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    narrative text of, the main character, Katniss Everdeen 's inner thoughts and feelings. Collins presents significant themes throughout about the challenges tributes face and the struggle to survive, the courage the tributes gain outside and inside the arena as well as the control The Capitol has over Panem and the districts causing the chances of survival to decrease. Katniss ' struggles to emotionally and physically survive the forced slaughter against twenty three other tributes in the…

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    “Once mainstays in psychiatric institutions, many OTs left the mental health arena when psych treatment moved en masse in the 1980s…” (Glomstad). The exit of occupational therapists from the mental health branch is mind-boggling. Today, occupational therapists are nearly nonexistent when it comes to mental institutions, “…the number of OTs and OTAs practicing in the mental health arena is now a meager 2 percent nationally” (Lagrossa). Society doesn’t realize what occupational therapists bring to…

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    story. Stockton used exposition to create suspense by introducing the arena. “Among the borrowed notions by which his barbarianism was semified was that of the public arena . . .” Stockton 219). It made readers question the significance of it, and how the author was going to use the arena. As they learned…

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    the roman population. The two rulers accredited for the Colosseum were the two roman emperors, Vespasian and Titus (Vespasian’s son). Vespasian’s vision for the Colosseum was to build the greatest arena ever, seen in the Roman world. But how has this arena’s design stayed similar for modern sport arenas for nearly 2000 years? The Colosseum applied the latest in Roman arts, engineering, architecture and other creative endeavors in order to get its great design. The invention of concrete enabled…

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    ahead of its time. The empire was known for numerous attributes; endless entertainment, bloodshed, and the lust for power were staples of Roman society, and such elements must be discussed when examining the glorious arena known as the Circus Maximus. The Circus Maximus – among other arenas – was a display of the power and glory of the Roman Empire, and the structure has always been a prominent feature of the city of Rome. The Circus Maximus has an interesting history, the structure was created…

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    We follow Katniss and Peeta into the arena, and watch as the tributes form alliances. Katniss has formed a connection with Rue, the girl from District 11. They want to take out the large alliance, and separate to destroy a stockpile of supplies that belongs to the large alliance in the arena. When they meet again, Rue is hit, in the heart, by a spear thrown by another tribute (The Hunger Games). Katniss, though she is very clearly overwhelmed with heartbreak, remains calm for Rue. Rue asks…

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    princesses right arm rested on the edge of the balcony in front of her. She raised her hand and made a slight , quick movement toward the right. No one but her lover saw her. Every eye but his was fixed on the man in the arena. He turned, and with a firm and rapid step, he walked across the arena. Every heart stopped beating, every breath was held, every eye was fixed upon the man. Without the slightest hesitation, he went for the door on the right and right before in a flash he was gone. (My…

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    In the story “The Lady or the Tiger?’’ there was a semibarbaric king, who had a public arena, in which, by exhibitions of manly and beastly valor the minds of his subjects were refined and cultured. If the king thought or knew that you had done something bad you would be sent to the arena. The arena had two doors, one door has a lady behind it and if you were to pick that door you would be instantly married and live happily ever after. However if you were to pick the other door that has a tiger…

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    Last Wednesday, I was lucky enough to attend a Rangers vs. Penguins hockey game at the renowned Madison Square Garden. Jerseys, hats, and merchandise filled the arena in a sea of blue, as fans poured into the arena. As my beloved Rangers started to fall behind to the Penguins, (in an eventual 6-1 drubbing) I started to exercise my sociological imagination, wondering how these disparate 18,000+ individuals came together to witness a mundane hockey game, and in essence create a social structure…

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    The Lady Or The Tiger

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    In the short story, the question at the end of the story is the Lady or Tiger. I chose The Jealous Princess. And the King’s arena. They said chose one door from two of the doors to see what comes out the lady or the tiger. The semi baric king who was an exhausted, funk, and withal, of the authority so irresistible. When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial, but when there was a little hitch. This was the…

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