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    analytical essay? 1. intro - intro sentence -concise summary of "lottery story": "wh" = answer all these for sure- when‚ where‚ what‚ who ‚ how kids (including dany h) villagers officials warner adams tessie symbolic objects a tale with a dark message‚ with a dire warning‚ strange story of a parable with a relevant‚ timeless story. identify the story‚ author and a brief‚ phrased description of the story itself. ^intro sentence thesis sentence - all these groups enact

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    "The movie‚ “Thank You for Smoking” is a comedy-drama about a tobacco industry lobbyist‚ Nick Naylor. The movie brings up serious issue of the addicting substance tobacco and its various effects on human’s health. In the opening scene of “Thank You for Smoking”‚ Nick has committed three fallacies:   1. “Joan‚ how on earth would Big Tobacco profit off of the loss of this young man... It’s in our best interest to keep Robin alive and smoking.” There is an element of False Analogy. He draws a weak comparison

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    TITLE: GLADIATOR PLOT: The story is about Maximus‚ one of the leading generals in the Roman army. He led the Romans to victory in a decisive battle with the Barbarians that ended a long war between them. This victory helped him gain trust and favour from the old Emperor Marcus Aurelius‚ which is now old and near his end. Emperor Aurelius wishes to appoint Maximus as the temporary leader of Rome‚ even though he has a son‚ Commodus. Commodus‚ being told by his father that he would not be the appointed

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    5‚ 2012 Professor: Laura Bigelow ENG 090-03 Pleasantville vs. The Giver Compare & Contrast In the movie‚ Pleasantville‚ and in the book‚ The Giver‚ there are many different similarities and differences. One similarity is that the communities are portrayed as utopias but in reality are actually dystopias. Another similarity is the weather and the fact that it’s extremely ideal. Also‚ in both the movie and in the book the communities have no understanding of sex or sexual feelings

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    The mass murder. Have some societies become used to this? In the story‚ “The Lottery‚” by Shirley Jackson‚ a village assembles to take part in a lottery. The grand prize? A death caused by stones. Family‚ friends‚ and community assembling to send the “lucky” individual to the grave. In this short story‚ Jackson reveals that society has become so use to violence that they have become numb to it. Towards the beginning of the story‚ Shirley Jackson shows how the villagers treat the event so nonchalantly

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    storyThe Lottery‚ introduces the reader in the atmosphere of a small village‚ where people would gather together on a sunny day at the end of June to participate in a Lottery. Nobody can ever imagine that a lottery can end up with a crime. The author describes the village as a place where “the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” (111). That was a perfect place for a reunion‚ where people from community T were eager to participate again this year at the lottery. What draws

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    members that something is important and vital to the fabric of their lives. This one sentence really exemplifies how society fails to learn and understand why they repeat a pattern of behavior. In the story‚ one generation after another neglected to take care of the “paraphernalia” (138)‚ of the lottery and as the years passed “the ritual had been allowed to lapse.”(138) It also appears that over time the reasoning behind the annual gathering of the villagers was

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    that a main character would be engaged in a fist fight‚ rather than a sword fight? Aren’t fire fighters‚ as characters‚ more believable than a bunch of olden day French cadets? I certainly think so. To me it is just more real to have the setting of a story in modern times and in the United States. Rostand’s Cyrano De Bergerac is written about a time that no one alive now has experienced. There is the same plot idea that an ugly man wants the pretty girl‚ but she is too busy being infatuated with the

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    This is a story about a small rural village that holds its annual lottery. Families in the village participate and the lottery starts by one representative from each family pulling a piece of paper from the black box the one who gets the paper with the black spot is stoned to death as per tradition of the lottery. This world that is created by Shirley Jackson in “The Lottery” is a dystopia. When Bill Hutchinson pulled the paper with the black dot‚ his wife‚ Tessi‚ objects‚ saying that he didn’t have

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    242). When reading the beginning of the fictional short story The Lottery‚ the title leads the reader to assume that one of the characters in the story will become lucky. The author reveals the hidden theme towards the ending when the story’ true meaning becomes apparent. The author Shirley Jackson gives the reader subtle symbolic hints that the small New England town has a ritualistic nature. When the reader reaches the ending of The Lottery; all of Shirley Jackson’s signals begin to come together

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