...The Hunger Games Trilogy Literary Analysis Paper “At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.” -Katniss Everdeen (Catching Fire, Pg 118) As I read The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins my mind was constantly bombarded by violence, tragedy and a deadly love triangle. The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay were all emotionally difficult books to read, but they were also very powerful books that made me really think about my reality. The Hunger Games Trilogy also made me think about the meaning of the titles and what significance they have. Words with simple meanings like “hunger” in the title The Hunger Games and “fire” in the title Catching Fire can become vastly complex when used literally and figuratively in a very interpretive context. Before I read The Hunger Games I knew that the title was the name of the games that Katniss is partaking in, but after reading the book I realized there were so many other interpretations of the title. The Capitol’s “hunger” for control is how I depicted the title. The Capitol wants control everything and anything. The Capitol seeks to control how Katniss lives her life. Katniss is constantly told what to do and when to do it, but from a young age she has deliberately disobeyed the laws that the Capitol has forced upon the citizens of Panem. The Capitol claims that they rule Panem in their selfish way for the benefit of the Districts...
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...poverty and deprivation is secondary. The present paper invites discussion on a new paradigm: hunger and homelessness to make the subject of economics really serve the humankind. 1. Focus of Conventional Economics is Wealth and not Poverty Current Economic theory is firmly set in the mold structured by Adam Smith 1904). His concern was to look into factors which affect the wealth (and hence power, prosperity) of nations considered as a whole. Issues of income distribution are secondary, since wealth belongs to the nation regardless of how it is distributed among individuals. Since then, economists have been primarily interested in wealth and power, and not so much in removing poverty, hunger and economic misery. Malthus (1798) provided a convenient sop for consciences, showing that poverty arose as a consequence of natural laws (all proven wrong empirically later) and the only cure was to reduce the birth rate of the poor. Tawney (1926) has looked at the process by which morality got divorced from economics in much greater detail; because of this, questions of fairness, equity, justice no longer form part of current economic discourse. For those of us who are human beings first and economists second, the consequences of this preoccupation with wealth and power have been disastrous. One can receive a Ph.D. in economics without receiving one word of information about the extent of poverty in the world, or the meaning of hunger and deprivation. In informal conversation, an...
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...reminds us of a concentration camp. In the middle is standing security, so the people can't run away. They're in a way trapped. Elaboration: Effie goes over to the bowl with the names in. Everyone are sad and anxious, but Effie is smiling and exited - 22 sec. Point of no return: When Primrose gets chosen. There is only one pice of paper with Primroses name in the bowl, but she gets picked anyway. She reacts very calm and cool, but in some way the viewer can see that she is in shock. Conflict: When Prim starts walking to go up to Effie it starts a conflict in Katniss. She is so shocked that she doesn’t react in the start. Climax: When Katniss volunteers as a tribute she yells it out when she realize that Primrose is on her way to the stage. It comes as a huge shock when she volunteers because no one ever did it before. Resolution: Gale comes to take Primrose away, and Katniss tries to calm Primrose down. But Primrose just screams cries and tries to escape Gale’s grap. - This shows the importance of the scene. These points are the reason we chose this particular scene, because it’s so emotional. Detailed audio-visual analysis At first there is no music. It goes well with the atmosphere, and as the viewers, we get a clearer feeling of the tension in everybody. We are not supposed to be affected by what music is playing in the background; the silence is so raw that it gives this cold and lifeless sense to the situation. - Sad music starts playing when Peeta...
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...INTRODUCTION Video games have come a long way since today's adults sat down at a computer to play Pong or Donkey Kong. The newest-generation gaming consoles are as powerful as personal computers, and can accomplish many of the same things. And today's games are increasingly realistic and technologically advanced. Social networking has even made its way into the video game industry with online gaming. These virtual worlds can be complicated and perplexing to parents, which is why it's important for you to understand what your child is playing and when to get worried. Did You Know? * In 2009, over 11 million people played World of Warcraft, an online, subscription fee-based multiplayer game. * According to one study, nearly 1 in 10 young gamers displayed behavior patterns similar to addiction.1 * The Kaiser Family Foundation found that 8- to 18-year-olds are exposed to an average of 10 hours and 45 minutes of media each day. Whether your child is an avid gamer or rarely picks up a controller, it's important to understand the world of video games--especially in the age of online gaming--so you can make your child's experience with games both a positive and a beneficial one. ————— 1. Douglas Gentile, “Pathological Video Game Use among Youth 8 to 18: A National Study,” CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the study The youth of today no longer seem to spend their leisure activities like in the olden days; outdoor games or playing with toys, instead...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Hunger Games has been in writing, but the idea that it can be put into a video is inconceivable because of its complex nature. Pollitt (554) calls it a crack on paper owing to its diversity in the aspects of characters and themes. Although the movie is interesting, the idea of putting it into a movie meant scrapping most of its interesting elements. However, the motion picture does justice to the book because most of the contents of the book. The only downside is the case that the main character's voice is watered in the movie. In most of the articles, the author uses the excerpts of the movie as well as sarcasm to present her message about the movie in the articles. This is a well-written piece given the fact that it relates the book to the movie in many aspects making sure that the basic facts in the book are understood by the readers of the article. For instance, the book states that while the movie is based on a distant future of the United States of America. The themes and the messages in the movie represent those of America political and the general situation. Where power is shared among the minority who have the financial power and might, to claim and keep the power (Pollitt 554). Just like many contemporary regimes, the...
