeld supports the theme of his novel with symbolism that is hidden in every character and event. Uglies takes place in futuristic Northern California. In this story‚ society is divided into two main groups‚ the “Uglies” and the “Pretties”. These two groups are separated by a river that runs between their cities. The reader first meets
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Ugly or Beautiful? It is well known that beauty and ugliness are opposites. If that is so‚ how can art be ugly and beautiful at the same time? Some pieces of art are ugly to the eyes but beautiful mind. The Venus of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf: 1-3) is an example of such. It is a small figure of a large woman. She has very large breast with skinny little arms rested on top of them. Her breast lay on her even larger stomach‚ which hangs down to just above her pubic area. Her pubic area and
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I think that the book The Uglies is very similar to our generation now. In the book you are judged by your appearances‚ teens consider themselves awkward and ugly. They also think that the adults do not understand what they go through as kids‚ and everything is different from when they were that age. This is exactly how our generation is now. The book takes place in the future‚ they have hover boards‚ and their whole life is based around “the operation”‚ but besides all of that there isn’t a huge
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The Ugly American The Ugly American demonstrates a kind of ignorance that lingers in the American Ambassadors and the process by which foreign policy is created and implemented. Throughout the novel the characters consistently prove of this theory. One character in specific is that of the Honorable Gilbert MacWhite who is sent to Sarkhan in replacement of the Honorable Louis Sears. His downfall in office was a compilation of things of seemingly his own fault and misjudgment of his own and others
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The Ugly Side of Corporal Punishment Willie L. Anderson ITT Technical Institute The Ugly Side of Corporal Punishment The words corporal punishment to any parent may raise an immediate red flag and has the potential to pose both a very volatile and emotional debate between two or more parties. There are some compelling reasons behind why corporal punishment should be legalized and enacted in all schools and states around the country‚ but with anything deemed good and necessary there are
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