...dystopian society just like the movie The Hunger Games. In Anthem they have their names picked out, and don’t get choose their jobs. In The Hunger Games they live where their parents live. They are also selected to go to war and not die. There is not much difference between these two subjects. Anthem and The Hunger Games are popular among teens because they can relate to them. In Anthem when the people are old enough they get special jobs picked. For instance, Equality 7-2521 wanted to work as a scholar but instead he was chosen to be a road sweeper. Their names are picked for them like Equality and liberty. They have to go to work they can’t just pretend that they are sick, they are forced to go. During one month and special day they have to go to this place and have their mates picked for the night so that they can try to make another...
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...“In Africa, they say there are two hungers, the lesser hunger and the greater hunger. The lesser hunger is for things that sustain life, the goods, the services, and the money to pay for them, which we all need. The greater hunger is for the answer to the question ‘why’, for some understanding of what life is for” (Handy 13). From the moment we enter the world, we are wondering; questioning. Every morning, we see the run rise, the wind howl, the birds sing, and as humans, we question it. We are hungry for answers to the deeper meanings of life, attempting to understand our purpose and destiny. These are our greater hungers. Further from the core of our being, a hunger that is most familiar to us is the lesser hunger. Things needed to survive....
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...At a Glance Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister’s place when Prim is selected in District 12’s annual “reaping” to fight to the death in the country’s televised Hunger Games. Katniss and the male tribute Peeta are taken to the country’s wealthy and controlling Capitol, where they interview, compete for a ranking, and meet the competition. As part of a strategy devised with District 12 mentor Haymitch, Peeta admits on camera that he has feelings for Katniss; the “star-crossed lovers” win massive fan support. In the arena, Peeta pretends to join the group of violent and practiced “career” tributes, while Katniss befriends young Rue. Rue is killed and Peeta injured; Katniss finds and nurses him. The other contestants die one by one until only Katniss and Peeta are left. They pretend to take poison berries in a suicide pact. The Capitol halts the game so both tributes win. - allie-draper. Synopsis print Print document PDF list Cite link Link The Hunger Games After writing the fantasy series The Underland Chronicles, Suzanne Collins departed from the world of fantasy and stepped into a harsh, dystopian creation in The Hunger Games. Published in 2008, The Hunger Games is the first novel in a projected trilogy, and introduces readers to a futuristic dystopian society where an overpowering government controls the lives and resources in twelve different districts. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, of District 12, is the main character of the story. Each year...
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...its famous masterpieces such as 1984 by George Orwell or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, it can be stated to be new in Young Adult Literature since House of Stairs by William Sleator in 1974 and The Giver by Lois Lowry in 1993 (article 1 and 5). However, the incredible success of The Hunger Games and Divergent as best sellers on bookshops and movie adaptations on theatres seems undeniable. Especially The Hunger Games has been on the best-seller list of the New York Times for 180 consecutive weeks (article 5) and the opening week of the motion picture adaptation had box office...
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...World Hunger and Malnutrition According to the United Nations World Food Programme, there are 925 million chronically hungry people in the world. That means one in seven people in the world do not get enough food to maintain a healthy body and lead active lifestyles, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health world wide. Natural disasters, conflict, poverty, poor agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of the environment remain the key causes of hunger, and the recent economic slowdown in many countries have pushed more people into hunger (WFP). The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that more than 90% of the 925 million chronically hungry people in the world are in developing countries, there are 642 million in Asia and the Pacific, 265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 42 million in the Near East and North Africa. People who are chronically malnourished lack the nutrients needed for proper health and development. There are several forms of malnutrition; protein-energy malnutrition is a potentially fatal body depletion disorder where a person’s consumption of protein and energy is insufficient to maintain the body’s nutritional needs. Marasmus is caused by an energy deficiency that stunts growth, waste muscle, fat and tissues making the body appear extremely thin. Kwashiorkor is caused by protein deficiency making the arms, legs and stomach swell. Other forms of malnutrition are less...
