Dexter Scott King

Swami Vivekananda said “Every change is being forced upon us.” In Tally’s world no words could be more true. Pretties and Specials are the second and third books in the Uglies series. Within the trilogy the story follows Tally, a young girl who finds out what is truly happening in her society. In Tally’s futuristic city people undergo an operation on their sixteenth birthday to become a “Pretty” the operation alters their looks and their brains. During the operation a lesion is put in everyone’s…

The film we studied was The Martian directed by Ridley Scott. The three main points I will be elaborating more on is the ‘positivity’ of Mark Watney, the ‘Responsible leader’ of Commander Lewis and the ‘Intelligence’ of Benjamin Vogel. These are the 3 important qualities which lead to the successful rescue of Mark Watney. I believe that these are the 3 most important qualities found throughout the film, and they will be the ones i will use to construct my essay. Using them to emphasise the the…

The opening introduced General Grant and his cunning and also very drastic war tactics to win. This chapter also uses detain to inform us of the Confederate enemy is the Union and its general Winfield Scott. General Scott was the man who informed President Lincoln of the plans of the south after he found the battle plans underneath a shady tree and President Lincoln at the time is trying to stop the spread of slavery a problem mostly in the south but tells…

from her husband, the last two people known to have spoken to Laci before she disappeared were her half-sister, Amy Rocha, and her mother, Sharon Rocha. Amy cut Scott's hair, with Laci present, on the evening of December 23, 2002. A few months later Scott Peterson was convicted of murder in the first degree for Laci's death and in the second degree for the death of their prenatal son Conner. Computer forensic investigation techniques are not only useful for solving cyber crimes such as…

I was barrell rolling out of control, I got hit by something big, but at the time I couldn’t figure out what. The only things running through my head was “will i live?”. And just like that, i had my answer… I shot awake to the sound of my general (Gen.Shepheard) busting through my door. “Get up you lazy bum!” he said. After he left I put on my flight suit and started going over weather pattern and different stuff like that incase we had to go fly. My pager buzzed and I walked into the control…

“Hand it over so I can get the hell out of here.” I’m tired, impatient and ready to get this shit wrapped up, so my tone with Riley is a little harsher than I intended. Actually, it’s a lot harsher, but that’s only because I’m hungry and my blood sugar’s getting a little low. I must admit, he’s a nice kid, I’ll give him that. He has a penchant for speed and a fearless disposition that will make him hard to beat when he gets some experience under his belt. With a little guidance from a mentor,…

After 37 years, and numerous suspects, Antioch's oldest open homicide cold case, on record, had a huge step forward in its case. Mitchell Lynn Bacom, 63, was arrested, by Antioch police, as a suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Suzanna Bombardier, 14, while she was babysitting her nieces on June 22, 1980. Bombardier disappeared from her sister’s townhouse and was found days later, by a fisherman, in the San Joaquin River. The police detained Bacom, a known acquantaine of the Bombardier…

February 2018 Exigence In the Novel, Uglies, Scott Westerfeld looks at the current world situation where every young person feels the need to be attractive and portrays a perception of what the world will be like in the future. Many young people think that the only way to confine in the society is to become physically attractive. The contemporary society, then introduces many plastic surgeries that one can undergo to become beautiful. With this in mind, Scott Westerfeld tells a story of what the…

television comedy series that aired on NBC from March 24, 2005 to May 16, 2013, depicts the mundane lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. It takes on the style of the mockumentary, with Michael Scott (portrayed by Steve Carell) as the leading character of the series, who serves as Regional Manager of the branch. The show derives its humor from the superiority theory, in which Michael demonstrates conflicting values of power and…

Personal Response: The book Uglies is a great book for middle and high schoolers that are looking for an easy fun read. Uglies is a very dramatic book with a lot of drama. I personally think it takes away from the plot line, but other students could like it. Plot: The book starts out with the main character Tally, in a futuristic time period where at age 16 everyone gets an operation to make them “pretty”. The city is divided into 3 sectors, new pretty town, uglyville, and the township for the…