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    AMITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SEC-46 GURGAON HOLIDAY HOMEWORK CLASS X Science CHEMISTRY PREPARE POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: (MINIMUM 5 SLIDES‚MAXIMAM 10 SLIDES) ROLL NO:1-10 WILL PREPARE PPT 1. ROLL NO.11-20 WILL PREPARE PPT.2 ROLL NO.21-33 WILL PREPARE PPT.3 PPT1-------TYPES OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS PPT2--------CORROSION PPT3-------RANCIDITY PLEASE GET HARD COPIES OF PPTS MADE BY YOU PHYSICS  Dear students first find out where the electricity meter (noting the units

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    for the traditional annual lottery. The officiator‚ Mr. Summers‚ begins the ominous unnecessary lottery that customarily selects an innocent villager to be stoned to death. Although the real purpose of the lottery is to commit murder‚ Mr Summers seems to be void of any moral compass as he sports a white shirt and blue jeans signifying his purity to the situation as if he is Pontius Pilate washing his hands at the trial of Jesus. Assuming the role as head of the lottery for many years‚ Mr. Summers

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    Positive and negative effects of winning the lottery Winning the lottery is something everyone wants. Rarely do people realize that there are also bad effects to having such a large sum of money. A good amount of people that win the lottery are foolish with their money‚ quit their jobs‚ or just don’t know what to do with it. The others that win make smart decisions in either investing their fortune‚ donating it to a good cause‚ or just helping their family be finically stable. Majority of people

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    In modern times‚ the lottery is generally acknowledged as a set of fantastic prizes that people vie to win; however‚ in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery‚” the exact opposite is true. Jackson transforms this rather innocuous-sounding practice to a dark‚ perverse town ritual in a shocking twist that leaves the reader hungry for more details. Jackson conveys her message that tradition is not always best with her omission of details‚ use of foreshadowing and abrupt ending. Jackson begins her story in

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    person is all knowing‚ it can jump from character to character and give information that only the reader knows about. Does varying amongst these three point of views change the reader opinion of a story? Shirley Jackson decided to write The Lottery in third person while Alice Walker

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    the lottery‚ but not its exact purpose. Do the townspeople know? Is this omission significant? Intentional? No‚ the townspeople do not know the lottery’s exact purpose. This omission is not significant because it seems there is no point in the lottery and why these people are operating such horrid acts. It is more intentional; the townspeople are playing it safe thinking they are keeping a tradition‚ yet no one seems brave enough to ask why? 3. Why is much of the history of the lottery and

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    Is Lottery A Good Idea? Introduction/Thesis: When taking a stab at the lottery it is all going to a good cause such as given back to the people and helping school systems. When making purchases towards the lottery‚ particular credit is being giving to help support charities. Also lottery is the ones that produce the GRANT funds for college students to help pay for schooling and other necessary school related fees. The initial decisions you make are going to determine if the money will bring you

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    Hey! Have you ever just followed to crowd? Well “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “First They Came” by Martin Niemoller talk about that! Now if you’ve never seen “The Lottery” or “First They Came” here is a summary of it. "The Lottery" takes place in the morning of June 27th‚ in a little village between the post office and the bank a lottery was started. Everyone gathered around Mr. Summers with a black box full of paper slips‚ and one of the paper slips has a black dot. Mr. Hutchinson was the

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    Authors use many different tools to portray and create some fictional world inside the readers mind such as plot‚ point of view‚ characterization‚ symbolism‚ etc... “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Lottery” are two very melancholy stories each in their own way. Edgar Allen Poe and Shirley Jackson both use excellent techniques to create the peculiar atmosphere and mood of their stories. Edgar Allen Poe is known for using many different artistic elements to create eerie‚ spooky stories. In

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    between “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Lottery” The Cask of Amontillado is believed to set place in the 18th century in a nameless city in Italy. Right from the start of the story‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ sets the tone to be revengeful and unforgiving‚ in examples like‚ “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult‚ I vowed revenge.” (Poe) And “I must not only punish‚ but punish with impunity.” (Poe). The Lottery on the other hand‚ starts off describing

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