...character of The Hunger Games? The only thing she really knows at the beginning of the book is how to provide for her family. Katniss, being a natural survivor, gets through the games easily. She can run, she can hunt, she can camouflage, and most importantly, she has the instinct that she needs to stay alive. But that’s really all she has going for her. Katniss is socially awkward, stubborn, and determined to a fault. She’s also self-centered and self-reliant. Her pessimistic self really shows when she is narrating. Katniss’s struggles with her father’s death has hardened her, making her a somewhat difficult character to actually connect with. Everybody likes a happy story with a kind and self-sacrificing main character, but Katniss is far from that. She doesn’t have much warmth and love to offer anyone, and she finds it hard to get attached to someone – only socializing with her family, Gale’s family, and occasionally Hob traders. Katniss is a self-trusting person. She will only rely on herself and is stubborn when it comes to asking for help. Well, I guess she’s got some good sides to her, too. Katniss is a tragic hero, saving her sister and taking her place in the Hunger Games. She’s noble to a degree, protecting Rue, who reminded Katniss so much of her own sister. She mercifully killed Cato, another tribute who’s been basically terrorizing her and Peeta for the entire duration of the Games. And most importantly to the plotline, she cared for Peeta during the Games, going as...
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...A Book Review Presented to Mrs. Evangeline Arguelles In Partial Fulfillment Of the Subject Requirement In ENGLISH III MERIKA MONJORVA III-Courage 17 October 2012 I. INTRODUCTION The Hunger Games focuses more on Katniss Everdeen’s hardships and struggles for survival. She bravely faces challenges that come in her way, especially when dealing with life and death situations. Moreover, she also realizes that she must be strong and determined as she chooses a difficult path instead of giving up, which demonstrates her will to survive. The Hunger Games is a 2008 Young Adult novel by Suzanne Collins. The story revolves around 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which tributes aged 12-18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a live TV Show to death. The Hunger Games is the first book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games Trilogy (New York Times Best Selling Series) followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). Suzanne Collins is an American writer and novelist. Collins was named one of ‘Time Magazine’s Most Influential People of 2010’. The Hunger Games was first published on September 14, 2008. The book had sold 800,000 copies by February 2010. The initial price of the book is $10.99. The aim of this book review is to focus more on the characteristics...
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...CONTEXT Growing up, Suzanne Collins was a military brat. Her father was a career airman in the United States Air Force, as a result, Collins and her siblings—two older sisters and an older brother—moved around frequently, spending time in numerous locations in the eastern United States as well as in Europe. The military, in fact, played a leading role in the family’s history. Collins’s grandfather had served in World War I, her uncle served in World War II, and the year Collins turned six, her father left to serve his own tour in the Vietnam War. War, consequently, was a part of life for Collins, something very real and not just an abstract idea. While her father was gone, she would sometimes see video footage of the war zone on the news, and she recognized that her father was there fighting. Though her father returned after a year, Collins’s connection to war didn’t end. In addition to being a soldier, Collins’s father was also a military historian and a doctor of political science. That knowledge and experiences serving in the Air Force and fighting in Vietnam had a profound effect on his relationships with his children, and he made sure they learned what they could about war. While other girls’ fathers were telling them fairytales, Collins’s father educated her about military history. When the family was moved to Brussels, Belgium, for instance, her father educated her about the region’s violent history and took her on tours of the country’s historic battlefields. Eventually...
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...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 of mouth and that common stories like cinderella has hundreds of versions from cultures all around the world. I typically love Fantasy books the most like: "Harry Potter", "Twilight" series, and "The Hunger Games" series. Anderson's "Feed", is a totally original, and real life applicable because we are so dependent on technology. Technology literally does everything for us, it makes us stupid...
