...this place, everyone has a special job for the rest of their lives. Beatrice, the main character, is sixteen years old and has experienced what it is like to be selfless for the first sixteen years of her life. “Why doesn’t she reprimand me for staring at myself?”(2). Since day one, Beatrice was taught never to think of herself, but to think only of others. You are not even allowed to look at yourself in the mirror. The story begins when Beatrice takes her aptitude test and it comes back inconclusive. After the aptitude test on choosing day, Beatrice has to choose from five different factions; Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave) and Erudite (the intelligent). After the aptitude test Beatrice get three results, Abnegation, Erudite and Dauntless. This makes her “divergent” and she is warned to never share this with anyone for fear of her life. “Divergence is extremely dangerous”(23). During the choosing ceremony, Beatrice surprises her parents and chooses Dauntless, leaving her Mom and Dad behind. “Then, with a gasp I can’t contain, I shift my hand forward, and my blood sizzles on the coals. I am Selfish. I am brave”(47). Now Beatrice has to pass an initiation process before she is accepted as a Dauntless member. Beatrice must prove to all of the Dauntless-born initiates, that she is not a little stiff. She finds...
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...At the beginning of Insurgent, Tris, Tobias, Marcus, Peter, and Caleb had just escaped from a war between the Erudite and Dauntless against Abnegation. Sitting on the train, Tris remembered how her father and mother both sacrificed their lives for her. She also remembered how she killed her friend Will, who was also her best friend, Christina’s boyfriend. Feeling ashamed and guilty about their deaths, she hides the truth from Tobias. Later on, they arrived at Amity asking the leader of Amity to hide and protect them from Jeanine and her army. After a short while of hiding, Jeanine’s army reached Amity and searched the place for them. Luckily, they were able to escape onto a train filled with factionless. There, Tris picked up a fight with the...
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...Amity are all about the farm, kindness, harmony and they are always happy who dress in shades of sorbet. The Candor run the judicial system and value honesty and order.They tell the truth, even when you wish they wouldn’t. The Erudite are the smart ones, the ones who value knowledge and logic. They know everything. They can tell truth because they have the facts. They wear conservative, dark blue. The Abnegation are known for their selflessness and modesty. They love to help others. They eat plain food, plat-based diet with no sauces and a minimum of seasoning. And the pierced and tatted Dauntless are the brave, fearless and free soldiers, protectors or police who protect the city. Beatrice Prior is a member of the Abnegation alongside her brother, and their parents They dress in drab colors, eat simply and are only allowed to steal a quick glance in the mirror once every three months when it's time for a haircut. Basically, they're no fun, and Beatrice has a wild streak in her that she's been forced to suppress. When she undergoes the aptitude test required of all teens, which determines which faction is the best reflection of one's true nature, her results are inconclusive. She's got pieces of a few different factions in her, the Abnegation, Erudite and Dauntless which makes her what's known as Divergent, which makes her dangerous. At the annual Choosing Ceremony, where the teens use their test results to pick the faction they want to join for the rest of their lives, Beatrice...
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...DIVERGENT Reflective portion: * Tris learns about her identity and chooses her faction. * Tris: Tris was born into the Abnegation Faction, but she had never felt at ease with her faction’s modest, self-denying lifestyle. When she took the aptitude test at the age of sixteen to determine her future, her result proved inconclusive. It was pretty clear from the start that this decision would very trying for her, and the path she chose would mean not only sacrificing a part of herself, but also sealing her fate as to what kind of person she would become for the rest of her life. At the Choosing Ceremony, Tris decided to join Dauntless. The decision represented a significant change in her life as she realized that in order to discover who she truly was, she had to leave her family behind and start anew. This meant giving up the security of family to actively pursue her goals regardless of whether they led her to danger, rather than being subservient to others with no freedom. Tris's rash decision of choosing Dauntless brought about many trials and tribulations that ultimately aided her in finding her true self. * Family: Before going to the Choosing Ceremony, Tris’s father had been counting on her and her brother to choose Abnegation. Afterwards, seeing their own children decided to leave the Abnegation faction, they were both shocked. Even though Tris's father felt disappointed, their mother, in contrast...
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...The Divergent War The Divergent Series is based around the divisions of society during repercussions of a civil war that occurred in North America in a dystopian future when the population with impure genes began a battle to offset the population of those with pure genes . Also, during the novel Insurgent, Beatrice Prior and the other main characters from surrounding factions team up against the Erudite who are trying to control all people from the city. This creates yet another civil war. This series full of war and battles greatly relates to the topic of the exploding tension between the northern and southern states in regards to slavery, which resulted in the 1861 American Civil war. It all began after the election of Abraham Lincoln, an...
