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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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    Estate Satire

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    Monika Pareek Professor Abraham English A 10th February 2014 Chaucer And Estate Satire The meanings of the word “estate” defined by the Middle English Dictionary is ‘a class of persons‚ especially a social rank or a political class or group; also a member of particular class or rank’. The idea of the "estates" is important to the social structure of the Middle Ages. (Mann‚ Jill. Chaucer And Medieval Estate Satire. Introduction. London: Syndics of Cambridge University Press‚ 1973. 1-7.Print.)

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    O’Kane English III (4) October 21‚ 2013 Irony and Symbolism Combined Poetry and short stories are a different type of literature yet they share similar elements that are portrayed in both. Most commonly they are setting‚ conflict‚ theme and tone. The Unknown Citizen‚ written by W.H Auden‚ is a poem that will be compared with the lottery‚ written by Shirley Jackson. Both‚ the short story and poem‚ share 2 literature devices in common. They exhibit Irony and symbolism within them. The usage of

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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 The main themes in “The Lottery” are our aversion to examine and challenge outdated ideas and rituals‚ that society will pick scapegoats to carry its wrongs and the horrors in following the crowd.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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    Satire In The Americans

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    James is not ’taking sides ’. The author is able to direct gentle satire at European sophistication as well at the ’stiffness ’ of the Americans. The European characters Eugenia and Felix embody a highly refined form of opportunism. They become involved with a group of Americans who embody the more conservative quality

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    Satire on Smoking

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    Amy Gage 3/16/13 Mrs. Singer` Period 3 Satire on Smoking Over time‚ cigarettes and smoking have developed a bad reputation. People don’t understand that the real problem is not the negative sides of smoking‚ but the people who refuse to smoke. These people are an irritation‚ and want to spoil your fun. In fact‚ smoking can be very beneficial to society; the positives of smoking clearly outweigh the negatives. It is important for the world to increase smoking habits because of the

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    Satire Letter

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    over a great many years‚ the truth about “A Modest Proposal” has been revealed. It is satire‚ or a piece that points out flaws in society by poking fun at problems. The reason behind his piece was simply to spur the reader to action. Although each statistic in “A Modest Proposal” is very accurate sounding and methodical and nearly sensible‚ there are reasons within the piece to reach the former conclusion of satire. One such reason is quite obvious: there is no proof

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    way they read assigned novels; by not actually reading it but by looking at someone else’s notes on it. The literary element of satire uses irony‚ sarcasm‚ parody‚ hyperbole‚ or other methods of ridicule and humor that criticizes‚ but also attempts to improve human institutions or human follies. In this article‚ the use of situational irony is used to support the satire by making it appear as if the character‚ Grace Weaver‚ has actually read the book but in reality has not. The way that Weaver reacts

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    Satire Of Rap

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    This a satire all about rap and I’ll explain to why it’s all a bunch of crap. Word! (ment to be rapped). Rap is not music for the soul. In fact it shreds your soul. Rap does more harm to society than good. Rap in recent and past years made some controversial songs and introduced many controversial topics to songs such as many of the lyrics‚ music and sound as well as the references in the song makes rap so controversial. Rap was introduced around 1970 and became a big sensation in the 1990s

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    The Crucible and Irony

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    IRONY in The Crucible | |Occurs when someone states one thing and means another; often recognized as sarcasm | |Verbal irony |i.e. narrator refers to honesty as an “incumbrance” or “burden” | | |A contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen | |Situational

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