...Book Report The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, appears to be your average teen romance trilogy, but upon second glance one realizes that this is not the case. Collins writes about a future nation that requires its children to kill each other as a form of entertainment for the people of the Capitol. The plot makes for a very exciting story line, but as the reader one cannot help but wonder what message Collins is trying to get across. Does she believe that if we continue down the path that society is currently taking we will someday face a world similar to Panem? That this fiction could someday become a reality on certain levels? Within these novels, Collins includes several important themes, including: corrupt politics, starvation vs. greed, and the obsession with entertainment. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen lives in the nation of Panem, a post-apocalyptic North America, with her mother and younger sister, Prim. Her family resides in District 12, the poorest of 12 districts ruled by the wealthy Capitol. Katniss provides for her mother and sister by hunting with her friend Gale in the forbidden woods nearby. As punishment for the districts' rebellion attempt years earlier, the Capitol holds an annual televised event called The Hunger Games. Each district must draw the names of a boy and girl between the ages of 12 and 18. These 24 youths become contestants, called tributes, who must fight to the death in a vast arena created by the Capitol Gamemakers. The lone survivor...
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...For my book analysis I chose the “hunger games” by Suzanne Collins. This book follows the story of Katniss Everdeen, a young woman who grows up in the future of what was America. After the United States falling apart due to famine, war, and greed, a new country has formed named Panem. Under their control the remaining population has been divided up into twelve districts that are separated by what they export and contribute to the Capital and other districts. To maintain control the capital holds “the hunger games” each year where 2 children from each districts must fight to the death in order to gain respect and food for their district. The hunger games is there to remind everyone of what happened when rebellion broke out with in the districts against the capital. Katniss gets involved in the games when she volunteers to be a tribute to save her younger sister from the horror and pain in the hunger games. Katniss is a unique tribute because she is not concerned with following the rules but keeping those she loves safe, this makes her the embodiment of a rebellion. The purpose of this novel is to warn against the destructive and cruel nature of humans, the unjust social pyramid, and the danger of power. One of the big ideas of the book is that our democratic system is not perfect, neither is any other political ideology. All of these have weak spots and one that crosses all is they lack compassion. A major idea in this book is that no matter how you run a government, the government...
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...reading a book and doing a book report on it. I was always up for anything, but when she started reading the book each day I found myself not even listening to what she was saying. I would be thinking about all of the other things I’d rather be doing. Then, we were to write a book report on it. “What?” “...a book report?” No way was I going to write a paper on something that couldn’t keep my attention. I believe at that time I had probably read the first and last chapter and vaguely put together bits and pieces I heard the teacher read throughout the entire book. From that point on I knew I was going to have trouble reading books. Every time I heard a teacher say, “book report” I’d cringe! Needless to say, I probably didn’t get a very good grade on my book report. In middle school, one of the books we were assigned to read was Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I was unable to connect with the book just from reading the title and to make matters worse it takes place during the Great Depression. I’ve always visualized that being a very depressing, difficult time and because of that I don’t particularly like that time period. Day after day, we’d read this book and I specifically remember not looking forward going to class because it was ‘reading day’ and I hated it. We finally finished the book and my teacher said ‘book report.’ I felt myself cringe! That day I went home to my mom and begged her to take me to the store to get the cliff notes on the book and she...
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...Simmons, A.M. (2012). Class on fire: Using the Hunger Games trilogy to encourage social action. The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 56(1), 22-34. Abstract This article explores ways to utilize students’ interest in fantasy literature to support critical literacy. Focusing on Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series (2008, 2009, 2010), the author addresses how elements of the trilogy relate to violent acts in our world, helping student understand that violence and brutality toward children is not fiction, but very real, and that they can play a role in its abolishment, just like Katniss, through social action projects. Issues such as hunger, forced labor, child soldiers, and the sex trade that appear in both the fictional series and our world are discussed, encouraging students to assess their world and advocate for change. Examples of social action projects that utilize multiple literacies are suggested as a way to inspire students take action in the community and to stand up to injustice and brutality in hopes of creating a better world and a better human race. Using popular literature to pique student interest, this article explores how to incorporate the books in the Hunger Games series into the ELA classroom to support literacy and critical goals. Class on Fire: Using the Hunger Games Trilogy to Encourage Social Action Introduction The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, comprising The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010)...
