Rachel Jackson

The Fabulous Life of Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter Beyoncé was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas. She performed in numerous dancing and singing competitions and talent shows as a child. Beyoncé rose to fame and first captured the public’s eye in the late 1990s as lead singer of the R&B girl-group Destiny’s Child. Mathew Knowles was Beyoncé father and manager of the group which became one of the world’s best-selling girl groups in history. Beyoncé is an American songwriter, singer,…

I have read the murder mystery novel And Then There Were None, that is written by English writer Agatha Christie, publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, year of the first publication: 1939 (as Ten Little Niggers), number of pages: 252. This novel is known as her masterpiece and said to be the most difficult and popular of her books. In this excellent book by narrative techniques she describes the Soldier Island’s landscape, the weather that sometimes seems gloomy and threatening, each of the…

Find X The world is ripe with enigmas—bold unanswered questions. Extraterrestrial life, time travel, the meaning of life, and cultural relativism are just some of these sweeping topics. There are also countless smaller mysteries, less earth shattering questions that manifest in short-lived daydreams and musings. The smaller enigmas I ponder span from how the first camera prototype was conceptualized to what the X-Factor truly is. It is a popular show, most people know that it’s a televised music…

word “tradition.” Throughout the plot of “The Lottery,” Jackson implies the dangers affiliated with ignorantly giving in to peer pressure. The story begins mid-morning of a day in late June when seemingly ordinary villagers start gathering in the town’s square. Children are collecting and pocketing smooth, round stones while the adults are having exceptionally small small-talk, smiling when it is appropriate as opposed to laughing (Jackson 221). The lottery revolves around a ritualistic day…

To understand the mix bag of the Indian Reorganization Act you must first look at the loss before the implementation of it. Over a century the Native American tribes had been pushed back, pinned in, slaughtered over their customs, and, more specifically, their land/resources. The greatest assault on their lands was the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. This act was a way to take more land away from the Native Americans under yet another guise of “for their own good”. The hope was to force the members…

Do Stalker Ads Creep You Out? A few months ago I decided to leave home and rent out some office space. I splurged and bought a new office equipment, furniture and general supplies. I’m an avid online shopper and Amazon.com is one of my best friends. Sometimes Amazon can get a little creepy when it decides to stalk me. Over the next month as I settled into the new office, I kept seeing ads for trash cans, binder clips and desk chairs. Amazon went above and beyond in making sure that I had a place…

The Bloody Truth Behind It All “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” (Albert Einstein) Albert Einstein’s quote reveals the hidden realities of blind belief. In order to truly understand, humans must search beyond the surface, beyond what appears to be. In Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, the villagers gather in the town square on June 27th, and Tessie Hutchinson, Bill Hutchinson’s wife, arrives late. After the first round of the lottery, Bill gets the winning…

The Lovely Bones She was murdered at the age of 14 on December 6, 1973. Mr. Harvey had led her to the hutch that he had made her. She went into the hutch to check it out, but then wanted to go home. He wouldn’t let her leave so she tried to escape the hutch but wasn’t able to make it out! He raped her and killed her on the night that she went missing. The strongest symbols that helped develop the story The Lovely Bones are the cornfield, the pompom hat, and the charm bracelet. The…

“It is not fair, it is not right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed as rocks proceeded to be hurled at her. “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson is a story about a village with a lottery: a ceremony where one person chosen to die by a stoning. A woman named Tessie Hutchinson arrived late to the village ceremony, but in a joyful mood. Her joyful mood, however quickly vanished when her family was chosen for the lottery, and one of them had to die. The Hutchinson family lined up ,and each person given…

A brief description of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is every June, in a small village, a raffle takes place to select the victim of their sacrificial ritual in the name of crop prosperity. To summarize Richard Connell's “The Most Dangerous Game”, Sanger Rainsford is castaway on an island populated solely by General Zaroff and his ally Ivan. Zaroff became dissatisfied with the big game he previously hunted and turned to “hunting” the people trapped on his islet. Within both pieces, the theme…