...Anything. It’s such a powerful force.” “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson about a woman who becomes singled out in her society due to a random selection. On the other hand, The Hunger Games is a movie directed by Gary Ross about a girl who must fight for her life while keeping everything she believes in. After reading “The Lottery” and watching The Hunger Games, the conflict throughout the two is very comparable while the protagonists, and how they resolve their conflicts, are contrastable. The conflict presented in “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games are alike in many ways. The Hutchinson’s awaiting their...
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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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...“The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, caught my eye, as it shows that brutality is actually a form of entertainment in the human society. In the beginning of this short story you would never guess that it would turn out to be an very violent one, as it starts of by saying “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.” What seems like a beautiful start to a day, takes a very violent turn in the end. Names that were written on pieces of paper were placed into a box, and the unfortunate person whose name was drawn was stoned to death. In this short story it mentioned how little kids would stuff their pockets full of stones and even made great piles of stones to take part in this event. It was pretty sick how children would select the smoothest and roundest of the stones, of which they would use to stone to death an un-lucky person who‘s name would be drawn all for the sake of entertainment. In this short story many people seen this event as completely normal, a direct quote from one of the character by the name of Mr. Summer mentioned, “guess we better get started, get this over with, so’s we can go back to work.” This shows that their was no guilt or pain of what they were doing, which was hurting and killing an innocent person. Even more to this is that there were actually festivities associated with this “Lottery” or the killing of an individual. Events such as square...
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...Summer Success For Unfortunate Children Learn. Play. Engage. We have a perfect view of summer vacation: sandy beaches, family road trips, and tons of fun. It is a time with few responsibilities and many opportunities. Summer time sounds great in theory, however, it can be problematic for many families. For children in low-income families, summers mean empty bellies, hours of boredom, and unsupervised care. America’s most disadvantaged kids end up sitting in front of the TV while their better-off peers gain ground academically. Our mission is to help these disadvantaged children become successful by providing them with the education, structure, and support they need to thrive. These objectives closely align with those of our partner, QuikTrip. QuikTrip’s mission statement is to “wisely invest dollars in community efforts that will help impact individuals in our society who are dependent on the charitable support of others”. Many QuikTrip gas stations have a sign that reads, “Safe Place”. This is part of their Safe Place program, where runaways and at-risk youth can come in, receive a free meal, and speak with a professional until help arrives for...
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...A. Topic This is a recommendation to start a new summer program for children with the purpose to encourage reading. The new program will be entitled “Read and Feed Crafts Program” and will be available to children ranging in age 18 months to 16 years. The children will receive a hot lunch, and a free library card. They could spend time reading, playing games, or learning different crafts. It also includes reading incentives for independent reading for reading to others. The program would run for six weeks between the hours of 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Suggestions for funding would include securing a Title I grant (Education, 2011). There are some low income families living in this neighborhood. In addition, the library could seek the assistance of volunteers to participate in the program. B. Purpose The purpose is to encourage the library to consider the idea of setting up this new program in the community during the summer time to encourage the children to enhance their reading skills and development of relationships with their peers. Summer is a great time to encourage children to read books. Reading will help to improve literacy skills and better prepare children for the upcoming school year. One of the best ways to get a child reading is to allow them to pick books they want to read about topics that interest them. Many of the children in the area of the library are from low income families and do not readily have the opportunity to experience something...
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...My full name is Kali Trinity Herrick–I know that it seems short, but it’s true. The only language that I actually speak fluently is English. I’ve attempted to learn many other languages, such as Spanish, Italian, and German, but I didn’t get as far as I wish that I did. I have a very large family, but it’s separated, so I usually get the chance for a break with most of them. There’s my mom (Victoria), dad (Andrew), stepmom (Brittany), stepdad (Chris), stepbrother (Nolan), stepsisters (Kayla and Emma), half-brother (Troy) and full brother (Aiden). There’s a total of 10 people in my family including myself, but Aiden is the only one who I’m with full-time. As for school, I don’t think that I’d be able to choose a favorite subject. So far, I...
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...For eleventh and twelfth, the reading level might be a little too low for them. Of course younger and older students will always have the option of choosing this for a free choice. I have, however, been working on a third option. If I get the chance to teach an honors class I have an idea in which while all the students would have their in class assigned books, they also have to choose a book series at the beginning of the year to read for the entire term. Cinder is the first book in a series, so it would be to those students, alongside The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Divergent, Hunger Games, and The Lighting...
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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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...Recap... And all i could think of is "This is so K-drama cliché." I stretched my hands for support. But the guy had other ideas. He grabbed my waist and carried me bridal style. “Aish! Put me down.” I barked swinging my legs back and forth trying to get out of his cast iron grip. “Stop squirming…” he spoke. His voice sent a surge of chills down my spine; I looked up to see a handsome guy with soft brown eyes, chiseled jaw and long eyelashes staring back at me. my throat went dry; This guy was beyond gorgeous. “Yah! We’re here.” He spoke nudging me from my daydream. “O-oh” I replied hoisting myself as he put me down. ”Omo! Kenchana?” the cute old nurse spoke caressing my arm soothingly. I nodded my head in response. “I just need some ice for my ankle.” I said rubbing my swollen egg shaped ankle. .. Minho’s POV I walked down the corridor, observing my surroundings until some girl bumped into me sending her falling to the ground flat on her bum. I stretched my hands to help her up; she took my hands and tried to support herself up but I noticed her struggling she must have hurt her leg… so I grabbed her smooth legs and carried to the nurse’s office to get checked. She squirmed in my arms trying to make me let go. “Stop squirming” I told her looking her silky brown air. Her chocolate eyes met mine and I swore my heart stopped. She had this long hair, plump lips and rosy cheeks. When our eyes met I glanced away. I noticed we reached the nurse’s office. “Yah we’re here.” I said...
