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Tessie Hutchinson Lottery Quot
557 wordsSlips of Fate In the short story " The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, the author uses irony to expand on a theme of traditions that continue although they are ludicrous and barbaric. " Like a lamb to slaughter" comes to mind for both the characters in this story and the reader. The characters are honoring a tradition that is handed down to them from former generations. The reader is led through the seemingly normal and quaint little village, and is taken on a ride of ironic hor...
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Economic Self Sufficiency United States Supreme Court
2,891 wordsThey are Native Americans who are trying to build better lives for themselves but are stopped in there tracks by the state supreme court. Proposition 5 passed in November of 98, which would allow more gambling in the Indian reservations. The proposition was ruled to be unconstitutional. Now the Indians are rebutting the fact that they are sovereign and the ballot was passed. Under existing law, Indian tribes operate as semi-sovereign nations, and are liable under federal law only. Recently, the ...
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Long Term Effects Prima Facie
4,853 words1. Introduction In this paper I wish to consider the following related questions: (i) Can a system of morality be justified? ; (ii) Why should one act morally? ; (iii) How can others be persuaded to act morally? Clearly none of these questions is new, and moral philosophers have proposed a variety of responses to them over the centuries without reaching any general agreement. Nevertheless, because these questions are fundamental to any practical application of moral theory, it is worthwhile to c...
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Good Man Is Hard Man Is Hard To Find
1,171 wordsShirley Jacksons " The Lottery" and Flannery Oconnor " A Good Man Is Hard To Find" are stories that deal with mans inhumanity to man by illustrating different situation, but lead to the same conclusion and with no thought of the consequences. Jackson and OConnor use central characters to show how man has the power to distort reality into something the people accept into everyday life. Jackson uses tradition in " The Lottery" when she uses Mr. Summers as the announce...
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Stoned To Death Tessie Hutchinson
924 wordsHuman Nature Shirley Jackson? s short story " The Lottery" depicts a seemingly average village with average citizens. The citizens of this village participate in an annual lottery in which the winner will be stoned to death. It is believed that the death of the winner will bring heartier crops to the village. Jackson introduces the lottery as a tradition that has been performed and will be done for many years to come. Jackson also stresses the importance of human nature, which is that ...
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Lottery Quot Consequential Ist
1,514 wordsIn his article " The Survival Lottery, " Harris suggests a situation where a possible course of action would be to kill a healthy person and use his organs for transplantation, thereby saving several lives at the cost of one. However the argument Harris presents, which he claims to be rational, does intuitively raise a certain moral repugnance. The issues addressed such as whether letting die is equivalent to killing, or is killing the innocent ever justified, are controversial in them...
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