Is lottery a good idea? These days‚ a lot of people play lottery and spend a certain amount of money on it while few of them earn back what they spend. Someone says lottery is a kind of tax collected by the government on peoples’ luck and desire to be rich. In another aspect‚ lottery is also gambling‚ and it could make people to be a millionaire in a night if the person is lucky enough‚ however‚ it has a negative effect that it causes inequality‚ crimes and so on. So lottery is not a positive idea
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characterization in Chekhov and Oates’s different versions of "The Lady with the Pet Dog" are evident‚ the purpose only becomes clear for the reader when the two versions are read and compared. The stories have different settings‚ but the characters in the story remain the same. There is Anna‚ Dmitry‚ and their families. Although their families are mentioned‚ each member remains without any description and therefore they begin to seem almost unimportant. Both Anton Chekhov and Joyce Oates chose
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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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Reading Fables and Short Stories Fables‚ parables and short stories all tell a story and all try to relay a meaningful message or moral. Fables tend to be shorter‚ use animals and clearly state the moral the author is trying to portray. Parables also tell a story and portray a message‚ but it basically illustrates a moral or religious lesson. Therefore‚ I guess it is safe to say that all parables can be fables but not all fables can be a parable. Short stories however tend to be a lot longer
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LOTTERY TO HELL Winning the lottery is the ultimate dream in everyone’s life. It is an easy game and requires very less amount of money to play‚ but the chances of winning are a one in a million. In everyone’s mind‚ spending their last dollar bill on a ticket and pick out random numbers may turn their life around in a positive and joyful way. In fact‚ winning the lottery could bring someone’s life more than just joy‚ it could turn their life into a living nightmares. Despite the risks
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The Lure of the Lottery “The modern experience of state-run lotteries in this country begins with New Hampshire in 1964. In a story that would be repeated across the country‚ New Hampshire faced a difficult choice: either raise taxes or institute a lottery” (Haugen). Since 1964 a myriad of states have been inclined to induce state lotteries to bring in a greater amount of revenue for their individual states. While state lotteries may be a method for converting individual contributions into works
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English 12 Honors 14 December 2012 “The Lottery” Through the Eyes of a Marxist/Feminist Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is about a town in which a little black box controls whether or not a person may live or be killed. The lack of dominant female characters illustrates the assumption that women are often seen as inferior to men. Interesting developments of the plot and theme make it obvious to the reader how women are portrayed in the story. This short story shows how the upper class in a society
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Anton Chekhov’s‚ The Lady with the Pet Dog‚ is a short story about an adulterous man‚ Dmitry Gurov‚ who falls in love with a miserable married woman‚ Anna Sergeyevna. The two find each other in their times of loneliness and quickly become involved in an affair. They soon have to say goodbye when Anna must return home to her sick husband. At first in the story Gurov refers to women as “the inferior race‚” yet he confesses that he feels more comfortable with them than he does with men‚ but as the story
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Shirley Jackson’s‚ “The Lottery”‚ clearly expresses her feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story. It opens the eyes of readers to properly classify and question some of today’s traditions as cruel‚ and allows room to foretell the outcome of these unusual traditions. “The Lottery” is a short story that records the annual sacrifice ceremony of a fictional small town. It is a detailed narrative of the selection of the person to be sacrificed‚ a
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like book that have a setting that they can relate to and a point of view that they really lets them see how things would really happen. That is why I choose to write my response paper over Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Lady with the Pet Dog.” The story has dual settings Anton Chekhov starts the story out in Yalta and moves the
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