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huge lift with the vast construction of bridges, schools, and roads. In fact the state of Louisiana has not had anything close to such an economic boost as to what Huey p. Long offered since that time. As time has passed, Louisiana has become infamous for its lack of proper public education, especially regarding grades one through twelve. This lack of proper education has become constantly associated with the state since Huey Long’s assassination. Despite the controversy over how Long executed his

real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. 18 Context: Katniss explains how they draft people from different capitals just for they could go out and kill each other. (Q) Why would the capitol do such a thing like this? Is the games really so important that it needs to cost lives? I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All

often in the Capitol. It's difficult to say if the capitol is corrupted or not, however many believe that the capital is doing what they must to survive. Citizens of the capitol do radiate a form of corruption over power. The capitol is undeniably corrupt and advantageous. Three meaningful reasons that corroborate to the contention are: The totalitarian government of Panem is noticeably corrupted because of the drastic differences in the treatment of its citizens. Secondly, the capitol forces voyeurism

of the office. We were strictly ordered to listen to the caller, respectfully reply when needed, and say: “I understand your concern, and I will pass your message along to the Senator.” This caller, after ranting for nearly seven minutes about the state of our country, proceeded to tell me ‘Washington is worse than Hitler. Hitler only supposedly murdered all of those people, but the health care bill will certainly kill people.’ It took everything inside of me to hold my tongue and say only what I

Kaylin Blazic 18 May 2015 Jason Wymore English 112 First Draft Paper #3 The Hunger Games Trilogy With 4.3 million copies sold in 2010, The Hunger Games Trilogy’s fame tripled after the first film went to theaters in 2012. A shocking 27.7 million copies having been sold worldwide. (Bitoun, Rachel Elfassy) The Hunger Games has something more, something precisely defined throughout the series that was Suzanne Collins’s, the author’s, main reason to writing The Hunger Games Trilogy. The series popularity

The scent of burning nicotine mixes in with the bitter-sweet sound of silence that flows through my neighborhood. The murmurs of the 39 engine making its rounds of routine lateness is a usual as it flows down small Dauphin street and to much better-known areas of the city. The 39 bus must first pass through the forever booming Broad street where there just may never be a familiar face. Broad street is home to three buses and a train station, while still managing to accommodate the many stores from

character to a certain degree , it touches many districts till it reaches the Capitol itself in the through Cinna , Katniss' stylist . Through the events of the book , Katniss steps up to fulfill the role of the Mockingjay , the ultimate symbol of rebellion . Following Gale's whipping , Katniss rationalizes that both of them have always been rebellious .' Poaching, trading on the black market, mocking the Capitol in the woods"(130) are but few examples of Katniss rebellious actions even

and later the same returns it to her as a symbol of protection and love; in the book it is given to her by Madge as the symbolic representation of their district, and as a way of mocking the people at the Capitol since the birds were the descendants of a going wrong experiment at a time the Capitol was at war with the now nonexistent District 13. This symbolism of the pin in the book would have been important to be include in the movie because as Laremy Legel, reviewer for the MTV blog, said, the “(

(Set in the post-apocalyptic dystopian Panem, The Hunger Games depicts the lives of the war torn districts (like states functionally-there are twelve and each one has a particular industry) living in poverty and the wealthy Capitol (governmental figure) controlling everything that happens within the districts. One boy and one girl-between the age of twelve and eighteen- from each district must compete every year in a gladiator style trial called the Hunger Games. They do this as punishment for their

With today’s United States of America as an example Collins created the imaginary dystopian Nation of Panem. The novel is considered as one of the finest examples of dystopian literature with Amazon announcing it as its top seller surpassing the Harry Potter series and has