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    If I Won the Lottery

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    I’m going to talk about if I won the lottery. In the first place‚ If I won the lottery‚ I would study and improve my English to an excellent level. After that‚ I would like to travel all over the world and choose some interesting places such as Venice‚ New York ‚Japan‚ or New Zealand‚ to live there two or three years. Those are my favourite places. Living in those places would give the change to make many friends. On the other hand‚ when I get old‚ I would go back to my country and I would purchase

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    cannot help but shout that she looks different. Mathilde says that the change was on her account and explains to her the long long‚ detailed story of losing the necklace‚ replacing it‚ and working for ten years to pay back the money owed . At the end of her story‚ Madame Forestier holds together her hands and tells Mathilde the original necklace was just costume jewelry and not worth

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    The Lottery Ticket I. The Author and It ’s Background : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog‚ southern Russia‚ the son of a grocer. Chekhov ’s grandfather was a serf‚ who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught himself to read and write.Yevgenia Morozov‚ Chekhov ’s mother‚ was the daughter of a cloth merchant. "When I think back on my childhood‚" Chekhov recalled‚ "it all seems quite gloomy to me." His early years were shadowed

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    23075483 MLA Format Debernardi 2 Romain DEBERNARDI Doctor Yaw ENGL 102 10 September 2011 In this paper‚ we are going to carry out a reflexion about the characters in two stories : “The Destructors‚“ by Graham Greene and “The Lottery‚“ by Shirley Jackson. We are going to identify the main characters and point out their qualities‚ emotions‚ attitudes‚ and behaviors. In this way‚ we will compare the two stories based upon their characters. Leading or Following the Group Paper

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    If I Won the Lottery

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    What I Would Do If I Won the Lottery WoooHoooo! I won! I won! Just hearing about winning the lottery sounds great‚ even better if it actually happened! I wouldn’t even know where to begin. I would think I would have to share at least some of it. I also wouldn’t spend all of it. I wouldn’t even know where to begin. I would definitely go on a shopping spree. Just the thought of buying anything I want sounds great! A whole new wardrobe. Also I would travel during vacations from school. Mexico

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    Enculturation is a groups norms and there culture. Learning to adapt to other culture and‚ the cultures around you. In the movie the lottery they use enculturation many ways. In the first part of the film the kids were running around collecting rocks. Rocks of all sizes and putting them into a pile. The kids are doing this like It’s a game. They are having fun while doing it and other people around are standing there watching them. They are having a normal day. While random people names are called

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    The Lottery Ticket

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    Country Code List Country | ISO Country Codes | Country Code | Population (Rank of 1) | Area Sq. Km (Rank of 1) | GDP $USD (Rank of 1) | Afghanistan | AF / AFG  | 93  | 28‚396‚000 (43)  | 652‚230 (42)  | 22.27 Billion (114)  | Albania | AL / ALB  | 355  | 3‚639‚453 (129)  | 28‚748 (145)  | 21.81 Billion (116)  | Algeria | DZ / DZA  | 213  | 34‚178‚188 (36)  | 2‚381‚741 (12)  | 232.9 Billion (48)  | American Samoa | AS / ASM  | 1 684  | 65‚628 (204)  | 199 (215)  | 575.3 Million (210) 

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    In the story The Necklace by “Guy de Maupassant”‚ Mathilda‚ the main character throughout the story‚ remains static from start to finish. Her materialistic desire combined with her love for attention is still evident after years of hardship and struggle. She [suffers] immensely due to the fact that she cannot have everything she [desires]. The poverty she faces contradicts her expectation that she deserves “all the refinements and luxuries of life” (1). These thoughts consume her and the objects

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    armed conflict is on the commander(s) for ordering or encouraging soldiers to kill innocent people. People in The Lottery are like soldiers blindly following a rule that ends up taking innocent lives. Winning the lottery does not in tale a trip to a nice place but it’s a responsibility. This is an analogy to the war because any soldier who enters an army is as if he was entering the lottery. As the villagers in the story ignore Tessie’s protest‚ they begin to select the stones they are going to use against

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    they understand what we had to go through? Or maybe they just don’t care. My mother was brutally murdered two years ago by the Lottery. When she opened her paper and the dot was there my heart had dropped. It was only the two of us. My mom was the only family I had. My father had passed away ten years ago when I was six ‚and I don’t

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