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THE HUNGER GAMES The Hunger Games is the film and novel everyone has seen and loved, so if you haven’t already seen it, it’s time to see it now. The Hunger Games is the first novel in Suzanne Collins trilogy. The novel was released in 2008 and became popular fast. The trilogy has sold more than 65 million copies and that only in the U.S. The series are ranked second, only beaten by Harry Potter. The genre is drama, adventure, science fiction and action. The main characters is Katniss Everdeen…

There was strong desire for expansionism in the United States during the 1800’s. Americans believed it was their God-given right and duty to spread America’s influence over the entire continent of North America. Any opposition to this expansion should be dealt with by any means necessary. This belief that Americans were destined to dominate North America was known as “manifest destiny”. Even though one could say manifest destiny was present in America as early as the War of 1812, it gained…

Should Books Be Banned Some books should be banned, but other books should not be banned. Parents and libraries think that certain books should be banned due to offensive language and sexual content. People think that schools and libraries no longer share the the cultural values of the vast majority of parents, Books should be banned because parents and schools have the right to do so. The novel Fahrenheit 451 should be banned in schools because of inappropriate language. People think…

Was the United States Justified in Going to War with Mexico? Boom! Shots fired as the U.S went to war with Mexico in 1846. After a fight on disputed land, and constant struggle between the two nations, the U.S finally decided to declare war on Mexico. So, did the United States have a good reason to go to war with Mexico? The United States was not justified, or proved right in going to war with Mexico, because Mexico was only defending its borders, the U.S was robbing Mexico of its land,…

After James Polk was inaugurated as President in 1845, he immediately set his sights on extending the U.S.’s borders to Mexico. In 1845 when Texas was annexed into the U.S. there was much debate on its border with Texas claiming it was the Rio Grande while Mexico believed it was the Nueces River. Polk saw that war with Mexico could acquire California and Mexico and sent American troops to the Rio Grande to provoke the Mexicans.In the end, Polk got what he wanted, we gained California, Nevada,…

growing population. Owned by Mexico, Texas and California were large provinces of land, exactly what America needed. America actually ended up going to war for that land, but was going to war worth it? In the Mexican American War, presented by James K. Polk, almost around half of Mexico’s territory up in the North was lost to America. Giving America more strength and power. Some of the states added to America and lost by Mexico were Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, parts of Colorado,…

The mexican war started in 1945 when the annexation of Texas took place. After the annexation , Mexico and America had a disagreement on what the border of Texas was. The U.S. thought that the border was the Rio Grande , while Mexico thought it was the Nueces River. This quarrel then led to the war , the prize being the land. The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because America believed in manifest destiny and that God gave them the land to overspread and also because 16…

Krabat is a children’s novel published in the 1970s; Marco Kreuzpaintner Krabat’s director worked his hardest to modernize Krabat in order to make it more interesting and successful. In 2011 a movie was published under the original name Krabat. Instead of creating it for children, Krabat was anticipated more for adults especially those who read the book in their childhood. Krabat as a movie is very interesting, and exciting as it showed innovative ideas about black magic, friendship, and wicked…

Dating back to the years of 1800-1855 the United states was growing in population, size and knowledge. Before the 1800s the US colonies had accepted the idea of expansion as settlers were migrating west even before winning their independence from Britain in the Revolutionary war. The year of 1830s brought many ideas that influenced the need to expand such as the manifest destiny coined by American columnist John O’ Sullivan. O’sullivan introduced the idea of manifest destiny which relies on the…

Just 15 years after the Civil War, a small but detrimental act had changed everything. Both Mexico and the U.S. were both large in size, and had contested land separating them. Thousands of Mexicans and Americans died, but they were content and happy at first. It wasn’t a smart idea for them to mix since Mexico was Catholic and for anti-slavery, while the Americans were protestant and were pro-slavery. In 1846 the biggest dispute between Mexico and America happened, but the war wasn’t justified…