...operation once turning the age of 16. Tally Youngblood has 3 months until her 16th birthday and has waited her entire life for that moment. Her and her best friend Peris always pictured their life in New Pretty Town together where every day is a party and the only rule is to have fun. With Peris being 3 months older than Tally, therefore already turned, Tally’s on her own in Uglyville waiting for her 16th birthday to come. When Tally meets a new friend, Shay, who is not as certain as Tally about having the operation, she shares her thoughts on staying an ugly. Shortly after, a few days before their shared birthday, Shay reveals her plan to run away to a place outside the city called the Smoke. Shay tries to convince Tally to come with her to the Smoke but Tally denies the offer while trying to convince Shay to stay with Tally and become pretty with her. The next day, after Shay runs away, on their 16th birthday, Tally waiting anxiously in the hospital is confronted and taken to Special Circumstances. There she meets Dr. Cable, the head of...
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...girl who lives in a town that is split up into Ugly Ville and New Pretty Town. This young girl is waiting on her operation to become pretty. Her name is Tally Youngblood and she was an ugly waiting to become pretty. Tally Youngblood is sneaky, smart, and a faithful friend to Paris and Shay. She made a promise to Paris. Paris had been her friend since they were little. He was her best friend; they did everything together, except they did not become pretty at the same time. So after all that Tally had gone to see Paris. When Tally came back to Ugly Ville, she met this girl name Shay and she was an ugly also. Tally and Shay were waiting to become pretty. They were going to become pretty at the same time, but Shay did not want to become pretty. She wanted to stay with her natural skin that she had. Tally in the story is really smart. When it was time for her to become pretty, she had to go down to the special circumstance. She knew that something was wrong when she had to go down there. She was looking concerned that she would not become pretty. When Tally got there she met this lady name Dr. Cable. Tally knew why she was here at the special circumstance and it was that Shay had gone missing. Tally was asked a couple of questions by Dr. Cable. Tally was answering a question with another question....
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...Hunger Games, and The Giver. In the book, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, the reader meets Tally Youngblood. Tally Youngblood is 16 and she lives in Uglyville. Tally has a best friend Peris that is 3 months older than her who was turned pretty first. It states on page 3 “Tally takes on the roles of vandal, outcast, and informer.” Utopia is not attainable because there cannot be a perfect world, as dystopia is defined as an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or miserable. Therefore, Uglies is an example of...
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...The Uglies is a novel which is one of the parts of book series by Scott Westerfled. It is manily intended for age group of the young adults. Uglies depicts a fictional world, where everyone is ugly. But the sixteenth birthday is an important and decisive point in everyone’s life. Sixteenth birthday brings you an operation which will transform you from ‘an ugly one’ into an amazingly beautiful person. This novel is about Tally Youngblood, who is an ugly one. she is eagerly waiting for her sixteenth birthday when she will have her operation and will be transformed into an attractive girl. But one of the Tally’s friend Shay does not want to become pretty and she elopes without telling anyone. Tally is then offered a choice by authorities that,...
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...What Is Beauty? In the future, “uglies”, who are normal looking people in our society today, must get an operation to make them pretty when they become sixteen. Tally Youngblood is a typical “ugly”, and lives in Uglyville with other people like herself. She cannot wait until she turns pretty, then she will live in Prettyville and constantly be surrounded beautiful people. Tally admires these beautiful people from afar and wishes she could be one of them. She does not look at inner beauty and only sees what is on the outside of people. Because of this, she views herself and the other people in her town as ugly, when in reality these people are really the beautiful ones since their brains are not affected. They have the ability to make good decisions because their entire mindsets have not been altered. Unfortunately, much of society today also views beauty as being attractive on the outside; however, many people in our current society also look inside people and get to see beauty for what it really is and what it was intended to be. There are many people with “ugly” looks who are still beautiful because of their inner beauty. People can be average-looking and beautiful because of what they are made up of inside. Also, people can be beautiful on the inside and outside. Magnarelli 2 There are many people who have walked this earth that show us the true meaning of beauty, such as Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus Christ, and his mother, Mary. All though many people...