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...second-largest in the world after Nestle. As company as large as Kraft Foods Group, it has enough capability and liquility to help the society stakeholders along the world with $19 billions in annual sale. Society expectations are rising and changing nowadays. Kraft should considerate about the expectation and needs of stakeholder when operated its business. Ignoring the expectation of society will bring much negatives impact to the company such as sales going down, reputation damaged, etc. This paper will review the social performance of Kraft Foods and the impact to its stakeholders : the communities, consumer and employee with the aspects of equity and equality and community building. Kraft Fight Hunger Kraft Foods has been proactive in stakeholder management and did well in charity and donation every year for the people who in need and involve themselves in philosophy programmes. Top priorities for Kraft Foods and its Foundation are fighting hunger, malnutirtion and promoting healthy lifestyles around the world. Kraft Foods has championed the fight against hunger for more than 30 years and donated more than $1 billion in cash and food. Since 1997, they have provided more than one billion serving of food to those in need. In 22 August 2010, Kraft Foods launched an integrated marketing campaign named “huddle to fight hunger” to encourage charitable giving to nonprofit Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief charity. To tackle an issue as serious as hunger which affects...
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...Common Themes in The Hunger Games and Hitler Youth Two of the summer reading books, The Hunger Games and Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadows, share common themes. The themes of rebellion, resistance, morality, government censorship, and oppression will be explored in this essay. In The Hunger Games, rebellion and resistance were the most dominant themes. The way that the Districts rebelled against the Capitol is strikingly similar to some of the people who tried to resist Hitler’s reign as chancellor during World War II. This is a very important theme because rebellion is what caused the Capitol to create the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games were created as a punishment for the rebellion of the Districts against the Capitol. Without rebellion, there would have been no Games for the tributes to compete in. There were also several times in The Hunger Games when Katniss rebelled and tried to resist the Capitol’s control. Early in the book, Katniss went outside the government’s fence to hunt. When Katniss was showing off her skills to the sponsors, she rebelled against them when they didn’t pay any attention to her. She shot the apple in the pig’s mouth as an act of rebellion. Also, when Rue died, Katniss covered Rue’s body in flowers. She knew this would make the Capitol angry. Also, at the end of the Games, after Katniss learned that she and Peeta couldn’t both win, she threatened suicide by eating the berries. This act of defiance showed how Katniss didn’t...
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...bring a healthy life for people not just feed them. In my opinion a lot of people starve nowadays and die because they do not have what to eat it does not make sense anymore. In my opinion Paarlberg is right when he defends the industrial way to produce and would help a lot to fight against the world hunger if it gets expanded. In his text Paarlberg claims that nowadays a new trend related to food is make food ecological and healthier. In his opinion people should focus on combating world hunger. The technology that is used in the actual production (produce food with less space and resources) should be exported to poor countries where hunger is a problem like in Africa. He cited a study published by Journal of Clinical Nutrition published last year that shows that is no nutritional advantages between organic and industrial food and he cited a quote of Mayo Clinic “No conclusive evidence shows that organic food is more nutritious than is conventionally grown food.”(Parllberg 145). If it is not more nutritional, it is more expensive and hard to plant organic why we should focus in organic instead expand the technology and fight against the word hunger? Paarlberg does not agree with that. He thinks that the world famine is more important and the industrial way is safe and can be trusted. In Salatin opinion, buying food locally has a lot of benefits. As he wrote about food “They’ve been replaced by an array of pseudo-foods that did not exist a mere century ago. The food additives,...
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...UN-Millennium Development Goals 2015 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by Adam Pindur Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. The path towards the Millennium Declaration 4 3. Millennium Development Goals 5 4. Global Poverty: Facts and figures 6 5. Measures against global poverty 8 6. Conclusion 10 7. Bibliography 11 „Those who has seen the world's poorest people, feels rich enough to help“ Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) www.eineweltfüralle.de Introduction At the Millennium Summit of the UN in September 2000, Heads of State and Government of the world, decided to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty by half until 2015. Never before have governments and international organizations, businesses and civil society organizations announced in this form to a common goal, and moved so the fight against poverty in the focus. The implementation of the Millennium Development Goals will be handled by many organizations and government institutions such as the BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development). I will set my focus on the fight against poverty and mention the actions of the Millennium Declaration Goals. At first I will present the historical development from 1990 until 2000, the year of the Millennium Summit. After a presentation of the Millennium Declaration Goals, I will introduce facts and figures on global poverty. Then I will show concrete measures to tackle...
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...presented to readers in Suzanne Collins thrilling trilogy: The Hunger Games. Ruling over its inhabitants with an iron fist, the oppressive nation of Panem will use any means necessary to remain in control of its citizens and districts. Panem and its rulers in the capitol have no quarrel with using even the most extreme of measures including, one of the major plot devices of the trilogy, forcing children to fight to the death in what is known as The Hunger Games. The capital believes their cruelty...
