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Fear Of Change Change can be a scary thing. Sometimes it is for the best, other times, not so much. Everyone has their own opinion about change, some like a change in scenery, others, like myself, hate it. Change can be shown in different ways. In the three short stories, “The Lottery”, “American Flag Stands for Tolerance”, and “What, of this Goldfish, Would you Wish?” all have examples of fearing to change. Although we might not always agree with it, change is bound to happen. Some people are…

In Shirley Jacksons The Lottery, the author creates a story with symbolism, irony, and a ritualized tradition that masks evil, which demonstrates how people blindly follow tradition. Shirley Jacksons suggest about tradition that the lottery is part of the villager traditional life and still hold meaning to them in a way. “By withholding information until the last possible second, Jackson builds the stories suspense and creates a shocking, powerful conclusion” (Fomeshi, Behnam). Jackson uses…

McCarthyism In The Crucible written by Authur Miller, based on an event that happened during 1692 at Salem, Massachusetts. The Salem witch-hunt happened during the time of paranoia, the event resulted in chaos. People turn to death to avoid the agonizing torture and pain. The Crucible by Authur Miller is an allegory for the Red Scare in the McCarthy Era because it both showed the terror with the public, broken government system, and the greed with people’s desires and motives.…

his laws would overrule the Gods. Creon’s status affected the society because the society must follow his rules at all times if not they would get scorned to death, “ For Creon this matters really serious/ anyone who acts against the order/ will be stoned to death before the city,” (Sophocles,…

When a Indian warfare broke out with the white in the 1830s, after that is when most Indian tribes started taking captives. Like the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita tribes. Captives was mostly fraught and lots of hardships, The captives survival mostly depended on the captor and that could vary from tribe to tribe. Different tribes varied on different ways to treat their captives most tribes treated captives with unexpected respect. Tribes would adopt captives into their family and raise…

Securing your happiness has it’s limits, but in order to find your happiness you have to go through fear to find it. In the short story, What of this Goldfish, Would you Wish it talks about being under pressure. Winning isn’t always everything, because sometimes winning can be painful in the long run. We’ve all have won and felt happiness in our lives, but there’s also fear and failure that looms over us when we don’t even know it. But what causes for fear is being pressured to do something to…

Numerous commercial start-ups and internet retailers have jumped on the CBD bandwagon, touting CBD derived from industrial hemp as the next big thing, a miracle oil that can shrink tumors, quell seizures, and ease chronic pain—without making people feel “stoned.” But along with a growing awareness of cannabidiol as a potential health aid there has been a proliferation of misconceptions about CBD. “CBD is medical. THC is recreational.” Project CBD receives many inquiries from around the world…

town are called every year to the town square to take part in the annual lottery. The Lottery however is quite the opposite of what you would imagine a lottery to be, every year one person in the town is drawn out of the ragged old black box to be stoned to death. This event arises many questions, the main one being why do they do this? The Lottery is clearly symbolic of unquestioned traditions, relative to today's society where things are done in a particular way without question, why is Jesus’…

Shirley Jackson is one of American author who critically celebrated the short story of “The Lottery” because it is hard to ignore by everyone, they either loved it or hated. This story has an ability to create a very sad emotion in almost everyone who reads it. It is one of the stories that seems as much fun to think but very emotionally to read. This Story uses contrast when the author describes the difference between what the audience notices and expect and what actually happens. She also…

The Lottery is a short story that emphasizes the dangers of rituals. It shows a yearly planned ritual in which they draw pieces of paper, only to leave one person with a black dot. This person is stoned to death by their fellow villagers. This ritual started because they once believed according to old man Warner “Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” (Jackson). This story shows how old beliefs can rick havoc in newer times. The only villager who seemed to completely agree with the idea of the…