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Beloved Community If you open your eyes and take a closer look at the small town of Alpena, you can see it’s a great place to be born and raised in. I’m grateful to live here because there isn’t much crime here and most of the people living here are kind. Alpena could use more activities for the youth though. I know as a teenager that I’d like to have more things to do with my friends. Volunteers, fundraising, and grants could help achieve in bringing more things to do for not only children,…

There are a lot of good things about a small town and there are a lot of negative things to. I honestly think a small town is good to have around. I don't think think there anything negatived about it. Small towns are fun to live in. There are somethings that isn't to good to. There are a lot of positive things about a small town. In a small town you can do pretty much anything you want to. People can go mudding in there own fields.They can play baseball in there yard instead of going…

The Fate of Tessie Hutchinson The term lottery creates a vision of winning something of value. In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, Jackson took the meaning of the lottery and put a dark twist to it. Jackson gives an everyday feel to the story as if the annual ceremony “the lottery” is a peaceful day for the towns people. The reader infers that this is a positive outcome based on society’s understanding of what a lottery is; however, the lottery takes an unforeseen twist that…

Imagine brutally murdering a friend, all for a useless ritual. Watching someone's life end so slowly can hurt a person’s mental self-being. In the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, the members of a small village witness the morbid events of their annual ritual. Jackson really gives insight of how helpless some Homo sapiens can be at times. Jackson's inspiration was a result of the anger that was inside her about the persecution of the Jews. She uses the ritual to symbolize the…

They took them back to Yele as civilians. They lived there for a while peacefully. Then all of a sudden the rebels started to surround the village and the soldiers were being killed too quickly. So the lieutenant told all the boys that if they didn’t help fight the rebels then they were no longer welcome in the village. So Ishmael and his friends had no choice but to fight in the war. The lieutenant started giving them drugs and telling him to kill the rebels because they killed…

The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World is the story of a drowned man who washes up on the shore of a tiny coastland village. The people of the village care him over night, and soon become enamored with his great beauty. They proceed to more for the drowned man, who they name Esteban, and decide to make their island home better in memory of their handsome man. Using the conventions of character, setting, and tone and mood a possible theme for the short story could be “inspiration can come…

Many people, families, and or groups of people have their own traditions that make them who they are; but what is tradition? Tradition is the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation. Being a part of tradition is something to be proud of but what if that tradition is hurting others? “Tradition was the name given to those cultural features which, in situations of change, were to be continued to be handed on, thought about, preserved and not lost (Graburn 6). Tradition as a…

without knowing about the salvation that Jesus Christ offers to everyone. In this book, we see how missionaries changed the way of life and the destiny of these people. Pepe lead Shoefoot to Yai Pada and also others in the village, then they spread the Gospel to other villages. Without the obedience of the missionaries, all these people would have never had an encounter with Yai Pada and therefore, they would have keep living and practicing their old ways. These missionaries made a great impact…

About Waynesboro, Virginia The town of Waynesboro, settled along the scenic base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, enjoys views that are enviable by many. The historic town was named for the Revolutionary War hero Anthony Wayne in 1797. Since its humble beginnings, the town as remained true to its character and has retained much of its regional charm. The town is home to a wealth of shopping and dining opportunities. A quick stroll down Waynesboro's main street will introduce one to an abundance of…

In the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, it started by everyone drawing a paper from a little black box. If you get the one with the black circle on it your family is eligible to get beaten to death by rocks. After you find out you have the circle everyone from your family draws and whoever gets the black dot know looses. The theme I give this story is power of tradition. In the movie The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, was similar to the short story. It all started out by the little…