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...Seeing children and adults with very skinny bodies and big stomachs while watching the news or reading the newspapers is a very pitiful sight for most of us. These people are very real in all parts of the world and are suffering from hunger. According to the United Nation’s frontline agency in the fight against hunger, the World Health Program, there are 925 million people all over the world who are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. They are victims of natural disasters, civil conflicts and wars, poverty, poor agricultural infrastructure, over-exploitation of the environment, financial and economic crises. Such a very alarming number and would continue to rise if we just feel pity for them and sit on the side lines while watching these people suffer and die. This eye opening reality made me ask myself, “What can an ordinary youth like me do to help these people?” While searching for answers, by chance I happened to read about a humanitarian agency called World Vision which launched the “12-hour Famine” Campaign. This campaign challenges the youth to help raise funds to feed hungry children from different countries all over the world who are very poor through financial donations and by sharing their time and talents. This campaign is being done by World Vision in countries such as the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. This coming November 6, the 12-hour Famine campaign is scheduled to happen in Manila. The youth are invited to...
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...Bread for the World Group Members: Maddie Straup, Joyce Choe, Jinny Rim, Ritu Sharma, Sonya Dickson, Shraddha Thappa, and Jasmine Chemplanikal Group Leader: Maddie Straup Date: 2/26/12 I: Intro: What is Humanitarian? Humanitarian literally means having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people. That is the basest motive for many organizations in today’s society. In many organizations such as Red Cross, Invisible Children, UNICEF, PETA, and save the children their primary mission is to achieve well-being and content for the people they are assisting. There are many types of organizations around the world attempting to make the world a better place and like these organizations mentioned, Bread for the World aspires to be the very definition of a humanitarian administration which is the very reason why it was chosen. Hunger is a worldwide epidemic. Through several US organizations and assistance from the government there are still locations in Africa and Asia, and even in the US, that struggle with starvation. Starvation is a universal issue that will never fully be eliminated. However, citizens can take part in its process of termination. There can never be enough organizations alleviating hunger. However, there are very beneficial organizations out there that have not had their fair share of exposure. That’s why Bread for the World was chosen. Even though it not a famous group, like American Red Cross, its purpose and goals are worth fighting...
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...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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...Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games is the first novel in a trilogy that explores a future dystopian society. The story is set in "a country that rose up out of the ashes" of North America, after survivors of droughts, storms, fires, floods, hurricanes, and wars fought for their lives. This post-apocalyptic world is run by Panem, an all-powerful central government that controls the people and resources of twelve districts. Each district produces different products that are taken to the Capitol, the headquarters of Panem, where they are used as luxury items. Meanwhile, the twelve districts struggle to survive, often under the heavy and oppressive hands of armed guards. Security fences prevent escape, and brutal tactics keep the people under control. One such tactic is the staging of the annual Hunger Games, where, in a lottery, two children are chosen from each district to fight to the death in an arena while the entire country watches on television. The Hunger Games are a punishment for a time in the past when the twelve districts rose in rebellion against the Capitol and were defeated; a thirteenth district was even completely destroyed. Panem has staged the Hunger Games ever since to chasten the people, remind them of their uprising, and warn them that if they rebel again, they will all be destroyed. Once in the Hunger Games arena, the children (called "tributes") fight until only one child is left; the remaining tribute and his or her family are awarded lives of ease, along...
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...credited with giving the world the method for today’s popular movies and books. This formula is in Suzanne Collin’s novel “The Hunger Games,” the story of Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District Twelve in post-apocalyptic earth, who faces many trials and terrors when she is sent to participate in the annual Hunger Games. The formula, also known as The Hero’s Journey, is seen all throughout this story. The method begins with ‘The Call,’ or when something calls the main character to make the journey or quest that he or she is about to go on. In this novel, Katniss, who possesses a great ability to hunt, is called when representatives from the capitol of her world come to her district for the annual reaping, or when two people are chosen from each district to participate as ‘tributes’ in the Hunger Games. Things seem to go as normal, but when Katniss’s younger sister Prim is chosen; she does something that had never been done before and volunteers herself to go in her sister’s place. She is chosen to go alongside the son of District Twelve’s bakers, Peeta Mellark. After the reaping, she and Peeta are sent to the capitol, where they are prepared to face the capitol, and then the Hunger Games. Katniss then goes into the phase of the formula called ‘The Preperation.’ She and Peeta are both given Prep Teams who dress them up to help them get sponsors. After going through various steps of preparation, Katniss and Peeta are finally sent to the arena where the Hunger Games take place....
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