I’m going to talk about if I won the lottery. In the first place‚ If I won the lottery‚ I would study and improve my English to an excellent level. After that‚ I would like to travel all over the world and choose some interesting places such as Venice‚ New York ‚Japan‚ or New Zealand‚ to live there two or three years. Those are my favourite places. Living in those places would give the change to make many friends. On the other hand‚ when I get old‚ I would go back to my country and I would purchase
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daily life‚ is the way in which (person who/thing that/place where/event in which) people live. Some people prefer getting up early in the morning and starting the day’s work. Others‚ on the other hand‚ enjoy getting up later in the day and working until late at night. Just as the saying goes‚ “Every coin has its two sides”‚ both getting up early in the morning and getting up later in the day have advantages and disadvantages. As far as I am concerned‚ getting up early is more beneficial because you
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story that presents an annual mandatory lottery where each “head” of the family comes up to draw a paper. The family with the head who picks the paper redraws as a whole‚ and the “lucky winner” gets stoned to death. Villagers in the town originally performed the lottery from the belief that a sacrifice brought better crops to the village. Now‚ however‚ the villagers‚ who have forgotten the purpose‚ continue just because it is a tradition. In the beginning
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Surname Centre No. Candidate No. Paper Reference(s) Initial(s) Paper Reference Signature 6 6 6 7 6667/01 0 1 Examiner’s use only Edexcel GCE Further Pure Mathematics FP1 Advanced/Advanced Subsidiary Tuesday 22 June 2010 – Afternoon Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Team Leader’s use only Question Leave Number Blank 1 2 3 4 Materials required for examination Mathematical Formulae (Pink) Items included with question papers Nil 5 6 7 8 9 Candidates may use any calculator
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1. Red Sky at Morning 2. Richard Bradford‚ 1968 3. United States of America 4. Characters: 1. Joshua Arnold: Josh is growing and sarcastic. He is maturing‚ although some of the things he does are still child-like and rude. By the end of the book Josh has grown a great deal and is becoming a mini version of his father. 2. Ann Arnold: Ann is unhappy and confused. She doesn’t know what to do with herself with her husband in the war and she drinks her way out of her troubles. 3. Frank Arnold:
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"I figure so‚" I said‚ and then my father said‚ in that way he has of saying something that cuts you down to half of your size or less: "Slow to start and quick to finish." So went the character Adam about his life‚ and so went the book‚ April Morning‚ by Howard Fast. Throughout the book‚ an underlying theme of starting a task slowly and finishing the task quickly. The character Adam is slow to start his chores‚ but quick to finish his responsibilities; Adam’s father‚ Moses Cooper is slow to begin
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The town people show their strong loyalty on tradition manifest itself in “The Lottery”. The plot of this story is simple but thought-provoking. In a clear and sunny summer morning‚ the people of a village began to gather in a square to attend a traditional activity‚ the lottery. Mr. Summer is the host of the activity‚ Mr. Graves is the postmaster and Old Man Warner as a reminder of it. Everyone has to attend it and has an equal chance to be the “lucky” one and then this one will be stoned to death
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such cases in the text (page 17‚ line 13-18) and (the gun on page 17‚ line 20-28). David wanted to grow up wild‚ to be able to get out of the town and into the country. He states that he doesn’t understand the concept of how town life worked. How to be able to live in a comfortable community. He didn’t feel at ease in school‚ stores and cafes. He would be unsure of how to act in these circumstances (page 22‚ line 19-28). David liked the freedom he got in that small Montana town (page 24‚ line 1-8)
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conspiracy theory revolving around 4 AM (Rives). Before the TED Talk‚ while researching a Polish poet named Wislawa Szymborska‚ a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1996‚ Rives came across an eerily familiar poem entitled “Four in the Morning”. Because he was unsure why this poem‚ which he’d never read before‚ felt familiar‚ he became fixated on the concept of 4 AM‚ hearing references to the time over and over in his daily life‚ inspiring him to create the 2007 TED Talk conspiracy. During
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23075483 MLA Format Debernardi 2 Romain DEBERNARDI Doctor Yaw ENGL 102 10 September 2011 In this paper‚ we are going to carry out a reflexion about the characters in two stories : “The Destructors‚“ by Graham Greene and “The Lottery‚“ by Shirley Jackson. We are going to identify the main characters and point out their qualities‚ emotions‚ attitudes‚ and behaviors. In this way‚ we will compare the two stories based upon their characters. Leading or Following the Group Paper
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