Over the long hot summer I read an interesting book written by Suzanne Collins called The Hunger Games. It is an inspirational book about a small district in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Hunger Games is an annual lottery in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts are selected to compete in a live televised battle to the death. This is an underdog story of Katniss Everdeen who is from district 12 a coal-mining district that is the poorest
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depiction of the Valley of Ashes in Chapter Two The Valley of Ashes‚ a landfill site solely for ashes‚ is painted by Fitzgerald to greaten our appreciation of American Society and the themes it generates such as social decline‚ moral ambiguity‚ the loss of hope and faith and the dominance of shallow materialism. Nick Carraway labels the Valley as “desolate”‚ thus steering our attention into one which will perceive the Valley negatively. Fitzgerald then paints the Valley of Ashes as a crude distortion
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Ms. Milliner EES21QH05 January 20 ‚2017 Final Paper Some people have a personality trait called “grit” . Angela Duckworth defines grit as the determination to do something until you have obtained the skills to do it correctly . In her research she explains that one must have endurance to complete a race . In True Grit by Angela Lee Duckworth and Lauren Eskreis -winkler ‚ the example they give of true grit is ‚ “ At the starting line it is the hare who is expected
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In the science fiction book‚ “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ the main protagonist of the story‚ has to face many difficulties in her life such as the death of her father. As well as living in one of the poorest regions called District 12 in the country of Panem. Owing to the tragic death of her father she takes on a big responsibility and cares for her mother and sister Prim. Every year the capitol of Panem has a ceremony called the Hunger Games where‚ two tributes a boy and
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rebellions. In the Hunger Games‚ the Capitol is a government who has over powered 12 different districts left in North America‚ scared of facing any rebellions they made the decision of dividing each district by the different duties each one owned. In return‚ each year they held the Annual Hunger Games‚ controlling the various districts and stopping any rebellions from forming; 24 tributes were sent to the Capitol each year so that no acts of defiance would occur. It is now the 74th Annual Hunger Games‚ surprisingly
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The hunger and humor of Algernon When Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest he gave birth to a wonderful character named Algernon Moncrieff. In this essay we will see how the appetites of this character add to the humor of this play. To analyze this we will look at his character traits. Algernon’s traits of gluttony‚ dishonesty‚ romance and wit hive us delightful humor throughout the play. As a glutton‚ Algernon puts his appetite first and people second. In the beginning of the
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emotions of kids. In “Ashes” a story by Susan Beth Pfeffer‚ the main character Ashes or Ashleigh faces her parents divorced‚ and given her parents’ actions take a toll on her feelings. After evaluating Susan’s character Ashes‚ her emotion‚ personality and conflicts it reveals the theme parents affect their children. It is my position that parents create more problems and make the current situation worst. These then affect the train of thought of children‚ as seen in the story “Ashes”. These decisions
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The Hunger Games The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian novel written for young adults. Even with that being the main audience target‚ the book has appealed to parents as well and has been a best seller since it came out. The book is set in a time where North America has been destroyed and divided into 12 districts; the 13th has been destroyed due to a rebellion‚ and it’s all run by the powerful Capital. In district 12 lives Katniss Everdeen‚ a 16 year old girl‚ who hunts to provide
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and advance into a society where women could pursue the same goals and work alongside their male counterparts equally. As a feminist and adamant believer in gender equality for all‚ I would want to travel to this period in history to be able to meet Angela Davis and Gloria Steinem. These two women were huge advocates for Women’s Liberation and I would like to talk to them in order to truly get a sense of what it was like to be a part of the movement that redefined the concept of being a woman in the
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Reality of Hunger As America is the land of plenty‚ nobody would think that people‚ who live in America‚ would struggle for food. However‚ it is reality that hungers are all around the nation. After the recession in 2008‚ it almost hit to American to be homeless and job lay off‚ so the rate of hunger was rise up. The most painful fact is for our children who suffer from food insecure hunger because of limited accessibility of nutritious food. According to the research‚ in the video “Hunger Hits Home
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