Julius Caesar vs. the Hunger Games Did you ever realize that the Hunger Games and Julius Caesar have a lot of similarities? Not just Julius Caesar‚ but also the whole Ancient Roman Empire itself. The Latin word “Panem”‚ the country the Hunger Games is located‚ means bread in English. To me‚ the Hunger Games is more of an advanced version with all of the same concepts of the former Ancient Roman Empire. There is an old Greek myth that exists where fourteen Athenian boys and girls are sent to Crete
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the advances in today’s technology‚ the younger generations are becoming more exposed to this environment. In my younger years‚ my problems were the involvement of video games and later cell phones. I would like to share with you the impact that technology has had in my life. three major points will be the effects of video games and cell phone usage. Fleming‚ the founder of communication studies website‚ tells us that the Pew Internet Research Center calculated 75 percent of teens own cell phones
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Throughout The Hunger Games‚ there are vast similarities when you compare Panem and the real world current events. Suzanne Collins shows us what is wrong with the world through her literary work. She thinks that when people read her book that they would make that connection and take notice on the world and would want to make a difference. This book is an easier way of seeing the world for the people who are having trouble seeing it for what it really is. The Hunger Games may be fictional‚ but
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McKnight 1 Jasmine McKnight Warlop English ACC 10 29 April 2013 Antigone vs. The Hunger Games: Gender Roles Looking through a historical lens‚ gender roles for men and women have changed significantly. Men were perceived as being the most critical part in society as evidence by men having the highest paying jobs‚ and the most dangerous jobs‚ owned property‚ and could wed and divorce any woman at their will. In opposition‚ women were thoroughly encouraged to work at home‚ tend
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In the novel‚ The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ a main protagonist named Katniss Everdeen is forced to do the Hunger Games and try to survive it. The theme was: survival‚ try to keep your dignity and humanity up. In the book‚ she is shown to be athletic‚ a hunter‚ and she is intelligent. So‚ this tenacious survivor is shown those just because she wants to survive and win the Hunger Games and does not want to look like an emaciated tribute. Katniss Everdeen is shown to be an intelligent tribute
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The Hunger Games has two versions. It has a book version and a film version. Although both the movie and the book were great‚ they did have some differences.They did in fact have some similarities too. The book and the movie were alike in many ways. Like for an example the characters mostly stay the same. Also in both versions of The Hunger Games everything that happened in the book also happened in the movie too. Than in both the movie and book Foxface ate the berries that Peeta picked‚ and
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In The Book The Hunger Games‚ There is a girl named Katniss and Katniss have a little sister named Prim.Prim got called to be apart of the The Hunger Games but Prim is too young to be apart of the hunger games so Katniss took her sister place so that her sister would not have to go to the arena to fight for her life.This is true because in the book on chapter 2 page 22 Katniss called out loud in made her way through the crowd to the stage and pushed prim out the way in volunteered to take
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characters which help elevate stories written about them. Panem (The Hunger Games) and Middle-Earth (The Silmarillion‚ The Lord of the Rings‚ The Hobbit) both pertain to having these characters and‚ in the sense of the director’s and cinematographer’s decisions‚ have both chosen to cast a darker palette over these films‚ to exhibit a tone grief/melancholy where most applicable. The only major contrast which sets The Hunger Games apart is the choice of colour. Throughout this film‚ Capitol‚ Ceremonial
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Florian Parker had won his games at age thirteen‚ shocking the entire country. The 61st Hunger Games has left the twenty-seven-year-old in a reclusive state and some questioned whether or not he had lost it. Calix Forrester was not the expected tribute to win in his Games‚ it being quite the upset to some of the Career districts when he did. He was yet another surprise‚ the 67th Games being so close to the 61st. And then there was Reeve Silverling. The 69th Hunger Games produced a Victor of eighteen
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Literary Analysis Paper In Susan Collins’s book the “Hunger Games” the character of Katniss Everdeen is considered by many to be an example of gender role reversal. Though Katniss does portrait many traits that may be considered masculine in and of themselves‚ she also portrays feminine traits. Her possession of these feminine even instinctually motherly traits steer my opinion to the thought that these traits are more due to her position in her family then to that of a girl who is tomboyish in
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