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...INTRODUCTION Distractions are the division of the attention of the individual from the chosen object or task; it could be from internal or external forces. This may be attributed to lack of interest or lack of attention given to the object or certain task. Distractions are affecting the daily lives of people. The level of tolerance to these distractions may differ between people. Students are also exposed to different distractions that may affect their study habits. Students are exposed to distractions in and out of the school, every student may have 1 or more distractions and each one of them may differ from each other. Internal forces are forces that act on an object or scenario within the system of the student. Emotions, personal problems, hunger, are some of the examples of internal forces that may cause distractions. While noise extracurricular activities and work are examples of external forces that may also cause distractions to the part of the student. Unlike the internal forces, external forces are the pressures that arise from outside the concern of the student and yet also affect the student behaviour. Some of the students are having problems when it comes to their study habits because of some disturbances that occur while they are studying. These disturbances somehow affect the...
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...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 eminent labor economist...
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...Specific Report: The Consumer (A Corporate Objective) A. Summary of Report The consumer is a final cause of business as the recipient of the product, and is therefore also the indirect object of the business act. If the consumer is an ultimate concern of the business act, then service to the consumer is an ultimate objective of the whole business concept. Satisfaction of the consumer’s human needs is the underlying principle of this service. The concept of human needs goes back to the concept of man himself in whom the needs naturally inhere. They exist to address man’s own requirements for existence, and therefore as a consumer he has to consume to address those needs. That is in his nature as a human being. He has to feed, to clothe, and to seek shelter- all for his survival, comfort and protection. These needs create demand; and as demands are at the root of economics, so are needs at the root of business. Addressing the consumer needs is not only a role of the businessman but a serious challenge to him. If business exists to satisfy human needs, then business must be concerned with what these needs are and how they can be satisfied. The efforts should be addressed not only to management’s capabilities but also to the concepts and requirements of the needs themselves. Man has his perfections and imperfections. While he is perfect in the order of being and participates in the perfection of his Creator in the order of rationality, he has been left with inadequacies both...
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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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...Stargate Institute Executive Summary Nabisco is a company that has been in existence since 1898. During their 109 years in existence, they have grown through natural growth, mergers, and acquisitions. This has allowed Nabisco to be the leading snack maker in the world. The Oreo chocolate sandwich cookie was first introduced in Hoboken, N.J. in 1911. Oreos today are far and away the world’s most popular cookie. The Oreo family accounts for approximately 10 percent of all store cookie sales--a $3 billion market. However in recent years Nabisco has been reluctant to adapt to current market trends. The company was focusing on producing new versions of existing products to make them more convenient. Situation Analysis In 1898, the New York Biscuit Company and the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company merged over 100 bakeries into the National Biscuit Company, later called Nabisco. Founders Adolphus Green and William Moore, orchestrated the merger and the company quickly rose to first place in the manufacturing and marketing of cookies and crackers in America. To expand their global presence and to strengthen their position in the fast-growing consumer snacks sector, Philip Morris Co. Inc. acquired Nabisco Holdings in December 2000. Philip Morris purchased Nabisco for $14.9 billion in cash plus assumed $4 million in debt. Eventually, Philip Morris integrated the Nabisco brands with its Kraft Food operations. And now it includes brands such as Chips Ahoy, Fig Newtons, Mallomars...
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...Marketing Plan Oliberté International Marketing MIB Front - Team 4 I. Executive Summary II. Concept Statement A. Company Background and Mission B. Products and Services C. Business Model: Sustainability and Uniqueness D. Strategic Intention E. Marketing F. Risk Analysis G. Differentiation H. Evaluation: Factor of success III. Situation Analysis A. Industry Analysis 1. Industry overview 2. Porter five forces 3. Market size 4. Position in the market life cycle 5. Available distribution structure, plus attitudes and practices 6. PESTEL 7. Risk Analysis B. Firm Analysis 1. Brief history of the company and stage of internationalization 2. SWOT Analysis 3. Stakeholder Analysis 4. Product Development and Product Extension 5. Pricing and Financial Policy 6. Internet and E-commerce 7. Organizational Structure C. Competitor Analysis 1. Competitive Positioning: Direct and Indirect Competitors 2. Market Share Distribution 3. Future Competition – Direct and Indirect Competitor 4. Barriers to Entry 5. Competitive Advantages D. Customer Analysis 1. Who are your customers? 2. What do customers want/need? 3. What must be done to satisfy their wants and/or needs? 4. What is the size of the market? 5. What is the growth profile? IV. Strategic Marketing Decision A. Marketing Scope B. Marketing Goals 1. Successfully launch and market the expansion of the product offer 2 Marketing Plan Oliberté International Marketing MIB Front - Team 4 2. Successfully launch and market the...
