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    The Lottery Theme

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    The lottery theme I think that the theme of the lottery is to treat others how you want to be treated. I think that this theme fits into all of this story. The whole story is about this theme. It is important to treat others how you want to be treated. If you don’t then it will come back and bite you in the butt. Just like it did in “The Lottery”. On page number 8 in “The Lottery” Tessie Hutches pleads saying “It isn’t fair!”. We know though that if anyone else had gotten the black dot she would

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    Elephant Run

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    Elephant Run The story of “Elephant Run” begins with the 14-year-old Nick Freestone in the midst of World War II‚ a teenager that had been sent from London to Burma to be with his father on account of the dangers of the Blitz during 1941. It is in Burma Nick’s father‚ Jackson Freestone‚ owns an old estate and plantation that had been passed down from generation to generation in the Freestone family. After Nick is flown into Burma he encounters his native guide to the plantation‚ Nang‚ an elephant

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    Asian Elephants

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    Asian Elephants Asian Elephants are well built and very intelligent‚ strong headed animals. The Asian Elephant tusks are used to do very many well serving jobs‚ and have a humongous amount of responsibility for the Elephants. The Elephant trunk has about 6‚000 muscles; they are used to do all sort of chores for the Elephant just like the tusks. Asian Elephants are very intelligent‚ open minded and self-aware. Asian Elephants are well built and resemble to humans in ways we don’t think another

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    The Lottery Society

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    Written by Shirley Jackson‚ the short story “The Lottery” focuses on a village with a tradition that provides fate by random chance. However‚ in this particular allegory Jackson uses the title to elude the readers mind from the ending to come. Throughout the entire story Jackson uses themes that greatly parallel with American society such as‚ family‚ fiscal and social class‚ and religion. For example‚ Jackson demonstrates family hierarchy comparable to American culture when she writes‚ “Soon the

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    Lottery Outline

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    Is Lottery A Good Idea? Introduction/Thesis: When taking a stab at the lottery it is all going to a good cause such as given back to the people and helping school systems. When making purchases towards the lottery‚ particular credit is being giving to help support charities. Also lottery is the ones that produce the GRANT funds for college students to help pay for schooling and other necessary school related fees. The initial decisions you make are going to determine if the money will bring you

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    Winning the Lottery

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    LOTTERY TO HELL Winning the lottery is the ultimate dream in everyone’s life. It is an easy game and requires very less amount of money to play‚ but the chances of winning are a one in a million. In everyone’s mind‚ spending their last dollar bill on a ticket and pick out random numbers may turn their life around in a positive and joyful way. In fact‚ winning the lottery could bring someone’s life more than just joy‚ it could turn their life into a living nightmares. Despite the risks

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    Elephant Poaching

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    the population of rhinos and elephants? Ivory is a rather beautiful item seeing that it holds many qualities. Amongst those many qualities are its durability‚ its smoothness‚ and its value to the market. How would you feel to know that it is also the tusks and horns that you see on rhinos and elephants? Both elephants and rhinos are poached for their horns and tusks every day to the point of becoming an endangered species‚ like the black rhino and the Asian elephant. Many practices are done in order

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    The Lottery Themes

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    ending the lottery. He did not want to change like the other town. Theme 2: believing it will increase the growth of the season‚ Tessie was the one who got sacrificed. Theme 3: I believe they count as a serial killer; killing a person every year is a crime. Theme 4: Every year it happens‚ people unable to study their life so they can’t realize mistakes. Theme 5: Tessie realized lottery was wrong when she had the black dot. A List of Horrors: 1) The people in town were acting normal like worrying

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    Asian Elephant

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    Title: Asian Elephant-Elephas Maximus 2. Purpose: To learn how and why the Asian Elephant got on the endangered species list. Elephants are one of the largest land mammals in the world and they have been targets to man and other animals. 3. Background: My overall background the Asian Elephant is very limited. I know that they come from Asian and many were hunter for their tusks. You can find a few Asian Elephants at the local zoos and there is always controversy on elephants and the circus

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    Shooting an Elephant

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    Shooting an Elephant In life‚ everyone has their own choices to make. Most of the time‚ the side that one has to choose is not what they want but what they need. Just one wrong decision can even cost a life. Hence many choices are immensely difficult. A significant one could be choosing to follow one own heart or to surrender under the pressure of the society they live in. This is the one that occur in Orwell situation. In his essay‚ Orwell writes about the one who has the responsibility of managing

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