Cordarius Johnson Freshman Seminar I Professor Gina Tills November 11‚ 2013 The Game Plan A lot of people from my hometown asked me why did I want to go to college. They say even with a degree you won’t find a good job or it will cost a lot of money to attend college and then money you going to make‚ if I ever got a high paying job‚ will just be paid back to the school the school I attended. And then I ask them‚ “why not attend college?” Do you want to be a bum for the rest of your
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Mikyla Pene-Bavastro The movie ‘The Hunger Games’ directed by Gary Ross is an extraordinary fictional tale. A tale set in a futuristic dystopia society called ‘Panem’. This nation is divided into 12 districts and a capitol. Every year each district must offer two tributes a male and a female that must fight to the death until there is one remaining tribute out of twenty-four‚ who later becomes a victor. An interesting character in the film is Katniss Everdene‚ the films heroine. A District 12
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being a teenager that has been forced to have the responsibility of protecting their whole family‚ but one day‚ their entire life gets altered into having to murder other children for survival; this is the fate of tributes of the Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games‚ Suzanne Collins illustrates a desolate world where survivors of the post-apocalyptic continent of Panem segregate into twelve separate districts and tasked with specific responsibilities of harvesting the Earth’s remaining natural resources
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Hunger Games – The Movie The movie‚ The Hunger Games‚ is based off of the popular written series of books by the same title. Although the accuracy of the plot of the movie being transitioned from the book to screen-play‚ is lacking‚ the film still does a phenomenal job of keeping the viewer engaged. The special effects flow through the movie smoothly and without complication. The acting‚ in some cases‚ are amateur‚ most of the actors do very well at their roles. I had no problems believing the
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watching his foster father play chess. Too everyone’s suprise‚ after much observing‚ Czentovic finally revealed his brilliant chess skills‚ making him one of the greatest chess players in the world. Dr. B‚ an Austrian emigrant who interferes in a game between a man names mcconner and Czentovic‚ is secretly a brilliant chess player. When he was held hostage by the Nazis‚ a few weeks before‚ he was placed in a hotel room where his "world consisted only of table‚ door‚ bed‚ wash-basin‚ chair‚ window
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You Read The Hunger Games One of the most influential‚ albeit controversial‚ book series of 2008 is written by Suzanne Collins‚ an author who previously had been a children’s television writer. Collins‚ in her new series The Hunger Games‚ delves into the dark‚ questionable subject of child versus child combat. The heroine of the book‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ is someone to be admired and looked up to. Time and time again she makes the tough choices required of her. The Hunger Games also has an exciting
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movies in which the 90% of its scenes were created by a computer program. Unsurprisingly‚ videogames programmers took advantage of this “boom” of recent times to start a millionaire industry. According to ESA magazine 2007‚ the annual sales of video games and their accessories in the U.S. reached $10.5 billion in 2005‚ exceeding the $9
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Final Essay—Spring 2013 Directions: Choose one of the following essay prompts below. You will compose a five paragraph essay that contains the following: * An introduction that contains an attention getter and a thesis statement (argument) * Three body paragraphs each of them containing one supporting reason for your thesis. All body paragraphs should have a topic sentence‚ introduction to a quote‚ a quote (evidence)‚ and an explanation of your quote. NONE OF YOUR BODY PARAGRAPHS SHOULD
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Game 4: Harborco Scenario Harborco is a consortium of development‚ industrial‚ and shipping concerns interested in building and operating a deepdraft port. It has already selected a site for the port‚ but cannot proceed without a license from the Federal Licensing Agency (FLA). The FLA is willing to grant Harborco a license‚ but only if it secures the support of at least 4 of 5 other parties: the environmental coalition‚ the federation of labor unions‚ a consortium of other ports in the region
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very easy because they both had a similar childhood and upbringings. They both came out on top with a lot of pride‚ toughness and perseverance and the willing to take care of others. Katniss Everdeen is a fictional character in the book The Hunger Games. She is 16 years old and lives in a district called Panem in the poorest part of town called‚ The Seam. She lives with her mother and younger sister. Her father passes away during a coal mining explosion when she was 11 years old. After that tragedy
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