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Odalys Rodriguez
Prof. Lawson
4/22/15
English 113B
Annotated Bibliography
Berman, Mark. Even more Black people were lynched in the U.S than previously thought,
study finds. The Washington post. 10. Feb. 2015
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/10/even-more-blackpeople-were-lynched-in-the-u-s-than-previously-thought-study-finds/>
The acts of racism during the 19th and 20th century were one of the most brutal eras of
time. When I came across this article I knew I could use it as an example of the killings white
people used on African Americans back in the day and compare it to how President Snow in the
Hunger Games threatens to hurt or kill the people in the districts. I knew I could trust this
website because it is an actual online news article that Ive used many times before. This article
can help me prove that The American government today had no will to stop the killings of these
innocent African Americans who just wanted equality and prove that the hunger games is an
inside message to the corruption in authority that still goes on today.
Casella, Tony. The Hunger Games highlights the dangers of a Big Government. Freedom
works. 2012. www.freedomworks.org
To have a big government and then, have to find a way to keep a set of rules in place to
keep a steady environment means you have to have a lot of things in mind. The hunger games
provides a wide range of perspectives of how their unjust government manipulated their lives.
The writer of this article explained how the hunger games threw out the idea that a big
government can come with dangers and corruption. The fact that a big government should mean
a wide range of opinions of people who want the best for society but, in reality get the exact
opposite means that there is something completely wrong with the way the rules have been set

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up. I found this source very useful with thinking out loud of the many unfair things the
government has provided for our society and I think its a really good article to quote from in my
essay especially when it comes down to having a counter argument about out awesome
government.

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. Print.
Collins, Suzanne, and Elizabeth B. Parisi. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009.
Print.
Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010. Print
Environmental Protection Agency. Reducing Wasted Food Basics.
<http://www2.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-wasted-food-basics>
This article was brought to my attention when reading another article for info. I figured
that I could use this a source because only the government knows how much waste we produce
as an entire country and if I could come up with a number on how much food our country
actually wastes, I could prove that the government in the Hunger Game books, and our real life
government come across another similarity in how their ignorance towards throwing away food
that could be more than useful for others around the world or those starving in our own country
shows their ways of exploited their acts of good towards their society.
Ford, Sarah. Social control and Hunger Games part 1. Sociology in focus. 2014.
www.sociologyinfocus.com
In this online article, that I came across through searching The hunger games and
government control, this article explored the main points to which the Hunger Games
provides various social control between the people in the districts and it helped me with
quotes from the book that explained these points which made me feel like everything

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being said was right out of the book along with the analyzing part of the quotes
explaining the details. The website have video footage of the movie to kind a help you
understand what she meant by what she wrote and that made me feel like she knew what
she was talking about. Social control comes along from government control and Katniss
Everdeen is a huge example to this.
Pharr, Mary F.; Clark, Leisa A.; Palumbo, Donald E.. Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger
Games : Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy. Jefferson: McFarland & Company,
Inc., Publishers, 2012. Ebook Library. Web. 15 Apr. 2015.
I found this source through the oviatt library and also through previous instruction to read
this a certain part of the article for class. I realized this book would be a great source for
my essay because it had a lot of interesting concepts that had to do with my topic about
government control and how The Hunger games books tie a lot into contemporary issues
that many people arent aware of but realize once they read the books and/or watch the
movies. I knew I could trust this website and its information because it came from the
school website and just in general by the way it quoted all these different books and
people that seemed very strong about their opinion. With this article, I know I can prove
that the excessive government control in the book is just as real today.