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RTV grew significantly since 90's. Most today's channels have some kind of reality TV program on their schedule. When I was a child, later teenager I would have MTV channel on every day. It did not matter what I was doing at the moment: homework, chores or spending time with friends, I would always listen to the music. As of now all you can see there are different shows like "Jersey Shore", "The Real Life" and many more. These programs are cheap to produce (no need to pay actors) and people…

There are two stories that have the same theme. They both do the same thing. The story Goldfish, and The Lottery both show that some people are kind, generous,caring, and think about others before themselves. The story of Zacnite and Vanessa both say people are kind, generous, kind, caring and think about others before themselves. The four stories say how people can be kind and how it affects other people or maybe things. When it comes to, the Goldfish and The Lottery, most of the stories talk…

I was five-hundred miles from home with my hat and gloves engaged in fighting the cold air while my heart protested against Roe. Hundreds of thousands of people had come from various states around the country to speak out against the legalization of abortion. It was early, and the lot of us were in tandem on a narrow city block near the capital building where effervescent speakers told their story, readying us for the march. Signs were gathered and voices were prepped as we made way to the…

Shirley Jackson, the author of “The Lottery,” never reveals to the reader the exact purpose of the lottery. As well, the townspeople also do not fully understand the origin or purpose of this event, however, they continue to participate in it. The villagers blindly follow the tradition of the lottery because they cannot fathom questioning or even breaking away from this generational event. No one is forcing the citizens of this town to continue to perform this violent affair, but some worry that…

One of the themes shown in “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, is how authoritative figures can manipulate the hearts of people with less power to instrument violence or other concepts that normally wouldn’t be socially acceptable. For instance, the men who manage the black lottery box, Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves, were able to orchestrate a mob to stone an innocent woman. They hold the responsibility of carrying on this tradition, even though many villagers find it disturbing, as seen on page…

The first symbolic device in “The Lottery” is the black box seen on page 1 paragraph 1, “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box”(Jackson, 1). Here the author states that Mr. Summers recommended making a new black box because the one they'd been using had been worn out and rusted, but the villagers did not want to replace it because it would change a part of their tradition…

The Lottery was written in 1948, which one would think the interesting stories of that time would no longer be interesting to us and otherwise outdated. However “The Lottery” continues to be anthologized even today in the 21st century. The question is why? What makes it so special? The answer, “The Lottery” has an important theme of blindly following tradition. In todays society we can think of it not as following tradition per say, but following the lead of other people; bullying is a relevant…

Janice Schakowsky was born Janice Danoff on May 26th, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. The second child of Jewish immigrants, Irwin and Tillie Danoff, Jan graduated from the University of Illinois in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science in elementary education. One day while food shopping in Evanston, Schakowsky noticed the absence of a “freshness date” on cottage cheese containers. She took steps to rectify the situation and with friends organized a nationwide campaign, this campaign led to food…

standard quality of life, it is depleting opportunities for a vast majority. From a young age of five years old, children are forced into school where they then must stay for the next thirteen years of their lives, next, it is only anticipated that these new high school graduates will attend a reputable college, acquire a degree, and then spend nearly the rest of their life in a good, established career. For some people, they luck out; they excel throughout school, discover a career they thrive…

Acceptance is apart of life that is used during good and bad times. One has the option of accepting the good or bad and then moving on or refusing to accept it and living a life full of what ifs and resentment toward themselves and other people. In the book, Everyday, A is a spirit that changes bodies everyday and is never the same person twice. A falls in love with a girl name Rhiannon. Eventually, A and Rhiannon have to face the tough fact that they can not be together, even though they want…