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    Lottery Is Good

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    State lotteries have been around for awhile to help build up state revenue. In such things as scratch off instant tickets or daily number drawings. To some these things are evil‚ but to some others who’s lives aren’t the greatest‚ it’s a shimmer of hope that most people don’t have. Now the thing about the lottery is a lot of people don’t win‚ but those few that do could be put into a nice situation that they’ve never been in before. This is the land of freedom and opportunity‚ isn’t that we are giving

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    The Lottery Monster

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    Please read the case study entitled Lottery that you find in the reading assignment. Based on what you have learned in this unit‚ answer the following questions: How is the lottery an example of the utilitarian monster? Let’s look at the definition of “utilitarian monster” in the textbook‚ “an individual capable of feeling disproportionately high sensations of pleasure and happiness‚ one who consequently requires many others to sacrifice their happiness in the name of maximizing net happiness” (p

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    THE DESTRUCTIVE RESULTS OF POWER: DEPICTION THROUGH FRANKENSTEIN AND HIS MONSTER A Paper Presented to Ms. Gray Regis Jesuit High School In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course Honors British and World Literature by Alec Jotte November 13‚ 2012 Topic Statement For my paper‚ I have chosen to write about the theme of playing God throughout the book of Frankenstein and how it ultimately affects the person doing it. Throughout the course of the story

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    The Lottery Review

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    the square for the town lottery. Village children run around collecting stones and making a pile of them in the square. The men arrive next‚ followed by the women. Parents call their children over and families stand together. Mr. Summers is the man in charge of the lottery. He arrives in the square with the black box‚ followed by Mr. Graves‚ the postmaster. Mr. Summers mixes up the slips of paper in the box. He and Mr. Graves made the papers the night before; before the lottery can begin a list is made

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    Milgram (1963) claimed that destructive obedience is not a consequence of moral weakness or an evil character; rather it is a response to a particular set of situational factors. Evaluate this statement. In order to evaluate this statement it is important to first understand what Milgram meant. This essay will first consider what is meant by destructive obedience and briefly look at Milgram’s work. It will then look at what is inferred by situational factors‚ focusing on conformity‚ socialisation

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    Lottery Is Good or Not

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    Is lottery a good idea? These days‚ a lot of people play lottery and spend a certain amount of money on it while few of them earn back what they spend. Someone says lottery is a kind of tax collected by the government on peoples’ luck and desire to be rich. In another aspect‚ lottery is also gambling‚ and it could make people to be a millionaire in a night if the person is lucky enough‚ however‚ it has a negative effect that it causes inequality‚ crimes and so on. So lottery is not a positive idea

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    Irony in ’The Lottery ’ Shirley Jackson wrote the story ’The Lottery. ’ A lottery is typically thought of as something good because it usually involves winning something such as money or prizes. In this lottery it is not what they win but it is what is lost. Point of views‚ situations‚ and the title are all ironic to the story ’The Lottery. ’ The point of view in ’The Lottery ’ is ironic to the outcome. Jackson used third person dramatic point of view when writing ’The Lottery. ’ The third

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    Poverty and Lotteries

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    Jimenez debates issue of lotteries that are used to bait people around us. Furthermore‚ from the interface of this problem‚ she describes what problems we face nowadays then how come we are going to overcome this bad situation. The author’s thesis is appeared strongly in the first paragraph and it explicitly reflects the effects of our society and government. “Thirty – nine states and Washington‚ D.C operates lotteries that the states probably will never get out of the lottery business.” (1). The

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    The Lottery Ritual

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    “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson focuses on the annual ritual killing of one person and the characters’ behavior during this event. From the standpoint of modern civilized society‚ the killing is simply evil‚ and therefore this mindset may be projected onto the characters. However‚ the lottery is not seen by the townspeople as a necessary evil merely because it is part of the ritual. The ritual itself could not justify such violence if most people opposed it. Violence is inherent in human nature

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    Against The Lottery

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    Against the Lottery – Should it be banned? Back in the 1930s and the 1940s when most of the population was poor‚ people had no source of income and wondered how to take care of themselves and their families‚ the lottery became a popular trend. Officially‚ the first modern government run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934 (encyclopedia). The odds of winning are 1 in 176‚000‚000 (Humphries). If you are lucky enough then you can strike big and win prizes up to $10‚000‚000. It can help

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