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=LOIS LOWRY =

﻿Lois Lowry is the middle of three children. She has an older sister and a younger brother. Lois's father was a military dentist. She often had to move and lived in a variety of places. Lowry was born in Hawii. Some of the places she lived was Tokyo, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Lois Lowry married very young. She was only nighteen when she wed to a naval officer. California. Connecticut Florida, South Carolina, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Maine are several places that she followed her husband. She had four kids along the way. Lois and her children lived in Maine for a while. Her marriage ended when she was forty years old. She now writes professionally. She is a grandmother now and her inspiration comes from her grandkids.

 The Giver ﻿The Giver is a great book. It's about a twelve year old boy in a society where everyone lives the same, identical, and perfect lives. Jonas, the main character, is selected the Receiver of Memory. It's a high honor in his society. Only Jonas finds out the community isn't as 'perfect' as it seems. After he finds out a dark secret, will he be able to get away? Maybe, with the help of The Giver. _ ﻿Why do we need to make choices? Wouldn't it be better if someone else choose for you?

 ﻿ I believe we have to make choices in order to make yourself stand out. You make choices depending on who you are. Your choices always come with consequences, whether they're good or bad. We need to make choices to control our lives. The choices we make now effect the future. If you decide to drop out of school, how would live on your own? How would you support a family? How would you l be able to get what you want most in life without a real education? The choices may seem simple but they go to infinity and beyond. If we couldn't choose what we wanted in life, life would be horrible. You'd be told to do this or do that. You don't want to be bossed around, do you? If you wern't allowed to choose for yourself you'd be just like everbody else. You'd be a clone if you had the same choices. You have same consequences and have an identical life. You don't want to be a clone, do you?

What is society?

__Society is: __ a. The totality of social relationships among humans. b. A group of humans broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture. c. The institutions and culture of a distinct self-perpetuating group.

__My Definition: __

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I think society is a group of people who live by the same customs. We mostly have the same beliefs and can all relate to eachother in some way. Society is like a community where peple live.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">If I had to create a society of my own, it would be like:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿My society would be ruled equally and fairly because everyone would be treated to same way. No special treatments to celebrities. In fact, there will be no famous people because sometimes they influence young people. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(DEFINE "FAIR"). If you want to express your views, you don't have to use violence. There's only one chance in my society. If you screw up...it's your fault. You know the rules so don't disobey them. When the rules are broken, whoever broke them has to pay the consequences. You die<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (YES, THIS IS MY FAVORITE, THROW THEM TO SHARKS). I know it seems a little unfair. But hey, I warned you. No one would have to live as clones to have a 'perfect' society. Nothing is perfect in life because no one can have what ever they want. Look at all the homeless and jobless people struggling to survive in this rough economy. Does it look perfect to you? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(TRUE) (SO WHY LIFE IS IMPERFECT?). If something seems 'perfect', know there's some kind of catch to it. I would limit the amount of children that people are allowed to have so that it would not be over populated <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(COME ON i LOVE CHILDREN, i WISH i HAVE 10) so that we all have enough resources to live by. Right now the world is over populated. With all these people coming, there's no room to take care of them. I know there will be outbursts sometimes. I have to work through those. There wouldn't be economical depressions in my little society. I'd have everything in order so we could have close to happy lives. No one would have to be brainwashed with lies. You want to know the truth about something? Go ahead and try to find the answer. :) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Today's society and mine are the same but also different by:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__﻿ALIKE:__ We're alike in some ways but not allot. I wouldn't change anything about humans. So the humans would stay the same as they are now. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(HEY, YOU NEED TO CHANGE "THE BRAIN") <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-If you did that they'd probably be like robots.- If the law is broken...people would be punished. That's the same. People would have rights of freedom of religion, speech, and press. We'd still have contact with the others countries but only trade. We do that now. People still get to choose what to do with their life such as what job they want to have or who they can marry.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__DIFFERENT:__ We're different in ALLOT of ways. That's because I don't like how things are run in today's society. You can NEVER come back after doing something horrible. Murder, arsen, etc. There would be __//**NO**//__ chance to get your life together because you shouldn't have messed it up. I believe that good people would have never acted out in the first place. There is no going to jail and coming out so many months later or just going to classes afterwards. You should've thought before you acted. No second chances. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(SO YOU WILL GIVE A SECOND CHANCE) There would be no politics. If there are problems going on in other countries, we're staying out of it. It's not our problem so why are we worried about it?<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (IT'S CALLED "imperialism") We have our own lives to worry about. What's ours is ours and I'm keeping it that way.

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__//**Comments:**//__ **__ 1: __**(could have added more detail to this-monique nelson) 2:( spell check- richard vardaman) 3:coppied off my page, and i know that some grammer is wrong in your paragrph double check.-monique 4: So...xD...Which paragraph? There's lots. - Rochelle

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