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    General Motor and Toyota Motor 1 Comparison and Contrast of General Motors and Toyota Motor Thomas Hong‚ Ph.D. The Impact of Technology on Organization University of Phoenix November 12‚ 2007 General Motor and Toyota Motor Introduction 2 This paper seeks to compare core and enabling technologies of two organizations in the automobile industry. General Motors Corporation experienced a crisis that recorded another operating loss of $7‚668 million during the fiscal year of 2006‚ while

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    The Traditional Ritual " The Lottery " Michelle Jackson‚ provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions subsequently blindly‚ without even thinking how much sense it actually makes to follow such traditions‚ or how it affects them or their loved ones.( 235-243) The name of the title makes you consider that this story is concerning drawing numbers and winning a prize‚ then to my surprise it is about how a tiny village involved in a tradition‚ ritual every year

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    The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. In the story‚ its use multiple symbol. According to the story‚” the black box grew shabbier each year…” (1). When you think of black‚ you think about evil or death. So‚ the black box can be a symbol between life or death for each and every person. Another quote state‚ “it had a black spot on it…” (6). The black spot on the paper can show a symbol for the family been marked for death. Also‚ when you pull a piece of paper out the box its can

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    Dakota Dunn Response paper for The Lottery ENGL 1020 24 April‚ 2014 Why do humans have an obsession with death and pain? Looking back‚ history is littered with stories of people being murdered in cruel ways. Think back to Nero‚ Emperor of Rome. Or remember the stories of the Catholic Inquisition. In more recent years‚ people hear stories of torture and killing in China and the Middle East. Even the bombing of the Boston marathon falls under these tragedies. There is no doubt that humans

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    I would object to the idea of “The Survival Lottery”. The proposal of the survival lottery mainly centres on the claim that there is no difference between killing and letting die‚ and that leaving Y and Z to die without any interventions would be the same as murdering them. Thus‚ instead of killing both Y and Z‚ the doctor should kill A‚ a third-party‚ and save both Y and Z’s lives‚ because such action would result in a total of one death instead of two. Since it would be begging the question to

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    foods. There are many options to choose. I think that two common exotic foods people choose in Iraq are Assyrian food and Turkish food. Both types of foods are delicious. But Assyrian food and Turkish food are totally different. In this essay I will contrast the taste of Assyrian food and Turkish food. Firstly‚ I’m going to discuss Assyrian food. Chili and flavor are important in Assyrian food. Some of Assyrian foods are spicy and sour. It is usually strongly flavored. Rice is usually served with

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    Interpretation of Literature 4/23/2014 Topic 2 – Othering Shirley Jackson’s story‚ “The Lottery”‚ takes place on June 27th in a very small village of about only 300 people. This day is what they call the day of the lottery‚ hence the title. The Lottery is a tradition they have done for years‚ where the entire village gathers in the square‚ wait for their name to be called‚ which they then pick a small piece of paper from a black box‚ and patiently wait for everyone to pick their piece of paper

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    In many stories‚ settings are constructed to help build the mood and to foreshadow of things to come. "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is a story in which the setting sets up the reader to think of positive outcomes. However‚ this description of the setting foreshadows exactly the opposite of what is to come. In addition‚ the theme that we learn of at the end leads us to think of where the sanity of some human beings lies. The story begins with the establishment of the setting. To begin‚ Shirley

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    Unknown Citizen‚ written by W.H Auden‚ is a poem that will be compared with the lottery‚ written by Shirley Jackson. Both‚ the short story and poem‚ share 2 literature devices in common. They exhibit Irony and symbolism within them. The usage of both will be compared to acknowledge the similarities between the two different literature styles. Although they may not fall into the same genre‚ both the Unknown Citizen and The Lottery share common literature devices to provide

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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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