Database

After doing some research about the different databases, I believe the WorldCat database, included in the Literature and Language section, will help me most with this paper.  I will be conducting my paper about The Uglies and possibly tie in something about The People of the Sand and the Slag.  The WorldCat database is very broad and has many files of information and sources that could help me with this paper.

For my major, Nursing, I found a database that would help a lot.  Under the Health Sciences section I found a Nursing database.  This will help me receive information about my future career and all that is entitled to it.

My preferred database would be the Nursing one because it directly pertains to my major and future.  It will benefit me for many more reasons than the WorldCat database, though that one will be helpful as well, at least for my paper.

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove is trying to send off a message of humor about the nuclear scares occurring in 1964.  The director used humorous characters and speaking lines to give the movie a lighter tone and to clearly convey that it is not a serious movie.  General Buck Turgidson, to me personally, was the most humorous character because he would act extremely serious, but everything coming out of his mouth was a complete joke.  Another funny scene with General Buck Turgidson is he is receiving a very important call regarding whether to allow the drop of the hydrogen bomb but he was too "busy" in a room with a woman.  I believe these two scenarios are effective because if this were a real life situation, there is no way possible that Generals would be making mockery of a nuclear bomb drop or be too occupied with a woman to do their actual job.  I feel like the world after the bomb being dropped off would relate to The Road.  I feel like both lands would appear similarly desolate and humans would either be dead or on the verge of it.

Final Post for the Uglies

So, on the whole I enjoyed the Uglies and it was a very intriguing read.  I was sad about the fact that David's father, Az, had died under the hands of being experimented on by the Specials.  I was surprised by the fact that only Shay had been turned into a Pretty when Tally and David arrived as the rescue party.  I figured all the captives would have either been turned Pretty or killed.  I really hate the way the book ended, I have to admit.  It was entirely too abrupt and left me hanging, but I suppose that was the point since it is a series.  On the whole though, the message I got out of the book was that it is okay to be Pretty, in a sense, as long as your head and your heart are still true to yourself.

Third Part of the Uglies

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about Shay's experience in the Smoke. I thought it was so cool how the Smoke had a library of magazines that they thought were so sacred and strange in their own way.  It was interesting for them to see our real life generation's models and famous people as an Ugly since they had not undergone the surgery.  Later, it was interesting hearing about David's parents experience and research when it comes to the surgery of becoming a Pretty.  I must admit though, it was pretty anticlimactic for me personally to come to know that during the surgery they also change leisures in your brain.  It was pretty obvious to me that after the surgery something had to be almost brainwashed so that the new Pretties thought differently.