Nathan Scott

Westerfield’s Uglies is a society that is purely dependent on age. A person’s age in the society is what determines where they live and what they can do with their life. For instance, the youngest children live with the middle aged group of people until they turn twelve, which is when all the children move into dorm style living. The society appeals to readers because everyone gets to choose exactly what they look like, and nobody hates anyone. There is no war or any major crimes that make…

In the NBC television show The Office camera crews follow a group of employees who work for a paper company called Dunder Mifflin. One of the main characters Andy Bernard most of the time is a very calm but very outgoing guy. Usually he along with everyone else in the office can handle the all of the pranking that goes on in the office. Until one day Andy has enough and becomes very angry due to the fact that Jim and Pam hid his phone in the ceiling tiles of the office. Jim and Pam repeatedly…

The future is...perfect, or is it? In Scott Westerfield's 'Pretties', the second book of the 'Uglies' series we learn that the future is a labyrinth that hides the ugly truth about a seemingly perfect society. Everyone under the age of sixteen has been classified as 'ugly' while everyone over sixteen has undergone an operation to make you society’s image of perfect. Being prejudged by appearance is a problem of the past as everyone over sixteen years old is enhanced to become 'pretty'. In the…

In 1924 but it was used as by Clarence Darrow attorney for two young men Richard Loeb 18 years old and Nathan Leopold Jr., a19 year old for their kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old boy named Robert “Bobby” Franks. Clarence Darrow explained to the court and that both of the boys were privileged and did ot know the consequences of committing their…

The aged cliche which states “What goes around, comes around” has been tied directly to the concept of Karma. Karma is defined in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary as “the force created by a person 's actions that some people believe causes good or bad things to happen to that person.” Karma is categorized into two specific sections; positive karma, along with negative karma. Positive karma is simply defined as if you perform “good” actions, “good” things will occur. Negative karma is the…

Weeping that her baby is a girl, Daisy is dependent on men to make her key decisions for her (133, 151): secure in and yet remote from male ownership and ardor, "making only a polite, pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained" (12-13), she radiates a carefully girlish charm of irrationality and whimsy: "Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?" (14). Woman, it appears, is presented only as romance, in the restless world of glamour where there are only the pursued and the pursuing. As…

history in which an event did not play out as he feels the founding fathers would have preferred it play out. For the duration of the book every event mentioned was a decision of an individual or had consequences decided by an individual. In the Dred Scott case the family originally would not grant him his freedom in Minnesota and when he asked for his freedom the court and judge denied him his freedom the flood of johnstown PA the government and first responders responsible for helping in…

Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire was the French author of the novella Candide, also known as "Optimism"(Durant and Durant 724). Voltaire's Candide is a philosophical tale of one man's search for true happiness and his ultimate acceptance of life's disappointments. Candide grows up in the castle of his uncle, a German baron, along with his optimistic scholar, Pangloss, and his young, beautiful cousin, Cunégonde. When Candide falls in love with Cunégonde and his uncle sees them kissing, Candide…

Both originate from the Midwest, however Daisy lives in East Egg which is considered to be classier, more upscale, and respectable than gaudy, fresh, and disreputable West Egg where Gatsby lives. This social status divide in Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship dates back to when they were first courting five years ago: “... he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of fact he had no such facilities” (Fitzgerald…

She is not part of the first class like most of the other characters in the book, but she still wants the material things just as bad. One way that Myrtle uses money to her advantage is throwing parties. The parties lead her peers to believe that she is wealthy, which she is not. Another way that she is influenced by money is pursuing in another love interest other than her husband George. “He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it…