Rivera‚ Alexandra August 29‚ 2012 Summer Reading-“Catching Fire’’ The book”Catching Fire” is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen‚who won the Hunger Games‚and she is going to have to go in the Hunger Games all over again.The author for this book is Suzanne Collins‚and the type of this book is fiction and suspense. The main character
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In the second installment of The Hunger Games Series‚ Catching Fire‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ the theme of the government overstepping their bounds is prominent. President Snow’s character is a focal point into letting the audience see the power he has and how it has affected his decision making and actions. The setting of government enforced Panem and the harsh punishments to rule breakers shows the unnecessary harshness of the government. The plot development relates to the theme of an overactive government
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Describe an important event. Explain how this helped you understand the idea. The novel ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’ by Mark Haddon is set in modern day Swindon‚ in England. An important event in this story is when Christopher finds letters that his mother had sent to him ‚ therefore finding out that his mother had not died. This leads to him leaving to London to find his mother‚ and his dad confessing about killing Wellington. This helped me understand the idea because
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Unspoken Thoughts and Flashbacks To be quite honest‚ I had no idea where I was going to begin with writing this response. I must have re-read Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde over and over again‚ and I am still sadly stuck on what my starting point is going to contain. I have to start somewhere‚ so here it goes. What I can say is that I enjoy this poem greatly. It brings back memories and feelings I thought were buried in my mind everlastingly. The first stanza compares a lot to many experiences and
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Summary Gates of fire is a story about Xeones‚ a Greek boy who is a survivor of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. After awhile of living in his village it is over ran by Argives ‚ Xeones then wonders the countryside with two friends and spends his early years as an outlaw. Until one day he is captured enslaved by the Spartans ‚ where they keep him with the other slaves called Helots. He is then paired with Alexandros‚ the son of a high ranking Spartan officer‚ who
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camper ready as my brother unloads the four-wheelers. Once everything is ready‚ the first thing we always do is go cut firewood. The campfire is always the main event here. No matter what we are up there to do‚ we always have to have a relaxing fire. We all gather our chairs and strategically
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This excerpt from ”To Build A Fire” is about a man trekking through Yukon territory with his dog. The man has no supplies‚ is alone‚ and is trying to make it to a camp by sundown. Before the main character left‚ an old-timer from the trail told him it was bad to walk through alone after negative fifty degrees. The man ignores the advice the other man gave him. As a result of this‚ he walks the trail anyway in negative one-hundred degree weather and dies from hypothermia. The actions of this man show
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Bradstreet was very upset and angry at the beginning of the story when all of her stuff burnt in the flames because she lost everything. Nothing came out of the fire the same‚ not even herself. She was devastated about this because she watched all the stuff she worked for‚ all the stuff she bought‚ all the gifts she was given‚ all of it went down in flames. She started blaming people‚ one of those people were god. She was asking god‚ why did this have to happen to me. I didn’t do anything wrong to
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During class‚ we have had several discussions about courage‚ specifically as one of the major themes of Gates of Fire. In our discussions‚ we have mentioned that there are‚ in fact‚ different types of courage. We mentioned courage in men‚ in women‚ and false courage or pseudoandreia; this idea of different types or grades of courage lead me to this page about developing courage: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/02/08/developing-manly-courage/ The website outlines four distinct types of (manly)
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away so he got there in no time. Once he arrived in San Francisco he realized the dramatic reality of the earth quake first hand. He shared this experience of the earth quake to the readers throughout his writing. He wrote about the event‚ how the fire destroyed the city bit by bit. Right away he captured the reader and brought them to the scene of the event when he wrote‚ "...the smoke of San Francisco’s burning was a lurid tower visible a hundred miles away." He continues throughout his article
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