Three hundred years from now‚ one girl by the name of Tally must decide from being surgically beautiful‚ and living the rest of her life being ugly but with her friend. In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld‚ Tally begins as a 15-year-old girl who eagerly awaits her 16th birthday where she will turn pretty. On the day of her “Sweet 16”‚ the Special Circumstances people pick her up rather than the doctors. Everybody receives the surgery in which doctors basically cosmetically reconstruct him or her
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I have somewhat of a friend named Billy. He is the sort of person that puts salt and pepper in our classmates’ juices and taught me to eat row potatoes if I want to pretend to be sick‚ so I can get out of classes. Yet‚ his soul possesses a tricky nobleness – one that is not easily discernible. One day we were walking around the town when‚ stopping in front of a puppet workshop‚ Billie knocked on the door and shout: ‘’Barmy Barney‚ open the door you puppet carny”. ‘Who’s that Barney?’ I asked. ‘Didn’t
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Herman Melville’s Billy Budd‚ Melville uses the literary device of foreshadowing to allow the audience to be aware of Billy’s inevitable fate before the characters in the novel‚ thus creating a feeling of suspense within the novel. In chapter one‚ the incident with the Red Whiskers (12) functions as a foreshadowing of Billy’s confrontation with Claggart. This is very similar to what happens later between John Claggart and Billy (58). Melville uses the incident to show that although Billy Budd is a gentle
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Travis R. Drakeford 09/21/2014 EN1420 ITT Technical Institute Elizabeth Hermans The Ugly Canadian An article from Amir Attaran called “The Ugly Canadian” is an article have Mr. Attaran fighting for Canadian rights. Attaran studied law and decided to become a Canadian despite learning its disappointing flaws throughout his educational career. Amir Attaran really was aim to convince Canadians that the government is disgracing their image and that they are not living up to the
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Valerie College Composition I Autobiography Essay / Ugly‚ Beautiful Shoes February 1‚ 2014 “I’m tired of this motherf!*%ing place‚” was the explicit profanity that echoed down the five-star hotel’s corridors. The yelling abruptly interrupted my own silent screams from within. It was Jackie‚ my loud‚ obnoxious co-worker‚ furiously stampeding out of the kitchen towards me as if she were a bull charging after a matador. I was unaware that this anarchic scene was created by
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“The sky was the color of cat vomit” is the first sentence of the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. The hook sentence of Uglies already shows Tally’s pessimistic view of things. Uglies is set in the future because it is a dystopian book‚ also because it is a negative way of seeing the future. In this book characters are born looking “ugly” until their 16th birthday where they get mandatory plastic surgery. After the surgery they are called “pretty” and will live somewhere called New Pretty Land where
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The Good‚ The Better‚ and The Ugly As a foreign student I have confronted many difficulties specially when writing English because it is not my first language. In addition‚ once classes started I felt uneasy in English 1301 to be taught by Professor Belz; however‚ once in class I noticed several points‚ for instance‚ the good‚ the better‚ and the ugly facts from taking a college level class for English. First of all‚ while I was taking the English 1301 class I noticed good quality points in the
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Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. a teacher in Riceville Iowa‚ Jane Elliot wanted to show her students what it means to discriminate against someone. They had just named Martin Luther King Jr. as their “Hero of the month” and no one could understand what would compel someone to assassinate someone so good. She wanted to let her students understand what it’s like to be discriminated against and what it was like to discriminate against people‚ letting the students experience both
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Jim Elliot Would you give your life for something you believed in? Jim Elliot died trying to bring people to Christ. This might be all you know about this famous martyr‚ but he didn’t start out as a missionary in Ecuador. Early on in life‚ Jim’s parents introduced him to many missionaries who sparked his interest in mission work. In college‚ he became ever more focused on his goal of spreading the Gospel to the world. Finally‚ he went to the mission field where he began full-time missionary
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editorial. The title of the editorial catches our attention straight away. It establishes a sense of moral values and appeals to ethos. The “good” in the title refers to the ‘self-respecting’ citizens; the “bad” refers to the graffiti artists and the “ugly” refers to graffiti itself. This serves to separate the principled and upright members of society from the graffiti artists. The demoralizing effects of graffiti are strengthened by the accompanying picture. The picture is dominated by disfigured
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