What would life be like if everyone was supermodel perfect? How would anyone stand out? In Pretties by Scott Westerfeld‚ Tally’s dreams come true and she is finally perfect‚ just like 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
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Have you ever wondered what would it be liked if where you live and what you do was based on your looks? Well in the book Uglies‚ by Scott Westerfeld which has 425 pages you can find out how it would be. In the book‚ Uglyville is where all the people who are under 16 live and Pretty Town is the place where everyone older and who has the operation live. Tally Youngblood is your average Ugly who can’t wait to be a pretty where the only thing you have to do is party all night. Her friend‚ Peris is
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Scott Equipment Organization is investigating various combinations of short- and long-term debt in financing assets. Assume the organization has decided to employ $10 million in current assets and $15 million in fixed assets in its operations next year‚ and EBIT for next year is $8 million. The organization’s income tax rate is 40%. Stockholders’ equity will be used to finance $15 million of assets‚ with the remainder financed by short- and long-term debt. The organization is considering implementing
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reat gatsby Tone and Diction In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Mr. Jay Gatsby had once fallen in love with a young woman that he was soon to be taken away from by the war and by her family who told her to be involved with a rich and successful man not Mr. Gatsby. Five years later Gatsby recognizes this woman’s name in the paper and learns that she is now married to a “rich and successful” man named Tom Buchanan. Gatsby is then blessed with a new neighbor‚ Nick‚ who is cousins
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Wanting to go back to the past implies a longing tone which is rare to feel in an optimistic nation filled with happiness. As well as feeling hopeless in love‚ sounds impossible in a community where you can have anything. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald‚ involved a gloomy‚ wistful‚ and desperate tone throughout the novel. Despite the novel’s setting in the most enchanting society America has experienced‚ Fitzgerald established a gloomy tone through the dismal diction used to describe the Valley
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The Settlement: • Year 1; Rapid to pay cost for equipment and not services ($68‚000) • Year 2; Scott to provide 2nd generation “Print Rite”‚ Rapid to pay original contract amount for year plus at minimum‚ $12‚000 at the end of year (equivalent to $1‚000/month) for software application with the following contingency: 1. In case‚ Rapid increases print volumes by 25% - end of year software charge is calculated at $2‚000/month‚ or $24‚000 for the year (Scott’s original price for this
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There is no doubt that this book won’t be read 100 years from now. The book‚ “Uglies” By: Scott Westerfled is truly a great novel. This book determines that beauty is not all that proves you as a person. Beauty belongs to everyone‚ everywhere. In a world of extreme beauty‚ anyone normal is ugly. Tally must figure herself out before she undergoes surgery at the age of sixteen to become “pretty”: or what is so called pretty. Tally and Peris are the best of friends‚ but when Peris becomes pretty‚ Tally
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Dear Robert Scott‚ I am a freshman from Seguin High School in Seguin Texas; I feel that the Texas education system is corrupt that we as students are learning to test and not to actually learn. We as students retain information for short periods of time to take a test then forget which is one of the reasons I feel that the United States of America is falling behind in the education system. However Texas does not have to be like the rest we need to take away a lot of the tests and not learn to test
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STYLE‚ TONE‚ AND MOOD IN LANDLADY Prose 1 Arief Febriyanto 63708028 Moch Fajar Akbar 63708014 Willi Adjie 63706897 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF LETTERS INDONESIA UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER 2011 STYLE‚ TONE‚ AND MOOD 1. STYLE Style is the use of literary devices‚ tone‚ and mood in a particular way that makes author’s writing recognizable. In another word‚ the style of writing is the style of author who writes it. The author’s style can be recognized by the following
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In face-to-face communication‚ meaning is conveyed not only through words but also through tone of voice and body language (facial expressions‚ hand gestures‚ etc.). As a result‚ listeners pay more attention to our tone and body language than to our word choices in order to derive additional clues to our meaning. Challenges of Online Communication One of the challenges of communicating online is that we must depend entirely on words to convey meaning. For example‚ we do not have the opportunity
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