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The Lottery 2
Number of Words: 984 / Number of Pages: 4
... has to mix the papers up with the one with the black dot on it in the box. The head of the household picks the paper from the box to seen if their family drew the dot or not. This event takes just a few hours to accomplish. The losing family then has to draw to decide who will lose in the household. The person who draws the dot will then get stoned to death. This is a ritual for the townspeople each year.
There are people who agree and disagree with this annual event. The older people in the town are accustomed to this event; therefore, it is easier for them to understand it. The others who disa ...
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Cry, The Beloved Country: The Breakdown And Rebuilding Of South African Society
Number of Words: 1010 / Number of Pages: 4
... tribe must use and how the people have used up the natural resources
that used to lay there. The whites pushed them out of where they used to
reside where the land is so good that it could be even referred to as “holy,
being even as it came from the Creator.” (pg. 3). In the rural areas such
as this the decay comes as a result of making the blacks live in confined
areas where the land is so bad it can't be farmed any more, and the taking
of the strong males out of these areas to go work in the mines were things
are unsafe and people rarely return. Because of this, the people leave the
tribe to ...
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Biological Determinism
Number of Words: 2937 / Number of Pages: 11
... inequality between classes and between
people was a natural situation is almost as long as the history of the world .
The author insists that there is no connection between environmental
differences and genetics. In support of his idea the author state that any
Canadian student can perform better in mathematics than some ancient professors
of mathematics. The author comes to the conclusion that changes in a cultural
environment are the main factor that determines level of intellectual
performance, not inherited combination of parent's genes . He argues that
genetic differences that appear in one ...
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FightClub
Number of Words: 1088 / Number of Pages: 4
... is a consumer. And he is losing it. He is suffering from real bad insomnia. He goes to the doctor who's only reply is "Nobody has ever died from insomnia. If you want to see real pain go to Trinity Episcopal church Thursday nights." So he did. There at in the basement there is a support group for sufferers of brain parasites. After the meeting he finds himself feeling better. He can sleep again. Soon he is going to not only the brain parasites group but others as well: Testicular cancer, blood parasites, ascending bowel cancer, and others. It is easy or him to feel alive in these groups. That's w ...
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A Lesson Learned In “A Sailor Boy’s Tale”
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... the succulent fruit. On his way to the bluff, he encountered a girl who was near his age. She admired his piece of fruit. The boy at once decided to do the manly thing and offer his prize piece of fruit to the young lady. In turn she offered him a kiss. Once again establishing the “what goes around comes around saying.”
The next situation that portrays this saying is when the man tries to stop the boy from going to see the girl again. The drunken Russian man who had given the boy a ride from his ship to the mainland hours earlier wouldn’t let the boy past on his journey to see his young acqu ...
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I Stand Here Ironing Literary
Number of Words: 1060 / Number of Pages: 4
... by the time he was a year old, to where I could stay home, but by then he was walking and talking some. I barely new him, just as Tillie barely knew her daughter when she got her back: "When she finally came home, I hardly knew her." Soon, I had another child (Kevin) and less time to spend with Charles. There were many times that I wished I had more time with both of them. I can remember a few different times when I would get up in the middle of the night and sit snuggling both of them in my lap, sneaking that quiet time. Tillie did something of the same sort when Emily had to stay home from sch ...
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The Crucible
Number of Words: 1236 / Number of Pages: 5
... guilt as presented in are the hangings and convictions of nineteen men and women and two dogs in Salem in 1692. Their bodies were buried in shallow graves or not at all. The trial of these people are perhaps the most disconcerting single episode in American history. The trials were started when several girls accused members of the community of witchcraft. These accusations led to warrants being issued on Feb 29, 1692 for the slave Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osburn. These were old women of dubious reputations. The three were examined on March 1st. Thereafter, events followed quickly. On April ...
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African Americans Unnoticed
Number of Words: 493 / Number of Pages: 2
... college. Fannie Barrier Williams realized that racism was a major problem, but also realized that sexism was an even greater problem in equality. For, as she said, "to be a colored woman is to be discredited, mistrusted and often meanly hated." Through times of strife and stress she worked, sometimes successfully, to eliminate discrimination against black women. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Stokely Carmicheal; these names when said are ones to which black people respond to, because all of these men improved social conditions for African Amer ...
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Crime And Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, And Different Punishments
Number of Words: 967 / Number of Pages: 4
... is called " Summery " crimes which is
equal to our misdemeanor crimes. Summery crimes were all minor crimes such as:
Property crimes, Vagrancy, Drunkenness, Prostitution, Minor Larceny , and all
other minor offenses.
Probably the most famous criminal in the Victorian period was " Jack
the Ripper ". Jack the Ripper was " the first modern sexual serial killer" (
Sugden, pg.2) Jack's trademark was the killing of female prostitutes. But not
only did he kill them, he would surgically remove organs and intrails and place
them near the dead body. "Jack the Ripper" wasn't his only nickname, ...
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Faulkner's "The Unvanquished"
Number of Words: 436 / Number of Pages: 2
... preminently to be tested by the practical
consequences of belief. Bayard Sartoris was a pragmatist. He 'let his
conscience be his guide'. Telling his father about Drusilla's attempt to
seduce him and refusing to avenge his father's death are two good examples
of this. In the beginning of the novel, Bayard is shown to be simple minded,
but as time passes on and Bayard grows into a young man, his mind develops
and he ultimately ends the battle between idealism and pragmatism in one
carefully thought out decision.
The battle between the two philosophies is very subtle in the
beginning. But it grows and s ...
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