The Uglies series

Luciano truly believed that Igea Lissoni was a blessing. “I first set eyes on Igea Lissoni before the Christmas holidays in 1947. There was a lot of days in my whole lifetime that was especially important and they stayed with me clear as crystal. But that was the most important one.” (Gosch, 1975, p. 335). Igea Lissoni was then twenty-six; Luciano was fifty. Lissoni early revealed a talent for dance and was encouraged by her family, who enrolled her in the ballet school of La Scala Opera Company…

The Star of Kazan is a historical mystery book written by Eva Ibbotson. Taking place in Vienna from 1900 to the 1920, a girl was abandoned at birth in a church and found by a cook, named Ellie. Feeling sorry for the little baby, Ellie took the bundle home with her to her to the three professor's house (Emile, Gertitude and Julius), where she worked. Growing up with a cook and a maid (Sigrid), Annika was bound to be good with her hands. Annika had 2 best friends, Pauline, the granddaughter of a…

Cinderella was a stepdaughter, and her stepmother was sure to remind her of that. Cinderella was treated unfairly and very poorly. In fact her stepfamily treated her like a slave not at all like a family. Often Cinderella was left in tears after an encounter with the new family. Cinderella was so much better than them, she was human unlike the others who were two faced. While the other two sisters got to go out and have fun Cinderella was left at home scrubbing floors and tending to laundry…

the chubbier side, and they both had hateful personalities. These sisters were so terribly mean and were also ugly that is was disgusting to even look at them. They made babies cry, and everybody was scared of them, but they also had their sister who was always somewhere around. She was beautiful, she had pretty blue eyes and had luscious blonde hair, unlike her sisters, (they were so ugly that they looked like witches). Oh! Did I mention these sisters were very rich and powerful, they were…

In the movie Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Danielle, the main character, had the similar background as Cinderella. She was a kind, stubborn and brave girl. Her mother died after she was born and she was raised by her father. When Danielle was eight-years-old, her father remarried a widowed baroness who had two daughters. Danielle became the servant in her house after her father died. Danielle met Prince Henry in her manor because Prince Henry stole a horse. Henry got attracted from the…

slipper, all came off as these perfect, magical, things that were iconic in the Disney version, but in the Original version, they were the exact opposite. The dress was torn, the prince was a phony, and the glass slipper was simply destroyed by the ugly step sisters, that would soon have a date with death. 'Off with her head!'The Prince roared back./ They chopped it off with one big whack./ This pleased the Prince. He smiled and said,/ 'She's prettier without her head' (Dahl). This excerpt from…

who managed the Cleveland Indians to within one game of winning the 2016 World Series, left his mark on Major League Baseball when he led the Boston Red Sox to the championship in 2004, in his first season as manager. The Red Sox broke an 86-year drought and the curse of Babe Ruth, with an improbable comeback in the American League Championship Series. The team rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the best-of-seven series with their hated rival, the New York Yankees. Baseball purist are people that…

His dedication and creation of “Walker’s Law” and the five-man rotation is what brought Walker to coaching a winning team for the World Series. However, no athlete is perfect and it is shown by facts and statistics that even Albert “Rube” Walker faltered some seasons and excelled in others. There is a great lesson to be learned that through trials and tribulations you will eventually succeed…

In 1991, steroids were banned from Major League Baseball and in 2003 testing of the Major League Baseball players began. I think steroids should be let back into Major League Baseball because steroids can help with some medical injuries such as strained muscles or even broken bones, steroids would also give the sport more of an edge like Major League Baseball fans are looking for and because it is also wrong for people to think steroids are a bad thing when they have not experienced it.…

An inspiring major change happened to the world when jack Roosevelt Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947. Being an African American man he did not have as many rights or privileges as a Caucasian man would have had during that time. Mr. Jerry Robinson and Mrs. Mallie Robinson had five children, jack being the youngest. Jack r Robinson, is well known by the name of Jackie Robinson. His middle name is in honor of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who had…