Is Abiding by the 8th Amendment Constitutional? The government has laid out an array of civil rights to protect the liberties of the people with the induction of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The large majority of these amendments are appropriate and remain prominent in the modernized American governmental system but these basic human rights carry substantial controversy‚ the most arguable being the eighth. This amendment states that there shall be no cruel or unjust punishments inflicted
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Compare/Contrast Essay The Hunger games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield What if violence and obsession were much more common than usual and the government was corrupt‚ what would you do? Could you do anything? Imagine that was your life every single day. That was the life of the protagonists in both Uglies and The Hunger Games. Both trilogies take place in a very futuristic world. The Hunger Games is based in a dystopian society‚ while Uglies is based in
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Kristen Smith ENC 1102 19 September 2013 Mini-Essay 1 The Thin Line Between Hope and Hopelessness Suzanne Collins ’ novel‚ The Hunger Games and George Orwell ’s 1984 both illustrate the theme that hope can remain alive even amid the most hopeless of circumstances. The main characters of these stories‚ Hunger Games ’ Katniss Everdeen and 1984 ’s Winston Smith live in similar totalitarian societies where every move they make or thought they have is controlled by an all-powerful government. Although
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The novel‚ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about a teenage girl‚ Katniss‚ having to live in a poor world where she participates in a yearly event called ‘The Hunger Games’. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a teenage boy having to see the flaws of a world which are sameness. The Hunger Games is more dystopian than The Giver but both stories share some similarities. The Hunger Games and The Giver both characters are positively popular or famous to the community but the difference is that the
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Journal Essay – The Hunger Games Character Analysis In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins‚ the main character and protagonist is 16 year old Katniss Everdeen‚ a strong and selfless young woman who is far more mature than her age suggests. As the main provider for her family after her father died‚ Katniss had to become responsible and resourceful at a young age‚ which forced her to participate in rebellious behavior in order to keep her family alive. She is an unselfish and protective
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Everybody in today’s time believes they’re extremely special and are higher than others‚ because they don’t think we’re all the same. Morrie tells everyone‚”You’re not a wave‚ you are part of the ocean.” In the trilogy‚ The Hunger Games‚ a young girl‚ Katniss‚ has to fight for her life. She knows she has to live‚ yet she doesn’t know she started an uprising. Katniss‚ by herself‚ couldn’t beat the Capitol‚ but with the help from other Districts they would have a chance. Even though Katniss seems
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the data. a. Use the linear model to estimate answers for the next questions. Explain how each estimate can be found from the graph. i. About how many containers will be recycled if 125 people attend a concert? ii. What attendance at a basketball game will produce about 125 containers to be recycled? b. Use the points (200‚ 100) and (50‚ 25) to find an equation in the form for the modeling line. Show your work. C. Explain what the slope and the y-intercept in your equation tell about
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Debt‚ not of the financial sort necessarily but in the form of owing someone for their help‚ comes up multiple times in the novel. The most significant instance concerns Katniss’s first encounter with Peeta. Katniss was starving at the time‚ and Peeta essentially saved her life by giving her bread from his family’s bakery. Moreover‚ he apparently burned bread deliberately to help Katniss‚ despite knowing he would be punished as a result. Katniss describes how she has felt indebted to Peeta ever since
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History of The Hunger Games & Panem What we now know as North America wasn’t always known as North America. North America during post-apocalyptic times was known as Panem. Panem comes from a Latin phrase which means bread and circuses. The phrase was used to describe people or a person using entertainment to distract others from more important issues‚ which in this case would be problems in the districts. The leader of Panem used entertainment and the providing of food to get the residents
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I feel like my 8th-grade year has gone fairly well so far. I got in a class with a lot of my friends and I like all of the teachers I have. I have also kept good grades and helped out in the National Junior Honors Society. I set many goals this year but so far I have not completed any of them. I wanted to get into the Edison Academy for engineering but I unfortunately‚ did not qualify. I hope to achieve some of my goals later this year. My overall greatest memory is when I met the person who is still
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