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Hunger Games
Pages: 3 Words: 816

Hunger Games Trilogy
Lions Gate Films Situation Analysis for the Catching Fire Move

Fans aiting for the Hunger Games Tickets (Orden, 2012)

Business Description -- Movie Industry

motion picture industry includes about 95,000 companies with supporting 2.2 million jobs, and nearly $137 billion in total wages in 2009 (MPAA, 2011). The largest companies in the industry include household names such as the alt Disney, Sony/MGM, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, and arner Brothers. These studios are generally part of large publicly traded media companies. Although there are a large number of firms who compete in this industry, the bulk of revenues in the industry are highly concentrated: the 50 largest companies account for roughly eighty percent of total industry revenues. There a large number of firms in the industry that are target to towards various niche services including creative talent, equipment, technical expertise, and various technical production and distribution services.

The pricing strategies in this…...

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Works Cited

Bowles, S. (2012, March 26). 'Hunger Games' devours the competition at box office. Retrieved from USA Today:  http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/story/2012-03-25/box-office-hunger-games/53769322/1 

Caris, C. (2012, April 23). A Hunger for Lions Gate. Retrieved from Barron's:  http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111903591504577361962292271868.html 

Hamilton, K., & Wagner, B. (2011). An exploration of spectacular consumption at the movies: Mamma Mia! Journal of Consumer Behavior, 375-390.

MPAA. (2011). The Economic Contribution of the Motion Picture & Television Industry to the United States. Retrieved from The American Motion Picture Association:  http://www.mpaa.org/Resources/3a76ac00-6940-4012-a6e2-da9a7b036da2.pdf

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Hunger Games in Panem the
Pages: 2 Words: 643

Getting famous is more of a curse than a blessing for many reality television show winners such as Susan Boyle. There is evidence that fame is hurting Susan Boyle. "The concern is that Boyle's mental health is being sacrificed to line the pockets of her managers, record label and various hangers on," (TheImproper).
Just as with reality television, the image of the contestant is important in the Hunger Games. In the novel, Cinna is the stylist that helps Katniss with her image. How the contestants look is just as important as whether they will live or die. In reality television shows, the most important goal is to create controversy. "The reality is, people only watch things that are dramatic...People are drawn to dysfunctional behaviors, but you have to use that desire to watch it to create opportunities to teach," (Pinsky, cited by Greenfield). The function of the Hunger Games is…...

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References

Collins, S. (2008). The Hunger Games. Scholastic.

Greenfield, J. (2010). "The Real Deal on Reality TV." CBS News. Feb 7, 2010. Retrieved May 3, 2010 from  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/07/sunday/main6183037.shtml 

TheImproper (2010). "Susan Boyle Tension Rises; Brother Criticizes Handlers." The Improper. April 19, 2010. Retrieved May 3, 2010 from http://www.theimproper.com/?p=6369

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Hunger Games
Pages: 2 Words: 767

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins: How does Katniss's role in her family affect her behavior in the Games?
Analytical response essay: How does Katniss' role in her family affect her behavior in the Games?

Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel The Hunger Games depicts a world whose ethical values have been turned upside down. A dystopian novel is defined as "a futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral or totalitarian control" ("Dystopias," Readwritething). The older generation is morally bankrupt and preys upon the young for entertainment. This can be seen in the relationship of its heroine Katniss Everdeen to her family and the other characters in the novel, including Peeta Mallark, the boy from her district chosen as tribute. The young people in the novel must assume many adult responsibilities as a result of the world the older…...

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Work Cited

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2007.

"Dystopias: Definitions and characteristics." Readwritethink. 2006. 10 Apr 2014.

 http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson926/DefinitionCharacteristics.pdf 

Miller, Laura. "Fresh hell." The New Yorker. 14 Jun 2010. 10 Apr 2014.

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Cameras in The Hunger Games the Story
Pages: 3 Words: 956

Cameras in "The Hunger Games"
The story of the book The Hunger Games is one set in a post-apocalyptic North American mess that has become a single city in the Rockies ruling over twelve districts. Originally it was thirteen, but one if these was, supposedly, completely destroyed in an uprising that has happened almost a quarter century ago. The twelve remaining districts provide products so that the central city, Panem, can survive, and the rulers in Panem make certain that there is no more dissension from the people in the districts. One of the main features in the books is that everyone is on camera much of the time. The central government controls the people by knowing what is happening at all times, and modifying their action by this knowledge. It is a tale straight out of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which the totalitarian government controls the people by…...

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Work Cited

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. Print.

