Albite Albite is a common felspar and is the "pivot" mineral of two different feldspar series. It is most often associated with the plagioclase series where it is an end member of this series. The plagioclase series comprises felspars that range in chemical composition from pure NaAlSi3 O8 to pure CaAl2 Si2 O8 . The various plagioclase feldspars are identified from each other by gradations in index of refraction and density in the absence of chemical analysis and/or optical measurements. Albite
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The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story takes place in a small town located in the US. This story happened on 27 June at10 am in the morning. It is a warm and bright day. It is a perfect day to celebrate the lottery‚ which is the huge annual ceremony for this town. All the citizen joins together in the town square to rejoice this event. The children are playing on the plaza and gathering the stones‚ they look exciting and anxiously. It seems to be a common celebration
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the short story‚ “The Lottery”‚ by Shirley Jackson and the movie‚ “The Village”‚ directed by M. Night Shyamalan‚ both the short story and the film employ the theme of traditions and rituals to comment on the danger of blindly conforming‚ the different attitude in performing the tradition and how unfairness is parallel to the wellbeing of the community. Both the short story and the movie share the ideology of blindly believing and conforming to traditions. In “the Lottery”‚an annual ritual consisting
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Bullying is it a Learned Behavior? Beth Ray University of Phoenix ENG/102 1-11-2014 Elizabeth Anderson Bullying is it a Learned Behavior? Introduction “Historically‚ school bullying has not received a great deal of attention from academic researchers; policy makers or the general public [until the amount] of suicides became media attention” (Neiman‚ S.‚ 2012). Bullying does not discriminate to whom or where it happens. Bullying has occurred for many decades at school‚ on the playground‚ jobs;
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Awarded for the Nobel Prize for Peace a life time working to promote working rights and democracy in 2002‚ and was the 39th president of the United States from the years of 1977 through out 1981‚ Jimmy Carter was born on October 1‚ 1924‚ in Plains Georgia. His father‚ James Earl Carter‚ was a peanut farmer and businessman who owned his own area of land as well as a warehouse and store; and his mother Lillian Gordy‚ was a registered nurse‚ where back in 1920s Ms. Gordy counsel black women on health
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In “The Necklace”‚ the main character Mathilde‚ carries a blind sense of entitlement‚ which makes her feel as though she has been born into the wrong social class. She longs for a life of opulent luxury. Although she comes from a middle class background‚ she refuses to be looked down upon and feels as though she belongs in the upper level of society. June 27 in "The Lottery” paints a scenario of a beautiful summer day where “the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green”
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“The Lottery (1948)” by Shirley Jackson‚ is a short story about an annual lottery taking place in a small New England town. Every year the lottery is held and the winner of the lottery is then promptly stoned to death. This lottery has been a long held tradition in this small town and it is a tradition that everyone in the town must take part in. The man in charge of the lottery drawing‚ Mr. Summers‚ calls each male head of household forward to an ominous looking black box sitting atop a three legged
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extension to the company’s structure‚ Pensonic has two subsidiary companies that respectively own “Cornell”‚ a brand from the USA and obtained the sole-distributorship in Malaysia for internationally renowned brands such as GE Appliances of the USA and Morphy Richards of the UK. Pensonic’s success had been reflected by the many awards achieved in its industry‚ such as the highly regarded brand and industry excellent awards. It is one of the few companies that won three Prestigious Awards in the first quarter
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Jackson‚ "The Lottery" – Discussion and Analysis Questions Answer the following questions in complete sentences on your own paper. Provide quotations (with page/line numbers) from the story to support your answers. 1. Why has Jackson chosen common people for her characters? Could she have chosen characters from other levels of sophistication with the same effect? What is the irony of the tone of this story? 2. What seems to have been the original purpose of the lottery? What do people
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The major differences and comparisons between "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury‚ and "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson‚ are towards the settings of each stories. "The Veldt"‚ takes place in a technologically advanced era‚ while the characters in "The Lottery"‚ live in a village in a prior time period. It is evident that there is a distinct similarity in emotional settings‚ as well as contrasting differences in the social and intellectual settings of both stories. One distinct difference in both stories
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