As part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on November 14-22‚ 2015‚ I’m writing as a constituent dedicated to improving the lives of older Americans to urge you to reauthorize and invest in the Older Americans Act (OAA)‚ so that it can continue to provide critical services for older adults to keep them healthy‚ independent‚ and housed. According to the following facts taken from creditable organizations such as Meals on Wheels‚ Feeding America‚ and the National Coalition for the Homeless
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The Hunger Games “Taking the kids from our districts‚ forcing them to kill one another while we watch– this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy” (Collins‚ 18). Imagine living in a world where the only source of entertainment is controlled under a totalitarian government. A world where the regimes ideology of “good television” is forcing twenty-four adolescences to fight to the death and the last man standing is the winner. The dark‚ twisted ideology of The Hunger
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Selective Attention In the world we live in‚ we are bombarded by infinite sensory inputs. The hum of the heater; the ticking on the clock; the chatter of your friends. Yet‚ this information usually goes unnoticed. Our brain has limited space to process and retain information and is not capable of processing everything we hear or see around us. In order to prevent a mental breakdown‚ we filter out the information we want and ignore the rest‚ referring to selective attention. Selective attention focuses
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Hunger Games Description The two words I would chose to describe Katniss Everdeen would be rebellious and strong. She is rebellious in every way when it comes to the broken government that is ruling. She turned the death penalty she received into a way to show her government that the people are strong and that they would stand up. The word strong represents her very well. Not only is she physically strong but also mentally. She comes up with different ways to out smart people in the book
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Currently‚ Venezuela is facing a very drastic hunger problem which is affecting every person but again more children. So far this year 7 children under the age of 14 have died. People are fighting and crossing the border to find food. Hunger is affecting animals in Venezuela. Animals are dropping dead due to mal nutrition. I came to the conclusion that hunger is a very serious word. Hunger doesn’t discriminate gender‚ age‚ color or nationality. World hunger is something that needs to be talked about
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Schlene September 27‚ 2014 Evaluation of the Hunger Games The movie‚ The Hunger Games‚ is based on the book by Suzanne Collins and was made into a movie in 2012. It is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in District Twelve. After bombings and wars‚ North America turned into a country called Panem. Panem was split up into thirteen districts‚ but when district thirteen rebelled‚ the Capitol created something called the Hunger Games. The Games are an annual event where two tributes
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the Gamemakers. What made her such a controversial character? “I pull an arrow from quiver and sent it straight at the Gamemakers table…“Thank you for your consideration” I say. These are the words said by Katniss Everdeen‚ protagonist from the “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins‚ showing her anger to the gammakers who were ignoring her during her first training session. The story is set in a futuristic apocalypse in which the United States has been separated into 13 Districts‚ all of which struggle
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The Hunger Games was an amazing book. It was amazing how Suzanne Collins imagination made up Panem‚ which is the future‚ ruins of North America and how it was divided up into twelve districts. I liked how each district as you got lower had less wealth but still was very important to the Capital. For example each district had its own specialty that benefited that Capitol‚ such as coal mining‚ agriculture‚ seafood‚ and other specialties. Some districts provide the Capitol with energy or material goods
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Over the long hot summer I read an interesting book written by Suzanne Collins called The Hunger Games. It is an inspirational book about a small district in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Hunger Games is an annual lottery in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts are selected to compete in a live televised battle to the death. This is an underdog story of Katniss Everdeen who is from district 12 a coal-mining district that is the poorest
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Research carried out on attention has mainly been associated with the selective processing of incoming sensory information. It proposes‚ to some degree‚ our awareness of the world depends on what we choose to focus on and not simply the stimulation received by our senses. Attention is often linked to a filter that screens out most potential stimuli whilst allowing a select few to pass through into our conscious awareness‚ however‚ a great deal of debate has been devoted to where the filter is situated
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