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Lottery vs The Hunger Games
Pages: 2 Words: 647

Lottery Hunger Games
Picking children at random to be killed cruelly seems like an outlandish premise for any story, but remarkably, Suzanne Collins's 2008 novel The Hunger Games resembles Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" in many ways. Both are about a cruel, senseless annual event, in which people are chosen at random in a lottery situation. The selected people face death, and their death is presented to the public as a form of entertainment. Both authors make powerful commentary about society being cruel, and both also suggest that individuals should speak out against the unjust and outmoded institutions of society. However similar these two stories may be, there are some significant differences between them. One is a short story, which allows for less character development. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is told from the point-of-view of a third person omniscient narrator, whereas Collins's novel is told from the first person perspective…...

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Works Cited

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic, 2010.

Jackson, Shirley. "The Lottery." Retrieved online: http://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf

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Teen Film the Hunger Games and Red Dawn Comparison
Pages: 2 Words: 727

Teen Film: The Hunger Games and Red Dawn
The Hunger Games is not just a political movie than any teenage drama transcribed in the for the silver screen. Katniss Everdeen is not just trying to rescue her family but she must free an entire nation from dictatorial oppression and poverty by rebelling against the evil forces. However, Red Dawn was not that much different. It was a teen film that depicts on how a group of young men, guided by Jed Eckert along with his brother and two young women rebel against the Russians, Nicaraguan Cubans and paratroopers that have taken over a town.

In both films, rebellion is the only way of survival. In Red Dawn it is the communist forces and in Hunger games it is a vicious and dangerous tyrannical regime. In order to stop a total takeover, the teens in both movies have no choice but to band…...

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Hunger the Late 1960's and Early 1970's
Pages: 3 Words: 1381

Hunger
The late 1960's and early 1970's saw a polemical of two distinctive viewpoints on the trajectory of world hunger, food production, and global starvation. Dr. Paul Erlich, author of The Population Bomb espoused the idea that "humans would soon exhaust their ability to feed an ever burgeoning population" (Chou, H. June 7, 2010). Erlich's premise led to the inexorable conclusion that "global starvation was inevitable" (Easterbrook, G. September 16, 2009). The countervailing argument made by Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug was that innovative Green evolution agricultural techniques would produce "both reliable harvests, and spectacular output" (Easterbrook, G. September 16, 2009). Borlaug's work on "high yield agriculture" (Easterbrook, G. September 16, 2009) over sixty years in the developing world resulted in massive increases in total grain tonnage produced, grain output per acre, and global grain yields. Borlaug proved that the world could in fact produce more than adequate supplies of…...

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References

Chou, H. (June 7, 2010). Review of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age

of Plenty. Large Print Reviews. Retrieved May 20, 2011 from  http://www.largeprintreviews.com/rt_enough.html 

Easterbrook, G. (September 16, 2009). The Man Who Defused the Population Bomb. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 20, 2011 from  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574411382676924044.html 

Hanson, S. (August 6, 2009). Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Council on Foreign

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Thirsty for it
Pages: 7 Words: 2322

Hunger Games: Peeta and Katniss
In many ways, the root of The Hunger Games and its many characters lies in the experience of the author, writer Suzanne Collins. Prior to writing the successful trilogy that The Hunger Games is a part of, Collins had already written another series of novels, "The Underland Chronicles," (Green) and had worked at Nickelodeon on the children's show "ow! ow! ubbzy!" (Grossman). The latter fact directly influenced many different aspects of The Hunger Games, from its plot to the characterization of its two lead characters, Peeta and Katniss. For quite some time books, novels and other written works have inspired movies and television shows. hat Collins did that was so enticing to many of her readers and to a larger commercial audience in general was to take the inspiration from television to write her book. In particular, the author successfully exploited the reality television show theme…...

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Work Cited

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press. 2010. Print.

Cook, Kristin., Kellar, Donna. Myers Alyce. "Bioethics in the Hunger Games." Science Teacher. 8(1), 31-37. 2014. Print.

Green, John. "Scary New World." www.nytimes.com 2008. Web.  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Green-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=3& ;

Grossman, Lev. "The Hunger Gamemakers: Interview with Author Suzanne Collins and Director Francis Lawrence." Time. 2013. Web.  http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2157467,00.html

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Books That Reflect on Society
Pages: 5 Words: 1906

Hunger Games vs. Great Gatsby
While seemingly quite different in terms of subject matter, the Hunger Games and Great Gatsby works are actually quite alike than they may seem. While a group of self-identified elites engaging in depravity and excess may not seem a lot like the life and death battles waged in the Hunger Games, there are a lot of parallels. The arc that most of those parallels follow is that there is a strict and gaping dichotomy between the rich and the poor in both stories. In both situations, there are a group of elites that are controlling the poor in one way or another and/or they otherwise have disdain and lack of regard for the same. However, the elites do not end up sailing off into the sunset in either story as things go awry for both sets of elites. While having power and riches may seem enticing…...

