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    Ubu Roi Essay

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    Ubu Roi is an Avant-Garde theatre play containing elements of dadaism and surrealism written by Alfred Jarry. Avant-Garde theatre is difficult to define‚ but it is similar to experimental theater and introduces new and unusual ideas. The performance opened and closed on the same day in 1896. Plot: The play begins with Papa Ubu‚ his wife Mama Ubu‚ and Bordure discussing a murder plot to kill King Wenceslas of Poland because Papa and Mama Ubu desire to have reign over Poland. In the second Act‚ Ubu

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    with the concepts of identity‚ place‚ relationships‚ acceptance and understanding to oneself and other people. These aspects of belonging are demonstrated through the free verse novel‚ ‘The Simple Gift’ by Steven Herrick‚ and the fairy tale of ‘The Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Anderson. In the very early stages of ’The simple gift’‚ Herrick displays sixteen year old‚ Billy Luckett’s‚ sense of alienation by using his first person character to highlight social issues such as hostility within his

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    Ugly Essay

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    the right to be beautiful. When you define something as ‘ugly’ what goes through your head? Ugly doesn’t mean not having the perfect face‚ body ‚ or hair. The term ugly shouldn’t define such person who doesn’t deserve it. But what characteristics are needed to be seen to be defined as beautiful? When seeing a pretty person‚ do you automatically see them as beautiful? Do you even consider the fact that their personality may be considered ugly? People all over the world have become judgmental and judge

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    The Ugly American Essay

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    This essay was written using characters from the book‚ “The Ugly American”‚ as well as the SO imperatives and some of my own personal experiences. For the purposes of this essay I chose three characters to compare and contrast. Ambassador Gilbert Macwhite was my favorite character and hard not to choose with his simple understanding that the American way of life does not fit into every culture. My second choice was Father Finian‚ a Catholic priest that uses his influential talents to build a relationship

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    Fairy Tale Essay

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    If you’ve ever read the story “The Ugly Duckling”‚ which I’m assuming most people did as a child‚ you’d know that there is a wonderful moral to the story. The moral is: you should never be ashamed of who you naturally are‚ because whether it’s tomorrow or a year from now‚ you are going to be happy with what you become. Always keep dreaming of and trying to be the best version of yourself that you possibly can‚ and one day you will be in the exact spot you wanted to be in all along. This tale

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    Belonging

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    individual and retaining personal ideals which may ultimately result in a connection. This is explored in Emily Dickinson’s selected poetry I died for beauty‚ but was scarce and I had been hungry all the years ‚ as well as Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies. These texts all depict a struggle between being recognised and accepted in society and the desire to remain true to one’s self‚ exploring the paradoxical nature of belonging which‚ on one hand‚ provides fulfilment‚ but also removes a sense of personal

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    Can’t be Built on Soccer Fever” and “Na Na Na Na‚ Hey Hey‚ Goodbye” In Jonathan Zimmerman’s essay “African National Identities Can’t Be Built on Soccer Fever” he describes how soccer brings the people of Africa together. He talks about the unity of Africans and how much soccer is a part of their lives. He also describes the underlying reason of why soccer is so heavily pushed. The perspective in the essay “Na Na Na Na‚ Hey Hey‚ Goodbye” Tim Bowling discusses his passion for hockey and his hate for

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    in Scott Westerfield’s young adult novel Uglies. The book revolves around a futuristic totalitarian state that relies heavily upon technology and one in which individuals are divided into different age groups‚ upon turning twelve children known as Littlies leave their parents homes to live in the dorms of Uglyville where they continue to grow and learn in preparation for the Surge—a procedure that is performed on the sixteenth birthday transforming the ‘ugly’ young adults into Pretties (Westerfield)

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    3/16/14 Pretties You can’t forget your past even in a bright present. In the novel Pretties‚ Scott Westerfeld discusses the different stages a girl‚ Tally Youngblood (Tally-wa)‚ goes through to become a beautiful woman. Girls are put into “The Uglies” category until they turn 16 which is when “The Specials” submit them into a surgery that transforms their lives. The surgery consist of making them beautiful‚ strong‚ healthy‚ and slowly erasing parts of their memories for the purpose of them only

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    forget who she was (West 136). “ It seems that for Tally‚ harsh anger and high adrenaline flow are what finally pushed her to break through whatever mindset the operation had given her. She is finally able to recollect events from her past life as an ugly‚ and she is not about to give them up for anything. She now needs to figure out who she was before she became pretty. She isn’t about to let anyone get in her

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