...The movie i chose was the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a movie about a collection of districts each being represented by individuals. The winner helps their district because after they win the government gives them food. In the end love comes to shock the districts and make a huge change. The chapter i choose to use first is,"....More Than Its Gonna Hurt You: Concerning violence." The Hunger Games is all about violence. To win the Hunger Games the chracters must kill each other until only one is left. As author Thomas Foster says in his book How To Read Literature Like A Professor, "Violence is one of the most personal and even intimate acts between human beings, but it can also be cultural and societal in its implications." I see this as saying even though a killing may just seem like a simple killing, it can mean so much more in literature. I beleive that symbolization in this story is, what people will do to survive, including putting all morals behind. Foster also describes how violence is not only a physical act but how it can be a "narrative violence". He describes how narrative violence is the violence an author uses to help him further the plot. He says it is the violence of the author and not the characters. For example when Rue dies, this is used to further show not only the emotion and love Katnis shows, but to also show the violence and aggresion that the other chracters show. But when the boy from district ten dies, no one knows how. All this does is move...
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...Book Report The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, appears to be your average teen romance trilogy, but upon second glance one realizes that this is not the case. Collins writes about a future nation that requires its children to kill each other as a form of entertainment for the people of the Capitol. The plot makes for a very exciting story line, but as the reader one cannot help but wonder what message Collins is trying to get across. Does she believe that if we continue down the path that society is currently taking we will someday face a world similar to Panem? That this fiction could someday become a reality on certain levels? Within these novels, Collins includes several important themes, including: corrupt politics, starvation vs. greed, and the obsession with entertainment. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen lives in the nation of Panem, a post-apocalyptic North America, with her mother and younger sister, Prim. Her family resides in District 12, the poorest of 12 districts ruled by the wealthy Capitol. Katniss provides for her mother and sister by hunting with her friend Gale in the forbidden woods nearby. As punishment for the districts' rebellion attempt years earlier, the Capitol holds an annual televised event called The Hunger Games. Each district must draw the names of a boy and girl between the ages of 12 and 18. These 24 youths become contestants, called tributes, who must fight to the death in a vast arena created by the Capitol Gamemakers. The lone survivor...
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...Some pieces of literature portray a society of utopia and others may portray a society of dystopia. A utopian society is a place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics,laws, customs, and conditions. A dystopian society is a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control. In both Fahrenheit 451 and The Hunger Games, citizens live in a society with a fear of the outside world, individuality compressed, and the illusion of a perfect utopia life. The two are set in a realistic futuristic society that shares numerous similarities. The citizens of Fahrenheit 451 and The Hunger Games share a fear of the outside world. In Fahrenheit 451, no one has the desire to go outside or be apart of it. Citizens in The Hunger Games are gated into their communities by electric fences to keep them from going beyond the boundaries. Though the circumstances keeping each from leaving are different, neither are often questioned. The outside world is kept as a segregated part of society in both Fahrenheit 451 and The Hunger Games....
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...Klarice Davis Josh Huber English 1000 September 2014 The Hunger Games through the Eyes of Karl Marx I grew up in a small town. Everyone knew your name and the reputation you held with it. If you had a well-regarded name in the town you had it all. Any sport you wanted to be on, you were on. Any club you wanted to participate in you were in (and probably the president too). Everything was easier for those who were ranked highly in the cast system of Sullivan, Missouri. In high school I was on dance team. There were eighteen girls, tremendous drama, and so much false security. My dance coach always favored one girl specifically. Her name was Lindsay and she was the daughter of the doctor in town. She was a very nice girl, I will admit, but her dancing skills were not up to par. About one month into my third season, our new coach announced she thought it would be a good idea to have a captain. That night all of the girls gossiped about who they thought would be the captain. We all concluded it would be the best dancer on the team, Sheri. The next day we gathered around our coach waiting anxiously for her to announce our new captain but it was not what we expected. She announced it would be Lindsay. Filled with anger, everyone began to file out the door. We had to anticipate eight months of being criticized and critiqued by a girl who could not even dance well. The first year went fluently. At times it was hard to be criticized by Lindsay but over time that did not bother...
