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The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
926 wordsThe Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, is about a small-minded village that savors on tradition. The town holds a lottery once a year where all the families gather around in a big crowd in the Village Square. The lottery is conducted by Mr. Summers, a man who often leads the town's activities such as square dances, Halloween parties, charities, etc. In the crowd, wives gabber about the daily gossip. Fathers chat about tractors, crops, and taxes, while the kids playfully gather small smooth stones, pil...
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Gas Station License Plate
1,900 wordsMary and Peter Jackson were driving down highway 50 in the middle of Nevada when Collie Entragian, the Desperation police officer, pulled them over for having a missing rear license plate. He told Peter that he could take the front license plate off and put it on the back and they should be ok. Peter went to the trunk of the car to get a tool kit under the spare tire. When he lifted up the tire to get the tools, Entragian and Peter found a bag of marijuana. Entragian started to get violent and h...
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Toni Morrison Constant Struggle
1,999 wordsRising Above it or Getting Left Behind In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon many of the characters have very strange and unique names. Song of Solomon is a very unique story about the struggles of a black family in the early 1900 's. Many of the names of characters in the book appear in the Bible. In the story three character have their own battles with their own names, Pilate is at peace with her name, Milkman takes many years to rise above it, and Hagar is dragged down by her name. All of the ch...
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Cup Of Coffee Kind Of Life
5,596 words... has fifteen minutes in duration. I stayed in the kitchen for about five minutes each time. I dont mean to insult you this time, Mr. Ross, but knowing the layout of the house as you do, would that have been enough time for you to slip something into a cup of coffee and carry it upstairs to Mr. Richards? Ross nostrils flared ever so slightly. Yes. That would have been possible, if you consider the fact that his bedroom is extremely close to the stairway. In addition, I did take him his coffee ...
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Juvenile Delinquent Police Officers
1,550 wordsThey Cage the Animals at Night is a heart-wrenching autobiography in the form of a novel. This book is written by Jennings Michael Burch, who is the main character. His father is an often drunk alcoholic and has left a family of six boys to his wife. The oldest is George, who follows the steps of his father and also gets drunk. He is also a smoker. Contrary to his father though, he tries to support the family, although he takes a lot from it. Next is Walter, who spends most of his life studying ...
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Puerto Ricans Parking Lot
4,001 wordsBeing a New Jersey public school teacher for thirty-four years meant that I had to find summer employment to supplement my mediocre yearly income. Since schoolteachers are contracted employees they are not eligible to collect unemployment benefits during their ten-week unpaid summer vacations. In fact teachers dont receive paid vacations at all! My job predicament allowed me to find and explore many different alternative occupations that I wouldnt have dabbled in if I had been in a profession th...
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Themes Are Shown Individuals Role In Society Influence
1,005 wordsAn individuals role in society can vary with the number themes the characters exhibit. When there are signs of fate, cruelties, weaknesses, and desires for justice and catharsis the role of an individual becomes more complicated. In Antigone, most of those themes are shown thus a single persons influence or role on society is very small and complicated to attain. However in The Lottery the society has most of the control and there is not many signs of those characteristics so the role of a perso...
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Past Present And Future Point Of View
1,456 wordsShirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery", ironically gives the lottery a bad meaning. The lottery in this story is used for a public stoning, contrary to the first thing that comes to a reader's mind when they think of winning the lottery; a big sum of money. The reader sees both literal and metaphorical meaning of this story because for one it shows for face value what the entire story is about, and hidden behind it is the notion of the scapegoat being picked like a lottery number. The sett...
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Frumpalump ' 'frumpalump ' Frumpalump ' 'frumpalump Tommy
1,299 words"Ringggggg Ringggggggg Ringggggggggg!"That is the bell kids, get in line for class!" Tommy was a little third grader that could not wait until he was older. He was just waiting for that moment when he could be a 4 th grader. 'Hey Tommy, ' Billy, a 4 th grader, said, 'I'm gonna tell you the neatest word in the whole world, but, you can NEVER tell anyone what it is. ' Tommy was obviously so excited, he didn't notice his class had already gone into the school, ran over to Billy to hear the word. To...
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Engine Room Men Died
710 wordsThe USS Indianapolis (CA- 35) was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1932. The ship served with honor from Pearl Harbor through the last campaign of World War II, sinking in action two weeks before the end of the war. On 30 July 1945, while sailing from Guam to Leyte, Indianapolis was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I- 58. The ship capsized and sank in twelve minutes. Survivors were spotted by a patrol aircraft on 2 August. All air and surface units capable of rescue opera...
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Bermuda Triangle Nova Scotia
4,407 wordsDown and Ou What you say we go down shore and see what the storm bring in? says Richard. Ya, bet we get ourselves some fresh lobster out some ole trap we find washed up! exclaims Chester. Martha, get us our coats while we find dem damn boots! says Richard. The two men get their boots, grab their jackets and head for the beach. They two men walk for about an until a shiny object catches the corner of Chester's eye. Hey Rich, I think I see something over there, lets go check it out, says Chester. ...
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Ready To Kill Edmund
2,452 wordsI. Description of the Crimes On May 7, 1972 edmund Kemper began his series of murders. His first two victims were both students at Fresno State College. They were hitchhiking to Stanford University, but they made the tragic mistake of excepting a ride from Kemper. After driving them around for while, he pulled into a remote deserted area. He forced Anita Luchese into the trunk of the car, and turned his attention to his first victim Mary Ann Pesce. He put in the back seat face down, and placed a...
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Year Old Boy Pain And Suffering
1,522 wordsGenetic Genetic Engineering Genetic Engineering Genetic Engineering is a radical new technology, one that breaks down fundamental genetic barriers- not only between species, but also between humans, animals, and plants. By combining the genes of dissimilar and unrelated species, permanently altering their genetic codes, primary organisms are created that will pass the genetic changes onto their offspring's. The field of genetic engineering has the potential to strip the individual privacy, diver...
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Buy The Product Ice Creams
2,460 wordsHow Social, Cultural And Historical Events Effect How Social, Cultural And Historical Events Effect Adverts In this essay I am going to show how social, cultural and historical events can effect adverts on TV. ? Lots of factors effect adverts such as the economy, teenage culture and oil shortages. ? All these things caused adverts to evolve over the years to what they are today. Background of adverts The first adverts on TV appeared in 1955 when the first commercial network? ITV was launched. ? ...
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Lend Lease Act World War Ii
1,929 wordsThe tragic events that took place on December 7, 1941, is a story that is in American History books everywhere. It is the date of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese just before America entered World War II. In this paper, I will describe the events that eventually lead to Pearl Harbor, the attack itself, and the outcome of the attack. Before the attack, American Officials were becoming concerned about the rising power in the Far East. Because of this, the United States invited G...
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Mandate Of Heaven Kinds Of People
808 wordsThere are some smaller arguments, but the main reason China was more successful in their empire was because of the succession of emperors, Rome usually had tremendous amounts of conflict when the power would change hands, whereas China did not. The Chinese had a certain excuse, for the actions that were taken when an old dynasty was overthrown. At a time of succession in Rome, there was usually a civil war, or many deaths to finally see who the new emperor was. Rome had one major flaw when gradu...
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