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    same year The New Yorker published “The Lottery”‚ a story written by Shirley that yielded in the largest volume of mail ever received by the magazine. Most of the mail was full of hate. The book has now been published in many languages‚ read by dozens of high schools in the United States. In 1949 the Hyman family moved to Westport‚ Connecticut‚ so Stanley could commute to his new job on The New Yorker staff (1). Soon after Shirley’s second book‚ The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris (a collection

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    The stories being analyzed are “The Destructors‚” and “The Lottery.” Tessie better known as Mrs. Hutchinson and Old Misery or Mr. Thomas‚ have many similarities between them. Some being the fact they both had something taken from them‚ a home or pride. They both enjoy a nice conversation with their friends or visitors. While there are some similarities between the two of them there are also some differences. Differences ranging from the lack of awareness to being completely aware of the circumstances

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    reader able to understand the story‚ so if something were to be paced fast it’s very likely that the reader won’t be able to understand the story at all or only understand bits and pieces of it. Evidence of pacing in stories could be found in “The Lottery”‚ “Metamorphosis”‚ “Carry”‚ and “Without a title.” Let’s start with Carry. In “Carry” it’s a poem about self-reflection and how all life is connected. To get the meaning of a story the story would have to be placed out in a way for the reader to

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    saying the drawing was unfair. I feel that the story chose her because nobody likes a sore loser when the drawing was that of a chance for everyone to be picked. 4. What are some examples of irony in this story? For example‚ why might the title‚ "The Lottery‚" or the opening description in paragraph one‚ be considered ironic? Ans: I don’t think there were any examples of

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    The Lottery Rose Analysis

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    For the majority of The Lottery Rose‚ Georgie Burgess had absolute hatred for Molly Harper because when Georgie snuck out and planted his rosebush in her garden. The next day when she saw the rosebush and multiple bulbs out of the ground‚ she was furious and ripped the rosebush out of the soil it was in and threw it down onto the road. Mrs. Harper then proceeded to tell Georgie that if she ever saw him trying to plant his rosebush anywhere on her property she would rip it out of the fragile soil

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    Conformity can be used in many different types of ways. Sometimes conformity can be used in a bad way like in behavior like changing to fit in. Then‚ it can be used in a good way like when a person can look up to someone to be there for them. Conformity can be used in many negative ways like a person changing who they really are just to fit in. When one is forced to be like by others part self respect is lost because never should a person to like something because they have to. “You lose something

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    Why Do People Conformity?

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    This reasoning was confirmed by another experiment conducted by Sis trunk and Mc David. They used tasks and items with which women were more familiar than males. The results showed that in this case males yielded much easily and showed greater conformity. Other reason cited for females’ higher

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    Unit: Conformity and Obedience Produce a written description/evaluation of Sherif’s (1935) and Asch’s (1956) studies of conformity‚ with an emphasis on the reasons why people conformed in the experiments. Conformity is defined by Aronson (1988‚ cited in Psychology for A Level‚ pg. 43) as ‘a change in a persons behaviour or opinions as a result of real or imagined pressure from a person or group of people. Sherif’s (1935) study of the autokinetic effect‚ which was an optical illusion‚ is

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    assignment I will be comparing and contrasting the terms conformity and obedience. I will also be answering the following questions: 1) Does research into conformity and obedience explain the horrors of war atrocities‚ such as The Holocaust‚ the Mi Lai Massacre in Vietnam or the abuse suffered by Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison? 2) Does research into independent behavior suggest these atrocities could be averted in future conflicts? Conformity is a form of social influence in which a current state

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    ultimately‚ people yearn to be just right. According to social psychology‚ conformity causes people to yield such behavior and to act according to other’s behavior. For example‚ within the African American culture‚ the return of natural hair styles‚ which constitutes afros‚ kinky curls and many other hairstyles that does require the use of processing or straightening chemicals‚ have strongly promoted conformity. It has promoted conformity so strongly‚ that I have even begun to wear natural hair styles because

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