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    Alabama State Lottery

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    12 April 2013 Alabama State Lottery Many states have a state lottery. These lotteries can help out a state in many different ways. Lotteries can help provide many different ways of funding money to the state. They can help provide money for local groups and organizations such as schools‚ hospitals‚ and animal shelters. Alabama needs a state lottery because it does not have the proper funding to provide for those in need‚ provide help for the school systems‚ and it can boost the states overall profit

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    The Lottery Essay

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    “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a story about a small town that gathered and did their usual lottery that happens during the 27th of June. This lottery is being headed by the “Big three” namely Mr. Summers‚ Mr. Graves & Mr. Martin. The story describes what happens during the tradition of the town wherein they eliminate the worst worker in their town every year. The story has many themes; one of these themes is sexism. Sexism is defined as the discrimination based on gender especially discrimination

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    Where's the Money?

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    research regarding the topic of donation money and where it really goes with the Canadian Cancer Society‚ and I have found some information that is quite alarming. The Canadian Cancer Society is stuck in a brutal cycle‚ advertising to make money and spending that money to continue advertising; their purpose is forgotten‚ research money for cancer. You spend over half of the money on ads and programs‚ and this has to end. You spend about 60% of the donation money on programs or advertisements for their

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    Money

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    do bad stuff around their community‚ so no one was able to see the how they really behaved outside school. I cannot blame the community for judging them so harsh‚ unfortunately as humans we focus more on appearance and judge people by the way they look. 2) Attitude was a big factor. The Saints played a really good game‚ they were smart enough not to let anyone see the true them. In front of the community they seemed to be polite and respectful young men. That’s why everyone thought they were

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    Nowadays almost all schools include such subjects as art‚ drama‚ and music in their educational program. Therefore‚ by the time when children graduate school they have general understanding and basic knowledge in all of them. In my opinion‚ it is a positive tendency and these subjects should indeed be a part of every child’s education. I would like to introduce several reasons and examples that I believe will support my viewpoint. First and foremost‚ teaching of subjects such as art‚ drama and music

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    If I Won the Lottery

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    If I won the lottery this would be the best feeling ever but it may also be very challenging as well. Winning the lottery would change everything completely. It would change the way I look‚ walk‚ and even talk. If I won the lottery the challenges that I know I would face are my friends becoming my enemies‚ I wouldn’t be able to receive no benefits or help from the state‚ and materialistic things that I would not need in my life. First‚ my friends becoming my enemies because your friends

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    Themes in "The Lottery"

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    “The Lottery” is a story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and tells the story of a town that takes part in a barbaric ritual every year on June 27th. There are several themes in this short story. The main themes in “The Lottery” are our aversion to examine and challenge outdated ideas and rituals‚ that society will pick scapegoats to carry its wrongs and the horrors in following the crowd. The townspeople in “The Lottery” blindly go along with an appalling custom having lost the reason behind

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    The Lottery Sacrifice

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    In the short story The Lottery by shirley Jackson‚ A small village continues a yearly sacrifice in form of “The Lottery”. A major theme within this short story is that social pressure cna leads to bad decision making. In the story‚ people followed the elderly stps as they were told because everyone was doing so. On page 8‚ “Come on‚ Come on everyone.” As the reader‚ this tells me that the villagers are under social pressure and were told to do whatever whether is wrong is not. In connection with

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    Central Idea: “The Lottery” In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ Mrs. Jackson tells a story about any small town U.S.A. where they follow through with their traditions‚ no matter how bizarre they can be. In this town‚ every June 27th their town gets together and hosts “The Lottery” where there is one winner (or in this case the loser.) At the beginning‚ all the children are wandering around the town picking up rocks and creating piles in the square. Over time‚ the whole town begins to gather

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    Foreshadowing in The Lottery In the short story The Lottery‚ (reprinted in Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 7th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt‚ 1998] 421) Shirley Jackson depicts a special day‚ June 27‚ in the lives of the inhabitants of a small‚ apparently serene village. The use of foreshadowing is applied extensively to hint to the reader that despite the seemingly festive occasion‚ there is something morbid about the lottery that causes the people of the town to be uneasy. Jackson

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