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Lillyt Sarkisyan
Professor Dylan Altman
English 114B
13 April 2014
Project Web Bibliography

Alba, Bonnie. "Cartoons." 'Hunger Games' Renew America, 12 Apr. 2012. Web. 14 Apr.
2014. In this article, Bonnie Alba depicts the modern day Hunger Games in
categories such as class warfare, charges of racism, islamic threats, a president
who rules by executive order, a congress divided yet clinging to elitism, a
supreme court actively changing our laws; all departing from the U.S.
Constitution. She says that We the People is uneasy to say because of this.
Alba later goes off to say that we are a country who is fascinated with
entertainment, another common relationship between the Hunger Games and
today.
Kimball, Miles. "The Hunger Games Is Hardly Our Future-its Already Here." Quartz.
N.p., 9 Dec. 2013. Web. 14 Apr. 2014. This article, written by economics
professor, Miles Kimball, compares the life in the Hunger Games versus the life
we live today. He states that the Capitol in the movie, which are the wealthy, are
the rich nations of the world; United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Israel,
New Zealand, etc, and says the poor countries are the modern day districts;
Haiti, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lais, Papua, etc.. Kimball later begins to
explain the immigration situration of this country, and how from 1900 to 1910,
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the percentage of immigrants from another country coming into the United States
was 1% and those immigrants have helped better this country. Now the amount of
immigrants from another country is only .33%.
Kristof, Nicholas D. "Where Sweatshops Are a Dream." The New York Times. The New
York Times, 14 Jan. 2009. Web. 14 Apr. 2014. This article describes the situation
in Phnom Penh. He describes how the toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes
batter you with filth. This living condition could be similar to the districts of the
Hunger Games, but actually sounds like it is worse. We as a first world country,
barely know about any of these poor countries who are suffering, because instead,
we are fascinated with things such as entertainment, which in the film, the
entertainment for the capitol is the Hunger Games. This article opened my eyes,
and I was left asking myself, why we arent taught about what is going on in
modern day life, instead of just focusing on the past history in our public schools.
Pasquali, Valentina. "The World's Richest and Poorest Countries | Global Finance." The
World's Richest and Poorest Countries | Global Finance. Global Finance, n.d.
Web. 14 Apr. 2014. This article shows a list of countries from rich to poor. With
United States being number seven. I thought this was interesting to see because in
my head, it depicts the Capitol and the Disctricts. The richest country is
Qatar with a gross domestic product (based on purchasing- power parity) is
105,091.42, and the poorest country being, the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, at 394.25 in 1983.