The Uglies series

The 1968 film 2001 Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is an intense piece of work that frustrates and questions the audience due to the perplexing storyline. It is highly regarded as a film that accurately portrays space, has incredible special effects, and obscure concepts. Technology, in the artificial intelligence form, plays a prominent role in this film due to the futuristic elements of space, themes of existentialism, and evolution. HAL 9000 is introduced in the film as one of the most…

The biological parents of Steven Paul Jobs were told to give him up by the parents of his biological father. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs on the promise that they would make him attend college. He was mischievous as a teenager, but grew interest in building things. He would take apart different appliances to learn how they worked and how to build them. At just age 13, he was given a job for the summer working at Hewlett-Packard. In 1967, Jobs met Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak became…

What happened: Basically there are three main parts to this event, the first part being Tasha and Jace sticking on a gps tracking device for their hopes she goes back to the place they lost her last time. The way this happened was Jace drove Tasha over to Lucille’s house and the Jace told tasha to go stick on this gps device on the back of lucille’s car and then go knock on Lucille’s door and tell her if she doesn’t go tell the police what she did in three hours Tasha will, that strategy is…

The Broken Laws Laws and rules are always broken. When they are broken, they can end with consequences ranging from small to major. Harry and Carry, a newly married couple, break a suddenly given law in a small town in Maryland in 2092. Finding out that a major consequence will be dealt with, is not fun. A married couple named Harry and Carry were going out to the store on Monday, the only day to go shopping, when a new law came over the phone. As they were not at the house, Harry and Carry…

Why is gaming considered as a sport? Gaming is a worldwide phenomenon now that keeps getting bigger and bigger every day on multiple consoles or computers. But now everyone is thinking is it going to be considered a sport. Well in some parts of the country and outside our country it is already considered one. Sports are a physical activity that is engaged in for pleasure (“Sport.” Merriam-Webster.com.) Its other definition is a particular activity (such as an athletic game) so engaged in…

pictures and very little words. In about the second grade I started reading The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne up until halfway through the fourth grade. The next series of books I fell in love with was R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, which lasted throughout the sixth grade. In middle school, I started to read J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. My favorite types of books are book series. I do enjoy books that don’t have another to follow every now and then as well. Throughout…

The Heroic Cycle of Over the Garden Wall Over the Garden Wall is a mini-series that revolves around stepbrothers Wirt and Greg trying to find their way out of the woods and back home. The show starts off rather mysteriously with little context on the situation at hand other than that vague information. In the very first episode Wirt and Greg run into a woodsman that continuously warns them of an evil beast that lurks the woods and tells Wirt, since he’s the older of the two, how he should…

He’s Just Not That Into You He’s Just Not That Into You is based on the popular show called “Sex and the City”. The book contains 188 pages in total to give guidelines for women who may wasting their valuable time and youth on some men that just not like them that much. And, listing specific examples and concerns from women who had questions about their relationships and provide different views to reply readers. Because women deserve to understand these guidelines for their own relationships so…

Star Trek vs. Star Wars Star Trek is an all American science fiction television series created in 1966. There are many novels over the Star Trek story also. Star Trek follows adventures in space of the starship USS Enterprise and its crew. Star Wars is an American science fiction film series released in 1977. Star Wars depicts the adventures of various characters “ a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” There are books also over these movies too. Fandoms have been going at it for over 40…

Moments The lovely warm sun provides a comfortable essence on my pale skin and beams on my white-blond hair. I glance around at the typical atmosphere of my school at lunchtime; children bustling about scurrying past me, and balls flying in the air. I have only been at this school for a few weeks and now I’m already used to the chaos during this time of day. I inspect my surroundings and recognize some of my fellow fourth grade students in different pods at the lunch table, reading books in the…