theme? If you win the lottery‚ you would expect to become a millionaire. Instead‚ you got stoned to death. In her contemporary short story‚ “The Lottery‚” the author‚ Shirley Jackson uses the external conflict of blindly following rituals to demonstrate the danger of the following tradition blindly and the cruel nature of the characters. To exemplify the first point‚ I say that the lottery serves as the symbol of conservatism. In the story‚ the tradition of the lottery is passed down from generation
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country‚ to sign a treaty with America and persevered through the trickery‚ deception‚ and strong protection system that was emplaced. In the somber outskirts of Finding your way through the crowds of January 12‚ 1855‚ in New York City‚ supposedly going to your job‚ through the bustling‚ bee like crowds‚ one would probably overhear the news of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry returning to his homeland. Maybe you would rejoice with the news‚ or be overwhelmingly soaked with grief. Some would already
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INCIDENTS 9 IV. STRUCTURAL FIRE/ FUEL STORAGE AREAS 11 V. NATURAL DISASTER 12 VI. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS/ DANGEROUS GOODS INCIDENT 13 VII UNLAWFUL INTEREFERENCE WITH OPERATIONS 14 VIII. POWER/ MOVEMENT AREA LIGHTING FAILURE 15 IX. CROWD CONTROL 16 I. GENERAL A. Purpose: This emergency plan is intended to provide guidance in the event of an airport emergency. It will be used by responsible airport officials to aid in reducing personal injury and property damage at Roeder
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One of the most well known play writes ever written by the famous William Shakespeare was "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar". It depicts a tale of insurmountable political unrest following the assassination of Julius Caesar‚ the ruler of Rome during the Roman Empire. As the story unfolds‚ two powerful speeches given by two main characters‚ come to mind‚ that greatly impact the meaning and direction of this tragic theatrical play. These speeches were given at the burial site of Julius Caesar to a mob
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“The crowd wants the knockout; it wants to see a man stretched out on the canvas” (341). In this case the crowd
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story of his past when he killed an elephant in order to please the Burmese crowd. At the time‚ Orwell was a white Indian Imperial Police officer who was disliked by the country’s natives due to the fact that he was European. One day‚ he heard of an elephant’s doing of ravaging the town‚ so he ran to the scene with a rifle. When he finally arrived‚ he found himself observing a peacefully feeding elephant while a huge crowd of Burmans gathered excitedly to observe his future action. Even though he
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Song Hee Kim) and her sister Jin (Hee Yeon Kim) are sitting near the fire with their Grandma (Boon Tak Park) (in Treeless Mountain). I select these two scenes because they demonstrate a trusting and harmonic relationship between Abdul Basset and the crowd‚ also between Bin‚ her sister and their Grandma. Even if they are in different contexts‚ the cinematography and the editing allow spectators to see similarities between these two scenes and to feel the characters’ friendship. In Return to Homs‚ from
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In the account given by the synoptic gospels‚ Jesus came with his followers to Jerusalem during the Passover festival where a large crowd came to meet him‚ shouting‚ "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel!"[19] Following his triumphal entry‚[20] Jesus created a disturbance at Herod’s Temple by overturning the tables of the moneychangers who set up shop there‚ and claiming that they had made the Temple a "den of robbers." (Mark 11:17). Later that week
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permanent ending. Lee elegantly uses metaphor to describe the painful final seconds of a homicide victim’s life as part of a larger progression. As Stephen‚ presumably a friend of the poem’s speaker‚ bleeds to death following a violent attack‚ the speaker compares Stephen’s humanity with a crowd quickly departing an auditorium‚ “the day Stephen was murdered / everything that made us love him rushed from his knife wounds /as though his chest were an auditorium / his life an audience leaving in single file”
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Antony’s Funeral Oration George Bernard Shaw once said “Words are the postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.” After the death of Caesar‚ Brutus and Antony give a funeral speech for Caesar. Both are excellent orators‚ and convince the crowds very well. However‚ Brutus made Antony promise that he “shall not in your funeral speech blame us‚ but speak all good you can devise of Caesar.” (pg. 106-7‚ 247-8). Marc Antony uses many persuasive devices such as specific evidence‚ verbal irony‚
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