...This summer I read the books Ender’s Game and From Baghdad with Love. The book Ender’s Game is about a six year old kid named Ender Wiggin. In this book Ender is called upon by the army to start training in Battle School. In Battle School Ender has to overcome his age and how he is being treated. Ender embarks on this journey so he could eventually save the human species from an alien attack. The book From Baghdad with Love is about a Lieutenant Colonel named Jay Kopelman. At the beginning of the book Jay Kopelman and his squad find a stray puppy in a abandoned house. They adopt this puppy and name it Lava even though it contradicts the Army’s rules to adopt or keep a puppy. On Jay Kopelman's Journey to get Lava home he faces many obstacles...
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...win this game and if they lose its then end of the world and puts a lot of the people in bad moods. This happens on the daily basis. Sports fans thrive for the excitement of the games. The excitement of the games and the atmosphere of the stadium bring them in to a whole different world. The fans that take it the most seriously are definitely soccer, baseball, hockey and football fans the most. The die-hard fans care about every game that is played by their team. Most of the time they will take the hard fought loss as if they are part of the team. People are crazy about sports, they’re die-hard fanatics, which sometimes care more about sports then their actual life. The biggest sports fans would have to be football; they go all out for their team. People plan their day around the game by getting to the field to barbeque and tailgate before the game. Most of the time it will be two to three hours before the game. Even some times people will just get to the stadium to tailgate and be in the atmosphere of everyone else and not go into the game because they don’t have tickets. Football fans are crazy they will throw parties in the parking lot before and after the games. They also have fans that paint their bodies and stand out in the freezing cold when normal people would be bulled up in cloths. Football Fans are crazy but that is just the way they are. People will skip out on all sorts of events for game day just because they are that dedicated to the sport they love to watch...
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...The Great Game Called Hockey It is 3-3 going into overtime, it is the Chicago Blackhawks versus the Philadelphia Flyers vying for the most coveted trophy in sports- the Stanley Cup Trophy. The Blackhawks have a 3-2 series lead. If they win this game, they win the trophy. It is “do or die” for the Flyers, force a game seven or go home. Then it happens, a few minutes into overtime, Patrick Kane, a young superstar on the Blackhawks skates down the rink, takes a shot, and he scores! Just like that, the game is over. The Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup! … The Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup! I, together with millions of other fans watching this nationally televised game, witnessed this great phenomenon live. Now you might wonder why millions of other fans and I tuned in to see the game. The answer is because millions of fans and I love and appreciate the game of hockey. In my opinion, it truly is the most exciting game both to play and to watch. While playing hockey and watching hockey are obviously two very different activities, they have at least one thing in common; they are both very fun. Let us take a closer look at each activity individually and see why so many others and I enjoy it so much. I sincerely enjoy the thrill that I receive while playing hockey. I am not alone about this feeling. If you were to ask someone that plays hockey, as to why they play, one reason he or she will almost definitely tell you is something along the lines of that...
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...What’s a world without love? Love is around us all day; love is the reason why 1most of us were born. Name one person who doesn’t love another, it is not possible. In the novel, The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta survived off love while sent to the hunger games arena to fight for their lives .Also, in another novel, Anthem by Any Rand Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 lived in a dystopian society where love was forbidden where they lived. In the novels The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Anthem by Ayn Rand readers will see the main characters differences and similarities of how love bought them together. Have you ever heard the saying “love will make you do crazy things?” In both novels Katniss and Equality 7-2521 love made them do crazy things. “And you find yourself rooting for lovers who literally kill themselves to stay alive” Katniss and Peeta fought against twelve other districts just to stay alive. Katniss and Peeta were both from the same district, but was love enough to keep them both alive? Equality was born in a dystopian society everything was meant to be “perfect” so apart of their perfect life love wasn’t in it. Equality 7-2521 was a different boy. He was always smarter than the others but since everyone was the same he hid his advance knowledge that he had. “We wish to write this name. We wish to break but we dare not speak it above whisper.” For men is forbidden to take notice in woman.” This is the type of world characters from Anthem lived in. “I...
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...Styles of Love Love is not always what it may seem to be. There are so many ways to be in love or think you’re in love someone. It is not easy to understand the meaning of love for someone as a friend or as a lover. Researchers have come up with many different names for forms of love. There are many scenarios for each form of love. There is a girl name Erin who met a great guy named Joe, in high school. It started off just saying “hi” to each other to sitting next to each other on the bus. After a couple months Joe asked her to be his girlfriend. The first couple of years went well at least what Joe thought. Erin was into talking to other guys and seeing if there were other options while being in the relationship with Joen. She began to break up with Joe and start seeing another guy to see how bad Joe would want her back. As soon as Joe knew she was seeing someone else, he would ask to be with her again. The games continued on for almost 7 years. Joe finally began to realize the relationship was just a bunch of games. He wanted to take a break from this and move on. This relationship began on a great start but then ended on a bad note. Joe learned that Erin like to see “if the grass was greener on the other side” all while being with him. He saw the games she played with him and realized love was not to be this way. With the lesson learned he began to reevaluate life and see what true love is to be without...
