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    house‚ side by side with his fellow soldiers‚ all looking the same. A wave of fully covered metal humans swept across the plains‚ with long swords and horses‚ both looking like robots while they defended their lord’s land. Thousands of miles away in Japan‚ some samurai stood in intricately designed armour with crossbows and swords ran or rode on horses and fought so they would have defended their master’s land. The bright and bold colours of the horse’s skin and the Samurai’s armour danced like fire

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    Samurai and Knights: Were the Similarities Greater than the Differences? In Europe and Japan‚ very similar forms of government developed within a couple hundred years of each other. This occurred despite the fact that these two parts of the world were very distance from each other and it was very unlikely that these countries had contact with each other. This form of government‚ called feudalism developed in both places due to the need to establish order after a time in chaos. The knights and the

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    The Lottery Ritual

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    black box to keep the folded papers together when the lottery starts‚ one folded paper with large black dot on‚ a stool to put the large black box on‚ and piles of stone. Remember the ritual might vary slightly from other communities‚ but the ritual is an important part of our society’s history and its present. In our society‚ a lottery will be held every year‚ on July 27th at noon‚ since there are only 300 people; it is possible to finish the lottery before the late lunch. The ritual of the society is

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    Samuel Boorse Professor Mary Dixon ENGL 102-B05 LUO January 30‚ 2011 Thesis Statement for the short story “The Lottery” The title of the story suggests a positive outcome. But upon reading the first couple of paragraphs‚ we see that a different plot is coming together. Outline 1. Many people gathered. a. Three hundred people b. Small town. 2. Children a. Gathering Stones b. Summertime c. Talked of school and teachers 3. Adults gathering

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    The Lottery Monster

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    Please read the case study entitled Lottery that you find in the reading assignment. Based on what you have learned in this unit‚ answer the following questions: How is the lottery an example of the utilitarian monster? Let’s look at the definition of “utilitarian monster” in the textbook‚ “an individual capable of feeling disproportionately high sensations of pleasure and happiness‚ one who consequently requires many others to sacrifice their happiness in the name of maximizing net happiness” (p

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    ENC 1102-021 Critical Analysis Paper Symbolism: Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” she used symbolism to display the corrupt nature in tradition‚ show how people fight change‚ and view tradition. Each year on June 27 the community comes together to select the winner of the lottery who they will then stone to death. Jackson begins the story in such a realistic way to that this lottery could have taken place anywhere in America but doesn’t give the exact

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    Irony In 'The Lottery'

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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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    The Hunger Games and the Lottery Comparison Essay My two books for this comparison essay are “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ and “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. “The Lottery” is about the town’s people drawing out slips of paper and seeing who gets the slip of paper with the black pencil dot; however The Hunger Games is about Katniss taking her sister’s place when she’s called into the Hunger Games and trying to survive in the arena with Peeta in the Hunger Games. This book ends with Katniss

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    Symbolism in the Lottery

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    Shirley Jackson’s‚ “The Lottery”‚ clearly expresses her feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story. It opens the eyes of readers to properly classify and question some of today’s traditions as cruel‚ and allows room to foretell the outcome of these unusual traditions. “The Lottery” is a short story that records the annual sacrifice ceremony of a fictional small town. It is a detailed narrative of the selection of the person to be sacrificed‚ a

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    Symbols In The Lottery

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    Symbolism In “The Lottery” Everyone in the world has or will experience the death of best friends or loved ones. No matter what anyone does‚ they can’t overpower death. Our world is full of it‚ whether it is natural death‚ killing‚ or even suicide‚ and the town in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is not any different. In this short story one person is brutally murdered every year just so they possibly will have a good harvest. The Villagers pull slips from a black box and the one that picks the

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