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...Shay is a very independent person. She doesn’t like to listen to society. Shay likes to break rules. I like her and I wish to be confident like her. “Tally there’s nothing out there, like you said. Nothing and no one to bust us. “ page 47 Everybody wants to be pretty and once they turn sixteen they can. Shay is one of the only people who don’t want to become pretty. Shay runs away a week before her birthday. Tally stayed behind but now they won’t let her become pretty. Tally has to break her promise and go find Shay because she might be in danger. - Conformity as and individuality as bad\ - tightly controlled inhabitants - unjust laws - limited or complete lack of individual freedom 4. Shay and Tally live in Uglyville. Tally is going to Pretty...
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...same at a later date about the mistake they have made by basing their judgments on other people’s experiences. One should not use merely the thoughts and suggestions from others to make judgments but should use their own experience too in order to realize the importance or true feeling of a place. Tally uses information from others to create conclusions and judgments about the Smoke, but when she lives in the Smoke she realizes her misinterpretations through experience. To begin with, Tally is instigated by what she hears from others and creates a judgment about New Pretty Town. Tally asks Shay, “Did you ever think that when you’re a pretty you might not need to… mess things up? Maybe you are afraid of growing up!” (Westerfeld, 80). Tally uses what she has heard from other people and thinks that being pretty is the only way a person can grow up and tries to forcefully educate Shay about the same thing which even Tally is not clear of. Later, Tally starts to experiences the reality about the Smoke by actually living there. When David asks, “Being here in the Smoke. You’re not sure about it at all. [Tally replies,] No, I guess I’m not sure,” (Westerfeld, 206). Since Tally is wired to thinking that only New Pretty Town is where she wants to go, she is still blindfolded. Therefore only gaining a small amount of true opinion to say that she is not sure, but not firm about living in the Smoke. As a result of Tally’s long term experience in the Smoke, it changes her true...
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...Youth in Dystopia (DRAFT) Christopher Lewis Chapman University May 21, 2014 Vadeboncoeur (2005) criticizes the age-old question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and explains that youth are always defined as being in the process of becoming an adult. But what happens if this question is no long applicable or even necessary? Dystopian novels remove this illusion of choice. In each of the novels I will address, all teenagers attend or participate in a ceremony whereby they transition from young adult to adult. The first series I will address is Scott Westerfield’s Uglies series, where youth undergo plastic surgery as their rite of passage. Maturation and growing up require endure body modifications to create same-ness and the perfectly pretty white race. Second, I will analyze Ally Condie’s Matched series, where social order to determined by sorters who decide vocation and spouses. All teenagers attend a ceremony where a person’s perfect match is determined by a computer program. Lastly, I will use Veronica Roth’s Divergent series to explore how the world is constructed by personality type. Youth choose to participate in factions that are determined by a psychological examination that detects a youth’s instinctual predilections when facing their fears. As readers begin to figure out the rules to this new society, they are challenged to make comparisons to their own world. We are forced to wonder whether or not, as educators, we reinforce stereotypical...
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...Introduction: I visited The Centers of Marion County Mental Health, which is a facility that treats mental health patients as well as patients that need detoxification services. The facility has both in-patient and out-patient programs that counsel and treat both adults and children that deal with mental health diagnosis such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis, depression, and much more. The mission of the centers is to “offer a wide variety of behavioral health care services designed to help people of all ages reach their highest level of functioning.” (The Centers Web Site) Services Acute Care Services The facility offers acute care services. The acute care ward includes 24 hour assessment services, inpatient crisis stabilization (for adults and children), and detoxification. Inpatient crisis stabilization services provides short-term inpatient care for those experiencing acute emotional disturbances. Treatment may consist of medication, as well as individual and group counseling. Detoxification services consist of inpatient and outpatient detoxification treatment for alcohol and drugs. Referral for longer term residential treatment is provided where needed. Adolescent Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Services The Centers’ Adolescent Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Facility is a patient- centered, holistic model where youth, ages 13-17 and their families receive individual and group ...
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...question of bringing down this place and making it a safer place is still open on one hand, because there is an apparent and ample supply of numberless narcotics flowing in from all the corners to the nook and corner of the state. Just to take an example, the proximity of the state to the infamous Golden Triangle comprising parts of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos has long been held as one of the main reasons why heroin is easily available here. However, on the other hand, there is another question that is entirely close ended: Is the authority willing to make the neighbourhood a safer area? There are allegedly so many havens for heroin and mobile units for manufacturing the stuff along the recently renamed National Highway 37, which inciden- tally passes through the ghetto of Awang BOC and proceeds...
