3) How has Katniss been adopted by political parties in the United States?

AJennifer Lawrence in Hunger Games: Catching Fire

'Sure Katniss Everdeen is an idealised fantasy anti-authoriatarian heroine … What she isn’t is either 'girly' or interested in riches.' Photograph: Allstar/Lionsgate/Sportsphoto Ltd

All hail Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games trilogy. If you are the mother of a pre-teen girl, you will know the whispered relief around these films. "About time. Go!" If you would like your teenage daughter to see something other than the underclass sobbing on a crass talent show, orange twentysomethings Botoxing themselves, or girls who are just "naturally thin" and who giggle when their clothes just drop off, then you will already know about them. If, like me, you simply would like to see a young woman not defined by her relationship to men, crack open the pick 'n' mix.

Clearly I am not alone. Nor is my youngest. Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games, has had the fourth biggest box office weekend opening in history. Ever since the first film came out, my daughter read the books by Suzanne Collins and we have a shrine to Peeta, Katniss's fellow contestant.

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The books are neither warm nor easy, but then dystopian futures of totalitarian states (Panem, as it is called) only work when they're not so far from the imagination. In The Hunger Games, the rich and powerful control the Capitol and dress in grotesque Gaga-ish costumes while the poor live out in the Districts and are treated with increasing contempt.

This is a police state where "peacekeepers" kill and torture. Hegemony is maintained by giving them very little – that's why Katniss learned to hunt illegally – but staging huge spectacles: each District is "reaped" to find two people who are chosen for the televised Hunger Games.

So this is a satire on the kind of TV that its target audience watches. The games are a brutal contest to kill every other contestant. It is the logical conclusion of reality TV: survival of the fittest. At the centre of this is Katniss, played by the sparky Jennifer Lawrence, who is seen on red carpets in apparently awful outfits. What do I know? Every time I read these gown-downs, as I call them, I like the ones the fashionistas hate (Bjork wearing a swan being my all-time favourite). We have seen Lawrence being chatted up on camera by sleazoid Jack Nicholson, who, to be fair, is only three times her age. And we have seen her lose it in front of the paparazzi, screaming: "Stop. Stop. Stop." So she isn't just acting cool, she is cool and aware that she wants to keep her body healthy-looking, not a size zero.

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The obligation to be a role model is daunting and modern. I can't remember wanting to be anyone other than Mr Spock and David Bowie. The female bit is blank – my memory is only full of girls I did not want to be or never imagined I could be.

Since then, we pretty much have a roll-call of politically correct heroines, but still have to go some way back to find tough, independent women, from Linda Hamilton in Terminator to Sigourney Weaver in Alien, or Tarantino's fantasy of Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. Japanese cinema has produced some magnificent female characters, and, of course, we rewrite the "final girl" of the horror genre: in which, after several women have been raped/killed/tortured, the final girl turns the table and survives.

Lately though, for teenage girls, we have had Twilight's mopey and passive Bella Swan. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is long gone, so to see Katniss (more akin to Neo in The Matrix) as resilient and smart and reluctantly becoming a symbol of a revolution is quite something. Guys fall in love with her but she really has better things to do: the uprising. Unlike Russell Brand's fluffier talk of revolution, the movies do not shy away from the violence and executions that accompany the suppression of dissent, with the great Donald Sutherland's watery eyes conveying pure evil as the president.

Sure, Katniss is an idealised fantasy anti-authoriatarian heroine. She is also confused, stubborn and vulnerable. What she isn't is either "girly" or interested in riches. She makes her bow and arrows to bring down the system. Nothing is said about gender. She is taller than one of her partners and it's her physical and mental prowess that we root for.

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Explanation:

Consider the poems. "The Corn Harvest" by William Carlos Williams An excerpt from "After Apple Picking" by Robert Frost Summer ! the painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest completely relaxed from his morning labors sprawled in fact sleeping unbuttoned on his back the women have brought him his lunch perhaps a spot of wine they gather gossiping under a tree whose shade carelessly he does not share the resting center of their workaday world. My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples; I am drowsing off. I cannot shake the shimmer from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this morning from the water-trough, And held against the world of hoary grass. It melted, and I let it fall and break. But I was well Upon my way to sleep before it fell, And I could tell What form my dreaming was about to take. Magnified apples appear and reappear, Stem end and blossom end, And every fleck of russet showing clear. What subject is emphasized in both poems? the amount of work accomplished the coworkers’ enjoyment the need for rest after work the desire to find a new job

Comic books are worthwhile and should be read by adults and children why please explain.
Please can someone give me a 20. Word paragraph please!

Choose the appositive in the sentence.

We visited the capital of California, Sacramento.

A. capital
B. Sacramento
C. visited
D. California

The baseball player admits that one of his concerns is that the tabloids will begin reporting that he will be A. a fielder. B. traded. C. a catcher. D. fired.

when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see the tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky… Type of figurative language: Meaning of figurative language: Effect on tone and mood: Effect on audience:

How do I introduce myself in a speech without saying who I am, and how old I am first

Can somebody help me write my essay. The topic is Should grandparents move with families when the family move to a new country? please.​

Japan Tsunami some Interesting facts

Which of the following is a key feature of a textbook's key terms?
They identify the important information you can expect to learn from the chapter.
They are often highlighted or located in the margins and are accompanied by definitions.
They announce each major part of the chapter.

What is one thing the prologue tells us about the play and/or its outcome?

