against the Capitol in which a 13th district was destroyed‚ one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected by annual lottery to participate in the Hunger Games‚ a televised event in which the participants (or "tributes") must fight to the death in a dangerous outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol until only one remains. The story follows 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ a girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th annual Hunger Games in place of her younger
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were in a “dome” or a closed in area. Both of the main characters were chosen. Last‚ The Giver community was just living their lives and in The Hunger Games the tributes were fighting for their lives. These books were intense and fun to see what would happen next.
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English Assessment Draft Intro Have you ever read a book that was more than a favourite?// More than one you could read over and over?/ A book that truly changed something about who you are and how you live?// What’s the book?/ Why or how// did you change? Literature has informed my life in many different ways‚ it has given me opportunities to discover‚ think‚ evaluate and analyse the world around me giving myself a better insight and a wide perspective of life. Through my study of literature
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easily trade the six of the fish we caught for good bread‚ and the other two for salt.” Another reason that I like the protagonist is because she is very selfless and courageous. She was being very courageous and selfless when she volunteered as tribute after her sister’s name got called. “‘I volunteer’ I gasped ‘I volunteer as
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out-going teen who takes her sister’s place as tribute in the 74th annual Hunger Games. Throughout the novel‚ she displays important values that made me feel strongly about her. These include‚ her caring nature for others‚ Competitive attitude and her determined mind. Katniss Everdeen (the main character) is a teenage girl who lives in an impoverished coal-mining region in the country of Panem. She showed no fear when she took her sister’s place as tribute as she knew that she had made the morally
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the representative from the Capitol‚ and she draws the first name for the Games: Primrose Everdeen. Chapter two summary In chapter two‚ Katniss volunteers herself as a tribute to spare Prim. Though Effie Trinket congratulates Katniss on being in the spirit of the Games‚ no one in the audience claps out of respect. The male tribute is Peeta Mellark‚ the baker’s son. Against the instructions of his mother‚ Peeta
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military Thutmose still managed to have a major impact upon the internal development of Egypt‚ this included religious and buildings. The reason that Thutmose was able to have such an extensive building program was because of the large amount of tribute that was flowing in from his successful military campaigns. Some of the buildings constructed by Thutmose include two temples‚ one to Amun Re and one to Thutmose II‚ at Karnak a festival hall‚ 6th and 7th pylon‚ a temple to Ptah and rebuilding of
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Gale Believes Katniss has the potential to overcome the other tributes in The Hunger Games if she finds a bow. Gale states: “Listen‚” “Getting a knife should be pretty easy‚ but you’ve got to get your hands on a bow. That’s your best chance.”(Pg. 24). Katniss‚ being pessimistic‚ shuts out all of Gale’s positive remarks “They don’t always have bows‚” I say‚ thinking of the year there were only horrible spiked maces that the tributes had to bludgeon one another to death with.(Pg 24). Katniss Everdeen
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each district to fight to death‚ annually. The tributes chosen to compete in the games are chosen at random from a drawing filled with each of the names of young adults in the different districts. Children ages twelve to eighteen are enlisted into the drawing. The entries are cumulative though‚ so when the tribute is twelve their name is entered once‚ thirteen twice‚ and so on until they are eighteen it will be entered seven times. Also‚ the tributes can choose to add their name to the drawing more
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with foreign exotic products‚ such as gems‚ animal skins‚ and tropical bird feathers to give to the ruling elites evidence the information gathered about these soon-to-be-conquered lands. The Aztecs also used the merchants to sell the abundance of tribute given to ruling elites to distant lands. Many of these items included translucent jade‚ emeralds‚ tortoise shells‚ jaguar skins‚ parrot feathers‚ seashells‚ and game animals. In the Mongol Empire‚ they supported merchants and artisans directly more
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