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    obedient to individuals‚ especially with authority is carved into a human being from the way they were raised. If the person with authority is recognized to be morally right‚ people tend to obey orders from they even more. In addition‚ having obedience for authority is great‚ however when it’s putting an individual life at risk‚ you should not obey the authority. In other words‚ if a person feel like the task their completing is hurting someone else‚

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    Blind Optimism

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    Blind Optimism‚ Thick Skin‚ And A Cell Phone By Melanie Warner August 13‚ 2001 (FORTUNE Magazine) – Sudha Shah is at the peak of her game. As one of the top sales reps for a big software company‚ she’s won the respect (and perhaps envy) of her co-workers‚ and she has earned a bucket of money in commissions. Last year Sudha blasted through her sales quota by more than 400%‚ bringing around $40 million in revenue to SAP‚ the German business-software maker--more money than all but one of her 300 sales

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    The Lure of the Lottery

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    The Lure of the Lottery “The modern experience of state-run lotteries in this country begins with New Hampshire in 1964. In a story that would be repeated across the country‚ New Hampshire faced a difficult choice: either raise taxes or institute a lottery” (Haugen). Since 1964 a myriad of states have been inclined to induce state lotteries to bring in a greater amount of revenue for their individual states. While state lotteries may be a method for converting individual contributions into works

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    Lottery Ticket

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    The Lottery Ticket Essay In this essay the themes of greed‚ suspense and real life will be discussed. Have you ever wondered why the lottery has such an effect on people’s minds? The answer to that question on your mind is greed. Greed is one of the major themes in this short story. This theme is used to explain the effects on people’s minds and how one minute your dreams can seem so harmless but then you start getting more into depth and then a little monster comes and invades

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    Against The Lottery

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    Against the Lottery – Should it be banned? Back in the 1930s and the 1940s when most of the population was poor‚ people had no source of income and wondered how to take care of themselves and their families‚ the lottery became a popular trend. Officially‚ the first modern government run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934 (encyclopedia). The odds of winning are 1 in 176‚000‚000 (Humphries). If you are lucky enough then you can strike big and win prizes up to $10‚000‚000. It can help

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    The Ethics of Lottery

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    The Ethics of Lottery The following is an ethical criticism of lottery advertising. It will be argued that such campaigns often promote with misleading information‚ they epitomize government hypocrisy with respect to the ‘purpose’ of lottery‚ and lastly‚ they internationally target the poor and vulnerable community to stimulate volume sales. The concept of lottery advertising will also be applied to an ethical framework to support what is argued. The Promotion of State Lotteries: In the following

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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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    Obedience Can Kill

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    Obedience Can Kill Obedience Can Kill As is common in our modern society‚ the government has laws and regulations in place for our safety. Many of these laws are well thought out and effective. But what happens when these same laws hamper our own ability to protect ourselves? Our obedience to the law can kill us. I firmly believe that my fellow students and the faculty of my college should have the ability to protect themselves from those who would do them harm. Students and faculty with a

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    Suicide In The Lottery

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    following the crowd can have dangerous consequences. For example‚ look at the fictional world of a short story: “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In its small town‚ the locals hold a lottery every year. A slip of paper for every person in town is stored inside an ancient black box; the official of the lottery‚ Mr. Summers‚ summons everyone to pull out a slip of paper. The lottery may seem quaint‚

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    on the group’s decision regardless whether the individual knows it’s wrong. The factors the contribute to a personal judgment that leads to conformity are peer pressure and the social influence to fit in ("Module 11.4: Conformity‚ Compliance‚ and Obedience." n.d). For example‚ a person will more likely agree on the wrong answer in history class if the other students chose that answer as well. This is also another reason why election votes are held in private areas‚ so the person’s vote would not impact

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