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The Lottery and Oedipus the King

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

Tessie Hutchinson/The Lottery/Shirley Jackson

understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...

Jackson, Statecraft and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Jackson states his aim quite clearly: he wants to "outline the normative criteria involved in the ethics of statecraft."3 He argue...

Friendship in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...

The Lottery and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

sea" (LeGuin). As can be seen they are both stories that begin with a simplicity, an almost innocent environment. While Jacksons...

Representation of Community in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...

View of Tradition in Jackson's "The Lottery"

This essay describes "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson in regards to the positive and negative aspects of tradition. Three pages in...

Cultural Subjugation in Jackson's "Ramona"

trials, Jackson is able to show, through extrapolation, the trials faced by actual Indians in real life. The careful selection o...

Jackson's The Lottery and Obsolete Tradition

principal rationalization behind the lottery when he says, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" (Jackson). Warner disparages thos...

Michael Jackson’s Death and the Media Feeding Frenzy

that reporters chased after tidbits on the Jackson funeral and fans reactions, Iran tightened its grip on its citizens; President ...

Shirley Jackson's Subtle Use of Horror

this a model of an extremely traditional patriarchal society, with the men in charge and the women and children following them obe...

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

In eight pages these two supernatural tales are analyzed in a comparison and contrast of similarities and differences. There are ...

Oppression of Women in Shirley Jackson's 'The Tooth' and 'The Lottery'

In five pages this paper discusses how women are subjected to oppression by men in these 2 short stories by Shirley Jackson. Seve...

President Andrew Jackson's 1832 'Bank War' with the Bank of the US

and readily became the most powerful lending institution in the land -- a central bank, in effect, with a determining influence on...

Venturi, Rossi, and Jackson's Views on Architecture and History

In six pages this paper examines the perspectives of Venturi, Rossi, and Jackson within the context of the perception that history...

Content and Structure of Kenneth H. Jackson's Translation of The Story of Deirdre

It can be argued that this connection provided significant insight to the concepts about which the writer wrote. When one conside...

Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona

In five page this paper analyzes Ramona in a consideration of racial ethnic problems featured within. Two sources are cited in th...

Discriminating Against the Mentally Impaired and Mick Jackson's 'The Underground Man'

In an essay consisting of 5 pages, this paper considers the discrimination against the Duke in much the same way as today's mental...

Evil in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

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

Robert H. Jackson's Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald Being Killed by Jack Ruby

image was incredibly different than all others from the same approximate moment for it "captured the totality of the moment on a s...

Literary Analysis of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

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

Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Short Storie Elements in Works by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...