“The Lottery” is a story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and tells the story of a town that takes part in a barbaric ritual every year on June 27th. There are several themes in this short story. The main themes in “The Lottery” are our aversion to examine and challenge outdated ideas and rituals‚ that society will pick scapegoats to carry its wrongs and the horrors in following the crowd. The townspeople in “The Lottery” blindly go along with an appalling custom having lost the reason behind
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2013 Winning the lottery Winning the lottery is the wish and desire of every person in the world. In Fact‚ it can either make life miserable or wonderful‚ full of joy. It can cause a change of personality in steadily. But‚ when individuals that lived a normal poor or middle class life overnight become worth more than they could ever imagine. At that point‚ it creates life risk‚ family issues‚ or even depression. Overall there’s a good and bad side to winning the lottery. Like getting rid of
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson focuses on the annual ritual killing of one person and the characters’ behavior during this event. From the standpoint of modern civilized society‚ the killing is simply evil‚ and therefore this mindset may be projected onto the characters. However‚ the lottery is not seen by the townspeople as a necessary evil merely because it is part of the ritual. The ritual itself could not justify such violence if most people opposed it. Violence is inherent in human nature
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everyone gets the chance to be what they want to be. Not everyone is provided with an opportunity. I am lucky that I was given one and now I have to do my part by taking advantage of it. I know what I want to be and I’m certain that I want to be a successful computer science major. The moment I knew what I wanted to study in college was when my cousin Jonathan moved in with me and my family. I was eleven years old when Jonathan moved in with us‚ he was twenty years old. I had not made the transition
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-Love it all you want. -My lips are sealed. -Behold‚ I send you out as sheep amidst the wolves. -Pressure‚ it changes everything. Some people‚ you squeeze them‚ they focus. Others fold. -Don’t get too cocky. No matter how good you are. Do not let them see you coming. That is the gaffe. You’ve got to keep yourself small‚ innocuous‚ be the little guy‚ the nerd‚ the leper‚ the shit kicking surfer and underestimated from day one. That is what you are missing. -Stay in the trenches. - The quotes
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asked. What do you want to be when you grow up? Most children will say they want to be a doctor‚ teacher‚ police officer‚ etc. When i was asked what i wanted to be when i grew up‚ my answer would vary between giraffeopologist (the name i gave to people who studied giraffes)‚ a witch‚ or a mad scientist. My answer started to change the years passed‚ i grew older‚ became wiser and started to discover who i am and what i was really interested in‚ the human body and mind. At the age of thirteen i figured
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a story about a small town that gathered and did their usual lottery that happens during the 27th of June. This lottery is being headed by the “Big three” namely Mr. Summers‚ Mr. Graves & Mr. Martin. The story describes what happens during the tradition of the town wherein they eliminate the worst worker in their town every year. The story has many themes; one of these themes is sexism. Sexism is defined as the discrimination based on gender especially discrimination
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Union and Confederate Advantages The Union certainly had considerable advantages. There were 22 million people in the North compared with only 9 million in the South (of whom only 5.5 million were whites). The North had a much greater industrial capacity. In 1860 Northern states produced 97 per cent of the USA’s firearms and 94 per cent of its pig iron. Even in agriculture the North enjoyed an edge. The Confederacy hoped to make good its lack of materials by trading with Europe‚ but the Union used
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What I Have Learned In this class I have learned so many different things about Microsoft Excel‚ Word‚ and PowerPoint. Each program that we covered has its uses in a professional setting. They also have many personal uses as well. Microsoft Excel we were taught how to use excel to create budgets‚ and also how to take that budget and make it into a graph. This is really beneficial for me in my personal life‚ because I have never used a budget. Now I can’t monitor what I am spending and
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I have always known my brother was different. From the day he was born he was hooked up on beeping machines and glow fingers‚ he wasn’t on them for very long but enough to make me always remember the way they sounded. I knew he had a scar on his chest‚ I knew he looked different from me. I always just wanted to know why. I would never know why until middle school. Middle school was when I started noticing the kids that where different. I noticed the kids that screamed down the hall‚ the ones who
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