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    Charms and Clovers Charms and Clovers From the very start‚ you get a sense of just what Charms and Clovers is going to deliver to you. There is a winning and very fitting theme running throughout the slot (namely Irish luck)‚ and that is beautifully twinned with the Irish jig music playing in the background. We know what you’re thinking - we’ve all seen far too many Irish luck themed slots of late to care‚ right? Well‚ hold your horses. If you give Charms and Clovers a brief look‚ you may be pleasantly

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    Throughout the course of human history we have dealt with the inevitable changing of the guard that occurs every few generations. The Lottery is an emotional look into the lives of the residents of a small town as they deal with the moral implications of holding on to a tradition that is so old that the intricacies of the ritual are all but lost to the people currently living in the town‚ or choosing to give up the archaic and barbaric traditions that where started with the founding of the town‚

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    Jayce The Bee: Journey to the Polka-Dot Village© Written & Illustrated by: Calvin Reynolds It was a warm sunny day. Jayce and Dex were full of laughter and cheer while enjoying the spring sunshine. The two friends raced flower-to-flower seeing who could collect the most nectar. Dex noticed an odd look on Jayce’s face. "Hey Jayce‚ what’s wrong?” he asked. “Well‚ spring is almost over‚ and we haven’t seen our friend‚ Lilly” Jayce replied. "I’m sure she’s busy with her chores and plans on visiting

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    Jacksons “The Lottery” view of Tessie Hutchinson Tessit Hutchinson played a very important roll in the short story "The Lottry". She and her famly end up being the central focus of this story once the actual lottery begins. When she arrives late to the lottery unlike everyone else in the town who were all early and had began to gather‚ this is the point that tells the readers that she is going to be the main focus of the story. Although a lot of other very important things are said between the other

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    Bitzer and the Death Penalty. In The Rhetorical Situation‚ Lloyd F. Bitzer argues that what makes a situation rhetorical is similar to that which constitutes a moral action as he writes that‚ “an act is moral because it is an act performed in a situation of a certain kind; similarly‚ a work is rhetorical because it is a response to a situation of a certain kind”. By defining the rhetorical situation in this way‚ Bitzer further contends that rhetoric is a means to altering reality. It is through

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    Most stories that people read have six elements of fiction. The story the lottery by Shirley Jackson contains six elements of fiction like any other story. The six elements of fiction are Structure‚ Characterization‚ Theme‚ Symbol‚ and Setting. Structure is an element of fiction. The structure is split into four parts: exposition‚ Rising action‚ Climax‚ and resolution. The exposition in the lottery occur when the villagers gathered around for the town lottery. The complication/rising action occurs

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    In the movie short Geri’s Game we see that the theme is that everyone has two sides of themselves fighting for control. This theme can be seen in the very bringing of the film when the man started to play his game of chess against himself. The side of him that that plays the white side represents his good self. While the side that plays black is the more cocky and evil self. This goes for everyone because we all have a bad self and a good self. But how much we see of each of them varies from person

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    A dominant theme in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is the threats that come along with following traditions. The people of the village follow a tradition that has been going on for as long as they can remember because they rely on the fact that it will stop them from going back to their primitive ways. At first the tradition of partaking in the lottery does not seem so bad seeing as how it’s true nature is not revealed till the end. However‚ it is then revealed that the lottery is one unlucky villager

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    Tradition is the backbone of every culture and civilization. It helps to pass the beliefs‚ philosophies‚ and customs of societies from generation to generation. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson describes about a tradition of an annual lottery draw‚ participated by the people of a village to insure a bountiful harvest. Usually in lotteries‚ the winners get something special that makes them happy. But in this story‚ the tradition of the lottery is that whoever is the winner is stoned to death to get

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    Traditions Traditions tend to make you do what everyone else in your society is doing. Both of the tragic stories “The Lottery”‚ and “Harrison Bergeron” teach about how society tends to conform to certain traditions or ways of being‚ no matter how gruesome. Their societies conform to such bizarre traditions‚ in fear of what might happen to them if they do not comply year after year. These stories have some similarities‚ but also have many differences‚ for example‚ the setting. The setting of

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