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    home)‚ and birth hygiene. I also talked about the methods that the CARE health project used which were educating villagers‚ building things for the villages‚ and providing sanitary equipment to the villagers. Lastly I discussed how the CARE health project methods were used when trying to help the villagers deal with their problems. Some examples of things they did to help the villagers with their problems are educating them on sanitation in the villages‚ homemade oral rehydration solutions‚ building

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    death. The lottery is a form of manipulation because it controls the villagers. The villagers are being manipulated because of the lottery tradition to kill the person who chooses the paper with the spot. For example‚ in the story‚ the lottery is influencing the villagers to kill Tessie with stones because it is a tradition. The tradition has been played since the first people settled to make a village. However‚ the villagers made up their own way to play the lottery because “The original paraphernalia

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    going to be sacrificed. Shorty after winning‚ Tessie was stoned to death as a sacrifice to the gods. The lottery was conducted because the villagers want to follow an old ritual and tradition which

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    With no doubt‚ some villagers underestimated the strength of European colonizers‚ which led to harsh consequences after the villagers confronted the European churches and missionaries. The vandalism of the church was the most obvious illustration. During the conference between the missionaries and the villagers after the church was burned‚ the court messengers prosecuted Okonkwo and his subordinates (194-195). The incident demonstrated the strength and power of the villagers was not compatible with

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    these circumstances that our narrative forms and the plot moves forward. The farmers unite with one another to try and find a solution to the knowledge bandits are going to come after them for their crops again‚ the samurai unite to protect the villagers‚ and the bandits to overtake the village. The first thought at the end of the movie is that these classes cross bridges and unite together‚ but that is not the case. In the final scene of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai it starts with a medium close up

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    with unwelcoming villagers‚ Marnie befriends with two other people‚ a local priest and a madman named Raven. Like Marnie‚ Raven is also shunned from this village. When people see the growing relationship between him and Marnie‚ false accusations are immediately made about them‚ which add even more pain and suffering to their loneliness in this society. This story deals with the victimization of those who are different from others due to the superstitious beliefs of the villagers and their fear for

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    Carlie Johnston Gabriel 1 AP English Literature 4 February 2013 In The Lottery a small village gathers annually to conduct a long held tradition. Villagers halt the day’s activities to attend said tradition with their families and neighbors; they muster together in the town square socializing with one another while the children gather rocks seemingly arbitrarily. Before one discovers the true nature of the lottery these actions seem innocuous and perhaps even eccentric. However‚ once one does

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    for this piece‚ Bruce has used a few elegant balletic movements‚ such as arabesque and attitude‚ to show control and strength of what dominance they have over their victims. To also show their deathly ways and what they are capable of doing to the villagers‚ Bruce has choreographed movements such as twists‚ leaps‚ and glides‚ in high levels‚ to show height and importance. There have also been movements using wheel plains‚ showing extension and length. Other movements include off-balance turns. Dancers

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    Blindly Following Tradition The village lottery culminates in a violent murder each year‚ a bizarre ritual that suggests how dangerous tradition can be when people follow it blindly. Before we know what kind of lottery they’re conducting‚ the villagers and their preparations seem harmless‚ even quaint: they’ve appointed a rather pathetic man to lead the lottery‚ and children run about gathering stones in the town square. Everyone is seems preoccupied with a funny-looking black box‚ and the lottery

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    within one race‚ the blacks born and living in the Caribbean. “The villagers were a low down nigger people who couldn’t bear to see one of their kind get along without feeling envy and hate” (Lamming 26). A clear dichotomy between the regular villagers and the overseers who are both the same race yet there is a “tense relationship between the overseer and the ordinary villager” (Lamming 26). These quotes suggest that the villagers see themselves as a separate group from the overseers in this novel

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