A Walk in the Park Have you ever taken time from your busy schedule and just sat down at any park and just watched? At first you don’t see anything special except an assembly of people‚ noisy playful kids‚ and the occasional burning sting of a mosquito that just made you lunch. You would see people picnicking‚ dogs frolicking‚ and people on a personal mission jogging through the park. All it takes to really see is you opening your eyes‚ ears‚ heart and mind to really embrace the life and magnificence
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I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was pick up the newspaper to check my lottery numbers. As I read through the numbers my heart starting beating a little faster cause as I went through the list every number I had read so far was a match to what was on my ticket. Finally I was to the last number and I looked at it and looked at my lottery ticket. I almost passed out cause right there on my lottery ticket were the winning numbers. I jumped for joy and started screaming I won at the top
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Morning Walk: Morning Walk: During childhood‚ every day my mother woke me up saying‚ ’Rise and shine. The early bird gets the worm.’ I didn’t know then what she meant by these words. She wanted me to be an early riser‚ as she believed that early risers have more time to achieve their goals. Today I understand the meaning of these words‚ and I value the lesson that I learned. If you are an early riser‚ you would know how blissful mornings can be. At dawn‚ the first rays of the sun gently caress
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The title‚ “The Lottery” is ironic for this story because during a lottery a person usually wins a prize. Wining a lottery is normally considered positive. When someone wins a lottery‚ that person is thrilled and extremely happy. Although in the story wining the lottery is not a positive thing because the person that wins the lottery would face a painful death. The only thing that the winner of the lottery would get is pain and grief‚ as the villagers would hit her with stones. The description in
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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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the square for the town lottery. Village children run around collecting stones and making a pile of them in the square. The men arrive next‚ followed by the women. Parents call their children over and families stand together. Mr. Summers is the man in charge of the lottery. He arrives in the square with the black box‚ followed by Mr. Graves‚ the postmaster. Mr. Summers mixes up the slips of paper in the box. He and Mr. Graves made the papers the night before; before the lottery can begin a list is made
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Recycling (outline) Introduction 60 percent of the 200 million tons of garbage that Arabs produce yearly could be recycled. It may seem easy just to throw whatever people have finished using in the trash‚ but our wasteful ways have negative effects on the environment. The solution to this problem is to recycle. It is the best way to protect natural resources and to reduce the costs of processing garbage and of cleaning up. The citizens of the Arab world should start thinking seriously
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“The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses symbolism in “The Lottery” to show the importance of remaining faithful to tradition and the unknown consequences that seem to occur when citizens lose touch with their village’s rituals. The idea of a yearly lottery in this small village is a very important ritual that has been passed down for such a long time‚ so long that nobody knows why it was started or why it is necessary to keep following through with it. The old black box that is used in the lottery to
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Practice The goal of Organizer III was to move you away from discussing each of Capote’s rhetorical choices in isolation and toward a more cohesive analysis. This is all in preparation for a timed writing you will complete individually. Today‚ we will review the work you have completed and practice writing body paragraphs one more time. THINKING ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE… Consider the following prompt for a timed writing: Read the following chapter from the end of Part III of Truman Capote’s nonfiction
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From the very first moment we can think‚ we are taught to follow orders. We follow traditions and we do what we’re told‚ but never questioning why we do things could lead to disastrous events. In The Lottery Shirley Jackson warns us about the dangers of blindly following tradition. Jackson’s use of foreshadowing‚ symbolism‚ and irony admonish the public of what could go wrong if we never question tradition. The story starts off with the town gathering around for the annual lottery. The
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