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    “The Lottery” Response Paper Shirley Jackson’s very intriguing short story‚ “The Lottery‚” was evidently quite the controversy when it first appeared in The New Yorker (Jackson 208). One can easily guess that the reason for such mass unrest was the story’s violent content. However‚ humanity is not always extremely kind; humans can be brutal creatures. In Ms. Jackson’s story‚ this theme of violence and cruelty is revealed‚ and one cannot help but wonder if all those New Yorker reviewers gave her

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    The word Lottery has great meaning in everyone’s eyes. In the short story‚ “The Lottery”‚ the author did a great job keeping a suspenseful and inquiring meaning of what the village’s version of the lottery meant. In this short story the author wrote about a lottery that takes place in all villages. In this text the author focuses on one village. The author writes about the culture that goes into the lottery‚ the rules of the lottery‚ and the outcome in what happens whoever gets the chosen‚ which

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    The Traditional Ritual " The Lottery " Michelle Jackson‚ provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions subsequently blindly‚ without even thinking how much sense it actually makes to follow such traditions‚ or how it affects them or their loved ones.( 235-243) The name of the title makes you consider that this story is concerning drawing numbers and winning a prize‚ then to my surprise it is about how a tiny village involved in a tradition‚ ritual every year

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    Summary:The Lottery By Shirley Jackson On 27th of june‚nice summer day‚ at 10 oclock the villagers gathered In the square for town lottery. Some towns already quit lotteries‚ In other towns the lottery takes two days because of the big population but in this town‚ where the population doesn’t exceeds 300 people‚ the whole lottery took less then two hours. the children that were on summer vacation assembled first. The boys gathered stones and made a pile of them in the corner of the square

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    Texas Lottery and Education Funding Destinee Caster Abstract Texans believe that participating in the Texas Lottery helps the Texas Education Foundation but little do they know; how much money actually goes to the Texas Education Foundation. The effect of the Texas Lottery is causing more of a negative impact on Texans than the Education Foundation is benefiting. The Texas Lottery negatively impacts the people that play the lottery and the programs that are supposed to benefit from the

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    involvement in the lottery: “The night before the lottery‚ Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made up slips of paper and put them in the box‚ and it was then taken to the safe of Mr. Summers’ coal company and locked up until Mr. Summers was ready to take it to the square the next morning” (2). Both Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves are in charge of everything that occurs with the lottery. Not only do they host it‚ but they also look over the box throughout the year and change parts of the lottery that have been used

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    Interpretation of Literature 4/23/2014 Topic 2 – Othering Shirley Jackson’s story‚ “The Lottery”‚ takes place on June 27th in a very small village of about only 300 people. This day is what they call the day of the lottery‚ hence the title. The Lottery is a tradition they have done for years‚ where the entire village gathers in the square‚ wait for their name to be called‚ which they then pick a small piece of paper from a black box‚ and patiently wait for everyone to pick their piece of paper

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    ‘The Lottery’ By Shirley Jackson Mode: Reading Genre: Prose Task: How does Shirley Jackson build up suspense in the short story ‘The Lottery’? The story ‘The Lottery’ was written by Shirley Jackson‚ throughout the piece the author builds up suspense towards the climax. The story takes place in a small village‚ where the people are close and tradition is paramount. A yearly event‚ called the lottery‚ is one in which one person in the town is randomly selected‚ by a drawing‚ to be violently

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    A tradition can be the best thing ever or a horrible thing. People all over the world have tradition‚ even you. Nevertheless‚ in the Lottery‚ the village has a tradition that they do every year. Their tradition is killing one person per year. The village thinks that by killing one person would give them more corn to survive. The gathering starts on June 26th and finishes on the 27th.The village gathers by the square.The square is between the post office and the bank. When everyone is there‚ the

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    Jeffrey Kidd Final Copy 12 April 2013 Alabama State Lottery Many states have a state lottery. These lotteries can help out a state in many different ways. Lotteries can help provide many different ways of funding money to the state. They can help provide money for local groups and organizations such as schools‚ hospitals‚ and animal shelters. Alabama needs a state lottery because it does not have the proper funding to provide for those in need‚ provide help for the school systems‚ and it can

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