United States Capitol

familiar, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins? The capitol has complete control over Panem. The Hunger Games is about 12 districts that are forced to give up two tributes to fight to the death in an arena. But throughout the book the story isn’t just that, it shows how controlling the Capitol is, in which they completely destroyed District 13. The Hunger Games are supposed to show the Districts that they cannot rebel nor defeat them. The United States in a way is similar, we may not have a…

explicit or implicit political purposes” (Winner, 1986, 23). When it comes to the United States Capitol Visitor Center, the capitol it the artifact and its purpose of being a place for public and the government to interact is the politics. However, a flaw of the construction of the capitol are the massive beautiful stairs that lead up to the capitol. These stairs made it so people in wheelchairs were unable to go into the capitol. The intention was not to exclude people from the building with…

The United State (U.S.) government has a very active International Affairs. The International Affair’s concerns are not restricted to the United States but to the entire world (International Affairs, 2014). Many times, the U.S. is not welcomed and is consider interfering in matters that does not concern us. There are American people that agree with the citizens in foreign counties that the U.S. should not be involved in issues outside of the U.S. Is our involvement in International Affairs…

discussed the symbolic meaning behind the removal of the Confederate Flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol. The Confederate Flag, has long been a sign of differential citizenship. James Holston presents to us the necessity of insurgency as a tool of marginalized citizens as they strive for equity of citizenship. The removal of the flag from the grounds of the capitol was a demonstration of insurgency against the government’s clear support of symbolic discrimination against…

full of turmoil and constant excitement. The voting that will occur at the end of the year will determine the future of the United States in many different ways, especially within the economy. People need to better understand how lobbyists and different organizations rule the political scene and how this effects each of them individually. Interest groups will lobby on capitol hill and carry a huge political punch with funding and many votes that come along with their support. Politicians…

that he has seen in the United States as well as the great respect for those who which he was working. He wants to create a place that recognizes the great potential that he has seen for the nation: “,it will be obvious that the plan should be drawn on such a scale as to leave room for that aggrandizement and embellishment which the increase of the wealth of the nation will permit it to pursue at any period however remote” (L’Enfant 381). While Penn on the other hand states, “I am sure that I…

that the South Koreans despised and the American government wanted to stop from spreading. The American government feared a so called domino effect which was the spreading of communism to any country near the founding country. For this reason the United States of America was willing to go to war, in July of 1950 the American military entered Korea to aid the South and protect their government. The American people were very reluctant to get into another war following the result of World War II.…

20th century. In 2003, Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter. The Alabama state quarter is known as the only circulating US coin to feature braille. The Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama is in dedication to her. There are streets named after Helen Keller in Zürich, Switzerland, in the USA, in Getafe, Spain, in Lod, Israel, in Lisbon, Portugal and in Caen, France. A stamp was issued in 1980 by the United States Postal Service depicting Keller and Sullivan, to mark the…

adults spent time constructing shelters that would never be used, and militaries fortified for a war that would never shed blood. Constant tension hung in the air for countries all over the world facing the fears of communism and nuclear war. The United States was built upon the principles of freedom, the nation’s fate depends upon the decisions of three Presidents. As the looming threat of Communism spread throughout the world three U.S presidents had plans to stop a troubled world from falling…

character in the thrilling novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Katniss lives in a dystopian dictatorship called Panem. Panem is made up of twelve districts and the Capitol. Every year, the Capitol bands two youth from each district to battle in an arena to a bloody end. The event was created to remind the districts of the capitols overbearing power and rule. This deadly event, that Katniss Everdeen has volunteered for, is known as the Hunger Games! Throughout the book, many ideas and…