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    Team Ground Rules and Guidelines What are the general expectations for all members Be respectful of other student’s opinion or imput Expectations for Time Management and Involvement (Participation‚ communication with the team‚ accessibility‚ etc.) Always let the team know if there is a delay in your progress Ensuring Fair and Even Contribution and Collaboration What strategy will you use to ensure that all team members are contributing and collaborating appropriately

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    like to win the lottery. I’m sure that if anyone won the lottery they would be extremely ecstatic. Most of us expect winning the lottery to be a joyous and thrilling experience. But‚ what if it wasn’t? What if winning the lottery meant losing everything you have‚ including your life? In the short story‚ The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ this particular event occurs. The story takes place in a small rural village. Every year‚ all of the villagers put their names into a box to draw for a lottery. You may

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    of view‚ which limits the facts and gives the reader just the one character opinion of the story. Second person treats the reader as the main character in a story. Third person is all knowing‚ it can jump from character to character and give information that only the reader knows about. Does varying amongst these three point of views change the reader opinion of a story? Shirley Jackson decided to write The Lottery in third person while Alice Walker

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    vital role to help the reader communicate with the central message of the story. In “The Lottery‚” Shirley Jackson uses several symbolic features. For example‚ the title and the black box represents how society plays a role in the short story. Understanding the poem‚ Shirley Jackson uses the black box and the title to define the society conditions in which the people are living. The black box in “The Lottery” provides the reader with an insight to keep people in one certain path. The townspeople

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    To walk away or not to walk away‚ that is the question. Those who walk away from Omelas obviously disagree on moral values (on some level) with those who stay in Omelas. Those who walk away disagree with the price the town pays for happiness. They do not want to destroy the town’s utopia but at the same time they do not want to be a part of that system. Those who walk away from Omelas are not Ethical Relativists because they disagree with the town’s (that culture’s) moral philosophy. Ethical Relativists

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    The Lottery Summary Essay

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    The Lottery In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ the townspeople are partaking in an annual event that has been tradition in their community for a long time. This event is part of a blind tradition. The elements of this lottery which makes it a blind tradition is that it is held like any normal community event; the community is completely blind to the inhumanity of an annual ritual which involves human sacrifices‚ and the members question the lottery and its use‚ but still follow through with the

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    Death at a Lottery “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson opens with the descriptions of how the day was beginning and the describing the ordinary villagers and the pleasant and hot weather. The title itself gives the reader the general subject matter about the story. The reader automatically with the help of the title and the introduction of “The Lottery” provides them the thought this would be a pleasant story with a happily ever after‚ but the contrary it was anything but. The atmosphere of the town’s

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    Jacksons “The Lottery” view of Tessie Hutchinson Tessit Hutchinson played a very important roll in the short story "The Lottry". She and her famly end up being the central focus of this story once the actual lottery begins. When she arrives late to the lottery unlike everyone else in the town who were all early and had began to gather‚ this is the point that tells the readers that she is going to be the main focus of the story. Although a lot of other very important things are said between the other

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    building was destroyed (Achebe 11). All the actions depicted here were desperate moves to save and conserve the culture‚ the main identity. In Jackson’s texts‚ “The Lottery”‚ there was a situation that was observed during the whole story. It was the lottery. Meanwhile‚ there were dances‚ Halloween program and teens clubs in lottery. The lottery was conducted by Mr. Summer. There was black box at the square dance placed on stool and Mr. Summer suggested citizens to make a new one. However people hesitated

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    Old Couple Poem Analysis

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    In the poem “Old Couple” by Charles Simic‚ the author utilizes a frightful tone‚ and the symbol of the fifth floor window to reveal the controlling idea that humans tend to impose their perceptions onto the world around them‚ which can alter the way one perceives reality. In order to have a better grasp on people and the world around them‚ one should remain open minded instead of jumping to conclusions. Within this poem‚ the speaker is unreliable. The speaker is viewing the couple from a distance

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