Beatrice Prior is a character of the Divergent trilogy written by Veronica Roth. Divergent mainly about a sixteen year old girl who leaves her family, transfers from Abnegation to Dauntless and changes her name to Tris. In the world of Divergent, it is set in Chicago and has five factions that separates the city. The five factions, Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Erudite, and Dauntless, rarely come in contact with one another. Each faction believes in different things and each has its own manifesto. Abnegation believes in being selfless, Amity the kind, Candor the honest, Erudite the smart, and Dauntless the brave. Each citizen of Chicago, when they turn 16, take an aptitude test and decide where they want to spend the rest of their lives. Some switch factions and some stay with their …show more content…
The aptitude test is a simulation that gives you one answers about where you should be but there was some special cases, divergents. Divergent means the test didn't work on them, they received multiple answers because they were aware they we're in a simulation and could control the outcome. It would be like controlling a dream. The leader of Erudite thought that the divergent people were corrupting the system that they wanted to control. Tris came in first in her initiation and had the second highest score, next to her boyfriend Four who is also divergent. Erudite injects everyone with a time activated simulation so they can weed out the divergents. Tris and Four escape and later take down their leader to stop the mass murder of all of Abnegation. In the later books there is a revolution against Erudite and the people outside the fence and they recruit Tris to lead them. Reluctantly she agrees because she is one of the
Megan Barnard Wiki, Bio, Net worth, Boyfriend, Dating, Married, Husband Short Bio Megan Barnard is a famous Australian television presenter who is most recognized for being the current sports presenter for the Fox Sports News Australia. Megan Barnard was born on September 4, 1984, in Melbourne, Victoria. The details regarding her parents and early life are not easily available in the media as Megan does not find it necessary to talk about her personal details. She is of Australian nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity. As per Megan Barnard bio on her wiki page, she earned her bachelor degree in Mass Communication from the Queensland University of Technology located in Brisbane, majoring in journalism.
Bernice Irene Bilyeu left her mark on the world over many years. She lived to be a 105 years old and survived through many hardships. Bernice was always kind and greeted everyone with a smile. She was a very hardworking woman, and the best great-grandmother anyone could have Bernice was born on November 18, 1906. She was the daughter of Jackson Bilyeu and Wilhelmine (Minnie) Sorg.
A non-fiction book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is about an African American woman who developed cervical cancer. While trying to diagnose her illness Johns Hopkins Hospital, got a sample of her tumor and sent to the culture lab. Inside the lab, George Guy harvests the cancerous cells that began to divide into hundreds of cells that became known as HeLa cells. The book is made up of hundreds of interviews that Rebecca Skloot accomplishes most of these interviews were of the Lacks family.
If The Fair Gwen had not judged Max Freak and Max would not have become friends. On page 20 the narrator states, “... she’s scared of me” (Philbrick 20). This shows that The Fair Gwen is scared of Max because of his demeanor. However if The Fair Gwen had not judged Max, she would not have felt bad about judging him by his size, she would not have invited Max over to dinner to apologize about her behavior.
Rebecca Skloot was first introduced to Henrietta’s cells and her story when her instructor in her Biology spoke of it. Sloot automatically became interested in the story and wanted to dedicate most of her work on Henrietta. Sloot created the interest of learning more of Henrietta’s story by introducing how her interest in the story began. Getting her point of view on the whole story made me interested as well. Reading about how passionate she is toward Henrietta made me excited to read the book.
I choose to do my report on Margaret Graner because she seemed like a brave woman. She made a brave and dangerous escape to freedom with her family. Margaret wanted what was best for her children, even if that meant killing them. All she ever wanted for her children was for them to never suffer the life of a slave. Margaret was an African-American in pre-Civil War, born into the life of slavery in Boone County, Kentucky on the Plantation of John Pollard Gaines on June fourth 1833.
U.S. Army veteran Jessica Higgins of Merrimack was 22 when she got married. She had just returned home from a deployment to Iraq, and was having a difficult time transitioning. “I got married quickly because I thought that it would solve all of my problems when, in fact, it ended up creating many more,” she said. Her husband became abusive, and it took the birth of her daughter for Higgins to gather the strength to leave. With her three-week-old daughter in tow, Emma, she left California and moved back home to New Hampshire six years ago to create a new life.
Gerald Schwartz, A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks' Diary. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1984. ix, 30lp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gerald Schwartz is a professor of history at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
When I first picked up this book, I knew nothing about the contents I was about to read. I had no idea that there could be such emotion, and anger, and tears, and hatred all towards science. I never knew people could be manipulated so much, and I never knew there could be such miracles, such as Henrietta Lacks herself. The quote above is what really captured my attention and what drew me into the book. I never knew I could learn so much and feel so much all while reading one short book.
Born on December 30, 1999, Douglas Monroy is a Professor of History and Director of Southwest Studies at Colorado College. He has been teaching at Colorado College since 1978, as of right now he is currently a part of the department chair. He received his PH.D. From UCLA in 1978. As a young child, he was interested in sports rather than history. However, as he was in college he soon found his love for history about the civil rights, anti-war movements, and politics.
“And give up? Not on your life.” Nellie Bly retorted when told to give up her dream job of becoming a reporter. (The Adventures of Nellie Bly). Elizabeth Cochran (the name Nellie Bly was given at birth) was born on May 5, 1864, in Cochran Mills, Pennsylvania.
The Governmental Legend of the South “What the people want is very simple they want an America as good its promised. “Barbara’s parents were Arlyne and Benjamin she had two older sisters, Bernie and Rose Mary. Barbara was born on February 21, 1936.Barabra was a critized by her parents by not speaking correct English. They urged her to become a music director or a teacher, because they said that was only good for a black women at the time. Her sister did become a music teacher.
Mr. Segovia's past highlights the main fault with the education system; It is built all around one single test rather than a consistent career. Those who do not do well on the aptitude test are punished, while those who cheat to get a good score, like the Twins, benefit. The comparison between the two highlights just how broken the system truly is. The Twins and Mr. Segovia have similar starting points. Both the Twins and Mr. Segovia where, from what we can gather, honest students.
Julia was an English-born American prostitute and also a madam in Virginia City, Nevada. She was born in 1832 in London, England. She was described as a beautiful and educated woman, she was also an independent prostitute. Julia died on the 19/20 of January in 1867, she was murdered by strangulation and bludgeoning, and also she was murdered at her house. In 1859 Julia was the first white American woman who was unmarried to go in the mining boomtown.
Both Federalist 10 and the Communist Manifesto rely on the idea of sociopolitical class divisions. Madison calls the classes factions, and defines factions as following, “a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion.” Madison presents factions as very vague, rather open-ended categorical system, in which notably the impact of a single faction