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    You Read The Hunger Games One of the most influential‚ albeit controversial‚ book series of 2008 is written by Suzanne Collins‚ an author who previously had been a children’s television writer. Collins‚ in her new series The Hunger Games‚ delves into the dark‚ questionable subject of child versus child combat. The heroine of the book‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ is someone to be admired and looked up to. Time and time again she makes the tough choices required of her. The Hunger Games also has an exciting

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    The Hunger Games & The Republic The Hunger Games is a book by Suzanne Collins‚ which is narrated by a sixteen year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in a dystopian post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol‚ a highly advanced metropolis‚ exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in

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    The Hunger Games is a novel about the "haves" and the "have nots -that is‚ the people who have money and the people who have money and the people who dont. The capitol has many of it. while the capitol is weathier than other districts‚ some of the districts have advantages than others. For example they can train there own people to get read and do well int he Hunger Games- a competiton they see as a ay to gain glory and fame. How about the poor districts? Well‚ they dont have much of an advantage

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    intrigued the most in is the one of the video games. Video games have always interested me‚ ever since I was a young lad. I began playing video games when I was at the age of 4; it began with the Nintendo Entertainment System‚ one of my personal favorites. Next after a span of a few years my family purchased me and my brother the PlayStation One‚ which was an innovation of its time. The PlayStation Two came a few years later with better selection of games and improved graphics‚ very very fun in my opinion

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    Game Day Game Day had arrived for the two rival basketball teams; the Eagles and the Tigers. The loud and passionate fans had been waiting in line for hours out in the freezing cold weather. As the warm ups started the players were getting nervous. Both teams wanted the state championship very bad and they were just hours away from winning it. Months and months of strenuous conditioning and closely won ball games had all come down to this one game. The referee threw the perfectly round orange rubber

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    any place. All that is needed is a ball‚ a playing area‚ a basic knowledge of the game and a net which can be represented by a line or even be imaginary. Volleyball’s popularity is widely extended and is now an energetic sport known for being played at the beach; both on sand and in the water. The following project is one on the game of Volleyball. It contains information on the game’s history‚ rules of the game as well as it shows the playing area and explains its dimensions. It is my hope that

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    rival‚ St. John of Plaquemine had the ball with just over two seconds on the clock. Our small forward‚ Dustin Blanchard‚ who also happened to be one of the two seniors honored that night‚ just drained what everyone had thought to be the game-winning lay-up. The noise was deafening as St. John’s Hayden Heminway stood to throw in what had to be a full court pass‚ a prayer to win the game. The referee blew his whistle and began to count to five. Hayden cocked back and heaved the ball three quarters of the

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    The last reason The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel is free speech isn’t given. Katniss said‚ “ When I was younger‚ I scared my mother to death‚ the things I would blurt out about District 12 about the people who ruled our country Panem...I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.” Katniss’s mother must have known of something that happened previously to someone that spoke badly about the Capitol. This is the reason

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    Video Games and Education Jeremy Cotto Arroyo S01007090 Prof. Figueroa Video games and education‚ too very different topics to talk about‚ video games being a topic mostly talked about by teens and children and education by adults‚ video games also being a topic talked down by adults because they see it as a waste of time‚ and really who could blame them? It is a waste of time‚ but for teens and children at the end of the day is more than just that‚ but‚ will get more into video games later

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    UNIVERSIDAD SURCOLOMBIANA The use of videogames and its implications in the learning process In these days there have been born many new videogames‚ all of them have been released in the market with the purpose of entertaining the audience or the public who buy them‚ there are many different types of videogames around all the world‚ we can find videogames that have to do with war‚ fantasy‚ strategy‚ and so on. But‚ what are the real implications for people of using those videogames? And‚ do they have any

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