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...Levi Wortley Logan Denney Discussion Group 9-22-12 Our Society VS. The Hunger Games Now in the film The Hunger Games there are a lot of themes that mirrored in our society today. First and foremost there is the politics of Panem. The government, or “The Capitol,” is corrupted. Their control over the country “Panem” is very iron like in the fact that they control everything from resources to where you can go and what you can do. After awhile of this the districts get fed up and rebel. The capitol succeeds in quelling this rebellion and then to prevent any more rebellions actions or from being embarrassed, they, the Capitol, ensure their power/superiority over their people through a “holiday” they created called the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a fight to the death between two tributes from the twelve districts displayed on a television program which is mandatory and to be enjoyed. One of the themes that's present in our society and the movie is the obsession with celebrities and fame. I found myself finding a lot of similarities between the Hunger Games contestants and those on shows like American Idol and The Voice. Both have stylists that dress them up to make them look more dazzling and attractive, and both have mentors that help guide them through the process. There is a spectacle of fashion, makeup and style that has gone wild within the “elite class”. The style and fashion of the “elite class”(people who live in the high-tech cities of Panem) seems to...
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...Being a ‘Team’ Player: The Linguistic Alteration of Identity in Online Communities Dedicated to The Hunger Games In the first chapter of Gender and Language, Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet discuss how the connection between language and gender enables a “continual performance” of gendered interactions (33), which, in turn, enables “social reproduction” founded on the separate categories of male and female. They argue that language not only reflects gendered categories but “constructs and maintains these categories” (34). Being such strong categories, they claim it is “impossible” to escape gendered behavior and not influence others to give gendered responses (50). In a later chapter, Eckert and McConnell-Ginet discuss how “gender schemas and ideologies” are implied and interpreted (203). Using an example from a university setting, the authors illustrate their point that the assumption of gender may not result from “the particulars of our exchange but in familiar gender stereotypes” (204). If no specific clues or pronouns are given during the exchange of information, presuppositions relying on stereotypes often emerge. Not only do stereotypes and behavior fill the linguistic gaps, but the power in individual words alone is a cause for concern. Sally McConnell-Ginet explores this further in her article “Words in the World: How and Why Meanings Can Matter.” She argues that single words can carry multiple meanings in each use whether the speaker means them to or not...
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...Kayleigh NavarroBSA-IPol Sci 14- 4 POLITICS IN PANEM Everything has a deeper meaning behind it. Suzanne Collins’s masterpiece, The Hunger Games, is no exception. Surprising as it may seem, the trilogy is composed of political allegories. Starting from the basics, you can say that there is patrimonialism involved. All the districts are governed by the Capitol, the ruling government of Panem and the city wherein only the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful people lived. The districts were forced to harvest most of their resources and export it to serve the Capitol’s citizens, leaving insufficient resources left for the districts’ own use and thus causing poverty, starvation, and even death. It was highly likely that the Capitol was aware of the districts’ conditions but they never seemed to care. Because of this, the districts rebelled. In the end, the Capitol quelled the rebellion, defeating twelve of the districts and obliterating the thirteenth. As a yearly reminder of the Capitol’s power and authority over the twelve districts left, the Hunger Games was established. Basing on the plot, you can say that the residents of the districts went from Parochial to Participant. It first started off in the Reaping, when they just passively obeyed the Capitol’s orders and sent their children to be chosen for the Hunger Games. It wasn’t because they didn’t care for their children that they sent them to these Reapings, it was because they just couldn’t do anything about it. They...
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...People incline to endorse what the authority acclaims. But, is the authority always right? The example of Aristotle tells us no. Aristotle, the most erudite person at the time, was proved to be wrong by Bruno even though his theory had been regarded as a universal truth. Thus, questioning the authority promotes the development of science. Nevertheless, critical thinking should be applied to all aspects of life including education, business and especially politics. Katniss Everdeen and Martin Luther King are two compelling figures in challenging the authorities and advocating human rights in political aspects. Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist in the Hunger Game trilogy, acted as a revolutionary figure against the Capital. After volunteering for her sister to attend the annual gladiator match called the Hunger Game, Katniss enters the...
