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    Themes/Symbols of The Lottery” and “The Things They Carried” In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson there are many themes. However‚ the main theme of the short story is following a tradition blindly can be deadly. Tradition in societies and culture allows for important lessons and skills to be passed on from generation to generation. However‚ following others without questioning what is going on or the reason why your doing it in the first place‚ can lead to reckless and impulsive

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    The Lottery Limerick In a village there was once an annual lottery Where winning wasn’t exactly lucky For the winner was stoned‚ And in pain they groaned Dying as victims of assault and battery. Anonymous The Cruelty of the Villagers(Tanka) I saw her fall dead With stones raining upon her No one tried to stop Grateful their names were not drawn None were saddened by this loss. Anonymous Ode to Tessie Hutchinson When I think of her‚ my heart aches As though hemlock I have drunk

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    Queenie Chen 11/28/2012 If I Win the Lottery When I was a little kid‚ I always day dreaming that if I were born in a rich family‚ and I was treated like a princess. How wonderful is that! Or in one day‚ if I win the lottery for five millions what am I going to do with my money? If I win five million dollars‚ the first thing I would do is to buy a big and comfortable single house for my family. And ask them to quit their job. It is because my parents have been working for so many years. I noticed

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    inequality really stems from has been even more complicated than it seems to be at first. By looking at race through the Marxist lens‚ this may show some enlightenment on the matter of the pay gap at hand. To start off‚ it is clear that Marxism does play a role in the determination of race‚ as presented in Desire for Race. However‚ it is clear that there is a divide among individual Marxists. When it comes to race and economics‚ Karl Marx was a very strong

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    Modern Marxists and the Continuing Relevance of Marxism However modern Marxists reject the above arguments and argue instead that the Marxist critique of capitalism is still relevant in the C21st . Thus modern Marxists and others have challenged all of the above theories of post-capitalism and continue to argue that despite theories of the managerial revolution‚ democratic pluralism significant changes in class structure that even nowadays that the rich continue to exercise massive economic and

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    Betrayal is the first similarity between the two stories‚ “The Veldt” & “The Lottery”‚ this is since both stories have characters that have betrayed their own people. The Veldt & the Lottery have their differences and similarities throughout the story. In the Veldt‚ the children have betrayed their own parents‚ while in “the Lottery” Tessie Hutchinson’s supposed “friends” wanted to stone her to death over a lottery ticket. The children and the villagers betrayed their own kind because they wanted

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    The lottery is an example of the utilitarian monster because‚ in a lottery game‚ there are many losers‚ but only one winner. The happiness of the winner of a lottery ticket is very high‚ and when compared to the unhappiness of the losers‚ there is still‚ in theory‚ a net happiness gain. So in essence‚ the happiness of many (the losers) is sacrificed for the disproportionate happiness of one individual (the winner). A case could be made for and against the lottery in terms of monetized utilitarianism

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    identify the three main currents within feminist thought as liberal‚ radical‚ and Marxist. Each responds to women’s oppression in a different way. Liberal feminism is concerned with attaining economic and political equality in a male-dominated society. Radical feminism is focused on men and patriarchy as the main causes of the oppression of women. And Marxist feminism is a theoretical position that uses Marxist theory to understand the capitalist sources of the oppression of women. In the early

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    Feminist Lens vs Marxist Lens When reading a book‚ or any piece of literature of that matter‚ the readers background is important. It is apart of how the reader perceives the piece. Two different readers with different viewpoints and backgrounds are naturally going to have different opinions and will analyze the same piece of writing very differently. For example‚ a feminist lens and a marxist lens. A feminist lens would notice all cases where a man and a women are not being compared as equal or

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    Choice Will a bad choice‚ lead you to your own murder? In the story “The Lottery”‚ we witness the murder of a woman as a form of sacrifice; the villagers must attend that event to follow their tradition‚ which doesn’t give them a choice to think for themselves. In the films: The Second Renaissance I&II‚ we witness the murder of humans and violence between both the robots and humans‚ robots wanted peace‚ but the human choose not to‚ leading them to their destruction. In Matriculated‚ we witness the

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