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...Final Reflection Paper By Jessica Krick The first week I learned that children's books aren't as a genre an indication of readership. I enrolled in this class because it is required. According to my guidance counselor, it is to 'diversify my learning'. Now that I have finished the course, I couldn't agree more! I started this class thinking that children's books are simple and sort of primal. When in fact, there are a lot of literary elements involved; and the illustrations tell the story as much as the text. It has taught me to look deeper into everything, that nothing is simple. I plan on using this newly acquired skill in the future. Also during this week, I got to analyze and enjoy "The Giving Tree". It is such an exemplar picturebook, that I just had to buy it (along with "Wild Thing") to read again and again with my nephew. I typically favor the moral lessons provided in these books. With that said, I honestly didn't like the book "Millions of Cats", I guess it just rubbed me the wrong way, plus I'm a dog person! Being an artist myself, my favorite part of this class was the multitude of illustrations involved in my class work. Home work became fun. You always seem to provide extra handouts just to further our knowledge, like the 'handout of illustration styles' and I read quite a bit of the Grim folktales. Folklore revisits popular childhood folktales or how I have always known it as 'fairytales'. I found it interesting that they have survived centuries by word...
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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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...Transactional analysis Jump to: navigation, search |Transactional analysis | |Intervention | |[pic] | |Diagram of concepts in transactional analysis, based on cover of Eric Berne's | |1964 book Games People Play. | |MeSH |D014152 | Transactional analysis, commonly known as TA to its adherents, is an integrative approach to the theory of psychology and psychotherapy. It is described as integrative because it has elements of psychoanalytic, humanist and cognitive approaches. TA was developed by Canadian-born US psychiatrist, Eric Berne, during the late 1950s. According to the International Transactional Analysis Association,[1] TA 'is a theory of personality and a systematic psychotherapy for personal growth and personal change'. 1. As a theory of personality, TA describes how people are structured psychologically. It uses what is perhaps its best known model, the ego-state (Parent-Adult-Child) model, to do this. The same model helps explain how people function and express their personality in their behavior[1] 2. It is a theory of communication that can be extended to the analysis of systems and organisations.[1] 3. It offers a theory for child development...
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...environment. Firms need to develop strategies as they are managements’ game plan for growing the business, staking out a market position, attracting and pleasing customers, competing successfully, conducting operations, and achieving targeted objectives. Strategic management is the set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of a firm. The question however arises as to whether strategic management is an art or a science or that it is simply a mixture of luck and good judgement. Introduction Firms or companies today face a broad array of risks, problems and issues, be they strategic, operational, financial, customer, vendor, competitor, to name a few. Moreover, concerns about increased international competition brought about by the rapid globalisation phenomenon abound not only in the US but also in Europe with the further expansion of the European Union and in Asia and Latin America due to increased economic integration in these regions. Management experts therefore have argued time and again that firms or companies should respond to environmental changes, such as increased competition, by engaging in more systematic planning to anticipate and respond to changing and unforeseen events. The reason for this argument is because formal strategic planning has been seen to enhance a firm’s performance. Thompson et al (2006) explain that a firm’s strategy is its management game plan for growing the business, staking out a market position, attracting...
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...Strategic Managemen Essay Subject :s Strategic Management Topic : Is Business Strategy A Mixture Of Luck And Judgement, Opportunities And Design, Or More Of An Art Than A Science? Abstract Firms or companies today face a broad array of risks, problems and issues internal to them and external factors relative to increased international competition due to globalisation. Thus, strategic management is an activity necessary to be undertaken by firms who want to sustain their existence in today’s highly competitive environment. Firms need to develop strategies as they are managements’ game plan for growing the business, staking out a market position, attracting and pleasing customers, competing successfully, conducting operations, and achieving targeted objectives. Strategic management is the set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the longrun performance of a firm. The question however arises as to whether strategic management is an art or a science or that it is simply a mixture of luck and good judgement. Introduction Firms or companies today face a broad array of risks, problems and issues, be they strategic, operational, financial, customer, vendor, competitor, to name a few. Moreover, concerns about increased international competition brought about by the rapid globalisation phenomenon abound not only in the US but also in Europe with the further expansion of the European Union and in Asia and Latin America due to increased economic integration in these...
