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    In the book, The Red Queen, the author Matt Ridley claims that men find women’s ratio of waist width-to-hip width attractive (Ridley 292). It was observed by Physiologist Dev Singh who argued that a man will find a woman extremely attractive as long as her waist is much thinner than her hips (Ridley 292). In addition, this ratio is also hints if a woman is childbirth potential (Ridley 292). Throughout human time, this waist-to-hip ratio theory has changed on what is preferable (Bovet and Raymond

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    Alice Heroes Today

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    From the beginning to the middle, Alice was constantly running away from the Jabberwock, and escaping was the only thing on her mind. According to paragraphs 30-39, Alice was expecting the Red and White Queens to help her. For instance, in paragraph 34, Alice says, “Oh,” she said, “thank goodness you are here. You two can save me.” Eventually, they ended up not helping her, shown in paragraphs 35-39 because they knew that she had the potential to

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    Alice in her journey to become Queen. She meets the Red Queen, White Queen, Humpty Dumpty, and White Knight in different squares throughout the game. When she reaches the honor of Queen, Alice is

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    Through The Looking Glass

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    In order to win, she must become a queen herself, and it is a long journey as she is own a “pawn” and must travel to the other end of the board one tile at a time. The characters also resemble their chess counterparts in the way they move and how they act, “then came the horses. Having four

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    her Red Queen books is that people should not be treated differently for who they were born as. Throughout the book, the main characters try to help and free the red bloods from enslavement and death. Simply because they were born with red or mixed blood, they were treated as if they were at the same level as dirt. The entire theme of the Red Queen series was that civilization cannot thrive if people are treated like trash for nothing other than the color of blood in their veins. In Red Queen, the

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    ever sat down and read a book packed with action and noticed that you read the book two times faster than if it was full of boring details? It is important to know that Mare is a red and she becomes a servant for the king, then she discovers she has abilities like the silvers in a terrible accident. In the book, Red Queen, by Victoria Aveyard, There is a difference of bloods. Mare is powerful, frightening, and inexplicable. Mare has become a very powerful woman. She once said, “I feel the heat of

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    What are the differences between Reds and Silvers? Or have you ever experience being the important key of a situation? The hero’s journey is the path and story a hero goes through to achieve a reward. Reds are ‘normal’ people with red blood. They serve the Silver Elite. “Only Silvers can fight in the arenas because only a Silver can survive the arena” (Aveyard 6) shows that the Silvers are higher than the Reds. They have silver blood and supernatural powers. Red Queen is written by Victoria Aveyard

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    read for the truman report was Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. This book is about Mare Barrow and her family who are reds that serve the sliver elite. The silvers have supernatural abilities that make them nearly gods. Mare does what she can to help out her family until her 18th birthday when she gets set way to the war where her brothers have been sent in the past years. In a twist of fate she gets sent to the castle where she discovers her own power, but her blood is red. To keep the secret the king

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    The book I read was “Red Queen” by Victoria Aveyard. This book connects to “self and society” in many ways, the main ones being, Mare has to fit into society as a silver to save her and her family’s lives, she must decide if her red blood but silver powers mean something and if so what, and lastly she must decide if if helping the revolution will really help. This book is about a certain type of society where people are put into two groups, red blooded and silver blooded. If you were silver blooded

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    foundation of a society. If new ideas and innovation are rejected in a society, it will fail to thrive. Individuality makes the way for growth, productivity, and change. For example, in the novel Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, the society has polarized the people into two groups: the Red and Silver citizens. The Red citizens are pushed down and terrorized into becoming mindless workers and soldiers. Therefore, the conformity within the society brings about the waste of potential. In addition, the people

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