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and simplistic style she employs. "The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by...

In seven pages this report presents a synopsis of the famous short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in 1948. The...

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

the reader with picture-perfect images. As one author notes, in regards to this story, "Through joyous rituals, LeGuin outlines pa...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

for students who could not afford their own passage through college. "What foundation is this from?" asked Lance, quite stunned a...

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

the narratives in the books to come (Friedman 295). In Genesis, everything builds on everything else. Therefore, in order to under...

This essay discusses one of Fr. Andrew Greeley's many books. The topic of this essay is: Great Mysteries: Experiencing the Catholi...

human concept of good and evil - bound by the tenets of yin/yang whereby to everything positive there is a negative, to every dark...

at the beginning of the play that bears his name, grows increasingly evil throughout the drama. This paper argues that his crime i...

refers to the textbook that you provided links to. The brief said to reference this book, but your links gave no indication of the...

Goodman presents challenges to relativism, which is the view that morality is relative and that ethical truths are dependent on th...

Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...

in the Aristotelian sense of the word: it shows us a great man doomed by a tragic flaw, in this case ambition. This paper discusse...

thinkers in the history of Christianity, and one of the most influential. After a youth spent in a frank enjoyment of sensual plea...

Errol Harris revisits a question that has stumped philosophers, theologians and ordinary folks for centuries: if God is good, how ...

is a bleak and uncompromising look at what mankinds future might be after some unspecified disaster. The picture is ugly and unset...

This essay discusses Nietzsche's perspective on good and evil within the context provided by Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Ten pages i...

The author discusses the variation that exist in regard to how people perceive good verses evil. This variation leads to conflict...

This paper sums up Ronald Reagan's doctrine in regard to the USSR and other entities of what he dubbed the axis of evil. There ar...

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

to become terrorists also share certain characteristics, traits, and backgrounds. One of the challenges in arguing for the pract...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

beings. But there arrives a man, Weston, who seems possessed by a demon and tries to convince Tinidril to sleep on fixed...