Queenie Chen 11/28/2012 If I Win the Lottery When I was a little kid‚ I always day dreaming that if I were born in a rich family‚ and I was treated like a princess. How wonderful is that! Or in one day‚ if I win the lottery for five millions what am I going to do with my money? If I win five million dollars‚ the first thing I would do is to buy a big and comfortable single house for my family. And ask them to quit their job. It is because my parents have been working for so many years. I noticed
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Is lottery a good idea? These days‚ a lot of people play lottery and spend a certain amount of money on it while few of them earn back what they spend. Someone says lottery is a kind of tax collected by the government on peoples’ luck and desire to be rich. In another aspect‚ lottery is also gambling‚ and it could make people to be a millionaire in a night if the person is lucky enough‚ however‚ it has a negative effect that it causes inequality‚ crimes and so on. So lottery is not a positive idea
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provides colorful environment which enables people to enjoy their modern life. In that case‚ I believe the advantages of urban living far outweigh from its shortcomings. Regarding shopping‚ as for me‚ rather than click on the Internet to get what I want‚ I prefer to browse and windowshop. The diversity shopping malls and super markets located in city centre really content me. What’s more‚ a large city’s scope of services even covers amounts of surrounding towns and benefit numerous people . In terms
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State lotteries have been around for awhile to help build up state revenue. In such things as scratch off instant tickets or daily number drawings. To some these things are evil‚ but to some others who’s lives aren’t the greatest‚ it’s a shimmer of hope that most people don’t have. Now the thing about the lottery is a lot of people don’t win‚ but those few that do could be put into a nice situation that they’ve never been in before. This is the land of freedom and opportunity‚ isn’t that we are giving
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Is Lottery a Good Idea? Many people around the world want to try their luck and like challenges in life. For that reason‚ they usually buy lottery tickets. They think they can become millionaires after they buy a lottery ticket which is just $2 or $10. Some think they just spend a little money on buying lottery tickets‚ so it doesn’t affect their living expenses. Almost all people think a lottery cannot make them addicted. Although lottery brings a lot of money for the government to make more benefits
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Douglas Haig has been blamed for the slaughter of thousands of men who were under his control in World War One. The Battle of the Somme was one of his worst fights were 60‚000 British soldiers died in the first day alone. After the Battle of the Somme‚ Haig got the nickname "Butcher of the Somme“. He was given this nickname because some people felt that Haig had not cared how much ground was gained for the heavy loss of British life. 420‚000 British casualties 200‚000 French casualties 500‚000
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Is Lottery a Good Idea? Lottery is one of the best things that has ever happened to human kind especially those that dream high and but their dreams don’t come to life because they don’t have what it takes to make it happen. Lotteries are in various categories such as sweep stakes‚ scratch off‚ the Jackpot and even the green card lottery. The lottery that is being focused in this argument is the jackpot one. When individuals or people in general buy the lottery ticket their hopes are high‚ and they
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What decision does an author make before deciding which point of view to tell their story? Does it really matter? Can the point of view of a story can shape the reader entire experience? There are three different point of views‚ fist‚ second‚ and third. First person is told from one characters point of view‚ which limits the facts and gives the reader just the one character opinion of the story. Second person treats the reader as the main character in a story. Third person is all knowing‚ it can
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will win the lottery because he truly believes in his prediction and it turned out he did win the lottery. In other words‚ James believes that his true belief of winning the lottery implies that he has knowledge of it. First let us reconstruct James’s argument: -If one has belief and the belief itself is true‚ then he has knowledge. -James believe that he will win the lottery -James did win the lottery‚ which implies that his belief is true -Thus James have knowledge about whether he will win the
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The Lottery Point of View Shirley Jackson’s choice of point of view in “The Lottery” is that of being told in the third person. The story is told more by an observer’s point of view rather than that of a participant. In “The Lottery” she illustrates how what is being done to the family members‚ of people in the village‚ is an act of pointless bloodshed. It isn’t clear as to why they carry on with the ancient rite but what is clear is that the people in the village are obedient to the past law and
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