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    The Book vs. Watching The Movie Reading or watching movie has been a hot topic under debate for the past fear years. Some people find it very hard to choose whether or not to read the book or watch the movie of something. Ultimately‚ most people end up both reading and watching the movie because usually the movie comes out a while after the book is released. Most people find that there are huge similarities and differences between reading the movie and watching the movie in regards to detail‚ visualization

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    Choice Will a bad choice‚ lead you to your own murder? In the story “The Lottery”‚ we witness the murder of a woman as a form of sacrifice; the villagers must attend that event to follow their tradition‚ which doesn’t give them a choice to think for themselves. In the films: The Second Renaissance I&II‚ we witness the murder of humans and violence between both the robots and humans‚ robots wanted peace‚ but the human choose not to‚ leading them to their destruction. In Matriculated‚ we witness the

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    Retirement Plan Matthew Birkebak Marisela Valadez Alatorre Odds of winning the lottery • Chances of winning the lottery. • Odds for both the Mega Millions and Powerball. • Percentage of new friends after winning the lottery. • Odds of losing the money awarded from a lottery win. • Second chance drawings. Mega Millions  Odds of winning:1 in 259 million on the jackpot  $656M‚ Mega Millions‚ March 30‚ 2012 is the largest jackpot with 75 million tickets sold for drawing.  Odds of

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    vital role to help the reader communicate with the central message of the story. In “The Lottery‚” Shirley Jackson uses several symbolic features. For example‚ the title and the black box represents how society plays a role in the short story. Understanding the poem‚ Shirley Jackson uses the black box and the title to define the society conditions in which the people are living. The black box in “The Lottery” provides the reader with an insight to keep people in one certain path. The townspeople

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    ​Throughout the story of “The Lottery”‚ author Shirley Jackson uses an ironic tone. From the reader point of view‚ a lottery is special grand prize‚ not a twisted turn of events which involves death. The use of irony prepares the readers for the most dramatic reaction. ​Shirley Jackson sets the most obvious use of irony from the beginning. From the first impression of the readers‚ the lottery is a cash prize. As the plot ticking’s‚ Jackson played on the belief and turned it to the complete opposite

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    The Lottery Poem Analysis

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    eggs‚ cooking a turkey on thanksgiving. Their are are normal traditions‚ in “The Lottery”‚ there traditions is the black box. In “The Village” Their tradition is“Those Who We Don’t Speak Of “. 1B Tradition is important. Because It can be passed drawn down from generations to generations. In “The Lottery” they will claim a life away‚ in “The Village” they want to keep people out of the woods. 1C The leaders in “The Lottery” and in “The Village” use fear of death and loss control; of lies and secularism

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    drawing of a name in‚ “The Lottery”‚ by Shirley Jackson. Throughout the story we are guided through a series of seemingly meaningless events‚ leading up to the drawing of a lucky winner of the town Lottery. According to Webster’s dictionary the definition of a Lottery is ‘A system used to decide who will get or be given something by choosing names or numbers by chance.’ Unfortunately as it is‚ the lottery is just front for an even crueler event: the winner of the Lottery will be stoned‚ presumably

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    The Lottery In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ the townspeople are partaking in an annual event that has been tradition in their community for a long time. This event is part of a blind tradition. The elements of this lottery which makes it a blind tradition is that it is held like any normal community event; the community is completely blind to the inhumanity of an annual ritual which involves human sacrifices‚ and the members question the lottery and its use‚ but still follow through with the

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    Literary Response: The Lottery The Lottery‚ by Shirley Jackson‚ is a compelling story about the human race and how it is affected by its surrounding traditions. When the 27th of June arrives‚ a village is overtaken by a two hour lottery‚ which includes the picking of stones‚ a black box and ends in a fight for the “winners” life. One of the prominent themes in this story is human hypocrisy. Although most of the characters are shown through their words and actions‚ one particular person stands out:

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    serious duty to their families‚ hunting illegally and putting their names tens of times into the Hunger Games raffle. I felt that the raffle was ridiculously barbaric‚ and reminded me of a short story that we read in English last year‚ called “the Lottery”. Anyway‚ reading the part when Katniss

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