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...Book Report In The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins has created a captivating dystopian world. Reading The Hunger Games can lead to interesting discussions about our own world and how reality shows, possible acts of war, strict governments and obsession with fashion trends influence us daily. Due to the gloom of the story, it is best suited for teens and young adults rather than tweens. While the creation of Panem is not fully fleshed out in this first book, we know that this controlling society was the result of a horrible disaster during the Dark Days, resulting in the establishment of twelve districts under the rule of the government in the Capitol. Peacekeepers and a local government are instituted in each district, but the rulers in the Capitol have strict control over everyone and everything within all districts. Each district has its own specialty that aids the Capitol, such as coal mining, agriculture, fish, etc. Some districts provide the Capitol with energy or material goods and some provide the manpower to keep those in the Capitol in power. The people who live in the Capitol contribute little to their own living and pay more attention mostly with the latest styles and delights. The Hunger Games are an annual tradition directed by the Capitol leaders, not only to amuse the citizens, but also to preserve control over the districts by demonstrating the Capitol's authority. Each year, the twelve districts must send two representatives, a girl and a boy, to participate...
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...them, they can also learn them in English. As a teacher the teacher can write down a new proverb every day on the board and start the lesson with elaborating on this, for example: “A man’s home is is castle”. The way the teacher can elaborate on this is by putting this proverb in context, asking the pupils what this proverb may be in Dutch (Eigen haard is goud waard), and asking pupils to give an example by using it. www.freerice.com This website is a non-profit website that supports the United Nations World Food Programme. The website has 2 goals: to provide education for everyone for free and to end world hunger by providing free rice to hungry people. The way this works is that people go on this website, they get a game in which they get a word and 4 meanings of the word, 1 of them is correct, if they get it correct they donate a few grams of rice to help end world hunger. This website especially appealed to...
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...What Do You Say After You Say Hello? By, Eric Berne Book Review by Suresh A M, I semester, MBA, JSSCMS Eric Berne was a psychoanalyst who became well known in the 1970s for his system of "transactional analysis", the transactions in question being mostly those between a young child and its parents. He proposed various structures for this relationship based on the roles parent/adult/child that every person plays and presents life stories as scripts that can be good or bad. This book is considered by many to be Eric Berne's sequel to Games People Play. Although Berne published other books since Games People Play was released in 1964, most of those works were oriented towards those trained in psychotherapy and not towards the individuals who made Games People Play a two-year bestseller. The book is his last book completed just before his death in 1970. Berne's bad luck was that he wrote the book in 1970 when psychology was going through a bad patch with a flood of bizarre systems appearing. The good gets lost with the bad and transactional analysis now tends to be labeled as an outmoded California fashion related to Freudianism. In the preface he says that the book is "primarily intended as an advanced textbook of psychotherapy, and professionals of different backgrounds should have no difficulty in translating into their own dialects the short and simple annals of transactional analysis. No doubt some non-professionals will read it too, and for that reason I have tried to make...
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...Read the selection and answer the questions that follow. From “The Most Dangerous Game” – Richard Connell (In this short story, the protagonist Rainsford (a celebrated hunter) falls overboard from a yacht that is sailing through the Caribbean Sea. He manages to swim to a nearby island where walks to a large mansion and meets General Zaroff, and his servant Ivan, who make a past time of hunting human men on the island. As a game, Zaroff gives each man minimal supplies and the opportunity to evade him for 3 days. If he cannot find and kill the man by the end of the third day, then he allows the man to leave the island. It is the end of the third day and Rainsford has managed so far to evade Zaroff, but now he is closing in on him…) “At daybreak Rainsford, lying near the swamp, was awakened by the sound that made him know that he had new things to learn about fear. It was a distant sound, faint and wavering, but he knew it. It was the baying of a pack of hounds. Rainsford knew he could do one of two things. He could stay where he was and wait. That was suicide. He could flee. That was postponing the inevitable. For a moment he stood there, thinking. An idea that held a wild chance came to him, and, tightening his belt, he headed away from the swamp. The baying of the hounds grew nearer, nearer, ever nearer. On a ridge Rainsford climbed a tree. Down a watercourse, not a quarter of a mile off, he could see the bush moving. Straining his eyes, he saw the lean figure...
