...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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...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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...In the book there is a young 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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...“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” Nature is the biggest teacher out there. We can learn so much from it, it can define our abilities our fears and our personalities. In Scott Westerfield’s novel The uglies, Tally lives in a city that has a limited relationship with nature. But when Tally decides to go out and see the real nature for herself, she realizes that nature can help her define who she is and her abilities. Tally lives in a city that does not have a relationship with nature. The city decided to cut nature out of their plan and replace it with a surgery to make people look pretty. Therefore Tally has always lived her life thinking more about her society and not about what you see outside a window....
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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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...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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...e- Book Series Guide to Writing a Killer Marketing Plan Written by: Steven Fisher Purpose of this book You are either someone that has been doing marketing as a part of your professional career or you look at as that “thing you do to promote your business and attract customers to buy”. Regardless of where you are along that spectrum, you have arrived here because you have been charged by the CEO of the startup you work for to write a marketing plan for your business or you need to create one for your own business. You need to not just write just any marketing plan. You need to write a Killer Marketing Plan. One that your boss will say “awesome, let’s get started” and which will tell all those people who have been looking for a product or service like yours for a long time. This book is written for you. Marketing plans are sexy mistresses that tempt you to include all of the coolest of campaign ideas without the sanity of budgetary constraints. While marketing is one of the more important functions of a small business, it is one that is limited by the budgets of that business and campaigns must demonstrate a return in order to justify their existence. Since I have written more marketing plans than I care to tell you, I can share with you my knowledge and experience of what has worked almost all the time, some of the time and none of the time. While this is not the single tome on marketing plans, I hope that this helps you balance the unlimited creative...
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...Participant Media, River Road Entertainment and Magnolia Pictures Present A Magnolia Pictures Release FOOD, INC. A film by Robert Kenner 93 minutes, 35mm, 1.85 PRESS NOTES Distributor Contact: Matt Cowal Arianne Ayers Magnolia Pictures 49 W. 27th St., 7th Floor New York, NY 10001 (212) 924-6701 phone (212) 924-6742 fax publicity@magpictures.com Press Contact NY/Nat’l: Donna Daniels Public Relations Donna Daniels Lauren Schwartz Press Contact LA/Nat’l: mPRm Public Relations Alice Zou 5670 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 2500 Los Angeles, CA 90036 323.933.3399 ext. 4248 20 West 22nd Street, Suite 1410 New York, NY 10010 Ph: 347.254.7054 ddaniels@ddanielspr.net lschwartz@ddanielspr.net azou@mprm.com 49 west 27th street 7th floor new york, ny 10001 tel 212 924 6701 fax 212 924 6742 www.magpictures.com SYNOPSIS In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for...
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...Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. 'Once upon a time' is how all the best children's stories begin and 'prostitute' is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning. Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Like all prostitutes, she was born both innocent and a virgin, and, as an adolescent, she dreamed of meeting the man of her life (rich, handsome, intelligent), of getting married (in a wedding dress), having two children (who would grow up to be famous) and living in a lovely house (with a sea view). Her father was a travelling salesman, her mother a seamstress, and her hometown, in the interior of Brazil, had only one cinema, one nightclub and one bank, which was why Maria was always hoping that one day, without warning, her Prince Charming would arrive, sweep her off her feet and take her away with him so that they could conquer the world together. While she was waiting for her Prince Charming to appear, all she could do was dream. She fell in love for the first time when she was eleven, en route from her house to school. On the first day of term, she discovered that she was not alone on her way to school: making the same journey was a boy who lived in her neighbourhood and who shared the same timetable. They never exchanged a single word, but gradually Maria...
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...Introduction A Clockwork Orange I first published the novella A Clockwork Orange in 1962, which ought to be far enough in the past for it to be erased from the world's literary memory. It refuses to be erased, however, and for this the film version of the book made by Stanley Kubrick may be held chiefly responsible. I should myself be glad to disown it for various reasons, but this is not permitted. I receive mail from students who try to write theses about it or requests from Japanese dramaturges to turn It into a sort of Noh play. It seems likely to survive, while other works of mine that I value more bite the dust. This is not an unusual experience for an artist. Rachmaninoff used to groan because he was known mainly for a Prelude in C Sharp Minor which he wrote as a boy, while the works of his maturity never got into the programmes. Kids cut their pianistic teeth on a Minuet in G which Beethoven composed only so that he could detest it. I have to go on living with A Clockwork Orange, and this means I have a sort of authorial duty to it. I have a very special duty to it in the United States, and I had better now explain what this duty is. Let me put the situation baldly. A Clockwork Orange has never been published entire in America. The book I wrote is divided into three sections of seven chapters each. Take out your pocket calculator and you will find that these add up to a total of twenty-one chapters. 21 is the symbol for human maturity, or used to be, since at 21 you got the vote...
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...Programming Languages/Java ™ Jumpin’ Java! The bestselling Java beginner’s book is now fully updated for Java 7! Open the book and find: ava J • Definitions of the many terms you’ll encounter ® • The grammar of Java • How to save time by reusing code • All about if, for, switch, and while statements • An overview of object-oriented programming • Building blocks — learn to work with Java classes and methods and add comments • Hints about handling exceptions • How to write Java applets ® • The Java scoop — get an overview of Java, the enhancements in Java 7, and the software tools you need • Get loopy — understand the value of variables and learn to control program flow with loops or decision-making statements 5th Edition 5th Edition Java Java, the object-oriented programming language that works on almost any computer, is what powers many of those cool multimedia applications. Thousands have learned Java programming from previous editions of this book — now it’s your turn! Whether you’re new to programming or already know a little Visual Basic or C++, you’ll be doing Java in a jiffy. g Easier! Making Everythin • Ten ways to avoid mistakes • Class it up — explore classes and objects, constructors, and subclasses, and see how to reuse your code • A click ahead — experiment with variables and methods, use arrays and collections to juggle values, and create programs that respond to mouse clicks Learn...
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