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...Eric Berne Games People Play The psychology of human relationships Table of contents PREFACE.........................................................................................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................................4 1 SOCIAL INTERCOURSE..........................................................................................................................................4 2 THE STRUCTURING OF TIME ...............................................................................................................................5 PART I ANALYSIS OF GAMES ...................................................................................................................................8 CHAPTER ONE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS .....................................................................................................................8 CHAPTER TWO TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................10 CHAPTER THREE PROCEDURES AND RITUALS .........................................................................................................14 CHAPTER FOUR PASTIMES .............................................................................................................................
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...How To Write a Thesis Statement What is a Thesis Statement? Almost all of us—even if we don’t do it consciously—look early in an essay for a one- or two-sentence condensation of the argument or analysis that is to follow. We refer to that condensation as a thesis statement. Why Should Your Essay Contain a Thesis Statement? to test your ideas by distilling them into a sentence or two to better organize and develop your argument to provide your reader with a “guide” to your argument In general, your thesis statement will accomplish these goals if you think of the thesis as the answer to the question your paper explores. How Can You Write a Good Thesis Statement? Here are some helpful hints to get you started. You can either scroll down or select a link to a specific topic. How to Generate a Thesis Statement if the Topic is Assigned How to Generate a Thesis Statement if the Topic is not Assigned How to Tell a Strong Thesis Statement from a Weak One How to Generate a Thesis Statement if the Topic is Assigned Almost all assignments, no matter how complicated, can be reduced to a single question. Your first step, then, is to distill the assignment into a specific question. For example, if your assignment is, “Write a report to the local school board explaining the potential benefits of using computers in a fourth-grade class,” turn the request into a question like, “What are the potential benefits of using computers in a fourth-grade class?” After you’ve chosen the...
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...Name Professor Course Name Date Research Paper Outline Video Games Promote Violent Behaviour in Boys 1) Introduction a. Thesis: Video games promote violent behavior in boys b. Prevalence of violence attributed to video games c. Proportion of boys who are chronic video gamers 2) What is known about violence and video games d. Relationship between video games and aggression e. How video games affect the brain f. How video games have contributed to school shootings g. Other moral concerns concerning video games that promote violence 3) What is not known about video games and violence 4) How to address the problem h. Minor's access to the video games/content i. Other approaches to address the problem 5) Conclusion Video Games Promote Aggressive Behavior in Boys Video games have become an acceptable alternative of leisure, especially with the boys. The video gaming industry has been defined by robust growth over the last decade to a point it has now become an acceptable norm in the society. It is purported to be one of the major gross earner industry racking about 87 billion in 2012 (Robinson 414). Major players within the industry release numerous graphic video games into the market to garner a large customer niche. With advances in technology so does the content in most games become more realistic. This trend worries most social players ranging from parents, teachers, legislators...
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...syllabus in the context of the relevant case study. The examiners will be marking candidates’ scripts on the basis of the questions set. Candidates are advised to pay particular attention to the mark allocation on the examination paper and to plan their time accordingly. Candidates should acquaint themselves thoroughly with the case study and be prepared to follow closely the instructions given to them on the examination day. Candidates are advised not to waste valuable time collecting unnecessary data. The cases are based upon real-life situations and all the information about the chosen organisation is contained within the case study. As the case represents a real-life situation, anomalies may be found in the information you have before you. Therefore, please state any assumptions you make that are reasonable when answering the questions. Remember, you are going to be tested on your overall understanding of the case issues and your ability to answer the questions that are set in the examination. In order to prepare for the examination, candidates will need to carry out a detailed analysis of the case material ahead of the examination. Candidates will have sufficient time during the examination to answer all the questions, but this means that detailed analysis should have taken place before commencing the examination. The examiners are looking for clear evidence that candidates have a good understanding of the case and can use the relevant course ideas from the syllabus to answer the...
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...Integration of Video Games in Classrooms Abstract This literature review will explore the effective ways educational video games enhance student motivation in classrooms and the personalized approach of education through video games. It will also explore the adaptation of educational games in classrooms as well as educator’s concerns. The review is limited to the use of video games designed for educational purposes and does not discuss the educational value of the entertainment video games. The review does not discuss the different effects of video games on diverse groups; it focuses primarily elementary to college level students. Video games have been around for over thirty years; they are one of the most lucrative and prominent forms of entertainment across cultures. A total of $20.77 billion was spent in 2012 in the game industry (ESA, Essential Facts about the Computor and Video Game Industry, 2013). The Gaming Industry is changing and adapting every year to the new technological changes. Video games have become an important form of entertainment to society. “U.S. consumers play video games on… Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 and on personal computers (“PCs”)….on mobile video players such as the PlayStation Portable “PSP”, the Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo DS….“on-line” among multiple players who interconnect over the Internet and other proprietary online networks” (Siwek, 2010). The expanding market of video games and its influence on American...
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