You get in your car to drive to the store (1). you turn the key and the engine starts making a clicking sound, but does not start (2). you think to yourself, "the battery must be dead" (3a), so you go into your neighbor's garage and borrow the battery from your neighbor's car (with permission, of course) and exchange it for the battery in your car (3b). you also put your presumably dead battery in your neighbor's car (4). you figure that if the battery in your car is dead and you replace it with a working battery, then the car will start and your neighbor's car won't start (5). you get in the car again, turn the key, and your car starts right up (6). your neighbor's car does not start (7). you replicate this experiment with 10 sets of cars and batteries and get the same result each time (8). which part is an experiment?

colony: virginia

1: 1607,john smith

2: british were looking for gold and land

3: near oceans and theres forests

4: fishing? ithink

5: sometimes

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.  

it brings together the military and civilian sectors of society to harness the total power of the nation. it is the mechanism that facilitates the successful prosecution of any conflict.it brings together the military and civilian sectors of society to harness the total power of the nation. it is the mechanism that facilitates the successful prosecution of any conflict.