No-Win Situations1 Alfie Kohn 1.I learned my first game at a birthday party. You remember it: X players scramble for X-minus-one chairs each time the music stops. In every round‚ a child is eliminated until‚ at the end‚ only one is left triumphantly seated while everyone else is standing on the sidelines‚ excluded from play‚ unhappy…losers. 2.This is how we learn to have a good time in America. Competition 3.Several years ago‚ I wrote a book called No Contest‚ which‚ based on the findings of several
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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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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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Conflict Resolution‚ Can there be a win-win? As in some of the great books and movies of our time‚ conflict is at the forefront of every story. Whether it would be a fictitious story or a true to life event‚ everything revolves around conflict and how it is resolved. Without conflict‚ stories would be boring and no one would care‚ but in life‚ conflicts exist all around us‚ personally and professionally. Every conflict involves at the least two people‚ or many people from two different vantage
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we do what we’re told‚ but never questioning why we do things could lead to disastrous events. In The Lottery Shirley Jackson warns us about the dangers of blindly following tradition. Jackson’s use of foreshadowing‚ symbolism‚ and irony admonish the public of what could go wrong if we never question tradition. The story starts off with the town gathering around for the annual lottery. The men talk‚ the women gossip and children run around playing and gathering rocks. The gathering of
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Speech Outline “What I would I do if I won in the lottery?” General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: By the end of my speech‚ my audience will know what I would do if I won in the lottery‚ by three important things. Thesis: If I won in the lottery one day I will do three important things: to invest‚ to travel and to help people. In my point of view these are the best way to spend the money. I. Introduction A. Have you ever thought about what would you do if you won in the lottery? B. According to
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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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Positive and negative effects of winning the lottery Winning the lottery is something everyone wants. Rarely do people realize that there are also bad effects to having such a large sum of money. A good amount of people that win the lottery are foolish with their money‚ quit their jobs‚ or just don’t know what to do with it. The others that win make smart decisions in either investing their fortune‚ donating it to a good cause‚ or just helping their family be finically stable. Majority of people
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Irony in “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” offers an almost classic study of irony of situation: the reader expects a celebration; she gets a stoning. Such a reversal is the work of careful planning by the author. The reader expects the lottery to be a celebration of some sort because Jackson describes the setting‚ details the activities of the townspeople‚ and refers to the lottery itself in terms that belie the outcome of the event. First‚ Jackson establishes a setting which suggests
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Motifs are an important element to develop themes in stories. The magic behind motifs is that depending on how the author uses it they can help develop different themes in different ways. As seen in “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor‚ where three different authors use death that can be interpreted to develop different themes. In “The Cask of Amontillado” the theme revenge can be perceived with Montresor’s
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