United States Capitol Essays

In the first installment of the Hunger Games series we are greeted to the character Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and her family reside in the lowly District 12, the coal mining district, where the felling of death and despair is a guarantee. After the death of her father in a coal mining accident Katniss must do whatever she must in order to ensure the survival of her family and herself. Directed by Gary Ross the film was both a critical and financial success. In the beginning of the movie many of

CAI JUNYAN THE MANY SIDES OF HUMANMITY IN THE HANGER GAMES A game of life and death, a test of human conscience, opened. Named "The Hunger Games”, the twelve districts of Panem will choose one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in it every year. The game will be broadcast live in the form of television variety show, and the rule is that 24 contestants will need to fight each other to the death, with the ultimate survivor becoming the winner. He or she

inducing, way to open the United States constitution. Before the United States declared independence from Great Britain, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and many, many others known as the “framers”, came together to form the document that would free Americans for years and years to come. The framers had pure and just intent written between the lines of the first amendment. They want the people to have the ability to criticize and critique the United States

Bob Lee Swagger is the chief protagonist in the Bob Lee Swagger series of novels by American author of thriller novels, Stephen Hunter. We first get introduced to Bob Lee Swagger otherwise known as “Bob the Nailer” in the first novel of the series, the 1993 published Point of Impact. Bob Lee Swagger was in the military where he served as a sniper until his retirement, having attained the rank of Marine sergeant. The book series begins immediately after his retirement after a Soviet sniper in Vietnam

The Giver Literature essay I have read the dystopian novel “The Giver” (1993) which is written by the beloved American author Lois Lowry. “The Giver” is about a twelve-year-old boy with the name Jonas. Jonas lives a similar life as all the others in the community, until the Ceremony of Twelve when he got assigned the task as the Receiver of Memory. As The Receiver of Memory it is Jonas’ task to keep all the memories of the past so not everyone needs to keep this burden. Although Jonas received beautiful

“The Interlopers written by Saki ,is a story about two families, who despised each other for generations. While on the other hand, “Two Friends”, respectively written by Guy De Maupassant is a short story about two loyal fishing friends. Throughout both stories there are many differences to note, and quite few similarities, causing the two short stories to line up laterally to each other in the end. Although, the different time periods cause a huge contrast for the setting, there is a small connection

Suzanne Collins, is a dystopian book about Katniss, the face of the rebellion, who joins her friends and allies to lead a revolution against the Capitol and to save her boy friend Peeta.Katniss Everdeen, Finnick Odair, and Gale Hawthorne are in district 13 and take orders from President, Coin. They are going on their mission to rebel against the Capitol and kill their enemy, President Coriolanus Snow. In the end Katniss saves Peeta and continues her rebellion, but she kills President, Coin instead

America, but after years of destruction, it eventually became Panem. In Panem, there are 12 separate districts that people live within, as well as the Capitol, which is another section of the country that people live in. It is fairly easy to differentiate the districts from one another and very easy to differentiate the districts from the Capitol. Those who live in the districts, live in poverty. Many districts are old, dirty, and falling apart physically and socially. Some districts are better looking

floor in The Pennsylvania State Capitol Building in Harrisburg are very fascinating. The tiles are fascinating because each tile is a mosaic that represent an individual topic. There are 377 tiles on the floor in the capitol building. The tiles were made in Bucks County by a tile maker named Henry Chapman. Most of the tiles are in the Rotunda Passageway. (Murphy). The cost of all the tiles together is $48,000. (About the Capitol) The dome in the Pennsylvania state capitol is very large. The dome