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...The Hunger Games: Action-film feminism is catching fire Lisa Schwarzbaum Burning up Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is both strong and vulnerable – a new kind of action heroine who has powered The Hunger Games: Catching fire to a $158m US debut. (Lionsgate) Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is a new type of female action film icon, and moviegoers should be very excited about that, writes Lisa Schwarzbaum. As Catching Fire ignites on movie screens around the world, this is what we know about the 21st Century heroine called Katniss Everdeen: she is strong but also soft. She is brave but she has doubts. She is a phenomenal fictional creation, yet is real enough that moviegoers can draw inspiration from her values, her resourcefulness, and her very human inner conflicts. And she is played by Jennifer Lawrence, who appears not only to be handling her current duties as Hollywood’s finest model of well-adjusted millennial female stardom but doing so with charm. Everdeen and Lawrence: golden girls both. Personified in Lawrence’s lithe movements and cool, focused gaze, Katniss is a brave, resourceful and independent-minded fighter; but she is also a troubled and vulnerably guilt-ridden human being. Nina Jacobson, the producer of the Hunger Games film franchise, puts it this way: “She is a singular heroine in that the burden of survival weighs on her. She has a ton of survivor’s guilt. And she keeps surviving.” Girl on fire It is strange that behaving like a well-adjusted...
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...kind of problem With advances in computer technology came the dawn of automated systems, allowing artificial intelligence to replace human intelligence. Over the last decade, there has been a tremendous advancement and use of computers which has rapidly become one of the most sought in every phase of individuals’ personal and business life today. Individuals and companies are highly dependent on computer for storing data, image, and file processing, preparing assignment, presentation, report and research work. Desktop pc, Laptop, Net book, note book have emerged as the most popular invention of computer. There are lots of brands of desktops and Laptops are available in the market. For example, Apple, Toshiba, Sony VAIO, HP, Dell etc are the most popular brands that people usually look for to use. We buy computer not only to play games or watch movies, but also for storing data, keep record, using MS office, SQL, data software, image software, to perform various functions such as create status report and as a communication device by using internet. Few months back, I strongly need to purchase a laptop. While purchasing a new Laptop, I first tried to recognize the problem, then search information, evaluate alternatives, purchase decision and finally post-purchase. This typically covers the “Consumer Decision buying process” which consists of five steps. Figure 1 Fig: Stage Model of the consumer buying Process This basic psychological process plays an important...
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...The community we have targeted is the Southfork Mobile Home Community in Wylie. While Wylie is a growing city with a great school district, we have noticed dramatic differences in STARR test results between the district as a whole, and the children from economically disadvantaged families who attend Groves Elementary school, where Southfork students are zoned to attend. 39% of Groves Elementary School students come from low-income families who rely on the free/reduced lunch program in order for their kids to eat at school. Overall, passing rates are over 20% lower for those children, and as much as 32% lower if we look at reading scores alone! [Please include physical reports here as...
