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    Have you ever imagined a perfect community with Sameness? In the science fiction novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a community where everyone is the same, they use Sameness. It is a controlled community where everyone has fewer choices to make and the community chooses for them. Having Sameness is more of a disadvantage than because no one would have the freedom of choice and life is going to be dull for them. When everything is the same within the community, Sameness is more of a…

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    The world people live in today is better. This world experiences more and learns valuable life lessons. Life here is very vivid, lively, and colorful. Nothing in this world is perfect, but people’s lives are at the best they can be This world experiences much more than Jonas’s community, and learns substantial life lessons. Everyone has differences. They are able to experience emotions such as sorrow or joy that cause them to be who they are and their differences bring them together as a…

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    Jonas’s community is a dystopia. His community can only do certain things that they can not break. In the book The Giver the kids have to get their jobs at the age of twelve. In their community every thing has to be the same due to sameness. Finally, they have lots of rules they have to follow. First, in the book The Giver Jonas’s community has to get jobs. They have to start volunteering at the age of eight. When they turn twelve the elders pick the job that they have to get. They have to…

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    Polio And Jonas Salk

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    came to them right away and they put it into place where it can still be used in today’s time, just with a couple of modifications. Jonas Salk, he’s not a very common scientist name that you hear about such as Edison, Darwin, Newton etc. He was actually a big part in the medical world because he was the one person to come up with the vaccine to prevent polio disease. Jonas had made many studies…

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    Jonas is the main character in “The Giver”, he lives in a “perfect” futuristic society. A society where everything is regulated, or controlled, so that nothing unexpected happens. Everything is assigned in life such as family units, jobs, etc. and all rules are followed. This community has a river near by, has similar house and buildings, and has an open land to “Elsewhere” but there are no colors, wars, hunger, true pain, emotions, animals, hills, not even cars, instead they ride bikes that…

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    Do you ever forget something? Imagine forgetting your whole life, That’s exactly what happened to Jean Daragane in So You Don’t Get Lost In The Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano. Like many books, So You Don’t Get Lost In The Neighbourhood the should be turned into a movie. Theres many reasons for a book to turn into a movie, three of which will be briefly discussed. The first argument is about the genre, and how this movie will have parents and teens hooked to this movie with all the mystery and…

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    NO! Fact, quote, hypothetical situation, or story for attention getter -Ender Wiggin, a 12 year old boy saved all humanity from the dangerous creatures, buggers, through a game ,No other human was able to do what this 12 year old has done. Ender was six year old when separated from his family and taken away to battle school where the adults controlled his life.he was manipulated, lied to and was tricked into killing the enemy species, the buggers. He was hurting people but did not want to. He…

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    In the movie there are some similarities. The first one I noticed was that Sarah didn’t believe that John Smith was his real name. I think she didn’t believe him because it is such a common name. Another one is Bernie Kosar follows John everywhere. If John is going to school or running in the woods Bernie is always there. When Henri was telling John that they had to leave, John just held him in the air until he agreed to let them stay so he could say bye to Sarah. Also both in the book and the…

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    baby. A friend of mine was pregnant and before she gave birth I asked if I could observe her child from the very first day the child was born. I was given the opportunity to observe the newborn named Jonas Quezada. When observing seven-week-old Jonas a male infant. I came to my observations that Jonas is slightly above his age average. Though he is only a few weeks old I could see where…

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    In the Hunger Games, the most important similarities the movie shared with the book was making Peeta initiate the idea of him and Katniss being lovers. This is so significant because, without this, most of the main events in the book and movie would never have taken place. For one, this angle would have left Katniss to be just another face in the crowd, not making her stand out, which also meant fewer sponsors, decreasing her chances of survival. However, the most important reason for this is…

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