Name: Ruth Fajardo Book One: Big Mouth and Ugly Girl Assignment #3 Reading Assignment Part 1 Reading Questions: Chapters 1-4 5 questions Throughout all these reading response questions‚ I am calling on you to avoid simple answers and use the text as support for your observations. All responses will require at least a paragraph or two... To complete this assignment‚ begin typing directly into this page. Save your work to disk or desktop folder frequently. Back up your work‚ preferably
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Karan Sitaram 7th period 8-30-13 Uglies In the novel Uglies‚ Tally Youngblood (ugly) feels she is ugly because society put that label on her. This book helped me in many ways one of them was not judging people just because they don’t compare to my standards. Before I had read this book whenever I saw what I thought was an unbalanced couple where the guy or girl was too pretty for the other. I would tell my brother that they don’t belong together because she’s too pretty for him‚ how did he
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Pearce AP Language Mrs. Borisoff November 11‚ 2014 “The Ugly Tourist” by Jamaica Kincaid Academic Summary In the essay “The Ugly Tourist”‚ Jamaica Kincaid argues through rant that when in the state of being a tourist‚ one is shallow and only appreciates the beautiful skin of a culture and does not really know the depth‚ therefor cannot truly say that it is beautiful. Right off the bat in the first sentence Jamaica describes tourists as “ugly human beings”. These words give out a very strong idea
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Little girl‚ a big secret I don’t remember when all this started‚ when my family turned into a mess. However‚ I really wish that I could go back and change that moment‚ that moment when my father started to ruin our lives. Since I was little I’ve had the same lullaby. Almost every night‚ I have fallen asleep to the sound of punches‚ mum screaming and dad yelling. I’m scared‚ I can’t sleep‚ I can’t tell. “Auch! Please stop!” I heard mum cried‚ “I’m begging you!”. “Go to hell f***ing cow!” dad
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In Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies‚ a world ruled by beauty finds their world shaken when a group of young uglies challenge the status quo. All Tally Youngblood has ever wanted is to be pretty; unfortunately for her‚ when her friend Shay runs away‚ Tally is the only one who can find Shay. If Tally does not locate and betray her friend‚ she must face the ultimate consequence: to never be pretty. Westerfeld incorporates personal appearance into Uglies in an attempt to force the reader into acknowledging
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reference is significant because initially it was seen to Twyla as a place where the “Big Girls” hung out listening to music and dancing a place that from the onset gave the appearance of being a happy place. It also served as the place where Twyla and Roberta established themselves as allies so to speak against the Big Girls‚ coming up with names for the big girls that would hurl words back at the older girls when they were being chased by them. Conversely‚ it was also a place where to friends would
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Manipulation of citizens by the government is corrupting civilization as a whole. In Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies‚ the government makes people think that normal people are ugly‚ they physically enhance their agents to control the people and they control their brains. The corruption is clear in the world of Uglies when the author states that “99% of people had had something done to their brains and only a few select people knew exactly what”(273). The government has therefore been controlling people
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Michael Trusov‚ Randolph E. Bucklin‚ & Koen Pauwels Effects of Word-of-Mouth Versus Traditional Marketing: Findings from an Internet Social Networking Site The authors study the effect of word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing on member growth at an Internet social networking site and compare it with traditional marketing vehicles. Because social network sites record the electronic invitations from existing members‚ outbound WOM can be precisely tracked. Along with traditional marketing‚ WOM can then
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parts of the play. The scenes involving the usage of VR was important for the development of the protagonist‚ because this was a place where she only focused on making herself better. Humor is important for the healing process and it was evident within Ugly Lies the Bone because the addition of a sarcastic protagonist added a sense of realism within
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Summary: It is a Friday in the ghetto‚ Craig lost his job because they caught him on camera stealing boxes out of the store. He has to pay to live in the house with his parents so this really makes thing tough on him. He also has a bestfriend named Smokey. Smokey is supposedly a drug dealer but he smokes up all of his product‚ So he owes this guy named Big Worm money. Smokey goes over to Craig’s house. Craig tells him how he got fired and everything and so then they sit on the porch to hang and
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