What Would You Do If You Won The Power Ball? One Wednesday September 26th 2012 somebody in Iowa won the 202 million dollar Powerball. I already have my winnings mapped out if I was to win the Powerball. I would make sure my family is finically set. Continue living my day to day life. I would invest into something nonprofit. With that said let me tell you how I would spend my winnings. Making sure my family is finically set would consist of: Paying all of our debt off. Making sure my children’s
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story? If not‚ at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson start to foreshadow the ending in paragraphs 2 and 3? Conversely‚ how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? Ans: Was not really surprised by the ending to this story. I never really knew what was going to happen but I had a feeling that something bad was about to happen when Jackson wrote about the stones being gathered in huge piles. I also feel he foreshadowed
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Thematic Essay: The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov was very talented in that he could convey well the emotion and the suspense with each and every situation of his stories. In Anton Chekhov’s short story‚ "The Lottery Ticket"‚ Ivan Dmitritch and his wife imagine the vast splendors that would come had they won the lottery. Shown in this condensed work‚ Ivan and his wife realize that they have changing attitudes toward each other and their all important family. In the beginning‚
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armed conflict is on the commander(s) for ordering or encouraging soldiers to kill innocent people. People in The Lottery are like soldiers blindly following a rule that ends up taking innocent lives. Winning the lottery does not in tale a trip to a nice place but it’s a responsibility. This is an analogy to the war because any soldier who enters an army is as if he was entering the lottery. As the villagers in the story ignore Tessie’s protest‚ they begin to select the stones they are going to use against
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What Would You Do If You Won The Powerball? Introduction I. Introduction: One Wednesday September 26th 2012 somebody in Iowa won the 202 million dollar Powerball. II. Thesis: I already have my winnings mapped out if I were to win the Powerball. III. Preview of Main Points: a. I would make sure my family is finically set. b. Continue living my day to day life. c. I would invest into something nonprofit. Transition: With that said let me tell you how I would
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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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“What You Pawn I Will Redeem” (Response Paper) “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie is the story of the mission of the humorous character of Jackson Jackson. Jackson Jackson is a homeless Spokane Indian in search of money to repurchase the regalia that was stolen from his grandmother about 50 years ago. He embarks on a journey to collect 999 dollars‚ the amount of money the pawnbroker is willing to sell the regalia for. Throughout this journey‚ the humorous character of Jackson Jackson
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the experience of his father’s death had paralyzed him physically and emotionally. Nothing could touch him‚ he said. He even stopped thinking about his father. Elie did nothing all day long; the only thing he wished to do was to eat. That is just what he and his fellow prisoners did when their liberators finally
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story "The Lottery‚" the community attitude toward this story is that you have some of the most loyal people out there that were once family turns their backs on one another all over a cruel tradition. On the other end you have some people just didn’t feel it was right. It was like a no win situation. You must participate no matter how bad you feel. Family turn on one another and betrayal seek vengeance in this story. The characters that refused to question the tradition of the lottery in the story
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Have you ever had the thoughts of what it would be like to win the lottery. I’m sure that if anyone won the lottery they would be extremely ecstatic. Most of us expect winning the lottery to be a joyous and thrilling experience. But‚ what if it wasn’t? What if winning the lottery meant losing everything you have‚ including your life? In the short story‚ The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ this particular event occurs. The story takes place in a small rural village. Every year‚ all of the villagers put
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