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...A Painted House John Grisham Chapter 1 The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or too much rain, or the threat of floods in the lowlands, or the rising prices of seed and fertilizer, or the uncertainties of the markets. On the most perfect of days, my mother would quietly say to me, "Don't worry. The men will find something to worry about." Pappy, my grandfather, was worried about the price for labor when we went searching for the hill people. They were paid for every hundred pounds of cotton they picked. The previous year, according to him, it was $1.50 per hundred. He'd already heard rumors that a farmer over in Lake City was offering $1.60. This played heavily on his mind as we rode to town. He never talked when he drove, and this was because, according to my mother, not much of a driver herself, he was afraid of motorized vehicles. His truck was a 1939 Ford, and with the exception of our old John Deere tractor, it was our sole means of transportation. This was no particular problem except when...
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...A Painted House John Grisham Chapter 1 The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or too much rain, or the threat of floods in the lowlands, or the rising prices of seed and fertilizer, or the uncertainties of the markets. On the most perfect of days, my mother would quietly say to me, "Don't worry. The men will find something to worry about." Pappy, my grandfather, was worried about the price for labor when we went searching for the hill people. They were paid for every hundred pounds of cotton they picked. The previous year, according to him, it was $1.50 per hundred. He'd already heard rumors that a farmer over in Lake City was offering $1.60. This played heavily on his mind as we rode to town. He never talked when he drove, and this was because, according to my mother, not much of a driver herself, he was afraid of motorized vehicles. His truck was a 1939 Ford, and with the exception of our old John Deere tractor, it was our sole means of transportation. This was no particular problem except when...
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...E AT I N G P L A N You’re closer than you think. And you get closer every day. TABLE OF CONTENTS • • • • • • • • • • • • • Introduction.................................................................................1 How the Fix Is Done .................................................................2 Get Started in 5 Simple Steps ................................................4 Added Zing!...............................................................................8 • To Treat or Not to Treat? ...................................... 10 Hydration ................................................................................. 12 • The Water Bar ........................................................ 13 • The Tea & Coffee Bar ........................................... 14 Multivitamins: ActiVit for Active You .................................. 15 Calorie Charts ........................................................................ 18 Container Food Groups ........................................................ 20 • Replacement Food Container Groups ............... 38 Recipes ..................................................................................... 41 • Seasoning Mixes ................................................... 42 • Container Recipes ................................................. 44 • Green Container ................................... 44 • Red Container ....................................... 46 •...
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...SUKRITI JAIN Will EU survive the second decade of the new millennium? CONTENTS 1. ORIGIN........................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 1.2 2. 3. 4. Perceived benefits ................................................................................................................... 7 Rules governing union (Stability and Growth Pact and Maastricht Treaty) ........................... 7 Faultlines ......................................................................................................................................... 7 current SCENARIO ........................................................................................................................ 8 WHY SAVE EURO? .................................................................................................................... 10 4.1 ALTERNATIVES................................................................................................................. 11 Split ............................................................................................................................... 11 Institutionalised austerity and ECB bailing out ............................................................ 13 ECB lends money to IMF and latter disburses loans with stiff conditionality’s ........... 13 Creation ofEuropean treasury/ EmpoweringEFSF ........................................................ 13...
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...Imagine a cherry tree in full bloom, its roots sunk into rich earth and its branches covered with thousands of blossoms, all emitting a lovely fragrance and containing thousands of seeds capable of producing many more cherry trees. The petals begin to fall, covering the ground in a blanket of white flowers and scattering the seeds everywhere. Some of the seeds will take root, but the vast majority will simply break down along with the spent petals, becoming part of the soil that nourishes the tree — along with thousands of other plants and animals. Looking at this scene, do we shake our heads at the senseless waste, mess and inefficiency? Does it look like the tree is working too hard, showing signs of strain or collapse? Of course not. But why not? Well, for one thing, because the whole process is beautiful, abundant and pleasure producing: We enjoy seeing and smelling the trees in bloom, we’re pleased by the idea of the trees multiplying (and producing delicious cherries), and everyone for miles around seems to benefit in the process. The entire lifecycle of the cherry tree is rewarding, and the only “waste” involved is an abundant sort of nutrient cycling that only leads to more good things. Best of all, this show of productivity and generosity seems to come quite naturally to the tree. It shows no signs of discontent or resentment — in fact, it looks like it could keep this up indefinitely with nothing but good, sustainable outcomes. The cherry-tree scenario...
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