"My First Time Away From Home" Leaving to go to college was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surrounding. I didn’t have my mom right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. At first when I originally
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Jackson’s "The Lottery" as an Allegory Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" is an excellent example of an allegorical short story. In this story‚ the reader learns of a town’s "lottery" that takes place once a year‚ every year. It has been a tradition in this small rural town for many years and the villagers never question these activities‚ they just blindly go along with it. But what the reader doesn’t know is just what kind of prize the winner is going to obtain. Jackson’s
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Away is a play written by the Australian playwright Michael Gow‚ published by Currency Press in 1986.[1] First performed by the Griffin Theatre Company in 1986‚ it tells the story of three internally conflicted families holidaying on the coast for Christmas‚ 1968. It has become one of the most widely produced Australian plays of all time and is part of the Higher School Certificate syllabi or general High School Curriculum in many states‚ including Western Australia‚ New South Wales‚ Queensland and
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Written by Shirley Jackson‚ the short story “The Lottery” focuses on a village with a tradition that provides fate by random chance. However‚ in this particular allegory Jackson uses the title to elude the readers mind from the ending to come. Throughout the entire story Jackson uses themes that greatly parallel with American society such as‚ family‚ fiscal and social class‚ and religion. For example‚ Jackson demonstrates family hierarchy comparable to American culture when she writes‚ “Soon the
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different books all with different themes and different meanings. One style she liked to write about a lot was of the ritualistic nature‚ and about very bone chilling stories that she would come up with. Some examples of this are the books “The Haunting”‚ “The Witch”‚ “The Possibility of Evil”‚ etc. all written by Shirley Jackson herself. One story in particular that uses a sense of ritualistic nature is the short story “The Lottery” also written by Shirley Jackson. This story is about a village that
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Win Some and Lose Some One hour away. Sloan‚ Iowa. Winna Vegas Casino. We like to say it’s a fun way to get away from college life‚ hang out with friends‚ and attempt to add a little extra to the pocket books. Many kids attending Buena Vista University have made at least one trip to the Winna Vegas Casino. This casino is 70 miles from Storm Lake and the age requirement to gain admittance is only eighteen. As an alternative to drinking or the bar scene‚ individuals view gambling as a relaxing and
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Teenagers are more likely to run away from home than an adolescent child. Many people think about running away just to leave there problems behind in turn they create new and more complicated problems. As a teen I ran away for a day it was not a long period of time before I ended up back at home. But since my parents were divorced I ended up moving from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to live with my mother. From there my life seemed to go downhill because my mother did not care what I did. To this
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corruption plagues some of the animals and the farm is run by a dictatorship once again. The pigs‚ who take control of the farm‚ use scapegoats to deflect the blame while they gradually take control of all the animals and the farm. At first Mr. Jones‚ the farmer‚ is the common enemy‚ then the scapegoat shifts to one of the pigs‚ Snowball. This story was based on the Soviet Union when Stalin used scapegoats to take control of Russia. Scapegoating is a tactic used by both the pigs in Animal Farm and by
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very well so the risk of using them is less than it used to be. Nuclear stations have several advantages over other ways to make electricity: they can run at full power for many months at a time they can make enormous amounts of power from a small amount of fuel. Just one station can provide enough power for a city Advantages- No greenhouse gases emitted‚ no SO2 emitted to increase acid rain‚ fewer deaths and injuries in uranium mining than coal mining‚ fuel reserves will last longer than fossil fuels
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State lotteries have been around for awhile to help build up state revenue. In such things as scratch off instant tickets or daily number drawings. To some these things are evil‚ but to some others who’s lives aren’t the greatest‚ it’s a shimmer of hope that most people don’t have. Now the thing about the lottery is a lot of people don’t win‚ but those few that do could be put into a nice situation that they’ve never been in before. This is the land of freedom and opportunity‚ isn’t that we are giving
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