Katy Perry is known for her crazy fashion and catchy songs. Her life started on October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. Perry wasn’t her original last name, it was Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. Katy’s singing career started by taking singing lessons around the age 9, by 13 she had learned to play the guitar. She soon became interested in pursuing a career in music. She began her career by singing gospel music in church. Katy Perry is liked by millions of people because they can relate to her

thorn, so that I hold myself erect perforce. Wearing the hatred of the common herd haughtily, the harsh collar of Old Spain, at once a fetter and, a halo!”’ (II.90). Cyrano despises most people in his society for being so obsequious. He wants only to state the bold, insulting truth; this kind of openness is a reflection of his boldness and courage. A final example of Cyrano’s courage is when Cyrano describes the way he wants to die to the cadets. His reply to them, “‘Always the answer, yes! Let me die

The Hunger Games is a book about 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen's fight to survive in Panem's infamous Hunger Games, a show broadcasted displaying children fighting to the death. This book takes place in Panem, a post-United States nation, but the majority of the book takes place in the Capitol's arena for the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games starts with Katniss Everdeen preparing for the announcement of this year's tributes to the Hunger Games, better known as the Reaping. In the Hunger Games, only

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Marquez has made many stories but in my personal opinion “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is his best one. The point of view for the story is third person point of view. This is a magic realism story which means basically the real world and the fantasy world and mix together. You can tell this story is magic realism because the story's title the old man with enormous

Whitney Houston was an amazing person. She was very talented and had a beautiful and amazing voice. She inspired many many people from all over the world to give them dreams that one day they might grow to be a big star just like she was. She won many awards in her career, and in public she showed she had a happy life. But there where secrets. This paper is all about Whitney Houston's life. Her early life and how she grew up to be a star, when she finally was a star and her adult life, and her accomplishment

She says blood drizzled on the capitol that symbolizes the fall of the capitol and people dying. Calphurnia’s goal is to make Caesar feel scared to go to the capitol. She even goes to the utmost level and stabs herself to try and persuade Caesar to stay. Calphurnia mostly uses pathos to try and persuade Caesar. She wants to to make him feel sad and to make him sad to see her suffer and act distraught. Calphurnia also states: “Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, /Yet not they

Interestingly though, as Egerton interprets the two conspiracies with regard to overall racial equality, he continually insists that Gabriel only disliked merchants, as seen in the preface. When discussing the formation of Gabriel’s mindset, as well, Egerton states that he “came to see the “merchants” who dominated the city, and not whites in general, as his chief antagonists.” I would argue that although labor and economic equality was Gabriel’s personal goal, he recognized the importance and necessity of overall

In the article “Social Separation in Oryx and Crake” by Sarah Nielsen, Nielsen covers the main theme that surrounds the story of Atwood’s take on what could happen to our own world if we make decisions without calculating all of the possible outcomes. It begins by stating how the division in class in the novel is important because it is like a glimpse into our future. She briefly explains how the separation of class is an important factor as to how the world ended in Oryx and Crake. Nielsen goes

One of the most important rhetorical devices in Lou Gehrig’s Farewell Address is ethos. Ethos is the attributes and credibility of the speaker. Lou Gehrig was a beloved and famous baseball player for the New York Yankees. Lou Gehrig was the only son of two hardworking German immigrants. He went to college at Columbia on a football scholarship but ended up playing football and baseball for Columbia. He was immediately recruited by the New York Yankees once spotted by a scout. Gehrig played 2,130 consecutive

in the Capitol Hill, that are becoming popular in the mouths of both parties. There are specific words that are now being used by both Democrats and Republicans like, "outsourcing," "Racial preference," and "Racism." As the word "outsourcing" has been used 71 percent by Democrats. Also, the word "racism" has been used right after 9/11 and after the word is still popular. Hilton uses logos with each description of the words, this is a way to catch your attention with the words that the Capitol Hill

Canada, which is present day Toronto ,so they thought burning down the capitol was the best revenge. During the three days they were in the city, they set fire to most of it causing the majority of the small population to flee. When the citizens started to return, they found their homes and lives destroyed. The destructive actions from the British were brutal and set us up for a long road to recovering the nation’s capitol. When James Madison’s wife, Dolley, heard and saw the British soldiers