Retirement Plan Matthew Birkebak Marisela Valadez Alatorre Odds of winning the lottery • Chances of winning the lottery. • Odds for both the Mega Millions and Powerball. • Percentage of new friends after winning the lottery. • Odds of losing the money awarded from a lottery win. • Second chance drawings. Mega Millions Odds of winning:1 in 259 million on the jackpot $656M‚ Mega Millions‚ March 30‚ 2012 is the largest jackpot with 75 million tickets sold for drawing. Odds of
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tradition‚ most people think of joyful things; baking Christmas cookies or even family game nights on Wednesdays. Traditions create memories‚ and bonds between familes. But‚ as shown in the short stories‚ “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ not all traditions are passed in good spirit - such as slavery‚ discrimination‚ and sacrifice. Slavery has been a part of culture all over the world for decades. Most people would not see this as a form of tradition but as told
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Disappointment and Male Egotism; A comparison of two stories “The lottery ticket” by Anton Chekhov and “The lottery” by Shirley Jackson have many similarities. Both pieces examine potential disastrous outcomes of participating in a lottery. Chekhov’s story is a very basic representation of one man’s negative lottery experience. Though Jackson’s work is about a very different kind of village lottery‚ it too tells the story of a devastating lottery experience. The pieces share many common ideas. In comparing
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Jackson ’s "The Lottery" portrays a small town in which the citizens gather for a yearly lottery. The story begins on a beautiful summer afternoon. The town ’s citizens are eager‚ gathering in the town square in order to take part in the yearly lottery by drawing slips of paper from a traditional black box. Everyone‚ including Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson‚ awaits this yearly tradition and most of them agree that this tradition should continue to be held in their small town. The lottery seems exciting;
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Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: An Exposition of Conformity in Society The Lottery‚ a short story by the nonconformist author Shirley Jackson‚ represents communities‚ America‚ the world‚ and conformist society as a whole by using setting and most importantly symbolism with her inventive‚ cryptic writing style. It was written in 1948‚ roughly three years after the liberation of a World War II concentration camp Auschwitz. Even today‚ some people deny that the Holocaust ever happened. Jackson shows
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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” shows humanity’s blind acceptance of tradition. This short story presents the tendency in human nature to hold to the status quo without critical thinking. The townspeople’s failure to understand the purpose behind the lottery‚ Old Man Warner’s condemnation of non-conformity‚ and the townspeople’s emotionless killing of Mrs. Hutchinson shows a culture’s blind acceptance of tradition. First‚ the townspeople show their blind acceptance of tradition in their failure
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Why did Shirley Jackson write "The Lottery?" - Essay What was the real reason Tessie “won” the lottery? Because she came late‚ opposed the person in power by speaking of a flaw/protesting against the lottery. When the Hutchinson family draws the marked paper‚ she exclaims‚ “It wasn’t fair” singling her out and making her “win”. How does this relate to real life? It relates to real life because everything in this story symbolizes or relates to things people in the world do all the time. It may not
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The Lottery Does thoughtlessly obeying tradition justify senseless and violent murder? The setting of the story takes place in a small fictional village around the time an annual event dubbed “the lottery” is being conducted‚ garnering the attention of the entire community. Furthermore‚ the tone set in the beginning is that of a jovial and positive atmosphere sharply contrasting the disturbing ending and revelation of exactly what “the lottery” is; all the while exploring themes corresponding to
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a theme in their piece of writing. A theme is basically the subject of talk on what the author’s personal feelings are. In the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson the theme is the danger of blindly following traditions can eventually lead to you being cruel. The following theme with be supported through characterization and setting. In The Lottery one way that the danger of blindly following traditions can eventually lead to you being cruel is seen through setting in the second paragraph
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“The lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “first they came” by Martin Neimoller are both great story’s where the theme is standing up for what is right isn’t always the easiest path. In the lottery Mrs. Hutchinson wins and because she followed the crowd and played the game. And that doesn’t work out to well‚ and when the speaker in first they came does what everyone else does he is nearly executed. When the Hutchinson family wins the lottery Tessie Hutchinson is not very happy‚ in paragraph 45 and 46
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