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    "The Possibility of Evil"‚ by Shirley Jackson‚ is a twisted story. It starts off with Ms.Strangeworth‚ the main character‚ having pride in her family and roses. She goes to the grocery store and has friendly conversations with the town’s people‚ but goes back home to write anonymous‚ cruel letters to the same people she talked to. She later on gets caught and everyone knows all the letters were from her. By writing the letters‚ she thought she was stopping the evil in her town‚ but‚ the ironic part

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    tradition that lost its validity. In the short story "The Lottery"‚ Shirley Jackson wrote about a tradition of stoning people to death. Use stoning as a punishment is not unearthly and it is practiced in some part of the world. In the case of short story "The Lottery"‚ the tradition of choosing someone using a random selection process or lottery and kill that person by stoning was never practiced in reality. Shirley Jackson wrote a make believe story of a cruel and merciless tradition that was practiced

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    President Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson helped to provide for a strong protection of popular democracy and individual liberty to the United States. Andrew Jackson known as the people’s president held a strong emotion in the states right’s which advocated to the increase of executive power. President Andrew Jackson was good for his country‚ because he provided certain decisions that helped form America into a better place than where it was before. President Andrew Jackson showed significant positives

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     Jefferson had a plan to change the way that the Natives were‚ to make  them more American. Jackson was obsessed with taking land from the Natives and hating  them. Jackson led to the Natives to the their land‚ promising the Cherokees friendship‚  deceiving them. Americans have been hiding the true Jackson from the textbooks‚ making  him look like a hero‚ when he was nothing but a scumbag. Jackson was someone who‚ once  he had a little‚ he wanted more. Jackson wasn’t the only asshole like this‚ Lewis Cass was  another one like him

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    The lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ takes place in a flourishing small town‚ that has a tradition of a lottery once a year. The lottery has been practiced for as long as the citizens could remember‚ they do not remember why or how it came to be‚ but that it is tradition. Shirley Jackson uses symbolism in actions‚ names‚ and objects to tell the underlying meaning of the lottery. The lottery begins with what seems like the most innocent of actions‚ children playing‚ but foreshadows the evil and satanic

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    Jackson Pollock was a very well known artist known for his abstract work. Pollock was born on January 28‚ 1912‚ in Wyoming. Throughout the early stages of Pollock’s life‚ his family moved all around different parts of the west. Pollock’s father who was abusive and an alcoholic left his family when he was just eight years old. Jackson Pollock’s older brother Charles stepped in and acted as a father to Jackson. Charles was an artist himself and influenced Jackson in a big way. He enrolled in a Manual

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    Jackson Dean - the first thing I ever learned about myself‚ something that has always been with me and will never change. Growing up with this name was very typical‚ it wasn’t like my name was something unheard of‚ of crazily odd‚ it was just normal. Other kids complained about their names and how they didn’t like them or how they sounded weird‚ but I never had that problem. To me‚ Jackson Dean is just a name passed down from previous generations‚ I never knew the true meaning of it‚ or why my parents

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    Although Jackson establishes the eviction of Indians‚ he also assures his audience that forcing the Indians to move is morally correct; therefore‚ his narcissist morals grounded in racism create longstanding effects that future generations will feel. Andrew Jackson’s use of contrasting positive and negative diction convinces his audience of his rightness‚ and his cockiness still rings true to today. In his address to Congress in regards to indian removal policy‚ he says‚ “What good man would prefer

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    Andrew Jackson‚ the 7th president of the United States began his life in less than ideal conditions. His father died before he was born‚ and his two brothers and mother died when he was a teen. He served in the American Revolution and was a mounted courier. After the war‚ he studied law and became a public prosecutor. Jackson settled in Nashville‚ TN and lost a large majority of his accumulated wealth. When the war of 1812‚ occurred‚ Jackson readily applied to join the army‚but was only given the

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    Tough decisions in life are always necessary‚ right? Sometimes you don’t know if your decision is right or wrong you just have to do it. A great example of this is given in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Throughout the novel you learn all about George and Lennie and their friendship together. In the final chapter‚ George makes a life changing‚ or should I say “life ending” decision. Should he have done what he did? Lennie was‚ in fact‚ a danger to the people and animals around him. He never

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