“Feeling ’ugly’ or ’unattractive’ seeps into your life like poison‚ and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalize these limitations‚ and it takes an internal revolution to get rid of them” – Rudi Kaur. Society has trained every to judge people by their looks. If someone is deemed “ugly” or “unattractive”‚ they are shunned and looked down upon. Society turns people into things that they are not. The popular classic‚ Frankenstein‚ tells the story of a young man‚ Victor
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What if I told you that the “Father of the Air Force” publicly criticized and attacked his superior leaders‚ to include the White House? Brigadier General William “Billy” Mitchell was a Visionary Leader‚ but an Unethical Leader that successfully campaigned his message extensively while criticizing all of his superiors during his air power movement. Between WWI and WWII‚ Mitchell used his rank and name recognition to spearhead the push for air power relevance. In Hurley’s (1975) writing‚ he said
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The Ugly American showed the reasons why American diplomacy was failing in Southeast Asia in the 1950’s and the reasons why communism was succeeding. . Its lessons seem startlingly urgent today in light of the turmoil in Central America and in the Middle East. Whether the foreign policy errors this book dramatizes have been corrected is an important question‚ and one that can be usefully debated in the classroom. As a harbinger of the United States failure in Vietnam‚ The Ugly American seems
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Name Professor AP English III 28 February 2014 The Crucial Role of Captain Jack Elliot: A Literary Criticism of These is my Words Nancy E. Turner‚ in her American novel inspired by her own family’s experiences These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine (1998)‚ displays the struggles of life on the frontier from a female’s point of view. Sarah Prine‚ Turner’s grandmother‚ is the main character who is traveling across Arizona with her family to find a place to settle. Along the way‚ Sarah
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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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An overarching theme for many teen books is a character defying society whether it be the corrupt leaders‚ ideas‚ or practices. In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld‚ people live in a world where plastic surgery is expected for them and given to everyone through every stage of their life. However when Tally learns the truth behind the operation‚ she questions authority and disobey their standards. When children become teenagers‚ they are sent away from their parents to live in dorms together where
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The protagonists of "Miss Brill" and "You’re Ugly Too" share common occurrences related to their isolation. Both women are educators that are displaced from their place of origin: Miss Brill teaches English in France but is originally from New Zealand‚ and Zoe Hendricks is a history teacher in rural Illinois originally from the Northeast United States. Neither Miss Brill nor Zoe are able to build any kind of meaningful relationships with their students or peers. It is ambiguously illustrated in "Miss
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characters form relationships with one another‚ their future gets deeply impacted. This can be shown in the “Uglies” series by Scott Westerfeld. In the series‚ Shay’s brutally honest ways change the protagonist‚ Tally Youngblood‚ in ways they both never imagined. This and other bonds that Tally forms with different characters is what shapes her destiny. The first installment of the series‚ Uglies‚ is where Tally’s journey begins. This starts when Tally becomes invested in hoverboarding due to meeting
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An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness (5) Tara Parker-Pope is an author of books on health topics and a columnist for the New York Times‚ where she writes the Well blog. Her books include "For Better: How the Surprising Science of Happy Couples Can Help Your Marriage Succeed‚" "The Hormone Decision‚" and "Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke." Prior to joining the New York Times‚ Parker-Pope wrote for the Wall Street Journal. Addiction is defined as frequent
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colour‚ nationality or the nationality of their guardian or ancestors is known solely as ‘discrimination’. Jane Elliot‚ exposed to the harsh waves of discrimination‚ tries to change the world through her methods. Discrimination once practiced upon an individual‚ can scar or change a person for the remainder of his or her life. It can also change ones views on discrimination. Jane Elliot‚ a white American women shunned by society on the basis of her anti-racial views towards not only African Americans
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