Scott Westerfeld’s book‚ Uglies takes place in a dystopian version of earth with advanced technology. Tally‚ the main character‚ is an average ‘Ugly’‚ a name for children/teenagers under the age of 16. Once a teenager turns 16‚ they go through a procedure that makes them impossibly pretty‚ which is the new ‘average’ look. Tally wants to be a pretty‚ but her friend Shay does not‚ due to many reasons. Shay unknowingly ruins Tally’s chance to turn pretty after escaping the city‚ managing to avoid the
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"The Ugly Duckling" Twelve Dancing Princesses Hans Christian Andersen In 1843 Hans Christian Andersen published a literary tale he titled “The Ugly Duckling.” Already an accomplished storyteller‚ Andersen used his own life as a template; the story of the duckling who eventually becomes a swan mirrors Andersen’s own rise from working class plebe to celebrated author and poet‚ and while the journey of the duckling also resembles the blossoming of Perrault’s Cinderella‚ the bildungsroman tale
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Once upon a time there was a ugly duckling who was ugly. The book of ugly duckling had been read‚ but now that it was 2015 ugly duckling thought that it was time to take action against mother duckling. So ugly duckling arranged a court case in the court of right‚ on muffin man road. He also sent a letter to mother duckling knowing that she would not like the news‚ and he also sent a letter to the lawyer academy for farmers requesting a lawyer for the case. On the day of the court case everyone
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Compare/Contrast Essay The Hunger games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield What if violence and obsession were much more common than usual and the government was corrupt‚ what would you do? Could you do anything? Imagine that was your life every single day. That was the life of the protagonists in both Uglies and The Hunger Games. Both trilogies take place in a very futuristic world. The Hunger Games is based in a dystopian society‚ while Uglies is based in a utopian
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When I was 9 years old‚ I found a paperback copy of Scott Westerfield’s Uglies on my brother’s desk. This forever changed me. Before that‚ I had been only known my reality. I had not understood the limitless possibilities of the mind at this age. I had watched television shows sure‚ droopy-eyed in the evenings‚ consuming the static with youthful satisfaction‚ but this experience was nowhere near the immersion of literature. I had trouble learning to read‚ initially. I often found myself struggling
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Iris Johansen “The Ugly Duckling” Published by “A Bantam Book” in 1996 This is the first thriller by Iris Johansen that I’ve read. She is an American author of crime fiction and romance novels. Johansen began writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing romances. In 1991‚ Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels‚ starting with the publication of The Wind Dancer. In 1996 Johansen switched genres‚ turning to crime
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English 1301 3/2/2014 Finding Happiness through Thick and Thin Happiness is something the world struggles with on a daily basis; maybe it’s not about the happy endings‚ but maybe it’s the stories along the way. Throughout my life I have encountered several trials that tug on my ability to become happy‚ robbing just a little ray of sunshine at the end of the tunnel. With some of the situations I have been in‚ people may say I should be unhappy‚ but that’s just the opposite. I grasped onto the
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the meaning away in the introduction? If so note this. First off your story is very interesting and full of emotions. For the title you could have The Ugly Side of Honesty and keep your intro the same so the title can be different from the first paragraph. I do like how that idea impacted the rest of the essay. 2. Consider the conflict in the essay. Is it developed and clear? How could the writer make the conflict more engaging? Your story was very clear. In the story it did start with rise and then
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experiences; the good‚ the bad‚ and the ugly. We started off writing when we were in grade school and still continue to do so. So why does a first year composition instructor asks us to relive our high school experiences? One of my bad writing experiences was I never was a good writer in general. I didn’t really like writing essays‚ because my essays usually end up being boring and repetitive. Sometimes I am unsure on what I should be writing about. When I write an essay‚ I usually end up going off topic
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In my essay I am going to write about issue concerning to ugly people. Are they should be forced to undergo plastic surgery? In my opinion‚ definitely yes! It is really hard to be ugly person. Such person experiences many sad things. I will try to prove‚ that forcing ugly people to do something with their appearance‚ is good for society. First of all‚ contemporary world is cruel‚ especially employment world. When you are ugly‚ and you want to apply for some interesting for you job‚ it is certain
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