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...Divergent Veronica Roth Dedication To my mother, who gave me the moment when Beatrice realizes how strong her mother is and wonders how she missed it for so long Contents Dedication Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six Chapter Twenty-Seven Chapter Twenty-Eight Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One Chapter Thirty-Two Chapter Thirty-Three Chapter Thirty-Four Chapter Thirty-Five Chapter Thirty-Six Chapter Thirty-Seven Chapter Thirty-Eight Chapter Thirty-Nine Excerpt from Insurgent Chapter One Chapter Two Acknowledgments About the Author Back Ad Praise for Divergent Books By Veronica Roth Credits Copyright About the Publisher CHAPTER ONE THERE IS ONE mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair. I sit on the stool and my mother stands behind me with the scissors, trimming. The strands fall on the floor in a dull, blond ring. When she finishes, she pulls my hair away from my face and twists it into a knot. I note how calm she looks and...
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...Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky all, in different ways, portray the struggles that teenagers go through whilst they are undertaking the journey to find themselves. The two significant connections that I have made using these texts is the fact that strong, independent woman have a hard time being able to express themselves, and that your past, whether you like it or not, affects who you are today. The Hunger Games is the story of a head-strong, independent young girl who lives in a dystopian North America called Panem, which is split into 13 Districts. 74 years ago, the 13 Districts rebelled against the government Capitol, but it ended horribly for the Districts, with the result of District 13 being bombed to the ground. Ever since then, the 12 Districts have each had to supply one boy and one girl between the ages of 12-18 to compete in the annual Hunger Games. These children are pitted against each other to fight to the death in an arena, until only one Victor remains. The story follows a 16-year old girl named Katniss, who volunteers for the games in place of her sister, who’s name was drawn at the Reaping for the Games. In the process of prepping for the Games, her mentor, Haymitch, tries to get her to act a certain way and be a certain person in...
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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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...In Balaka Basu’s, The Pleasure of Being Sorted in Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Basu states, “Whatever else they may do, all heroes of young adult fiction- and by extension, their readers- are eventually asked to consider the two great questions of adolescence; ‘Who am I now? And who do I want to be when I grow up?’ As they do so, they inevitably embark upon a quest for identity, an apparently innocuous pursuit that lies at the very core of the genre.” (The Pleasure 19) In each of the three books, the reader can see individual or groups of young adults having to unite to achieve a certain goal. In class Professor Walker discussed how rebellious many young adults become as they reach their mid-teens and twenties. Becoming rebellious as a young adult is often seen by our parents as a reckless, impulsive eruption of emotions from within that allow rash decisions to be made. However, in each of the young adult, dystopian novels being reviewed, the main characters are considered rebellious by the law makers and rulers even though they are pushing for change in their unjust society. This essay will discuss three dystopian young adult novels, Divergent, The Hunger Games and Unwind and how each of them reflects on possible futures for humanity and the way young people are called to respond to the changes in the worlds they live in. Before getting started with the novels themselves, getting a brief overview of dystopian societies in Young Adult fiction is necessary. In, Contemporary Dystopian...
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...Females throughout history have experienced many struggles being a woman. From protesting to get the vote and standing up for equal rights, women have worked hard to get the freedoms they have today. It was with the rise of Elizabeth I in England that a new approach to women throughout literature and the media can be seen. She has been celebrated as an English embodiment of feminine strength and was patron to Shakespeare and Marlowe Elizabeth strayed from being the traditional women figure, and became a brave and rebellious leader. Of course Elizabeth did not act this way for fun, she did it as she felt it was the necessary action to take. Today, females in books and movies have strayed further from traditional roles in order to lead successful lives. Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games trilogy faces the pressure of the capital and wishes to fight to make change. Hanna, from the 2011 film Hanna, is raised through the teaching of her father to become an assassin in order to avenge a murdered mother. Beatrice, in the Divergent trilogy works to hide her true identity of being divergent as she knows the consequences if her truth be revealed. Later, of course, she too becomes an agent for change. Each character, then, coming from different backgrounds and lifestyles, must break away from tradition and take action to bring balance to their worlds and take revenge on those who have harmed them. All three women must learn the actions, attitudes and ways of what is known as the avenging...
