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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Despite the assumption that the United States has attained full democracy‚ there are still many incidences of biases. The main motive for Banaji Mahzarin R. to write the book was to bring to light the biases that people keep in their minds or brains as well as showing how those bits of knowledge about individuals and about their skin color‚ education‚ age‚ and religion can manipulate behavior. In the book‚ Karen Zach is presented to be training in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. She had always
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s book Dictee defies categorization‚ blending media such as poetry‚ historical texts‚ and images in order to form a combination of an autobiography and a work of art. The combination of mediums that form the book is not just a complication of Dictee--it is fundamental to the way we read and understand the work. Through the confusion inherent in approaching Cha’s writing and her use of text (for reasons as simple as the inclusion of French and )‚ the reader is allowed and encouraged
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t’s 2035 A.D.‚ where robots are everyday objects and are programmed to live alongside humans. Detective Del Spooner is called out to investigate the apparent suicide of the scientist behind these robots‚ Dr. Alfred Lanning. Spooner suspects that the death might not be a suicide‚ but the result of one of the robots. All robots are programmed by three laws‚ but Spooner starts to wonder if a robot can in fact feel emotions‚ and possibly murder. But if Spooner’s suspicions are true‚ he is going to have
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Pictures‚ objects‚ or materials that illustrate elements of the book. There 4 significant items that play big roles in the story. First item is Two- bit’s black handle switchblade. Two- bit’s switchblade is his most prized possession He had stolen it from and hardware store. It gives Two- bit a sort of new found power or strength which gives him the thought of no one could harm him when he has it. Two- bit never actually uses it he morely uses it to show he is more superior than you and also just
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Chapter 1 Summary In chapter one it talks about how hemachromatosis is a hereditary disease and it’s the most common genetic disease for people of European descent‚ in which the body can’t register that it has enough iron. So it keeps absorbing as much of it as possible‚ and this can have very‚ serious side effects (including death). Iron is very important for bacteria‚ cancer‚ and other things to grow. The way this disease is most easily treated is blood letting. Looks like all those crazy blood-letting
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Glory During the American Civil War‚ the Massachusetts army engages Confederate forces in a bloody battle. Captain Robert Shaw is injured in the battle and assumed lost‚ but is found alive by a gravedigger named John Rawlins and sent to a field hospital. Shaw visits his family‚ and is introduced to Frederick Douglass. Shaw is offered a promotion to the rank of Colonel‚ and command of the first all-black regiment the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer army. He accepts the responsibility‚ and asks his
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Charley is a boy who was about to begin his freshman year of high school. He is writing his first letter to an unknown friend because he needs to let his thoughts out to someone. He begins his letter by telling how he lost his best friend Michael who passed away‚ and later learns that Michael had commit suicide by shooting himself. Charlie was devastated. Michael death makes him wonder if he also has “problems at home”. Charlie brother went away to college in Penn State and his sister is a senior
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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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