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Utilizing Spoiling Opportunities as a Terror Strategy: The Irish Republican Army When an act of terrorism occurs, it can often seem like random, mindless violence to the victims and the bystanders. It can be surprising, therefore, to realize that terrorism is actually a very strategic decision. Terrorism can be very effective, used usually when a group is not strong enough to directly confront and force a policy change from a state actor, choosing instead to persuade their target by showing…

change and the wars that followed. Now North America is the nation of Panem, a country with twelve fenced-in districts that all work to feed the enormously wealthy and technologically advanced capital,” (Suzanne, 2016). The biography of Suzanne Collins provides the background of author’s previous works and how her life experiences take her to write The Hunger Games. Additionally, this biography shows the base of the author’s ideas such as the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and the Greek…

espouse on work of literature that has given me a great deal of significants is difficult, but extraordinary. Out of all the books I’ve read there was one in particular that stood out to me in the past five years and it is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This book spoke to me as no other book has ever; I 'm the type of person that doesn 't interested in reading novels, but this one called me in. The Hunger Games series is a trilogy that tells a story of 13 communities (called…

let’s face it, you can use all the help you can get in that department. You were about as romantic as dirt until he said he wanted you. Now they all do. You’re all they’re talking about. The star-crossed lovers from District Twelve!” Says Haymitch,” (Collins, 134). Although Katniss and Peeta’s love becomes real later on, they first use it to their advantage to gain support, despite its lack of truth. While they are in the arena, Katniss and Peeta form a union and create emotional moments while…

Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from District 12, volunteers to be a tribute when the name of Primrose, her younger sister, is drawn. Peeta Mellark, the baker's son who is in love with Katniss and provided her with bread when she was starving, is selected as the male tribute. The book then follows the pair to the Capitol, where they are transformed by stylists to win popularity with the viewing public, sent into an arena with 22 other tributes to murder one another, survive together by…

struggles of our country and the way we function as a whole. People worry about our future after looking at our countries issues, especially about our power and control laws. Through The Hunger Games movie directed by Gary Ross and written by Suzanne Collins, we see how this series of events foreshadows…

The novel, The Hunger Games, is set in a dystopian country named Panem that has been ravaged by war and separated into twelve districts who have little to no rights. In order to prevent another rebellion, the corrupt government hosts the hunger games: a yearly spectacle where a boy and a girl, known as tributes, are randomly selected from each district to fight to the death in an arena that changes every year. Katniss’ story begins at the reaping, or the selection of tributes from each district,…

The Hunger Games The book The Hunger Games was written by a woman named Suzanne Collins. Suzanne Collins is most known for writing this book and the following books of the Hunger Games Trilogy. The Hunger Games is the first book of the series. It introduces the story of how the hunger games got started and why. This first book develops the characters in an amazing fashion, I enjoyed the detail; I felt as though I knew the characters personally. This story is based in a post apocalyptic future…

physically exhausted, the tributes of Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games fight to survive fierce and brutal attacks that test their will to survive. We follow the lives of two contenders Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark who show their strengths and abilities, along with a building relationship. Katniss and Peeta portray a love connection in an effort to gain support from spectators, however develop real emotions for each other as the games continue. Collins uses this idea of mental and…

Hope; something that people believe in. Throughout the short story by Shirley Jackson "The Lottery" and in the movie "The Hunger Games" these people have one thing; hope. They live with a government that controls everything; dictatorship. In the short story "The Lottery" is about two higher class people are the leaders of the village and need to limit the population by killing off their villagers. The Lottery, Jackson shows how positions of power are important to the characters that possess them…