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Aristotle, in Nicomachean Ethics, writes about how we must consider whether or not an individual’s acts are voluntary when we are evaluating those acts. Aristotle states that there are three types of actions: voluntary, involuntary, and nonvoluntary actions. In The Hunger Games, each of the tributes has either volunteered to enter the games or have…

Imagine a world where a government has total control over its citizens; a world where the government can do whatever they please to their citizens, and they have little or no chance of rebellion. This frightening world exists in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron. In The Hunger Games, citizens are…

I had Suzanne Collins’ novel fresh in my mind when I put The Hunger Games into the player. I could remember the key phrases and actions that signified the end of the first two acts in the novel as well as several more events that happened within each of the sections. I had watched the…

In 2015, one has to wonder just how many tales of a dystopian future can be told. In each of the works we’ve read for the class, it’s the same set-up: a war sometime before the novel destroyed civilization as we know it and a group of people felt it best to cast off those…

How high do you think your chances of survival would be if you were placed in an arena full of tributes ready to kill you? In Suzanne Collins’ book The Hunger Games, District 12’s tribute, Katniss Everdeen, has to fight for survival in a deadly game known as the Hunger Games. The skills and experiences…

Most people claim that The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a step away from the usual fairytale story that young girls love. They say that Katniss truly is the girl on fire, a metaphorical phoenix for the Feminist movement, rising from the ashes caused by its decline in the twenty-first century. Feminists support the…

Katniss Everdeen and Juno are both characters from novels where their physionomies are represented in terms of their individuality and identity, through these key characteristics teenagers can resonate most with one particular character. You can’t change who you are. No matter how hard you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they shouldn’t. This…

The Hunger Games is an incredible young adult novel about a post- apocalyptic world in which children ranging from the ages of twelve to eighteen are forced to fight to the death. There are many huge issues throughout the book but one of the largest concepts in the book is the idea of constant surveillance….

A nation is a concept that differs on a universal scale. The celebrated films, Under the Same Moon and The Hunger Games, dive into the notion of “…an imagined community that is both sovereign and limited.” (Anderson 103) Both films portray a nation as a community with a durable tie of pedigree and an indestructible…

Apollo11, the greatest journey in the history of mankind started with a countdown, but before that countdown, there was an army of scientists and engineers who were working on it. The most important part came after that countdown, moon landing. Neil Armstrong made his small step on the moon and humanity made its giant leap….