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...international law has followed this strand of Grotius’ thought in orienting the subject to the problem of managing disputes. Since the late nineteenth century, generations of leading scholar-practitioners have shaped a view of international law which emphasizes legal doctrines and materials related to disputes: the specific rules one party to a dispute may invoke against another, the sources (e.g. treaty, custom) to which an international court will look to identify international law rules, the general principles (e.g. acquiescence, abuse of rights) that international courts have borrowed from national legal systems to help deal with international cases, the foundational principles of international law (e.g. state responsibility) enunciated by courts, the precedential implications of a specific decision or a specific settlement agreement. This focus owes much to the sociological model of the successful international lawyer as it developed in the English and French traditions of international law over the past century: that of the academically respected practitioner, primarily the world–wise professor-counsel or the erudite lawyer–civil servant, whose career involved both scholarship and representing litigants in the management of disputes, and might eventually culminate in becoming a judge or arbitrator in an international tribunal and an author of learned general courses and essays. Naturally these scholar-practitioners are committed also to the enunciation of general norms and...
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...|Word |Synonym |Sentence | |Abase |to humiliate, degrade, debase, corrupt, |Don’t abase yourself by accepting this offer. | | |disgrace | | |Abash |to bewilder, confound, confuse, puzzle, amaze,|That poor man felt abashed in the company of rich man & women. He was not at | |[uh-bash] |stun, leave speechless, bamboozle. |all abashed by his open admiration (প্রশংসা). | |Abate |to remove, lessen |We resumed our journey when the rain abated. Rather than leaving immediately, | | | |they waited for the storm to abate. | |Abdicate |to forsake, give up, (পরিত্যাগ করা, অস্বীকার |Edwar VIII abdicated the British throne to marry the woman he loved. Saddam was| | |করা), resign, relinquish, hand over, step down|abdicated from his throne. | | |from, abandon | | ...
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...Vance Packard With an Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller PUBLISHING Brooklyn, New York Copyright © 1957, 1980 by Vance Packard Originally published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Introduction Copyright 2007© by Mark Crispin Miller All rights reserved. Printed in Canada Reissue Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher. Please direct inquiries to: Ig Publishing 178 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 www.igpub.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Packard, Vance Oakley, 1914The hidden persuaders / Vance Packard ; [new] introduction by Mark Crispin Miller. p. cm. Originally published in 1957 by McKay and reissued in 1980 by Pocket Books with a new afterword. ISBN-13: 978-0-9788431-0-6 ISBN-10: 0-9788431-0-X 1. Advertising--Psychological aspects. 2. Consumers--Psychology. 3. Advertising, Political. 4. Propaganda. 5. Control (Psychology) I. Title. HF5822.P3 2007 659.101'9--dc22 2007027043 To Virginia CONTENTS Introduction by Mark Crispin Miller 1. The Depth Approach PERSUADING US AS CONSUMERS Z. The Trouble With People 3. So Ad Men become Depth Men 4. ....And The Hooks Are Lowered 5. Self-Images for Everybody 6. RX for Our Secret Distresses 1. Marketing Eight Hidden Needs 8. The Built-In Sexual Overtone 9. Back to the Breast, and Beyond 10. Babes In Consumerland 11. Class and Caste in the Salesroom 12. Selling Symbols...
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...CRIME, PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE IN A COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT This book aims to honour the work of Professor Mirjan Damaška, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a prominent authority for many years in the fields of comparative law, procedural law, evidence, international criminal law and Continental legal history. Professor Damaška’s work is renowned for providing new frameworks for understanding different legal traditions. To celebrate the depth and richness of his work and discuss its implications for the future, the editors have brought together an impressive range of leading scholars from different jurisdictions in the fields of comparative and international law, evidence and criminal law and procedure. Using Professor Damaška’s work as a backdrop, the essays make a substantial contribution to the development of comparative law, procedure and evidence. After an introduction by the editors and a tribute by Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, the book is divided into four parts. The first part considers contemporary trends in national criminal procedure, examining cross-fertilisation and the extent to which these trends are resulting in converging practices across national jurisdictions. The second part explores the epistemological environment of rules of evidence and procedure. The third part analyses human rights standards and the phenomenon of hybridisation in transnational and international criminal law. The final part of the book assesses Professor...
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...Physical Chemistry Understanding our Chemical World Physical Chemistry Understanding our Chemical World Paul Monk Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Copyright 2004 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Telephone (+44) 1243 779777 Email (for orders and customer service enquiries): cs-books@wiley.co.uk Visit our Home Page on www.wileyeurope.com or www.wiley.com All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP, UK, without the permission in writing of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England, or emailed to permreq@wiley.co.uk, or faxed to (+44) 1243 770620. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold on the understanding that the Publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Other Wiley...
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