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    D. H. LAWRENCE (1885 – 1930) Hardy and Yeats belong to the upper classes; however‚ D. H. Lawrence is a working class poet and novelist. Both Hardy and D.H. Lawrence write outstanding novels and they are famous in both of the literary forms. Hardy depicts nature in terms of pessimism like William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence portrays pessimism through the sexuality that stands for the blood for himself. In Freudian psychology‚ the snake symbolizes the male sexual power. However‚ in D.H. Lawrence’s

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    done so why change it now? This is the way many people think and don’t see a problem with it. They go along with the status quo whether it is right or wrong. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson the townspeople are hesitant to refuse traditions that would be considered wrong and evil by most people. This story gives the lottery a bad reputation. The first thing that comes to mind is winning a sum of money or goods. In the beginning‚ the story suggests that the people are going to draw for a

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    In the text Rocking Horse Winner there is presented a very unstable boy who is constantly vying for his mothers attention. He actually drives himself insane just trying to be loved and accepted by his mother. His mother‚ meanwhile kept the image of being a perfect woman and mom‚ but her behavior took a very twisted turn. In reality she did not love anyone except herself. In the title it mentions a rocking horse‚ this was a type of metaphor throughout the story. Paul uncle would take him to the races

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    The “Lottery” is about is about how a women or a girl whatever you want to call her‚ she won the lottery and people didn’t think it was fair so they stoned her to death. A good thing to think about in life is to treat people the way you wanted to be treated. That is always a good thing to remember. In the story people like to be treated with respect they don’t like to be treated like “Trash” as people say. In the story is people are being disrespectful to one another one of the other people would

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    The story “The Lottery” has a theme just as any other great story. The author used many different aspects through the story to make one larger theme overall. The theme of this story‚ is about how the world is full on pointless violence that leads nowhere‚ as well as how current times seem to still follow the bible. These aspects include the characters‚ imagery‚ as well as various symbols. This story tends to refer to the bible quite often. One example of the story referring to the bible

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    consequences. In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ a small town holds an event that they call the lottery but the winner does not receive money‚ the prize for the winner is death. In first they came by Martin Niemoller‚ a man in a concentration camp does not speak out for anyone when the Nazi soldiers came for the people that they were trying to kill. In these two short stories everyone was following the crowd and it led to disastrous consequences. In the first place‚ in the lottery multiple people are

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    English 102 September10‚ 2012 The Lottery “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson‚ focuses around an unnamed village on a particular day in the mid summer on June the twenty seventh the time the annual lottery usually took place. The main purpose the lottery served was to make the happening of enough rain in order to have good corn crops the following month after the ritual. In a way the story evolves around the misguided belief that when the villagers sacrificed one of their own to what may

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    Lottery Legacy Most small towns have their own special tradition. Nokomis‚ Illinois has a Homecoming carnival the second weekend in July every year‚ Witt has Labor Day‚ and Hillsboro has Old Settlers. These events bring the community together in celebration. However‚ in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery on July 27th the community does not gather for a celebration; instead they gather nervously awaiting the yearly tradition of “The Lottery”. In this village members of the community draw slips of paper

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    people would never do something this awful‚ but we prove these things false in our daily lives. So what makes us different than the town in “The Lottery” or the people behind the attacks in Paris? Nothing is different at all. “The Lottery” and the Paris attacks were acts of violence based on people’s different beliefs. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” the town where the story takes place‚

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    provide meaning of the law. It also gives a designation of powers to each branch and the states. Our essential freedoms are specified to us by the Constitution and have been stripped away from some individuals based on their sexual preference. In the Lawrence v. Texas case‚ it proves that the Supreme Court is continually re-interpreting the Constitution. The fourteenth amendment was the amendment that had the greatest impact on individual rights‚ with its sole purpose to unite the union and provide

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