What it's all about

Hi everyone! I'm new to posting blogs. This has to be done for one of my classes (interactive marketing communications). So for this class the task is to write a blog.

I do have another blog (shaystories.wordpress.com). That's for all my creative writing instead of this rambling. And mainly because its a lot easier to write short entries than a story every week on top of school work.

Then what will I be talking about you ask? Quotes. What is better than an interesting quote to read? I'm not thinking about any historical quotes. More along the line of movies and novels. Hopefully something that will make everyone's day a little better or get you thinking.

The first quote I'm gonna start this off with is from the Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld that I've currently started. A very interesting take on what a superficial world would be. In this one the government has made it so that before you turn 16 you are an "ugly" and once it's your 16th birthday you get turned "pretty" by getting surgery. This one here is a lot longer than what I plan to use but theres a lot you get from the quote. Anyways this is the very long quote here...

" 'Right, and things were so great back when everyone was ugly. Or did you miss that day in school?'
'Yeah, yeah, I know,' Shay recited. 'Everyone judges everyone else based on their appearance. People who were taller got better jobs, and people even voted for some politicians just because they weren't quite as ugly as everybody else. Blah, blah, blah.'
'Yeah, and people killed one another over stuff like having different skin color.' Tally shook her head. No matter how many times they repeated it at school, she'd never really quite believe that one. 'So what if people look more alike now? It's the only way to make people equal.' "

Is this our solution? I really hope it would never come to this point. What kills me the most about this story is that girls and guy are just 16. Whose to say they're done growing? And whose to define what pretty should look like? It is good to look nice but everyone looking the same is a little much I think.

Hopefully I have grabbed some of your attention. We'll have to wait and see how it turns out. Stay tuned.