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By Alexandra Pell, Student
Spoilers ahead, of course.
The short answer is: yes, definitely -- because my expectations were realistic.
It was both truly fantastic and very notably imperfect at the same...
(1) Comments | Posted March 31, 2012 | 03/31/12 05:31 PM ET
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By Kat Li, Quora biz dev
Question Details: This is a follow up question to Are the Careers more desensitized to the Hunger Games than other District tributes? If so,...
(1) Comments | Posted March 31, 2012 | 03/31/12 04:53 PM ET
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By Allison Cruz, Student
Warning: This answer contains some movie spoilers!
From the Movie: In the movie, the audience and Peeta himself realized that he had no chance...
(0) Comments | Posted March 29, 2012 | 03/29/12 02:06 PM ET
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By Cristina Hartmann
Lawyer by day, writer by night
As a chaser to Monika's excellent answer, I'll add that:
The Hunger Games capitalized on popular trends, Battle...
(2) Comments | Posted March 29, 2012 | 03/29/12 11:43 AM ET
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By Monika Kothari, Anthropology and political theory student
This is going to be mostly speculative on my part, because I haven't read Battle Royale, though it is somewhere on my list....
(0) Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 03/27/12 12:04 PM ET
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By Cristina Hartmann
Lawyer by day, writer by night
Tributes with disabilities competed in the Hunger Games just like any other tribute.
If you're between the ages of 12...
(5) Comments | Posted March 26, 2012 | 03/26/12 09:14 PM ET
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By Mike Barnard
Associate Partner, Application Innovation Services, and Business Architect, IBM GBS
Question Details: An article argues that The Hunger Games "misses the mark" on violence because children and...
(1) Comments | Posted March 26, 2012 | 03/26/12 08:43 PM ET
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By Jen Evans
Fashion stylist
There are SPOILERS in this answer that give away plot points in THG book and the movie. Blah blah blah, please discontinue reading.......
The speech...
(2) Comments | Posted March 26, 2012 | 03/26/12 10:51 AM ET
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By Cristina Hartmann
Lawyer by day, writer by night
This is a fascinating topic, yet one that may be too complicated to answer fully. The Hunger Games series' use of...
(0) Comments | Posted March 24, 2012 | 03/24/12 08:07 PM ET
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By Kat Li, Quora biz dev.
Here are the shows that remind me of The Hunger Games in very particular ways:
(0) Comments | Posted March 23, 2012 | 03/23/12 05:07 PM ET
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By John Dick, CEO, CivicScience
~$113.75M
Why / How?
Relying on our digital polling applications at CivicScience, we've done pretty well this spring in our predictions for both The Lorax...
(0) Comments | Posted March 23, 2012 | 03/23/12 12:21 AM ET
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By Kat Li, Quora biz dev.
Skills such as weaponry, strength, foraging, and camouflage were all important. However, any tribute who survived the initial bloodbath was expected to have at least...
(0) Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 03/21/12 11:27 PM ET
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By Cristina Hartmann, Lawyer by day, writer by night
All of the answers so far are spot-on about the attributes of the Hunger Games series. The books are fast-paced, personable and...
(0) Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 03/21/12 09:35 PM ET
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By Ian Peters-Campbell, VP of Engineering, Loopt
I believe singing represents liberation.
Katniss' father was clearly a much more liberated person, physically and mentally, than most others in District 12. He...
(0) Comments | Posted March 20, 2012 | 03/20/12 05:48 PM ET
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By Monika Kothari, Anthropology and political theory student
Using the positions of Team Peeta and Team Gale outlined by Cristina Hartmann, I decided to see if my results corroborated with...
(0) Comments | Posted March 19, 2012 | 03/19/12 09:03 PM ET
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By Cristina Hartmann, Lawyer by day, writer by night
To get a vague estimate of the Hunger Game's temporal placement, we must think about its background.
As stated in
(0) Comments | Posted March 19, 2012 | 03/19/12 02:51 PM ET
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By Cristina Hartmann
Lawyer by day, writer by night
Preface: if I truly ended up in a Hunger Games event, I'd probably pee my pants and cry, getting myself killed...
(2) Comments | Posted March 18, 2012 | 03/18/12 10:01 PM ET
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Kat Li, Quora biz dev.
Katniss, like most real life humans, varies between active and passive. While she occasionally makes decisions and takes a stand, these are largely "reactive". I would...
(5) Comments | Posted March 16, 2012 | 03/16/12 07:24 PM ET
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Cristina Hartmann, Lawyer by day, writer by night.
Let's start with skin color. After all, we need to know if any basis exists for interpreting Katniss as a woman of color.
...(0) Comments | Posted March 15, 2012 | 03/15/12 10:16 PM ET
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Kat Li, Quora biz dev.
One of The Hunger Games' most interesting aspects is its critical satire of reality TV. Author Suzanne Collins has cited reality TV as part of the...
(2) Comments | Posted April 2, 2012 | 04/02/12 01:31 PM ET