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...psychology or journalism. Now, I am only weeks away from legal adulthood, and that day still hasn’t come. As I apply for university theatre programs, I find it difficult to justify my choices and yet I still continue to make them because I can’t imagine being happy doing anything else. My novel, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven takes place in a world stripped bare by an influenza that wipes out 99.9% of the population. Kirsten Raymonde, the novel’s primary protagonist, is one of the few survivors. In the twenty years since the collapse, the world has become a savage, lawless place, where thievery runs rampant and murder is commonplace. To be sure, Kirsten’s post-apocalyptic world is not one entirely unfamiliar to us. From The Hunger Games to The Walking Dead, dystopias are a dime a dozen. What sets Station Eleven apart is its willingness to confront what its counterparts miss: the role of art in survival-oriented societies. While most authors depict their heroes and heroines scavenging for food or...
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...Championing Character Through Children's Literature List updated 12/17/09 | | |A Bad Case of Stripes - David Shannon (respect for differences) | | | |A Castle on Viola Street - DyAnne DiSalvo (citizenship, volunteerism) | | | |A Taste of Colored Water by Matt Faulkner (justice, equality, respect for differences) | | | |Agate by Joy Morgan Dey (celebrating differences, respect for self) | | | |Alley Oops - by Janice Levy (anti-bullying, respect, "wrestling" with good choices) | | | |America Is Her Name - Luis J. Rodriguez (compassion, empathy, confidence...
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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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...March 14, 2008 Dwelling in Possibilities By Mark Edmundson Our students' spectacular hunger for life makes them radically vulnerable. At the beginning of school last fall, I ran into a student on the University of Virginia Lawn, not far from the famous statue of Homer instructing an admiring pupil. Homer's student is in a toga. Mine was wearing wraparound sunglasses like Bono's, black jeans, and a red T-shirt emblazoned with Chinese characters in white. Over his shoulder he carried his laptop. We asked each other the usual question: What did you do over the summer? What he did, as I recall, was a brief internship at a well-regarded Internet publication, a six-country swing though Europe, then back to enjoy his family and home, reconnect with high-school friends, and work on recording a rock CD. What had I done? I had written five drafts of a chapter for a book on the last two years of Sigmund Freud's life. I had traveled to Crozet, a few miles away, to get pizza. I'd sojourned overnight in Virginia Beach, the day after I woke up distressed because I couldn't figure out how to begin my chapter. I'd driven to the beach, figured it out (I thought), and then I'd come home. My young friend looked at me with a mixture of awe and compassion. I felt a little like one of those aged men of the earth who populate Wordsworth's poetry. One of them, the Old Cumberland Beggar, goes so slowly that you never actually see him move, but if you return to the spot where you first encountered...
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...Types of food people like in Pakistan: The Pakistani cosines are rich in oil and chillies. Unlike the Indian food, Pakistani dishes must include meat, chicken and beef, though pork is totally forbidden as per Islamic teachings. Although eating habits differ from regions to region, the mainstay of the Pakistani diet is "chapati or roti" made from flour. "Lassi" a usual drink made like a milkshake in a home made utencil from curd/yogurt and water is usually taken at lunch time, specially during the summers as it beats the effects of hard weather. It is usually customary to eat a dessert after the dinner, which mainly comprises "Kheer" (made from rice and milk) and sweetened rice "Zarda". Rice though scarcely eaten in many parts, pulla´o (lightly fried rice with vegetables) and biryani (rice with meat or vegetables and spices) are the tw very favourite dishes of rice, specially on marriages. "Mithai" a kind of sweet made of corn flour, sugar and milk is the favourite sweet for all ages Pakistanis generally eat three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. During the evening, many families have green tea without sugar which goes along with baked/fried snacks from local bakery (or prepared at home). During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the eating patterns change to: sehri and iftar. It is considered proper to eat only with the right hand as per Islamic tradition (also a tradition in many other Asian cultures). Many Pakistani families, particularly when guests are too many...
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...Childhood Obesity Danielle Borde ENG122: English Composition II Instructor: Peter Kunze July 29, 2012 Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is an issue that has become more evident of a problem as the years have changed. I am interested in the facts as to how a child becomes obese and if there are any ways to either prevent it or overturn it. I want to prove that obesity weighs more heavily on nature rather than nurture. There are specific genes that some people have and some people don’t have that attribute to becoming obese. I know the schools are doing a lot to keep kids more fit and active these days. First Lady Michelle Obama has played a huge role in helping over turn childhood obesity. Her goals for her “Lets Move” campaign are, better school nutrition, better labeling of high calorie foods and drinks, growing support for farmers markets, and educating moms and dads to instill better eating habits (Christina, 2010). I believe this will be a very productive program. It has been said in the past that nurture was the main factor in becoming obese. This has become less of a factor since scientists have been looking more closely at the genes. Genes account for more than three quarters of the difference between children’s waistlines, with factors such as diet and exercise playing a much smaller role (MNT, 2008). A man named Nikhil Dhurandhar discovered a gene by the name of adenovirus-36(Ad-36), which causes fat cells to grow. Dhurandhar and his team...
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