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    Belonging Speech

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    I leap onto the hot‚ dry sand as it screeches under my burning feet‚ bolting with speed down to the water‚ so eager. The surfboard feeling heavy under my arm after trekking from home in the scorching summer’s heat. I dive in and it actually feels like heaven‚ exhilarating‚ yet I have never felt so alive. I paddle over a clean 3 foot wave rolling in and over towards my anxiously waiting mates‚ anticipating the next sets to come through. I finally get out the back of the waves and sit up on my board

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    Identity and Belonging

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    The groups we reject tell us as much about ourselves as those to which we choose to belong Do I Belong? By Danielle Arnold –Levy “Who am I?” is a question often repeated by teenagers‚ though they may not voice it out loud or use precisely those words. One of the biggest challenges that adolescents face during the transition between childhood and adulthood is this struggle with their own sense of identity. For one thing‚ it seems to constantly shift: they may act one way with a particular group

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    What is a LETTER TO THE EDITOR? Letters to the Editor are found in newspapers. They are written by members of the public‚ as opposed to newspaper staff‚ and give somebody’s opinion about a current issue. Letters to the Editor have a similar structure to other persuasive forms of writing‚ like an essay. Salutation Opening Statement Opinion/Hypothesis Argument Argument Argument Conclusion Personal Details 1. Letters to the Editor start with a SALUTATION‚ usually ‘Dear Editor’ or ‘Dear Sir/Madam’.

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    BELONGING CREATIVE

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    The dead-ended street She stood in the middle of the street‚ where the wind washed on the sighing pavement with a hollow sound at midnight. Her empty eyes saw straight through the bleary neon lights flickering on and off the street signs.  She looked and saw nothing‚ gulping in cleansing‚ scouring draughts of air. Her hair whipped around her face‚ and the world was reduced to fragments and blurs‚ spots and smudges of something unreal. A train whistled through the air behind her‚ silent as a

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    Trust. You have to trust your family‚ friends‚ others you meet in your lifetime. The Uglies and One of Us is Lying are both books that center around trust. Both books teach you about trust in different ways‚ in Uglies it teaches you that trusting what others say isn’t always the truth on the other hand‚ in One of Us is Lying it teaches you that trusting people comes with consequences. In the book “Uglies” it teaches you that trusting what others say isn’t always the truth. This is shown in the

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    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 society‚ or so the government

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    scientifically brilliant‚ fiction book called the Uglies. Reading can also open a door to a world of romance‚ mysteries‚ drama‚ and education; creating a magical allusion for the reader. In the book‚ Uglies‚ by Scott Westerfeld‚ he did more than open a door to another world‚ he actually “created” his own world! Most of the books on the fiction reading list offer romance‚ mysteries‚ drama‚ and education; but few offer an equal balance of all four. Uglies is a book that offers all four of these elements

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    In “Ugly”‚ William McKibben highlights the understated word “ugly”. He feels “ugly” has lost its powerful meaning. To show true ugliness‚ he spends time detailing spikes used to prevent homeless people from sitting. McKibben views ugliness as any gesture that place one’s comfort over another’s and says “go somewhere else” to that person. Placing your arm on both armrests in the movie theater is ugly. When theater 2 already has every seat occupied‚ taking both armrests places our comfort over our

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    Uglies Novel Essay Grade 9

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    Group Essay on Uglies By Claire‚ Tara‚ Tarah‚ Genevieve‚ and Soojin Introduction: “A perfection of means‚ and confusion of aims seems to be our main problem” (Einstein). As humans‚ we try to achieve perfection‚ and fail often. We know how to achieve what we want‚ but when it comes to what we want to achieve‚ we get very confused. We have been told by sci-fi authors repeatedly that striving for perfection will be the downfall of the human race. In Uglies by Scott Westerfeld‚ the government strives

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    The Ugly Truth About Animal Cruelty Problems & Solutions / Raising Awareness Animal Cruelty is an issue that a multitude amount of people don’t pay attention to. The reason for that is because people aren’t informed about the types of things all kinds of different animals go through. The Ugly Truth about this topic is that as you read this‚ an innocent animal is being neglected‚ abused‚ or forced to fight. The two main types of animal abuse is Passive Cruelty and Active Cruelty. Passive Cruelty

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