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...rebellions the government of the Capitol has enacted a cruel intimidation tactic called The Hunger Games. It is a violent event televised nationally throughout all of the districts where a male and female from each district is picked as a Tribute. These Tributes must fight each other to the death and only one survivor will remain. The Hunger Games is the governments approach of displaying the amount of power they posses over the demoralized people of the twelve districts. The character of Katniss is rare todays society, a complex character with fearlessness, intelligence, and on a mission for survival. Different from the other Tributes, Katniss kills in means of self-defense. Katniss is not only fighting for survival but for fairness and justice as well within the social classes and political power. This character fights for what she believes is right in order to end the class struggle of the Districts and the Capitol. The Feminist views of Katniss make her unique because she is not portrayed as a sex object but as a tough action heroine who fights for what she believes in on her way to victory in an attempt to end the class struggle of the rich vs. poor in her society would also provoke a Marxist reading of the Hunger Games. The brilliant mind behind the Marxist theory was a man by the name of Karl Marx, He was a German philosopher. His theories about society, economics, and politics are known as Marxism. Marxism is a conflict between an ownership class that controls production...
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...and asserts that it is due to the fact that most of the people who make the decisions in the film industry are men. She mentions famous women in the film industry who claimed to have experienced sexism in one way or another such as Geena Davis, who said she experienced sexism on set but it was not directed towards her, and Anne Hathaway who said that she was treated differently because she was a woman. She refers to a research conducted by Dr. Stacy Smith at USC Annenberg which stated that from 2007 to 2014, women were merely 30.2% of the characters in the 100 top-grossing films distributed in the US and very few of those 30.2% were directed by women (Day). She compares this percentage in the film industry to other fields like law, art, politics and journalism in which women are not more than 20%. In addition, the disproportion is even worse in the off screen roles in 2013 which women were 2% of composers, 4% of sound designers, and 2% of supervisors in the 250 top grossing film (Day). She stresses that it is even worse for black women according to the same research which states that out of 565 top grossing films only two were black women (Day). Day also writes that there is an incredible amount of pressure on female directors and they often are not given a second chance. Furthermore, she states that female actresses are paid lower than their male counterparts, but actresses have started to respond recently to this gender discrimination with the likes of Jennifer Lawrence and Charlize...
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...and the World Bank in the world of economics. The approach examines the economic relations with the three views, such as; 1.1 Realistic View Most scholars often prefer the use of game theory in order to give an explanation that relates the final outcomes with a result from the negotiations. The simplest being the issue of the discussions that entails two characters in it. Liberal in the early 21st century was the nationalist approach. The earliest school of thought during this time is the mercantilism. 1.2 Marxist View It analyzes the international meetings of the G-20 nations that took place in London in the year 2009. This creates a wider understanding of the many other various kinds of approaches. These may have negligible similarity with the view that Marx presents in the lecture room. However, it stresses the strong belief in the public power. The labels of approaches that this view put into its consideration are the feminists, and the radicals. They include the structuralisms, the critical, low developments, and the systems of the world. It is, therefore, very clear that Marx mostly links his approach with the heterodox economics (Schieder and Spindler 56). 2.0 How Liberal Approach Would Deal With Problems of Hunger and Development 2.1 Hunger Currently, there are very many people who need assistance in almost all aspects; food, shelter, and clothing. Most of these individuals toil daily in order to meet their...
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...COMOROS AND DJIBOUTI --- COMOROS GEOGRAPHY The Comoros consist of four islands and several islets in the western Indian Ocean. They were formed by Volcanic Activity. Three of the islands are members of an independent country, The Union of the Comoros and are named in their Comorian Language. These are: * Ngazidja (Grande Comore): the youngest and largest of the islands, has a massive, active volcano and recent lava flows * Mwali (Mohéli): smallest, mountainous, no recent lava activity * Nzwani (Anjouan): mountainous, no recent lava activity The fourth island is a department of France and its name is in French: * Maore (Mayotte): ancient volcanic island with highly eroded mountains and slow, meandering streams The capital and largest city, Moroni, is located on Ngazidja. The Comoros Archipelago is situated in the Indian Ocean, in the Mozambique Channel, between the African coast (nearest to Mozambique and Tanzania) and Madagascar, with no land borders. At 2,235 km2, it is one of the smallest countries in the world. The Comoros also has claim to 320 km2 of territorial seas. The interiors of the islands vary from steep mountains to low hills. The climate is generally tropical and mild, and the two major seasons are distinguishable by their relative raininess. ECONOMY * Comoros is one of the world's poorest countries. * Economic growth and poverty reduction are major priorities for the government. * Agriculture, including fishing, hunting...
