tough, resourceful 16-year-old girl that is way more mature than her age. After her father lost his life in a mine explosion many years earlier, Katniss’s mother sank into depression and she thus become the breadwinner of the family, including her younger sister Prim as well. At the reaping ceremony of the annual Hunger Games, which is used as a reminder of the Districts’ (used to be 13 districts; it is now 12) defeat by the Capitol many decades ago, Prim was selected to be one of the tributes…
as President Barrack Obama, Bill O’ Reilly, Rick Santorum and Phyllis Schafley, take into consideration the immediate payout of higher income, and identify this as the appropriate elucidation (Harding; Ivatury). The National Retail Federation, The Cato Institute, and Mark Wilson all publicly oppose the notion of boosting the minimum wage…
Katniss Everdeen a girl in the future after a war. In Panem, the city that The Hunger Games takes place in, people are either rich or poor. Katniss is chosen for the the hunger games, she tries to defeat other tribute and also tries to prove the gamemakers and government wrong. The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel, the dystopian genre has many books and those books have something in common, the theme, the coming of age theme is the theme that most if not all dystopian books have in common. In…
Can the Government Fix Everything? Government control has had a place among America’s debatable topics, and the new focus is obesity. In Radley Balko’s essay “What You Eat Is Your Business”, which was published May 23, 2004 on the Cato Institute website, he discusses that topic in regards to restrictions and laws placed on the food industry. Some people are all for the government placing more regulations on food and requiring more detailed labeling on packaged foods, but others say the…
The rebellious main character Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute in place of her younger sister Prim at the reaping in the 74th annual Hunger Games alongside her fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Katniss Everdeen is one of the most skillful tributes in the games in that she is very skilled with a bow and arrow. During the Hunger Games,…
38 states, while the other 12 have their own marketplaces. The four million who had never had health insurance before and signed up through HealthCare.gov were pleased with the marketplace. Government officials find it a success especially in the younger generation who is less likely to have insurance. The United States now has the lowest uninsured rate in its history, saving an estimated 87,000 lives. Overall, Obamacare has been successful in providing health insurance. The author of this…
When the thirteen British colonies in North America declared their independence in 1776, they laid down that “governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The “colonies” had to establish a government, which would be the framework for the United States. The purpose of a written constitution is to define and therefore more specifically limit government powers. After the Articles of Confederation failed to work in the 13 colonies, the U.S.…
every locale to battle different regions and survive. There is one and only victor. It is impossible to be in the craving recreations. Your name gets picked from a vase and in the event that you get called you should go. At the point when Katniss' younger sibling gets called from their region, Katniss does not need her to go in light of the fact that it is…
Imagine yourself trapped beneath a glass bowl placed upside down on the kitchen table. Now, imagine that there are other people in there with you trying to kill you while all of your close family and friends are forced to sit around the table and anxiously watch you fight for your life. Those are the appalling images that come into my head when I think of the Hunger Games. When The Hunger Games, based off of the first book in the Hunger Games Saga written by Suzanne Collins, was released in…
“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins and “The Odyssey” by Robert Fitzgerald provide their readers with a character that is the embodiment of a perfect hero. Katniss Everdeen and Odysseus both portray loyal, brave, and responsible heroes who endure many hardships, and survive them however, the challenges that the contemporary character, Katniss Everdeen, faces before and during the Hunger Games along with her rewards after she returns are dissimilar from the ancient Greek hero Odysseus’…