Mockingjay - The Hunger Games Book 3

In the third and final volume of The Hunger Games, Katniss has once more escaped the warrior's arena with her co-tribute Peeta, for whom she has feelings but cannot quite put them into words, and yet she is now called on to lead the revolution as the Mockingjay.

In Book 1, Katniss and her co-tribute Peeta, are sent to The Hunger Games Arena as representatives of District 12 and they make it to the winner's platform and are thanked for their survival. Katniss and Peeta were to have settled down and lived a quiet life of safety and contentment.

However, as we later found out in Book 2, President Snow and Panem see Katniss and Peeta's victory differently. There are rumors of rebellion in the air and they seem to swirl around the pair of Hunger Games winners so rather than their quiet, safe life together, Katniss and Peeta are pulled into a world of more intrigue as President Snow and company try to determine if Katniss is, indeed, the leader of the revolution or just an innocent dupe. Indeed, the President makes a special trip to District 12 to see Katniss, whose home District also happens to be the poorest area that sends its tribute to Panem and The Hunger Games.

After planning the 75th Anniversary "Games," Katniss and Peeta have to savage their opponents again to attain victory again.

Book 3, opens with Peeta suffering from an apparent case of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) after two rounds of nearly constant battle and fear. All he wants is a little quiet and some understanding, however, Katniss becomes the Mockingjay - the real leader of the revolutionary movement.

It does make sense as Panem is very upset with the Katniss/Peeta team for surviving the trips to the arena and President Snow and his circle are equally as upset. The only welcome Katniss receives is from the revolution and being a natural leader she takes over as the Mockingjay. By worrying about Katniss and her partner, Panem and Snow have driven Katniss, now the ultimate warrior, into the arms of the revolution. It is a classic self-fulfilling prophecy.

In Book 3, we also find best-selling and award-winning author Suzanne Cole changing direction. Not only is she starting to wind things up to their conclusion, but she is broadening the characterization of all of the parties involved giving Katniss a larger-than-life persona and role and leaving her real love, Peeta, to suffer through bouts of PTSD alone. Another love interest appears but when one is finished, one realizes that Peeta is her soul-mate.

Peeta's soul-mate, on the other hand, is now almost a universal soldier, committed to the savagery and war. She has become the ultimate warrior and Panem feels her anger.

Author Collins used her considerable writing skill to make Katniss believable, as well as the situations in which she finds herself. Overall, Book 3 is a fitting lid for The Hunger Games. Collins is able to bring things to a successful conclusion that, as the old ads used to say, will "leave you at the edge of your seat." She does that and more in her crowning achievement in the Hunger Games.

Mockingjay - The Hunger Games Book 3

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Mockingjay - The Hunger Games Book 3

Mockingjay - The Hunger Games Book 3
Mockingjay - The Hunger Games Book 3

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5 Top Best Selling PC Games

The gaming market has increased dramatically in size in the last few years. However, there are still some people out there who believe that these games are worthless and gamers will be better off doing something more fruitful. However, playing PC games is an art form that many people around the world have mastered. Some of the best selling PC games require a lot of thinking, strategy and brain power to accomplish tasks and win each level. Therefore, one can say that these games require certain amount of intelligence and gray matter!

Here are the 5 top best selling PC games that have changed the way computer games are viewed.

1. The Sims: This game is all about creating your own character and then taking care of him or her. The character's basic needs like hunger, leisure, sleep and even bladder emptying have to be taken care of. The gamer also has to take care of livelihood needs like job and working environment. This is one game that single handedly taught young gamers the importance of education, job, career and money. The lesson learned from this game could be used in real like. In addition, the game also taught gamers about relationships, love and romance. However, the detractors felt that it propagated polygamy since a character could marry two people.

There are many add-ons you can buy to make the game more interesting and complicated. It is estimated that The Sims sold around 16 million copies, while The Sims 2 sold around 13 million copies around the world.

2. Starcraft: This is an MMORPG game that is very popular around the world. It is estimated that more than 9.5 million copies of the game have been sold.

Starcraft is a game replete with adventure, action, strategy and much more. It is military sci-fi strategy game set in the 26th century. When it was released in the late 1990s, it revolutionized real-time strategy games. It has different levels of difficulty which cannot be changed in the single player mode.

3. World of Warcraft: This is another MMORPG that has more than 11 million monthly subscribers from around the world. This is also a real-time 3D strategy game. Characters have to explore different locations in a make believe world, fight enemies and complete quests. This allows the characters to earn experience points and after a certain number of points, the characters can move on to the next level.

4. Half Life: This is a science fiction first person shooter game. The player is a character known as Dr. Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist, who must find his way through an underground secret research facility after a teleportation experiment goes wrong. The game is extremely fast paced and more than makes up for the weird storyline.

5. Myst: It is considered to be one of the best adventure games in the world. There is nearly no violence in the game and the storyline is quite detailed. Although the game is quite simple, a player can lose track of time when he has to special books to travel to the island of Myst and other worlds known as Ages to collect clues. Depending on what action a player takes, the game offers several different endings.

5 Top Best Selling PC Games

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5 Top Best Selling PC Games

5 Top Best Selling PC Games
5 Top Best Selling PC Games

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Stephanie Ericsson, "The Ways We Lie"

Stephanie Ericsson, "The Ways We Lie"

In "The Ways We Lie," by Stephanie Ericsson, the author depicts the many ways humans lie and justifies the reasons for doing so. There is the white lie, which is basically telling a harmless untruth instead of a harmful truth. Facades are basically changing your personality while ignoring the plain facts, as the title implies, is a false action done with the intent to deceive. Deflecting is not answering the question at all; it is being up-front about comfortable issues and not revealing the couple of very important issues that changes everything.

The omission is simply when you don't say anything instead of lying; this changes history as it did in the omission of Lilith from the Bible. Stereotypes create lies because a group of peoples actions, just like group think, caused bad disasters such as Pearl Harbor. Out-and-out lies are straightforward, and dismissal is simply avoiding the lie all together. It's seems that Ericsson believes lying is important in order to not hurt peoples feelings and to be successful and happy.

I agree with Ericsson to an extent. It is true that lying may cause hurt feelings and a simple, harmless mis truth would have solved that problem. However, the author also states that she tried to go weeks without lying and she found it almost impossible. I believe that this shows the author might be a compulsive liar, and thus all the justifications she gave us were lies as well. Either way, lies are important, just not when you lie all the time.

Stephanie Ericsson, "The Ways We Lie"

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Stephanie Ericsson, "The Ways We Lie"

Stephanie Ericsson, "The Ways We Lie"
Stephanie Ericsson, "The Ways We Lie"

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