Stoned

town has an exceptional harvest, but the reason has been lost in time. Now the town held its annual lottery just because it has been their “tradition”. The one who draws the black dotted paper from the black box become the winner, who will be later stoned to death. In the short story “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin explains a perfect city (almost like Utopia) where everyone is happy and can do whatever they desire. However, underneath the city, there is…

able to suitable to doing certain tasks simple driveways and patios as well as, “one-of-a-kinder jobs. Like when some lady wanted us to put a connecting circle in her back patio. We could do that. Or when a guy wanted to write out his initials in the stoned of his driveway. People asked us to do that kind of stuff for them. They wanted a big capital M in there with a different colour brick” (MacLeod 87). The type of freedom and creativity they have is restricted to the amount of tasks they have…

Shirley Jackson presents a small friendly town, in which a dark ritual is implemented yearly. On June 27th, a lottery takes place, randomly selecting a member of the community. Regardless of this person’s age and status, he or she is consequently stoned to death by all the other villagers. This activity is part of their culture and is a wide spread tradition in other nearby…

Traditions are a custom or beliefs from generation to generation. Sometimes people follow traditions just because everyone is following them- they jump on a bandwagon to fit in with the social norm. Many of the times people grown-up with traditions without knowing why they are celebrating them; they are just programmed to follow them, it some sense they are brainwashed to the tradition. Some traditions don’t have the same the same core value they had back in the day, people just follow it…

Tenochtitlan. Scared of further attack, Moctezuma gave golds to the Spanish. After learning that many Spaniards were killed by Aztecs on the coast, Hernán took Moctezuma hostage. Moctezuma was murdered on July 1, 1520. Some say that Moctezuma was stoned to death by his own people, while others believe the Spanish killed him. While this is only a description of one of his major accomplishments, Hernán had some less important expeditions. When Hernán returned to Seville he got…

On September 11, 2001 we remember the horrible moment all Americans had to pass through. We Americans blame the leader of the Islamic state "Osama Bin Laden", as we should, but the reason he killed was because of his religion. Some religion are good and bad, but the bad one can be dangerous to people. The bad religions are composed of bad morals and belief you are thought when you are young, and is difficult for some individuals to change it back. Although there might be many more influences on…

The men went up to go draw for the families, and they were told to hold the slips of paper in their hand until every man from a family got a slip of paper. Finally, the one to get drawn was Tessie. Tessie protested against her death, and she got stoned. The plot is important to be similar because it explains the story more and if you changed it, it would change the whole story. In conclusion, these are several similarities in the connection from the movie to the…

Throughout history, humans are known to be one of the most selfish beings on the planet. There have been many points in time where humans refuse to drop their bigoted beliefs. Many times, humans have sacrificed others to maintain these egocentric beliefs and many authors have expressed this dark part of humanity. In the play Merchant Of Venice, the novel To Kill A Mockingbird and the short story The Lottery the authors are trying to tell us that human beings are willing to sacrifice others to…

Philip the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia. In the Roman Catholic Church, the feast day of Philip, along with that of James the Just, was traditionally observed on 1 May, the anniversary of the dedication of the church dedicated to them in Rome (now called the Church of the Twelve Apostles). The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates Philip's feast day on 14 November. One of the…

It is unbelievable how much this book, Going Bovine, a Young Adult Comedy, by Libba Bray, can cram into 500 pages. This book has everything; happiness cults, dead jazz musicians, parallel time and dimension travel, and so much more. This book follows Cameron Smith, a high school stoner who is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or mad cow disease. While he is hospitalized, he meets a punk rocker angel named Dulcie. She tells him that he must find Dr. X, the only man on the planet who can…