One of these stories is called “The Lottery” which is about a village where they perform extremely outdated and unethical traditions where whoever wins ‘the lottery’ will be stoned to death. Everybody has to participate and it is such an old tradition that bystanders have accepted the culture so deeply into their lives that they will not object or act against ‘the lottery’.
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life (cái này chị tự làm nha‚ vì cái này viết về cuộc sống của chị‚ em không làm dùm được) :D My last trip (My summer vacation) The summer vacation is a long time which for myself take a rest. It is a special summer vacation because I have just passed the exam. Next month‚ I’m a freshman. When I passed the exam‚ I visited my home town. My home town ‚ to me‚ is very beautiful. There are Co Loa temple‚ Soc Son temple‚ Duong river‚ Bat Trang village and so on. I visited my grandmother‚ my relatives
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mental grammar When a linguist uses the word "Grammar" they mean: mental grammar: is in our (individual) heads - shared by speakers if a language‚ with some variation‚= linguistic competence - a model of this grammar is called descriptive grammar - just describes what people say and don’t say Variation and Grammatically Ex: He might could go. Is this grammatical? If a native speaker would say/understand this sentence then it is considered correct Dialects - there is no one single grammar
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My eight year old brother‚ Jay‚ stands out in a crowd of children because of his distinctive appearance and gentle manner. The first thing I notice when I look at him is his height. He stands at shoulder height next to me; indeed‚ he is a head taller than other children his age‚ and is definitely stronger. His weight is a hefty 121 pounds; without a doubt‚ he weighs forty pounds more than other children in his grade level. Recently‚ my dad signed him up for flag football‚ where he was told: “It is
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-My room is in a mess because I had a party with my best friends last night. I have to clean my room before my mom arrives from work. The underwear is hanging on the lamp‚ my books are all jammed in the closet‚ the scarf is beneath the TV and my shoe is under the bed. -We have the best cafeteria‚ they offer different type of foods‚ the food menu is so big it consists of Arabian‚ Indian‚ American‚ Mexican and Chinese food. They have a special Indian dish called “Chicken Tekka Masala”
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Green: context. Yellow: remember to include the author in your argument since you’re arguing what she is doing. Blue: analysis of picture that goes beyond summary. Pink: explanation. Through her textual and visual evidence‚ Satrapi highlights how Marji’s informal education helps her see the inequalities that exist within the social classes in Iran. The books she reads educate her so that she wants to fight the Shah’s regime and help the people in Iran gain some type of power. At
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In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ both Banquo and Macbeth are ambitious and violent in nature‚ but while Macbeth’s ambition is fuelled by passion‚ Banquo emphasizes the importance of acting with reason. Thus‚ Macbeth experiences a moral decline and Banquo faces an honourable end. Macbeth is violent and ambitious in nature. After the battle‚ a soldier reports that Macbeth “unseam’d [a man] from the nave to the chaps‚/And fix’d his head upon [their] battlements” (1.2.24-25). Macbeth’s ability
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Imagine winning the lottery but instead of some kind of monetary reward‚ winning causes you to lose your life! Well in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” that is exactly what happens to the characters‚ at first everything appears like just another normal mundane village but gradually things take a much darker turn as the lottery persist until the unlucky fellow wins. After being announced victorious the victors family (including the victor himself) have a much smaller lottery and whoever wins that is
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Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space 1. Why does staples characterize the woman he encounters in a paragraph 1 as a “victim”? One of the author’s purpose of characterizing the woman he encounters‚ is to share the reader a personal life experience in order to engage and catch the reader’s attention with this ironic and sarcastic situation. The author uses this type of language to transmit and inform the magnitude of racism at that time and how can affect an individual
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Myth- The lottery is a gate way to financial independence and prosperity. But the real truth is that is it a tax on the poor or to anyone who plays it frequently. It can not only lead to addiction but it costs Americans hundreds or even thousands of dollars just to have a chance at winning. Our minds cannot naturally cope with the reward we will get if we win. Leading to over spending and addiction‚ especially if the buyer feels poor. They are twice as likely to buy more lottery tickets than
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