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    The Lottery Essay

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    The Lottery Have you ever imagined being killed for winning a lottery? In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ the author does an outstanding job describing the main character‚ the plot‚ and the theme. The character Tessie Hutchinson in this story makes the reader feel as if he or she is a part of the plot. Additionally‚ the plot of this story is very surprising and unexpected. Jackson does a really great job writing the story‚ and in the end it is very easy to think about a theme. Certainly‚ “The

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    Brutus stated “That you do love me I am nothing jealous. What you would work me to‚ I have some aim” (Shakespeare 1. 2. 162-163) . Shakespeare wrote the play Julius Caesar and in this play you can see similarities and differences between Adolf Hitler and Julius Caesar‚ as well as Joseph Stalin and Brutus. This paper will be showing how Brutus and Hitler are alike in stabbing Caesar and Stalin in the back as well as how Caesar and Stalin are alike in how they handle it and what happened afterward

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    Winning the Lottery

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    2013 Winning the lottery Winning the lottery is the wish and desire of every person in the world. In Fact‚ it can either make life miserable or wonderful‚ full of joy. It can cause a change of personality in steadily. But‚ when individuals that lived a normal poor or middle class life overnight become worth more than they could ever imagine. At that point‚ it creates life risk‚ family issues‚ or even depression. Overall there’s a good and bad side to winning the lottery. Like getting rid of

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    graphic novel that consists of five stories. “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” by Chris Ware has similarities and differences when compared to Emily Carroll’s “Through the Woods”. The colors connect the two stories as well as the manner of which speech is presented in the comics. These main aspects are what bring these two comics together and make them compatible. A similarity that I had observed after reading each comic individually is the color palette chosen by the authors. In the

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    diverse culture and different beliefs. Everyone should be open minded and accept other peoples background. Varieties of people have different opinions and beliefs about how earth and humans came to be. In these creation myths‚ they have their similarities and differences. The three creation myths that will be compared are the Modoc creation myth‚ the Maidu creation myth‚ and the creation myth that comes from the first book of Moses called Genesis. After reading these three creation myths‚ they were similar

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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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    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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    Elementary School and Middle School: The Differences and Similarities   What is it like to transition from elementary to middle school? That is a question many kids ask each year. Having experienced both‚ I can tell you that there are plenty of similarities as well as some very big differences between the two types of schools.      Elementary schools and middle schools have many traits in common. Typically‚ both are open five days a week for a set number of hours each day. Students sit at

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    The Renaissance was the time when people had taken up and resumed civilization for they believed that after a long interruption‚ they had been awakened from the so called dark time‚ which refers to the Middle Ages. It was a new era in thought and feelings which had led to many developments and changes‚ particularly in arts. Renaissance had started in Italy which also had spread almost all over Europe. Since the renaissance in Italy was a bit different from the renaissance in North Europe‚ historians

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    South Korea is located on the southern part of Korea and boarders and is bordered by Eastern Asia‚ the southern half of the Korean Peninsula which borders the Sea of Japan‚ and the Yellow Sea. South Korea has a boring climate in my opinion. It is temperate‚ and during the summer months there is heavier rainfall than the rest of the year. The terrain in South Korea is much like that of North Korea. It is mostly hills and has mountains. There are wide coastal plains in the west in the south. These

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