Juliet Ball Castle PMB&F 17 March 2013 "The Role of Government in the Hunger Games: Maintaining Competition" In the movie the Hunger Games‚ the role the government plays is maintaining competition. The role is maintaining competition because the government enforces anti-trust laws. An anti-trust law is a law that allows the federal government to regulate monopolies and trust. They regulate trust because trust is a group of companies that band together to form a monopoly and eliminate
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Hunger Games and Toddlers and Tiaras Comparison Essay There are many major differences between the Hunger Games and Toddlers and Tiaras. One of the most recognizable differences between the two‚ is that the Hunger Games is a book about a girl trying to survive a game for the entertainment of the capitol and for scaring the citizens from rebellion. Whereas the reality television show toddlers and tiaras is about little girls beauty pageants. One of the numerous and large differences between
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The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen‚ the book’s ruthless heroine‚ learns a lot of life lessons throughout her first adventure. Peeta Mellark‚ the baker’s son‚ has developed a realization of how much power the Capitol really does have over the people of Panem. Even Gale Hawthorne‚ Katniss’ best friend and possible love interest‚ is used to putting his family before himself. The 74th Hunger Games allows these characters to open up and discover their purpose in life. Much of The Hunger Games is centered
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The Hunger Games This paper is to be a discussion of The Hunger Games. It is mostly going to include a discussion of the main themes of the movie and how the director presents these themes in forms of characters‚ the environment‚ etc. The Hunger Games is about a girl called Katniss Everdeen‚ a girl from district 12 who voluntarily takes her younger sister´s place as tribute in the Hunger Games‚ a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are
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Theme is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. Theme can be interpreted or noticed in many different ways and one common theme may be identified through different texts. It is either what readers think the work is about or what the work says about the subject. That is how theme develops within the work so it can lay out a platform for the story to be performed on. Different authors are the ones who create their own stories that
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Thematic Essay The Hunger Games‚ an insightful novel by Suzanne Collins‚ is based on morals and justice. This novel is about Katniss Everdeen‚ a 16 year old girl and tribute for The Hunger Games‚ who is obligated to fight to the death with twenty-three others. She and her male counterpart‚ Peeta‚ are pitted against bigger and stronger representatives who have trained for this competition their whole lives‚ however‚ this advantage does not intimidate them. Trust‚ determination‚ and love and friendship
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After watching "The Hunger Games"‚ what sociological themes did you see? Even though we as a country/world do not have a contest in which selected individual’s battle to the death‚ how can you relate the principles and contexts of "The Hunger Games" to our society or other societies around the world? How can you relate the "districts" to society? Do we (in the United States) have "districts"? If so‚ how do the "districts" relate to sports? How can you relate the power of the Capital to the past cultures
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The Hunger Games really relates to real life at the moment because of the corrupt government. In the hunger games‚ the government puts everyone against each other by putting a boy and a girl from each district in a competition where they must fight to the death. It’s all symbolic on how the Capitol prevents the people from forming an alliance and rebelling; the Games keep “every district against the others” and fighting among themselves. The government today‚ is tearing apart our united nations by
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For a government to be successful it needs to inflict fear into everyone of its people. The capital did so by using the Hunger Games as a tool for fear‚ excommunicating each of the districts from each other‚ and reminding everyone how one district can be eliminated so easily. Therefore‚ a government cannot rule as efficiently if there is no fear in its people. If fear is not within the government’s people then a rebellion could easily be started. In the words of Niccolo Machiavelli “is it better
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girl who finds herself in the Hunger Games‚ where she faces many‚ many challenges‚ not only physically but also emotionally. One of the hardest struggles Katniss faces in the games is having to deal with the death of her ally‚ and new friend‚ Rue. Another challenge Katniss faces is the adaptations she must make during the games when taking care of fellow district member‚ Peeta‚ who is near death. Most likely the hardest thing Katniss must deal with throughout the games is deciphering her real feelings
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