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...from you family and friends? Been forced into a game where to stay alive is the only way to win? That is what the hunger game is. A violent game that 24 contestants are chosen to fight one another and the winner will never have to work again. In the Hunger games Suzanne Collins uses characterization to show how Katniss uses survival techniques the love for her family and friends and tested her trust to the people around her. The love Katniss show in the book is very relevant right at the beginning of the book when Prim, Katniss younger sister, is choose to be in the hunger games. Katniss’s love for her sister propels her to volunteer and take Prim’s place in the Hunger Games. She knows that if she goes into the hunger games she will die but does it anyway. Katniss doesn’t just love her sister she also loves her mom, the town she lives in, and a boy named Gale. She desprentaly want to go home once she leaves and fights for her freedom to go home throughout the book. Her relationship with gale is confusing to her but reader know that she loves him “Finally, Gale is here and maybe there is nothing romantic between us, but when he opens his arms I don't hesitate to go into them” (Collins 38) She tries to deny it but readers should be able to figure it out. Katniss knows how to survive and survival is the key factor to winning the hunger games. From the beginning you know that Katniss can hunt and this helps win the hunger games but survival is not just hunting its being smarter...
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...Love stories are not always like what many think with two lovers destined to be with one another. Although many stories end with “happily ever after,” some end in death or unfortunate situations. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about two lovers from enemy families, face many great obstacles to be together but results in multiple deaths from both families. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, is about a teen named Katniss who volunteers as a tribute in the Hunger Games, where competitors kill one another to be last one standing. Katniss gets paired up with Peeta and together, they pretend to stand out from the rest through romantic story, gaining attention and a higher chance of survival. Romeo & Juliet from...
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...What’s a world without love? Love is around us all day; love is the reason why 1most of us were born. Name one person who doesn’t love another, it is not possible. In the novel, The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta survived off love while sent to the hunger games arena to fight for their lives .Also, in another novel, Anthem by Any Rand Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 lived in a dystopian society where love was forbidden where they lived. In the novels The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Anthem by Ayn Rand readers will see the main characters differences and similarities of how love bought them together. Have you ever heard the saying “love will make you do crazy things?” In both novels Katniss and Equality 7-2521 love made them do crazy things. “And you find yourself rooting for lovers who literally kill themselves to stay alive” Katniss and Peeta fought against twelve other districts just to stay alive. Katniss and Peeta were both from the same district, but was love enough to keep them both alive? Equality was born in a dystopian society everything was meant to be “perfect” so apart of their perfect life love wasn’t in it. Equality 7-2521 was a different boy. He was always smarter than the others but since everyone was the same he hid his advance knowledge that he had. “We wish to write this name. We wish to break but we dare not speak it above whisper.” For men is forbidden to take notice in woman.” This is the type of world characters from Anthem lived in. “I...
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...Hunger Games By comparing and contrasting the Hunger Games novel and film, you can see that there are many differences between the two. For instance, the novel conveys the theme of love. While the book conveyed the theme of hope. Whereas both of the medias conveyed government control. One major theme conveyed in the novel was love. All throughout the book love was expressed many times. For example, in the beginning of the novel when Katniss little sister, Prim, was drawn as a tribute, Katniss immediately volunteered to go in her place. If she did not have the love she had for Prim, she would not have volunteered to take her spot. Secondly, if Katniss did not have the love she did for Peeta she would not have offered to kill herself so he could win the games. After, the second announcement was made that there could only be one tribute to win. These are just a few examples of how love was placed throughout the story line. In the film, one of the major themes conveyed is hope. All though out the movie hope is expressed in many different ways. One example, when Katniss scored an 11 out of 12 on her training score this gave her an extra boost of confidence. Another example is when Katniss was at one of...
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...Eng 104 The book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins can be described as an intertwining story of love and survival. Katniss, the unlikely heroine, volunteers to take her sister’s place in the annual Hunger Games, a blood bath between two tributes of each of the twelve districts fighting to be the last one standing. As a tribute from the coal district Katniss sets ablaze the Games with her sacrificing herself for her family and her budding romance with her fellow tribute, Peeta. To Katniss the romance is all part of an act. Through her perspective the fact Peeta truly loves her is not thoroughly recognized but it becomes obvious as the story progresses. Peeta and Katniss' interactions begin before they both became tributes in the Hunger Games. Katniss relives their unspoken moment often throughout the book and even questions Peeta about his motives for giving her the bread when they were kids. "I say. 'Why did you, anyway?' 'Why? You know why,' Peeta says. I give my head a slight, painful shake. 'Haymitch said you would take a lot of convincing.' 'Haymitch?' I ask. 'What's he's got to do with it?'" (Collins 293) The childhood moment, for Peeta, symbolizes that even then his feelings seem evident and yet Katniss does not make that connection. She does recall his demeanor in school, "And more than once, I have turned in the school hallway and caught his eyes trained on me, only to quickly flit away" (Collins 32). The stolen glimpses went unnoticed and...
