By Gabi Gagliastri MockingJay Due October 26, 2012 Language Arts Period A-B Bag it tag it book report Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry and wants revenge after she blew the force field out in the arena in the second book, Catching Fire. Katniss wakes up to find herself in the District 13. The District 12 has been destroyed, with only 900 hundred survivors, including gale, prim, and her mom, but not Peeta's family.
Mean Girls Mean Girls is a coming of age film. The movie follows a girl by the name of Cady Heron who starts off being a home-schooled jungle freak to Plastic to most hated person in the world to actual human being. Cady spent 12 years in Africa being home-schooled due to her parents’ studying as research zoologists. Her mother had then earned a job at Northwestern University which caused Cady & her family to move to Evanston, Illinois in America. Feeling that she needed to socialise, Cady’s parents enrolled her to North Shore High school.
The woman described above is Julia Butterfly Hill, a determined twenty-three-year-old preacher’s daughter from Arkansas who in December of 1997 climbed one-hundred and eighty feet into a thousand-year-old redwood tree named Luna in Humboldt County of California. She promised not to leave the top of that tree until Luna was guaranteed permanent protection from Pacific Lumber/Maxxam Corporation’s clear cutting policies; which she saw as destructive. Hill stuck to her promise and lived on a small platform built on that redwood tree for more than two years, bringing international attention to the destruction of the redwoods. As a result of her efforts, more people than ever before have become aware of controversial clear cutting practices. While an agreement allowed Hill to descend from her perch and Luna to escape destruction, most of the surrounding old-growth forest in the region
And may the odds be ever in your favor.” She is chosen to go alongside the son of District Twelve’s bakers, Peeta Mellark. After the reaping, she and Peeta are sent to the capitol, where they are prepared to face the capitol, their people, and above all the Hunger Games. Katniss then goes into the phase of the steps called ‘Refusal of call/reluctant hero’, thus is when the hero, Katniss refuses to believe that she is the true hero of the novel. Believing in herself was an unimportant task because we see, Katniss being discouraged and frail, believing she will never
On the 22nd of April my mother got sick that I had to come home to take care of her I am her care giver I make sure she take her medicine, do her speech exercise, walk we her to the doctor’s appointment and also speak for her when she needs it. I try to explain to my probation officer that but of course he don’t really care. I thought that probation supposed to help you but it seems like he is knocking me down. He trying to put me in jail for trying to take of my family and also probation I have no income coming in
Mise 1 An Epidemic of Single Household and Blended Families As she prepares for yet another math exam within a 2 week period, she can’t help but to think about the problem facing her at home instead of math. The thought of failing the exam is the least bit of her worries because she’s constantly thinking about how she feels like a stranger in her new home. Since her transfer from California to New York, her life for her and her 10 year old brother has been like a rollercoaster. Their lives have changed drastically in the last four months with trying to adjust to a new state, home and school. She has to cope with her feelings of abandonment, frustration and state of despair.
The battle is over for the seventy fourth hunger games and Katniss heads back to the capitol with Peeta. Katniss still hates the committee for the capitol and her mindset is just to focus on starting her own resistance group called the “Mockingbirds”. With talking to her mentor the whole time on the ride back to the capitol, she explains how at the celebration of the two tribute victors (her and peeta), that she will carry her Bow and arrow on her and when they get close to the “First Lady”, she will fire an arrow straight into her. Finally Katniss and Peeta arrive at the capitol. At first there is just love everywhere, then the train goes to the bad side of town and there is just hate towards the two.
Or, rather, it did have, but “Our mother died when I was two,” says Scout, “so I never felt her Absence”. (Charles J. Shields 42) Moving out of Monroeville, Harper attended Huntington College for Women. After one year she’d had all of the proper etiquette she could take and moved to the the University of Alabama, where she became the editor of the “politically satirical student newspaper”(George Marotous). Harper’s father and sister, Alice, were lawyers, and with her drive for civil rights, she tried to follow suit, but dropped out 6 months before graduation. Numerous unrewarding jobs kept her writing confined to weekends until a friend who believed in her work leant her the money to be able to write full time.
Taylor Heskett Professor Raker English 101 January 16th 2013 Peers, Problems and a Presidency “Taylor you’d be great for this position!” I barely heard while I was counting down the seconds until my High school History class was over. “What did you say?” I proclaimed. My teacher, Mrs. Mckannan, elaborated her point by explaining that the election for Senior Class officers was approaching. I had always been a part of committees and clubs throughout High School but never before considered running for Senior Class office. Mrs. Mckannan said there was a major lack of interest this year and very few students were running.
Since the collapse of SH regime more Americans have died after the war .77% of Iraqis would rather the coalition never come because before they came to the “rescue” there was stability in the region. You wonder how America could be losing so much men & women. America had created so much trouble that they ruined so many lives. One of these examples was on a documentary on date line about this female professor who lived smack bang in the middle of Bagdad with her son and husband. Her husband is a pharmacist and she was a teacher at the local university.