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References

Collins, S. (2010). The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Inc.

Fitzgerald, F. (2004). The Great Gatsby.

GSU. (2015). Awesome Inconsequence: Critique of Modern Society through Apocalyptic

Frivolity in the Early Novels of Waugh and Fitzgerald. Scholarworks.gsu.edu. Retrieved 9

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Diabetes and Learning Games -
Pages: 5 Words: 1450

his is nothing to be ashamed of, it is as much as part of you as your eye color -- it just needs to be managed.
What are some risky behaviors teens often forget might aggrevate their diabetes?

A) Alcohol, B) Marijuana, C) Drugs such as cocaine, meth, or heroine, D) atooing and body piercing, E) all the above.

Answer -- D, all the above. Substances might make you do something you would not normally do, like eat lots of sugar, etc. It is important to ensure you have plenty of carbs before you go out, limit yourself to 2 drinks per day, never mix alchohol, and always wear a diabetic ID and carry a hypo with you. Watch out for drink spiking, never drink and drive, the extra responsibility can save your life.atooing and body piercing are more dangerous because of the risk of infection and the complications that can result…...

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Type II Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is also called non-insulin-dependent diabetes or adult onset diabetes. It is a medical disorder that, due to a number of factors codependent with the modern world, is characterized by higher than normal blood glucose levels that play havoc with insulin deficiency and resistance. There is no cure, per se, for the disease, although if managed through exercise and diet it usually diminishes. However, if untreated, Type II Diabetes may become quite serious and require the medication of symptoms in order to the patient to maintain a productive life ("Diabetes Australia," 2010).

Diabetes is one of Australia's top six health priorities, besides being a serious global health risk. Scholars estimate about 8% of the population have clinically diagnosed diabetes, but only a limited number are actually diagnosed. The disease itself is considered to be related to natural influences from the developing world: rising obesity rates, lifestyle issues, and the general lack of exercise most Australians receive (Zimmer, 2002).

One of the more serious aspects of type II diabetes is the new prevalence of onset during later teen years, most likely completely due to rising obesity patterns in children. Symptoms for both children and adults range from chronic fatigue, general weakness and malaise to

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Playing Beatie Bow the Role
Pages: 6 Words: 1598


This puts katniss in a tough situation because it would mean that she has to kill the member of her own district. She managed to make the judges withdraw their announcement due to her intelligence. Katniss knew that the game makers would not allow both of them to die. Therefore, she takes out some poisonous berries and gives some to her mate from the district. They plan to eat them so that they can both die which would mean the game makers would lose. That way, the game makers stopped them and both of them emerged winners. Katniss learns that, at such an instance, one has to take a risk even if it means her and the mate dying (Collin 290).

Katniss realized that she had to be rebellious against the capital and the game makers. This was the only way to win the game. Her aim was for them to…...

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References

Cosslett, Tess." History From Below." Time-slip Narratives and National Identity" the Lion and the Unicorn. 26.2(2002): 243-253. Print.

O'sullivan, Anne.m."Structure and Narrative Point-of-View in Playing Beatie Bow" the

Literature Base.2.1(1991): 14-16. Print.

Goss, Jax."The Mother With the Button Eyes." An Exploration of the Story Construct of the

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Two Websites and Why They Are Trivial
Pages: 3 Words: 1044

Pop Culture, Celebrity, and New Media
As Michael Serazio (2012) points out, thanks to the Internet, we now live in a "premediated" world, in which press releases prepare the public to stay tuned for further press releases, as an all-out ad-campaign is unfolded to promote the latest movie, music release, or show (p. 416). Everything is prepped ahead of time, from the celebrity appearances to the photographers, to the clothing the celebs will be wearing, to the timing of events so that buzz reaches its greatest height when the product hits the shelves. Two websites created to drum up interest in two feature films, the latest installment of The Hunger Games series and the latest installment in the James Bond franchise, illustrate exactly what Serazio sees. This paper will compare and contrast the two sites and show how, in terms of an academic perspective, they illustrate just how "premeditated" and "premediated"…...

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References

007. (n.d.). Inside the World of James Bond. Retrieved from  http://www.007.com/ 

The Hunger Games. (n.d.). HungerGamesMovie. Retrieved from  http://www.thehungergames.movie/#/?lang=us-en 

Marwich, A., Boyd, D. To see and be seen: Celebrity practice on Twitter. Convergence:

the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 17: 139.

