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    Milove Pierre SYD3020 Response Essay Three of the most pressing issues facing the world today in my opinion are Poverty‚ Healthcare and Global Warming. Poverty is an important issue to address because poverty provokes crime. For example‚ most of the drug dealer and abusers are associated in some way with poverty. People who steal property‚ and end up in prison are also associated with poverty. The poor are easier to get sick due to the unhealthy conditions. The more poor people we have the greater

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    Shirley Jackson‚ "The Lottery" – Discussion and Analysis Questions Answer the following questions in complete sentences on your own paper. Provide quotations (with page/line numbers) from the story to support your answers. 1. Why has Jackson chosen common people for her characters? Could she have chosen characters from other levels of sophistication with the same effect? What is the irony of the tone of this story? 2. What seems to have been the original purpose of the lottery

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    story is when Mr. Summers brought the black box in‚ everybody distance themselves from the stool‚ and even as he seeks help‚ “Some of you fellows want to give me a hand?” (416). There was still hesitation because of fear of unknown. Also when the lottery started and the first man “Adams” was called to pick a folded paper‚ as he passes by and greet Mr. Summers‚ “They grinned at one another humorlessly and nervously” (418). As he went back‚ he did hastily showing nervousness. Another foreshadow

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    English Assignment (Summary Response Essay) Nama : Ayu Pradina Boeboe NIM : 16712135 Fakultas : FTI Wilfried Prewo in his article with the title “The Sorcery of Apprenticeship” claims the Germany economy is productive to conduct the nation’s youth training system. The advantages of this training are it is based in the workplace‚ offer a transition from school to traning to work‚ and it also strengthen the tradition of internal advancement. I agree with his opinion which he said this

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    Response Essay The Stay-at-Home Husbands’ Feeling The Article Wall Street Mothers‚ Stay-Home Fathers –As Husband do Domestic Duty‚ These Woman are Free to Achieve-“ by Jodi Kantor and Jessica Silver-Greenberg is in most way neutral towards the two genders of this role reversal. The article shows both the perspective of husbands and wives‚ and it looks like that kind of role reversal is fine. However I believe it is unfair for the husbands. This is because sometime the husbands can feel both unhappy

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    Response Essay In reading the three articles‚ “From Degrading to De-Grading” by Alfie Kohn‚ “And Now He is Nothing” by Michael Specter and “Dilma Rousseff” by Simon Romero my impressions of each article varies from one of unbelief to affirmation. As compelling as the ideology of not grading is‚ the practicality of implementation would be enormous. The assumption that Lance Armstrong is now nothing can it really be so easily dismissed? Finally‚ Dilma Rousseff rise to power as a right of previous

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    A Response to “ Anarchy in the Tenth Grade” Overall‚ I found the argument presented in “ Anarchy in the Tenth Grade” interesting and informative. Author Greg Graffin presents a clear thesis and supports it well with logical examples and sound reasoning. However‚ I also found parts of the essay confusing which makes me wonder about the intended audience of the piece. “ Anarchy in the Tenth Grade” examines how people can relate to being alienated from certain groups‚ and how the author found his

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    The Hunger Games and the Lottery Comparison Essay My two books for this comparison essay are “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ and “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. “The Lottery” is about the town’s people drawing out slips of paper and seeing who gets the slip of paper with the black pencil dot; however The Hunger Games is about Katniss taking her sister’s place when she’s called into the Hunger Games and trying to survive in the arena with Peeta in the Hunger Games. This book ends with Katniss

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    ending of the story? If not‚ at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson start to foreshadow the ending in paragraph 2 and 3? Conversely‚ how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? A: I was quite shocked by the ending of the story‚ mainly because I did not know exactly what the people of the village were competing in the lottery for. I was not sure if the win was for money‚ better jobs in the neibourhood‚ higher status

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    between Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” The purpose of this paper will be to compare and contrast different elements of both these stories‚ but the main focus will be on the characters and the setting. In “The Lottery” and “The Most Dangerous Game” the characters are portrayed as normal human beings with normal behaviors‚ but as both stories unfold‚ the characters are shown to be evil.The Most Dangerous Game‚ by Richard Connell and The Lottery‚ by Shirley

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