Mathew Huffman ENG-102-05 Instructor Benchoff 2/11/13 Tradition’s Bloody Footsteps The Lottery takes place in a small town with a population of three hundred people‚ but that number is starting to grow faster. The town holds an annual lottery with the purpose to pick a random person to be stoned to death. Through the Lottery’s story of unmerciful killing for tradition‚ a symbolic parallel emerges that is frightfully close to human beings today. “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny
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NIGERIA The purpose of this essay is to describe Nigeria. Officially it is a federal constitutional republic‚ located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. Its three largest and most influential ethnic groups are the Hausa‚ Igbo and Yoruba. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This
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My House. Upon entering my house‚ you notice the mismatched brown and blue plaid couches under bare walls. A huge television blocks the only window in the room‚ with an old scratched coffee table groaning under a weeks worth of mail. Guacamole colored shag carpet over powers the cheap Asian rug trying to smother it. The blue and brown couches are as comfortable as reclining on bales of straw covered with course burlap. A pomegranate candle sits on top of the television and is lit every morning to
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Abuse In The Circus Chains‚ spikes‚ and pain is the everyday life for an animal in the circus. Performance animals‚ who experience cruel training‚ extreme punishment‚ and abuse from their handlers should be released from the circus. When people go to the circus‚ they picture a place filled with excitement‚ love‚ and entertainment. In reality‚ the place people used to love when they were children doesn’t exist‚ but is substituted with a cruel and joyless place where the animals that amazed them
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Elephants have a historical role in the circus‚ which is often hard for people to let go of‚ because it becomes connected to tradition. Excepted values of what society holds as morally right becomes blurred allowing for the abuse of animals‚ specifically elephants‚ to continue and for this abuse to not be stopped by proper regulation. Ringling Bros. has a long standing record of having elephants in the show. Abuse is common to find in the circus with elephants outside of their natural habitat. There
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thought about who in your life would be your hero‚ well in my eyes Lewin Canady my dad is my hero‚ he is my rock. In my home town most people’s hero’s come in a military uniform. Mine comes in work boots ‚raggedy old jeans with mortar on his hand and a hard hat. This man is my father he is understanding easy to talk to‚ has a kind heart‚ and he is a survivor. When it comes to being understanding‚ my mom has never been the best at that which for most girls they talk to there moms about everything
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Animal Acts and the Circus | The Terror and Subjugation of Entertainment Animals | During the Seven Year’s War‚ and English entrepreneur named Phillip Astley began an equestrian act that would become the antecedent of the modern American circus. In 1793‚ Bill Ricketts cultivated Astley’s idea and opened the first one ring show in Philadelphia to great acclaim and success. Soon after in 1825‚ Joshuah Purdy Brown developed a canvas tent to house performers and the travelling circus was founded.
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with each passing hour spent in the air‚ high above the earth. Though my sons and I had a planned five day excursion‚ I still couldn’t stop wondering what might still lie ahead. Would it be something about this new culture I was about to experience; or would it be something more‚ something about me? After clearing customs and retrieving our luggage‚ we still had the daunting tasks of maneuvering through the hordes of people and locating our tour guide. The sounds of luggage being dragged across
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PREDRAFTING: In June of 2009 right after father’s day I found out that I was pregnant with my first and only child‚ which brought so much joy to my life. At first I was nervous about the news‚ but then the more I thought about it the more excited and happier I got. I finally realized that I was going to be a mother. I had scheduled my first ultrasound to see how my baby was growing and on that same day I found out that I was going to have a little boy on February 6‚ 2010. At that same ultrasound
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Zach Dolenar Professor English English 1102 19 September 2012 Ode to a Cherry What’s better to chill out a hot summer’s day than something sweet and cool? No‚ I am not talking about a Popsicle. I am not talking about an ice cream cone‚ either. I am not even talking about iced tea or lemonade. It is something better than all of those‚ and it doesn’t even have all the sneaky calories of those other tasty treats! The answer to the question is simple. Have you guessed it? It is a cherry. Upon first
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