The Lottery The Lottery is a short southern gothic story written in the late 1940s by Shirley Jackson. It is about a small town of around 300 normal everyday people‚ who because of tradition have to draw every year out of a black box for somebody to be stoned to death. In this short southern gothic story Jackson uses imagery of an everyday normal town to show the potential in ordinary people to do evil things‚ and also foreshadows the fatal ending. They story starts out “The morning of June
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society would accept. Tennessee Williams was known as a “closeted” gay man. Williams was writing in an era where no two men could be together‚ so he wrote this play with the feelings he was hiding from the rest of the world. Using the Queer theory lense‚ did Williams purposely make the character Tom sound as if he was suppose to be resembling Williams‚ or was this just a
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According to Martin Luther King "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience‚ but where he stands in times Hobbes that one man should rule over all. He thought it would be best to have one man in total control of everything that people do. He wanted to make sure that the people have no say really in anything when they are going through hard times. They prove who they really are not when things are going well‚ but when times are difficult in their lives
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L.a Date: 11/14/12 Critical Lenses Herodotus once said “men are at the mercy of events and cannot control them.” In saying this Herodotus meant that men cannot control any situation‚ but that it is fate that determines what is to occur. Prince Edward from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain and Macbeth from Macbeth by William Shakespeare prove
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1. Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not‚ at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson foreshadow the ending? Conversely‚ how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? 1. I. 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 when Jackson wrote about the stones being gathered in huge piles. I also feel he
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Image Formation by Lenses Objective: The objective of this lab is to create different images by using the converging and diverging lenses as both lenses project light. Introduction: A key formula when working with lenses is the Thin-Lens Equation: Where f is the focal length of the lens‚ do is the object distance and di is the image distance. From the Thin-Lens Equation we are able to mathematically see and understand many interesting and valuable situations that
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Pythagoras once said‚ “Choices are the hinges of destiny.” The decisions that people make will ultimately lead them to their future. Ray Bradbury and Ayn Rand illustrate this idea in Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem‚ respectively. Both authors portray this idea with the characters decisions in each novel. In Fahrenheit 451‚ Guy Montag lives in a dystopian-futuristic society where people burn books. In his society‚ it is illegal to own and read a book‚ ask questions and drive slow on the highway. Montag
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Critical Lens Essay “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses‚ just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul” says Lord Henry‚ in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. This quote essentially describes that one’s mind can only be purified through one’s awareness of one’s surroundings and actions. It also shows that one can only view the world with an open-mind if one’s soul is purified. Purification is the innocence of one’s soul‚ and the goodness of it. This idea is expressed in The Picture
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“The Lottery” Rough Draft Brian J. Woodvine CM 107-027W1 English Composition 1 Professor Sue Klemm “WYSINWYG” The Father‚ The Son‚ and The Holy Ghost! Let me reiterate that for you! The Father‚ The Son‚ and The Holy Ghost! How many innocent people have been killed in one God’s name or another? The three legged stool sits behind; both a praise and a nemesis. The intention of this paper is to explain the difference between the two‚ and decide if the author was using symbolism to relate
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They kicked him mercilessly. The frail old man’s blood splattered on the dirt‚ camouflaging with the deep brown of the mud. They were in broad daylight and yet no one tried to stop the SS officers from beating the man. Strangers‚ children and friends were forced to watch as their fellow Jew bled to his death. He mumbled a short prayer and was taken from this world. During the Holocaust‚ Hitler tried his best to eliminate the Jews from the world. This force of evil lasted for approximately six years
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