Write a narrative about a humorous situation. Whether you focus on a real event or make up a fictional one, you must use comedic techniques and rich description to bring the experience to life. You'll start with a narrator who has a clear perspective, even if the narrator is you. Then you'll build the scene from the ground up: You'll describe the setting using imagery that appeals to the senses, you'll bring out characters' personalities with realistic dialogue, and you'll use certain comedic techniques, like the ones Mark Twain uses, to introduce some humor.

Complete the sentences with the affirmative ( +), negative ( -) or interrogative ( ?) for of used to.
a) When my grandpa was a kid, he _________ play video games . (-)
b) My mom ________ be a crosswords champion as a teenager. (+)
c) ___________ your father________ play a musical instrument as a child ?
d) Leonardo's parents ______________ like dogs, but now they have a beagle. (-)

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For question 2 I chose C and for question 3 I chose B, as my answers. Are these right? I'm not too sure.

How would you change the plot or the ending In the Story The Hunger Games

What reason does Macbeth give for ordering the murder of Banquo and his
son?
A. He wants to prevent Banquo's son from becoming king as the
witches predicted.
B. He thinks that Banquo will try to kill him to gain the crown for his
family.
C. He believes that Banquo and his son are guilty of many crimes and
should be punished.
D. He is offended that Banquo has not come to the castle to pay him
respect as the new king.

Can racism effect your health? I need a paragraph

"The Last Spin"
What do Tigo and Danny have in common? Name at least three things

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Why was satire popular among 18th-century English writers?

"What if the scallops bite me?" Alicia asked, rather more loudly and fearfully than she really wanted to sound. "It won't hurt much," her brother, Ron, teased. "But if it does, I am fully prepared to amputate." "You are not helping," Alicia shrieked. Ron was driving the boat, and he clearly knew what he was doing. He had been running boats, working crab traps since Alicia was old enough to notice such things. Still, she wasn't sure she trusted him to tell her the truth about things. She was younger, and he liked to tease. She often found herself soaking wet from a dunk, or the loser in a game he'd "forgotten" to explain the rules for. She loved him nonetheless. He brought her treasures from his traps. He told her stories of strange creatures he'd seen in the salt marshes.

Read this part of the section:

Ron was driving the boat, and he clearly knew what he was doing. He had been running boats, working crab traps since Alicia was old enough to notice such things. Which of the following correctly describes the main purpose of this text in the narrative?

Create the climax
Develop tension
Hint at the resolution
Provide exposition

Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue."
Those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as "Even though Tom
was _, Mary thought he was ." And the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland
combinations of thoughts, for example, "Even though Tom was foolish, Mary thought he was ridiculous." Well,
according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what Tom could have been and what Mary might have
thought of him. So I never did well on tests like that.
Which information from the excerpt best supports the inference that achievement tests ignore imagination as an element of
language ability?

Each of the musketeers has a lackey (servant). List at least four duties that the lackeys are responsible for.

Refer to the article "From Barter to Bitcoin" in your Money, Money, Money magazine for a complete version of this text.


Based on the information in "From Barter to Bitcoin," one can conclude that bitcoin is unlikely to be a form of currency used by young people any time soon.


Which detail from the text best supports this conclusion?

Where did they go? What was at 158th Street? In the Great Gatsby

Guided Practice
Here is that sentence again.
What is the compound verb in this sentence?
The little children hopped, skipped, and jumped around the playground.
A. hopped, skipped, and jumped
B. around the playground
C. The little children

You are preparing to park your car and you notice that you are near a railroad crossing. You must not park
A-Within 25 feet of a railroad crossing.
B-Within 35 feet of a railroad crossing.
C-Within 50 feet of a railroad crossing.

Do you think that politicians and governments are
responsible for existing racism?
What other cases do you know of besides what happened
against citizen George Floyd?

why do words with positive connotations have positive connotations​

Can anyone help me solve this? All you have to do is match the definition to the tot he correct word. Thanks
1. allusion

2. acrimonious

3. impugn

4. disparage

5. invective

6. reprove

7. harass

8. chastise

9. derogatory

10. vilify

Column B

a. to punish for wrongdoing; criticize severely

b. to scold or correct with kindly intent; express disapproval of

c. bitter and ill-natured in language or tone

d. detracting from the character or standing of; expressive of a low opinion

e. to criticize by argumentation; oppose as false or worthless

f. to speak of as unimportant or inferior; belittle

g. to utter slanderous and abusive statements against; defame

h. a roundabout and often spiteful reference to someone or something not named; an insinuation

i. insulting words used to attack; violent denunciation or abuse

j. to irritate or torment persistently; carry out repeated attacks

On the crowded train, prisoners are cold and miserable. Eleizer describes feeling like everyone's brains were dying and losing their memories. He goes on to say, "Our minds numb with indifference. Here or elsewhere, what did it matter? Die today or tomorrow, or later? The night was growing longer, never-ending"


What is Eleizer saying here? Interpret this passage in your own words. What is "night" symbolic of in this passage? Can you make any connections to our society/world today? Explain all of your thoughts clearly.
*Response must be 8-10 sentences.

plz answer

Which lines from the passage support the theme "true
strength is knowing when not to act"?
O "Here is your part at break of day tomorrow /
home with you, go mingle with our princes."
O "The swineherd later on will take me down / the
port-side trail – a beggar, by my looks, / hangdog
and old."
O "If they make fun of me / in my own courtyard, let
your ribs cage up / your springing heart, no matter
what | suffer."