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...The Hunger Games is a movie full of psychological occurences. The premise of the movie is a country that is divided into 12 districts and a capital. Every year there is a reaping where one man and woman from the ages of 12-18 are chosen to compete in the Hunger Games. This competition is a fight to the death. Twenty-four participants, one victor. In this movie the main character volunteers for the games in order to keep her 12 year old sister from being taken as tribute. Throughout the rest of the movie she is trying to do one thing, survive. Since this movie was adapted from a book the core of the message was left intact. That message was to survive. Not just survive the games, but survive the atrocity of the games themselves. While the games happen the capital city sits in luxury while most of the districts, namely districts 11 and 12 are left in such a state of poverty that one must break the rules to survive. This goes to show how cruel a governing body can be. This, in my opinion is what the director and the author of the books wanted us to remember. That governments can and will step all over its own people in order to keep their positions of power. These games were nothing more than a tool of fear to keep the twelve districts in line. Manipulation and fear, two of the most powerful tools to control a populous. Katniss, the lead character, not only survived the games but, later on, will contribute to the reckoning of the capital city and the restoration of...
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...What I’m passionate about is making pc and video game I’m the passionate about. So why am I in to pc and video game, well it really stared with me as a about 4 or 5 year old. And I had a broke toy car and I went to my dad tool box and got the tool try which one work and did not work on the toy car. And I end up with my toy car all in parts, and so what I did to it is that I try to put it back to gather as it was and I did but the toy car was still broke, bit that was just a new that I so love to do. So once I was about 6 to 10 year old I stared to open toy with the tool and my dad well just get mad at me time to time. But I just love to do thing like that, just see how it works in the inside and then put it back to gather. And then there is me one year older brother was so much in to that fix toy. But all the time I tell he to help me in to me toy work that I was doing. So I was the one that got all the mass up and broke and try fix again, but my brother in the other hand had a much defiant mind then me. He was the one that said do or bad thing can happen to us. But I got brother to help me one way or another....
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...The Game of Love Juliet waits impatiently for night to fall so Romeo can climb to her balcony unseen and consummate their marriage. Sighing to herself, she wishes the darkness would spread faster. She divulges her nervousness in a soliloquy and invites night to teach her how to tame her racing emotions. Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, And learn me how to lose a winning match, Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods. Hood my unmanned blood, bating in my cheeks, With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold, Think true love acted simple modesty. (3.2.10-16) Juliet personifies night as “civil” and a “sober-suited matron, all in black,” which portrays night as a dignified, established woman in contrast with Juliet’s shy inexperience. As a widow, night in her black robes appears modest and humble but instructs Juliet in the...
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...A Story of Love and Courage Love is a very powerful emotion. It provides people with courage and causes them to act bravely. To have someone to love, and therefore someone to act bravely for, makes one capable of more than expected. Love leads to bravery and can get people through terrible times. In the movie Life is Beautiful, director Roberto Benigni shows the quality of bravery through the experiences of the main characters as they attempt to survive a concentration camp during World War II. When Guido Orefice, an Italian Jew, arrives in Arezzo, he meets Dora, who comes from a wealthy Italian family. Even though she is engaged, she falls in love with Guido, and they marry and have a son, Giosue. At Giosue’s fifth birthday, Guido and Giosue are taken by Nazis to a concentration camp, and Dora insists on voluntarily going with them. At the camp, Guido convinces Giosue that everything is just a game, and he will earn points towards winning a tank. Unfortunately, when Guido goes looking for Dora, he is caught and shot to death by a Nazi soldier, but Giosue and Dora survive. Love is a powerful emotion which leads to acts of bravery, that people perform, even when they are scared. This is shown by Dora’s love for Guido and Giosue, by Guido’s love for Giosue, and by Guido’s love for Dora. Undoubtedly, Dora loves her husband and her son with all her heart; she shows courage when she runs away with Guido, and later again when she volunteers to join Guido and Giosue at the concentration...
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...just really stressful. There is that game for everyone, whether it is a board game, a video game, or a game some friends made up. Everyone has their own game that they play; for me, it is Mario. The game Mario is special to me for reasons like the game in general, the many versions of Mario, and how it brought my family together. Now the background of the game Mario is sort of generic, but with its own twist to it. The story begins with the two main characters, Mario and Princess Peach. Mario is an Italian plumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, with his brother named Luigi. Peach is the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Peach and Mario fall in love, which makes Bowser upset. Bowser is the leader and most powerful of the Koopa race, a turtle-like creature. Because of Bowser’s jealousy and anger, he decides to capture the princess. After this happens, Mario chases them throughout many worlds and levels to save Peach. Along the way to save Princess Peach, Mario is assisted by a bunch of other characters: Luigi, Yoshi, and Toad. One of my favorite things about Mario is the many different power-ups that Mario can get. He can get a mushroom that...
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