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...Facebook is the most popular social networking of all time. The popularity of Facebook has increased drastically. Within 6 years Facebook has reached 1+ billion users milestone. Nowadays Facebook has become very important part of our life. It is helping us in many ways and also harming us in other ways. In this Article I will give you a very long list of advantages and disadvantages of Facebook. Facebook shirts T SHIRT 2 XL facebook face book Your Face 3 Million Dislike 2XL 2X EXTRA LARGE Current Bid: $8.00 Advantages of Using Facebook # Facebook is free and it's one of the best medium for communication. # With the help of Facebook you can connect to different people from anywhere in the world because almost every people around the world use Facebook . This gives us the opportunity to know more about their custom and tradition,culture, religion etc. # Facebook is best for finding Old friends. When a friend goes away to any other place, we often don't get the chance to communicate with him or her. But now Facebook gives us the opportunity to communicate with our Old friend very easily without any cost. # We can share our feelings an what's happening around in our daily life through Facebook. We can also get feedback from our friends about their reaction toward your feelings. It is the best medium to share your feelings and thoughts with others. # Facebook has good privacy setting which gives you the option to customize according to your wish. # Facebook Fan pages...
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...A Literary Autobiography My inclination for writing stems from a great love of books, which began in early childhood. My mother started reading to me in infancy, and by the second grade I was reading full-length novels. First it was Nancy Drew mysteries; the classic ones, of course. By the fourth grade I was consuming the entire Chronicles of Narnia in a month, and soon after came the Harry Potter series, which, at the time, was incomparable. I still credit my affinity for languages and proficiency as a writer with this early passion for literature. This was around the same time I first wrote a story. Looking back on it now, the story was dreadful, but to my fourth grade self it was pretty fantastic. My teacher seemed impressed that I had taken the time to write detailed descriptions, and so, overlooking the convoluted and nonsensical plot, used this story to justify giving me the English award upon sixth grade graduation. By this point, I was devouring thick novels in the span of days, and with the encouragement of my parents and teachers, I was...
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...Ashley N. Arvie English 2315-02 Dr. Emily E. Stelzer 15 September 18 Learnings from the Great Wanderings, Book 10: Circe Instinct, united with courage, obedience and wisdom, rooted in a reverence for the supernatural gods (polytheistic or The Greek Pantheon) or God (monotheistic), is an assured formula for victory and triumph when faced with destitution and crisis in life. This ideology rings true for ancient Greeks as well as modern day Christians and humans alike. Throughout the exploit on the Aeaean Island, the home of Circe, hero, Odysseus and his men were forced to utilize both innate and acquired tactics to advance to the next episode in their journey home. The reader is inescapably presented with examples of the king and his crew displaying the powerful characteristics of instinct, courage, obedience and wisdom as god-fearing men. Odysseus shows his fear of the gods most consistently through trust, though it is many times accompanied with disturbing obstacles. HEROIC CHARACTERISTICS AND LESSONS LEARNED After two days and two nights of a restless breather in their journey, upon sunrise, Odysseus immediately and instinctively sought a sign of human industry. (Odyssey 10.161) The irrefutable necessity of food and rest presented itself, though coupled with uncertainty of who or what may be encountered, brave Odysseus presses onward. The noble warrior and his countrymen are obligated to exude faith in the gods and themselves while diving into the unknown, yet again...
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...November Community Meeting Agenda **Please remember that the following points may not cover everything your specific community needs to discuss. Please consult with your RHC so that specific complex or building dates, events, and concerns are timely and relevant. Additionally, please work with your Community Chair to develop and facilitate a social activity or a Community Circle. 1. Ice breaker activity (10-15 min) HIGHS! Going around the circle and sharing the high points from the past week! 1. Environmental Sustainability: a. This month’s topic is Sustainable Dining and Eating: Sustainable agriculture is a way of growing or raising food, including animals, in an ecologically and ethically responsible manner using practices that protect the environment, safeguard human health, are humane to farm animals, and provide fair treatment to workers. Eating “sustainably” means eating food that is grown or raised according to these principles. i. For this segment, I’m going to show a video on some of the consequences that lead to eating unsustainably. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxMHl5Gr2Yg ii. Discussion: What are some ways we can eat more sustainably as college students on a budget?? Eating sustainably provides numerous personal health benefits, including decreased exposure to harmful substances such as pesticides, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and unhealthful food additives, and the potential to increase consumption of certain nutrients and antioxidants...
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