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    The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story takes place in a small town located in the US. This story happened on 27 June at10 am in the morning. It is a warm and bright day. It is a perfect day to celebrate the lottery‚ which is the huge annual ceremony for this town. All the citizen joins together in the town square to rejoice this event. The children are playing on the plaza and gathering the stones‚ they look exciting and anxiously. It seems to be a common celebration

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    Waylaid‚ Maxine Hong Kingston and Ed Lin both agree that women in China have been treated badly‚ because they are an inferior gender and have to be obedient‚ but authors have drastically different views on the status of women in the American society. Maxine Hong Kingston argues that after coming to the United States‚ Chinese women have lowered their statuses‚ because the isolations from the mainstream society prevent them from adapting feminist concepts; Lin argues that women from a lower socioeconomic

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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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    Authority were cancelled due to the conflicts between them. Zeno Ltd informed the authority that the materials delivered to the construction site were belonged to them and they would sell it. However‚ they found out the materials had been sold by Ahmad to Lim Chui Lai‚ the

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    In the short story‚ Shame by Dick Gregory you read this short excerpt about Gregory’s life‚ and you learn that he was an accomplished political activist‚ comedian‚ writer‚ student‚ and athlete. You don’t actually figure out that he is african american until they talk about how he performed comedy stand-up for many white audiences. Basically‚ Dick Gregory had goals‚ and he did very well at achieving his goals and furthering himself in life. When the actual short story begins‚ you learn that Dick didn’t

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    To Pay or Not to Pay College Athletes? In the article‚ “The Shame of College Sports‚” noted author and historian Taylor Branch discusses the injustice of the National Collegiate Athletic Association not paying their college athletes. Branch references and goes into detail about several legal cases‚ in which the NCAA blatantly takes advantage of players and their families. He lectures his audience on the extensive history of the NCAA‚ pointing out many ignoble and hypocritical actions committed

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    Melissa Galindo English 96 Marc Scott OCT/5/2014 Hitting them hardest when they’re small The Shame of the Nation was written in 2005 by author Jonathan Kozol.  In this book he discusses how underprivileged children in lower-income school districts are treated differently than the children in middle-class school districts. The middle-class children have easy access to pre-school but very few children in the lower-classes have access to pre-school. As a result‚ when lower-classes

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    I am reading “Coming out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives” by Gershen Kaufman. This is one of the first books I picked up when I was in the mist of dealing with my sexuality. The first shame‚ inferiority‚ and guilt I felt concerning homosexuality were as a young child growing up in a Black Baptist church. “Organized Christian Religion‚ in particular‚ has been a major source of shame and contempt for homosexuality” (Gershen‚ p. 9). The pastor would preach many sermons on the sinfulness

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    Malayan Law Journal Reports/2000/Volume 2/LIM GUAN ENG v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR - [2000] 2 MLJ 577 - 18 June 1999 22 pages [2000] 2 MLJ 577 LIM GUAN ENG v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR FEDERAL COURT (KUALA LUMPUR) EUSOFF CHIN CHIEF JUSTICE‚ WAN ADNAN CJ (MALAYA) AND ZAKARIA YATIM FCJ CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS M05-3 OF 1998‚ M-05-4 OF 1998 AND M-05-5 OF 1998 18 June 1999 Criminal Law -- Malicious publication of false news -- Detention of under-aged girl published as ’imprisonment’ -- Presumption of malicious publication

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    Scarface: The Shame of the Nation The rise from an ordinary middle class gangster to a notorious and high class ruler‚ “Scarface” is a story of a man who gets his dream and desired status in the gang world through multiple phases of killing and torturing others. It’s a story of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) and his rise and fall as a gangster‚ a story of violence that ends in self-destruction. “Scarface” not only portrays the ruthless achievement of a gangster but also gives the reason behind their achievement

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