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    to five airplanes just to get to Davao. The total travel time varies between twenty-eight to thirty-six hours with layovers. When I was in sixth grade‚ I went to Florida for winter break. It was very warm in Florida especially‚ when Indiana is cold. Florida is called the sunshine state because it is warm all year around! Florida is known for many tourist attractions but the popular place is Disney World. Every year my mom loves to go to Michigan for one reason‚ the Tulip Festival. My mom loves

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    Are you ready for vacation of a lifetime? Are you ready for beautiful sunsets and long walks on the beach well good Florida is the place for you? Facts About Florida Florida is the southeastern most U.S. state‚ with the Atlantic on one side and the Gulf of Mexico on the other. It has hundreds of miles of beaches. The city of Miami is known for its Latin-American cultural influences and notable arts scene‚ as well as its nightlife‚ especially in upscale South Beach. Orlando is famed for theme parks

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    States. Lacking money and basic necessities like food‚ shelter‚ clothes‚ education and healthcare are the goods necessary to live a decent life; however not everyone has access to these luxury. In Serving Florida‚ Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover as a waitress and housekeeper in Key West Florida‚ and to live the life of a low socio-economic class. She discovers that it is not financially viable to live off just the minimum wage. She even had to get two jobs to survive. In On Dumpster Diving‚ Lars

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    Lottery Research Paper Lotteries do provide funds for education. Lotteries have been have been helping out with education for a long time now. Not only does it help with education‚ but it could help any person that participates in the lottery. Schools get a larger budget thanks to the lottery. Even though Gambling can be addictive‚ Lotteries are good for benefiting education. Lotteries can change people’s lives. “Gambling stimulates‚ offers hope‚ and allows decision-making.” (Cambell). While People

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    Writer‚ Shirley Jackson‚ in her short story‚ The Lottery‚ conveys a twisted town superstition by killing somebody through a lottery more crops will grow. In the story‚ there is one universal symbol and that is “Old Man Warner” (Jackson 4). His function is to show tradition of the lottery and he was made a figure who is less of an individual‚ but rather more he is in for something else‚ the nostalgia days. In the story‚ there are conventional symbols‚ like the white paper symbolizes equality and

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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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    Violence and Human Nature in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson shows us in her short story “The Lottery” that violence is a part of human nature‚ and that it can be disguised in many ways. She conveys this using many different elements . Some of the ways she demonstrates the violence in human nature are particular events in the plot‚ ironic twists‚ foreshadowing‚ character development (or lack of it)‚ and symbolism. Many events in the plot of the short story convey the theme of

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    in Salem Village"(1956)‚ "Road Through the Wall" (1948)‚ "Hangsaman"(1951)‚ and "The Bird`s Nest" (1954)‚ are only a few works that she wrote. However‚ the story that made her name well known is “The Lottery” (1948). It is a short story in which some villagers are forced to participate in a lottery which enables them to survive. Jackson uses a deadpan passive tone‚ social irony‚ and the point of view is in third person objective. From the beginning until the end of the story‚ the narrator uses

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    The lottery Addiction April 13‚ 2011 The lottery has seduced many Americans to it harmful empowerment of money that has lead many people to their demise and the more people that play the lottery the more suffering it brings to people and everyone around them. The lottery dates back to 7th century B.C. at the Arab peninsula where most gambling at that time took place where men at the age of seventeen or older would gamble who would win major battles or things that happen in everyday lives

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    Analysis of Shirley Jackson’s: “The Lottery” by Cary Sanders English 1320-Section 15 Dr. J. Drummond April 2 ‚ 2015 Sanders i Outline Thesis Statement: People will often unquestionably follow tradition and the crowd without ever stopping to think about why they are doing what they are doing. I. Plot A. Summer Time B. Small Town II. Characters III. Theme of Story A. Blind Tradition B. Unquestioning Allegiance IV. Is it not ironic? A. Lottery equals death? B. Think before

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