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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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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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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THE UGLY DUCKLING CHARACTERS: Narrator Mother Duck 6 Brothers Pig‚ Cow‚ Goat Ugly Duckling Birds Geese Old Woman Hen Farmer Swans Children SCRIPT: Narrator: Once upon a time on an old farm‚ there was a duck family‚ and Mother Duck had been sitting on a clutch of new eggs. Mother Duck: It was about time that my eggs hatch! … 1‚2‚3‚4‚5‚6 ducklings I have! Narrator: But something was not right. Mother Duck: Mmmm… that egg didn’t hatch‚ and it is bigger than the rest… I don`t
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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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Paper 2-Draft 2 “The Ugly Duckling” was a short story written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1844. Although it is nearly 200 years old‚ the story is still one of the most popular retellings within modern culture. The question‚ of course‚ becomes “why?” We all know the story: a fowl is born to a duck family‚ shunned by its family and community because of its looks‚ and later develops into a beautiful swan that is envied by everyone for its beauty. Why would this story stand the test of time to
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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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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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Home Reading Report Title: The Ugly Duckling Author: Kristine Arenas Characters: Mother Duck‚ 4 Ducklings‚ Ugly duckling‚ Farmers‚ Hunters Setting: Countryside The Ugly Duckling Once upon a time‚ there lived a duck that grew up in the countryside. The duckhad been sitting on her nest watching for her eggs to hatch. From each egg came a cuteduckling that lifted its head and cried. Four ducklings had come out from their shell but therewas still one that would not break. The mother
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