doing it”. But actually you are responsible for your actions and shouldn’t be following the crowd. It’s important to determine what’s wrong and what’s right. Determining what’s wrong and what’s right in your own view is important because following the crowd isn’t always the best thing to do. Our dependency on people may blindly lead us to things we might not even know are wrong because we just go along with the crowd. In stores and other public places‚ groups of friends get together and steal
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seas below were once attributed to drops in the lemming population. In theory‚ once a few lemmings died‚ other lemmings rapidly followed. While the lemming suicide hypothesis is a mere myth‚ it parallels a vulnerable aspect of human society--- following the crowd can have dangerous consequences. For example‚ look at the fictional world of a short story: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In its small town‚ the locals hold a lottery every year. A slip of paper for every person in town is stored inside
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painting has a lot of life lessons and meaning. The colors in the painting give off a sad and dark feel‚ but one can see another person giving instead of receiving and it also shows that it is sometimes better to stand alone than to go along with the crowd. Throughout the painting one can see darkness and sadness. It appears to be raining. When it rains‚ it sometimes makes people sad. It also makes things really dark‚ not just the sky‚ but also people’s feeling. When it rains some people become very
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you didn’t agree with? Following the crowd can lead to disastrous consequences. In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ a small town holds an event that they call the lottery but the winner does not receive money‚ the prize for the winner is death. In first they came by Martin Niemoller‚ a man in a concentration camp does not speak out for anyone when the Nazi soldiers came for the people that they were trying to kill. In these two short stories everyone was following the crowd and it led to disastrous
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Have you ever noticed that certain people act and behave differently when they are with crowds versus when they are alone? Being in a large crowd can really impact individual to act in a certain way that they seem to fit in with the group and sometimes do things more anonymous as it is in a large crowd. Both Zimbardo and Le Bon believe that bystanders are less responsible and more likely to commit violence than when people are alone. Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University;
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“LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! the crowd sings in the streets.”(23-24) Why would there be people singing in the streets? Is it a protest? If so‚ what are they protesting? Are they simply proclaiming love to the world because they feel so strongly about it? Interpreting‚ first of all‚ is that there is a whole sense of what love is‚ and what is not. Love‚ that is what the crowds are singing about. The woman in the poem yells about love and he is dissatisfied “But after she leaves/I feel odd.”(17-18) Something
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always stay the same. Why is tradition followed so closely? Many are for religious or family reasons‚ but how many traditions are followed blindly? What deems a tradition‚ or anything the crowd does‚ as morally acceptable? The themes of each story‚ Young Goodman Brown and The Lottery‚ deal with flaws in following the crowd. Young Goodman Brown is a young man who fits his name. He is innocent and believes the community is as harmless as they appear. However his innocence has blinded him to the reality
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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 you do V. Be careful of blindly following the crowd. Sanders 1 “Literary Analysis of Shirley Jackon’s: “The Lottery” The story
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"The Lottery"‚ by Shirley Jackson‚ can be seen in many different ways. There are many themes portrayed in this short story. Two of which are: the reluctance of people to reject outdated traditions and following the crowd can have disastrous consequences. The first theme that was illustrated was the reluctance of people to reject outdated traditions. The villagers throughout this story believed that since they had always had the lottery‚ that they should not change tradition now. One of the villagers
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problem is to decide how large her station should be. The annual returns will depend on both the size of the station and a number of marketing factors related to oil industry and demand for gasoline. After careful analysis‚ Susan developed the following table: Sizes of Gasoline Station Good Market ($) Fair Market ($) Poor Market ($) Small $70‚000 $30‚000 -$30‚000 Medium $110‚000 $50‚000 -$40‚000 Large $170‚000 $70‚000 -$50‚000 1. Develop a decision table for this decision. Size of Gasoline Station
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