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...Tacitus in His Account of Germania Tacitus’ Germania was a short monograph on German ethnography. It had great historical significance. Tacitus wrote critically of the Germans. He also stressed their simplicity, bravery, honor, fidelity, and other virtues in contrast to corrupt Roman imperial society, fallen from the vigor of the Republic. Tacitus covered many topics when writing this short piece of work. When it came to weapons, few used swords or long lances. They carried a spear, which they called a Framea. It was narrow and short head, but was so sharp and easy to wield that the same weapon serves, for close of distance conflict. “The horse-soldier was satisfied with a shield and spear. The foot-soldiers scattered showers of missiles, each man had several and hurled them to an immense distance. Their shields were marked with very choice colors” (13). A few had corslets, and one or two had metal or leather helmets. “Their horses were remarkable neither for beauty nor for fleetness. Nor were they taught various evolutions after their fashion, but are driven straight forward, or so as to make one wheel to the right in such a compact body that none were left behind another” (14). Their chief strength were in their infantry, and he fights along with the Calvary. The foot soldiers are stationed in front of the line. “The most glaring disgrace that can befall them, is to have quitted their shield” (15). According to punishment, in their councils an accusation...
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...“Want to get some work done; take something in your pocket”. These are the words which must be stuck round everywhere. Yes, truly speaking about the widespread corruption in India. Today corruption has become an inevitable issue. Corruption is seen in almost every part of Motherland. Viewing from working post regard almost each one has dipped himself into this sinful act. “As you sow, so shall you reap” is almost violated everywhere. Evil consideration of money as everything actually depraves oneself. Money pave as a way for all sorts of luxuries required in comfortable life. “Be shameless and enjoy” slogan has been encouraged in this world. No one realizes the suffering and pain of another. “HONESTY is the best policy” is an old and outdated saying today. It would be better to amend LIC, BIMA. A financially weak person can hardly think about producing vital governmental certificate comprising of nativity, etc. He better keeps himself away from this and thus deprive of facilities. This also makes the country more and more regressed. India today has many other problems too which slows the rate of progress. Eradication of corruption will reduce the problem to great extent. Many of us are really patriotic. Love for country, destine of sacrificing for motherland can only syncope the corruption today. Many desire to try their useful hands to eradicate this, but are suggested or advised that the smaller wheels of a machine has to work as the bigger one do. A trash one will be crushed...
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...The Hunger Games: Action-film feminism is catching fire Lisa Schwarzbaum Burning up Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is both strong and vulnerable – a new kind of action heroine who has powered The Hunger Games: Catching fire to a $158m US debut. (Lionsgate) Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is a new type of female action film icon, and moviegoers should be very excited about that, writes Lisa Schwarzbaum. As Catching Fire ignites on movie screens around the world, this is what we know about the 21st Century heroine called Katniss Everdeen: she is strong but also soft. She is brave but she has doubts. She is a phenomenal fictional creation, yet is real enough that moviegoers can draw inspiration from her values, her resourcefulness, and her very human inner conflicts. And she is played by Jennifer Lawrence, who appears not only to be handling her current duties as Hollywood’s finest model of well-adjusted millennial female stardom but doing so with charm. Everdeen and Lawrence: golden girls both. Personified in Lawrence’s lithe movements and cool, focused gaze, Katniss is a brave, resourceful and independent-minded fighter; but she is also a troubled and vulnerably guilt-ridden human being. Nina Jacobson, the producer of the Hunger Games film franchise, puts it this way: “She is a singular heroine in that the burden of survival weighs on her. She has a ton of survivor’s guilt. And she keeps surviving.” Girl on fire It is strange that behaving like a well-adjusted...
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