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Divergent Film Analysis
Pages: 7 Words: 2394

Transmedia Property. Case study related a media property (e.g., comic, film, television, ). This analysis existing property development a transmedia plan property. Break movie's elements starting introduction, music, back ground, audience engage movie, flow movie All typed papers assignments double-spaced, 12- 11-point font -inch margins.
Summary of the property

The transmedia concept is not a novelty these days, as the concept was first patented at the beginning of the 1990s. According to researchers, "The term transmedia was coined in 1991 by then-USC professor Marsha Kinder, while the transmedia storytelling concept was developed by current USC Annenberg professor Henry Jenkins. He describes transmedia storytelling as "a process in which integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story." (Tenderich, 2013) More precisely, transmedia allows…...

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References

Bauckhage, Tobias. "Digital Box Office Drilldown: How this week's wide releases are shaping up on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google," in Variety, 21 march 2014, available online at  http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/social-media-buzz-young-audiences-focused-on-divergent-at-weekend-box-office-1201142237/ 

Box Office Mojo. "Divergent," 2014, available at  http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=divergent.htm 

Cheney, Alexandra. "Lionsgate and Summit look to lay claim to another franchise, hot on the heels of 'Hunger,' 'Twilight' films" in Variety, 26 February 2014, available online at  http://variety.com/2014/film/news/will-movie-be-divergent-enough-to-lure-young-adult-audience-1201119322/ 

Divergent Fans. 2014, available at  http://www.divergentfans.com

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Biblical Texts While Innovation Is
Pages: 2 Words: 596

However, the narrator eventually comes to acknowledge his ignorance after the blind man presents him with matters as seen from his point-of-view. John 14:22 applies perfectly in this situation, considering that it promotes the concept that individuals are probable to express more appreciation toward the world as a whole and toward things that previously seemed uninteresting. James 3:16 also applies in this situation because it emphasizes that jealousy and selfish ambition are probable to disrupt the peace within a family. The narrator has trouble enjoying life to the fullest because he is jealous and envious with regard to his wife's friends.
"The Lottery" shows Mr. Adams as the first persons who draws a ticket during the lottery and it would be absurd for someone to consider that this does not stand as a reference to Adam as the first man that God created. The fact that Tessie Hutchinson refrains from…...

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Works cited:

Carver, Raymond, "Cathedral," (Random House, 01.12.2009)

Jackson, Shirley, "The Lottery," (Dramatic Publishing Company, 1953)

Ross, Gary, "The Hunger Games"

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Famine in the 21st Century
Pages: 6 Words: 2061

innovations in agricultural technologies, the dire predictions of global famine made by Stanford University Professor Paul . Ehrlich in his book, The Population Bomb (1968) have not materialized to date. Nevertheless, hunger continues to persist in many regions of the world, especially its major cities, due in large part to urbanization and 7.5 million people die of hunger each month (Holmes, 2008). The hunger that does exist in the world today is largely the result of increased urbanization and national political leadership that either uses food as a weapon or lacks the resources or will to ensure that adequate food distribution is achieved in their countries (Wurwag, 2014). To determine the facts, this paper provides a review of the relevant literature concerning urbanization and the urban structure to identify those factors that are most responsible for preventing adequate distribution of food to urban residents. A summary of the research…...

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References

Ehrlich, P.R. (1968). The population bomb. New York: Ballantine Books.

Gonzalez-Pelaez, A. (2005). Human rights and world trade: Hunger in international society. London: Routledge.

Holmes, J. (2008, June-September). Losing 25,000 to hunger every day. UN Chronicle, 2-3, 14-

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Q/A
How has Greek mythology influenced modern pop culture and literature?
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1. Characters and stories from Greek mythology are often referenced in modern pop culture, such as in movies, television shows, and video games. For example, the character of Achilles from the Trojan War is frequently mentioned in popular media.

2. Many modern books and novels draw inspiration from Greek mythology, incorporating elements such as gods, heroes, and monsters into their plots. Authors such as Rick Riordan and Madeline Miller have gained popularity for their retellings of Greek myths.

3. The themes and moral lessons found in Greek mythology continue to resonate with audiences today, and are often explored in contemporary literature. These....

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What impact can a captivating title have on the reader\'s engagement with a narrative?
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A Captivating Title: The Gateway to Enthralling Narratives

In the realm of storytelling, titles hold an unparalleled power to captivate readers, luring them into the depths of a narrative with promises of intrigue, wonder, and adventure. A well-crafted title serves as a gateway, unlocking the imagination and setting the stage for an immersive and unforgettable reading experience.

1. Piquing Curiosity and Interest

A captivating title ignites a spark of curiosity, driving readers to delve into the story with an insatiable desire to discover its hidden depths. By hinting at a tantalizing mystery or promising an extraordinary journey, a title entices readers to abandon....

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