The Hunger Games, Directed By Neil Burger

Disney Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. illustrates ethical issues and situations that range from being highly significant to minor decisions as well as being deeply personal to spanning upper-level corporate culture. As in other films, Pixar masterfully captures and teaches lessons to children and adults alike. This creative story focuses on the monsters that used to hide in our childhood closets and illustrates the trials and hardships in their own world and energy industry. The film acts as a metaphor for real world issues concerning personal and business based morality by inserting these dilemmas in a fictional world that can easily be applied back to reality. In this paper, I will focus on the ethical issues presented in the film, the positive and negative changes characters undergo, unethical rationalizations shown by individuals as well as the business, virtues highlighted throughout, my personal reactions to scenes and the film as a whole, and how Monsters, Inc. has affected the way I approach ethical issues in business.

Divergent is a dystopian novel that takes place in a futuristic Chicago. The setting also looks like a perfect Utopia, but as you go on reading you find out that it has a lot of problems. In the novel there was a war that was caused by differences in people's ideologies. The war caused Chicago to be divided into five factions. Each faction has a virtue which they value and cultivate. The five factions are Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite. The Abnegation faction values selflessness, the Amity peace, the Candor honesty, the Dauntless bravery, and the Erudite intelligence. Throughout the novel the main character is Tris which was born in Abnegation and chose to go to the Dauntless faction. Chicago in the novel is governed by a group of people from

Both novels, The Road and The Hunger Games, share a common theme of survival and violence. In the book, The Road the entire setting and plot illustrate the apparent collapse of all on Earth and the violence of this dystopian world adds to the dreadfulness of survival, as many humans have reverted to terrible behaviors of murder and cannibalism. As well, a discussion of violence in The Hunger Games must consider the role violence plays in the narrative, although the film is about children who are forced to kill each other, the book does not glorify or celebrate violence. Both authors, Cormac McCarthy and Suzanne Collins, use a survival theme to present the hardships Kat Everdeen and the Man and Boy must endure to stay alive; thus, the use

The reason for the Hunger Games is to remind all the Districts of what had happened to District 13 whom decided to rebel against the capitol. They hold a "reaping" every year and they send them to

Social stratification is a concept used within sociology that explains the divisions and social inequalities of large groups of people within a particular society. The Hunger Games (2012) is a film that demonstrates this through amplifying how the power of the rich members in a polarised society are taking control of the poor and separating them in different districts which create specific social rankings. This essay will use the perspective of conflict theory to examine how Australian society is also effected by social stratification and therefore divided in social classes which effects their access to social equalities.

Economics is the study of scarcity within a systems of rules. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’ can be translated into such, with hunger being scarcity and games being a system of rules. In the Hunger Games, we are introduced to a country called Panem. The country of Panem is divided into twelve different districts and the Capitol, where the government resides. Each district has their own different specializations and they have distinctive economies. The government regulates the trade and each district rely on trade from each other district and the Capitol for the goods they don 't produce. All of the districts and the Capitol is interdependent.

The movie Divergent is based on the novel by Veronica Roth. The book and film takes place in future Chicago where there are five factions; Dauntless, Abnegation, Erudite, Amity, and Candor. People in future Chicago take a test to determine what faction is most like them. If multiple factions are the result of the test, then it is determined that the person is Divergent. This is a rare story of Beatrice Prior’s experience as being Divergent and surviving in the Dauntless community.

The film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is based on the novel written by Suzanne Collins. The timeline is set one year after Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the 74th Hunger Games despite trying to commit suicide instead of facing off to try to kill each other. After returning home, they were sent on a victor tour and they sense that there is a possible uprising fueling in the districts. Realizing that their victory started this revolution, they continued to show their undying love for each other. President Snow, however, didn’t believe their lie and was determined to prove to the people of the districts that they are being deceived throughout the film.

Most people would prefer to watch Mean Girls, or Big Brother over a documentary about nature because they find it more entertaining. Novels, television programs, and films are largely made to reflect what the majority of people find entertaining and don’t teach many valuable lessons. Writers can write great stories that move us emotionally and confirm our deepest moral convictions but they choose not to because a large number of (many, numerous) people prefer them to entertain us only because they see dollar signs as more than moral signs.

Divergent, the movie takes place in Chicago somewhere in the future. The city is fenced off from the outside world, leading the people to believe they may very well be the last humans alive on earth. Therefore they must insure that they have a successful system and peace among the people. In this society people are divided into five different sections, or as they are named in the movie, Factions. Each faction represents some kind of human virtue, a virtue that, that faction lives by.

From the moment we are born, there are certain values that are taught and instilled in us by our families and friends to become moral individuals. The concept of morality deals with the different decisions we make every single day of our lives, and the kind impact they may have on someone. With regard to this concept, Concussion and Margin Call are two movies that exemplify characters that undergo extreme pressure to make moral decisions and judgements.

Everyone belongs in their own category, but then there are the Divergent. Beatrice Prior a 16-year-old who is taking her aptitude test which will tell her which faction

In the arena, there will be betrayal. Hearts will be broken. Death will be essential. And millions of eyes will be watching you every step of the way.

Samira Sasani and Marjan Darayee (2015) in their article about Suzan Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008) and the society of the spectacle they have discussed Debord’s theory of spectacle that is used by the dominant class to rule people by feeding them false images and entertainment to keep them distracted and divided. So these people cannot stand up as one against the permittivity of the capitol. This article applied this theory on The Hunger Games

Rooted in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, artist Steve McQueen’s brutally raw film Hunger retraces the crusade of Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners who desired Special Category Status while imprisoned at Maze Compound Prison. Starting near the middle of a four-year-long stalemate, McQueen’s triptych follows the routine of a prison guard, Raymond Lohan, the introduction of a new, IRA, “non-conforming” prisoner Davey Gillen into the “dirty protest", and culminates with Bobby Sands, the IRA commanding officer inside Maze who volunteers to be the first of many prisoners to go on a hunger strike for SCS, and is the first to die sixty-six days later. Through visceral scenes depicting extraordinary situations, Hunger reminds audiences of the battle of attrition that was fought thirty years before, and “how people dealt with decisions that politicians made, and the environments which are created from those decisions, which they had to survive in.” Instead of taking a side in the conflict, Hunger portrays what one critic describes “a probing, clinical, oddly beautiful examination of one man's decision to die, to face the moment that we all must, on his own terms.”