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...Indeed, we have an extraordinary global food system that brings food from all over the planet to consumers who can afford to buy it. The food price spike of 2008 and the resurgence of high food prices in recent years have had little impact on the affluent citizens of the developed world who spend a small fraction of their income on food. By contrast, food prices have a profound impact on the world’s poorest people. Many of them spend half or more of their income on food. During the food price crisis of 2008, there were food riots in more than 30 countries. Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa tracks with the price of food, as is dramatically illustrated in Fig. 1. Spiraling food prices drive the world’s poorest into chronic hunger even in a world of relative plenty. Does this mean we need worry only about poverty, not about the global food supply, as suggested in a recent editorial by the influential New York Times food...
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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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...There is no doubt that it has become one of the best ways to meet people in different parts of the world. People of every age group big or small are using numerous networking sites and creating their profile. They share information and communicate with each other. Social network provides the opportunity to strengthen the bonds between employees in a work place. Social network helps to establish interaction and information sharing between users. With the rapid growth of online users, it has helped the company to promote their business and in reality it has become a marketing tool of driving business. Companies also use it as a platform to distribute product information and some of them have translated into sales. Now look as below the SWOT analysis of social network in our workplace: Strength: It promotes and facilitates communication and costless. Weakness: Some companies may restrict the access of these social networks. Many IT and project managers are concerned about loss of productivity and compromised network security due to social media use on work computers. It is not very easy to build trust between customers and employees as people believe that internet networks are imagined. Opportunity:...
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...GMO MYTHS AND TRUTHS An evidence-based examination of the claims made for the safety and efficacy of genetically modified crops Michael Antoniou Claire Robinson John Fagan June 2012 GMO Myths and Truths An evidence-based examination of the claims made for the safety and efficacy of genetically modified crops Version 1.3 by Michael Antoniou Claire Robinson John Fagan © Earth Open Source www.earthopensource.org 2nd Floor 145–157, St John Street, London EC1V 4PY, United Kingdom Contact email: claire.robinson@earthopensource.org June 2012 Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this paper, or otherwise published by EOS, are those of the authors and do not represent the official policy, position, or views of other organizations, universities, companies, or corporations that the authors may be affiliated with. GMO Myths and Truths 2 About the authors Michael Antoniou, PhD is reader in molecular genetics and head, Gene Expression and Therapy Group, King’s Cols: lege London School of Medicine, London, UK. He has 28 years’ experience in the use of genetic engineering technology investigating gene organisation and control, with over 40 peer reviewed publications of original work, and holds inventor status on a number of gene expression biotechnology patents. Dr Antoniou has a large network of collaborators in industry and academia who are making use of his discoveries in gene control mechanisms for the production of research, diagnostic and therapeutic products...
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...collapses, and the loss of biodiversity in crops, livestock, and wild species. The global food system has become such a dominant force shaping the surface of this planet and its ecosystems that we can no longer achieve sustainability without revamping the food system. At the same time sustainable food systems provide great hope for building a sustainable future—a future in which all can lead satisfying lives within the means of the biosphere. In this brief, we use Ecological Footprint analysis to document the current food system’s demand on the biosphere. Ecological Footprint accounts track the area of biologically productive land and water needed to produce the resources consumed by a given population and to absorb its waste. The Ecological Footprint allows us to monitor a central threat to sustainability: the liquidation of the planet’s natural capital as we consume more resources than nature can regenerate and create more waste than nature can recycle. Our analysis reveals the leading role played by the food system in this liquidation and underscores how profoundly a sustainable future depends on reshaping that system. 1...
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