The Lottery is a short story about an annual tradition, it is a random selection of one person and that chosen person is stoned to death by the people of the town. ... Miriam Friend was a frequent reader of the New Yorker wrote a letter to the editor, "I frankly confess to being completely baffled by Shirley Jackson's "˜The Lottery," will you please send us a brief explanation before my husband and I scratch right through our scalps trying to fathom it?" ...
In addition, the concept of self-determination still impacts our own time. ... The meeting was opened in December 1917 in the town of Brest Litovsk in the former Poland (now Belarus) where the Germans had their main office ("The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk." ...
The Dada movement expressed the deterioration or our civilizations due to wars through sound and not words. ... So to be honest it was in the 1920's that the worlds first synthesizer was born officially launching an era still very active today in all of our lives, yes, called electronic music. ... YMCA, Macho man, I will survive, funky town, the bee gees, the Gibson brothers, George Clinton, Abba (and this is Amii Stewert Knock on wood) and so many more all contributed to the disco era which was the first public outrage of electronic music because they all used electronic instruments. ...
As the inspector says, in act 1 "There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country" "In fact, I've thought that it would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in place of these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms." ... Latter Birling was showing his family's success by saying "This is Mr Gerald Croft the son of Sir George Croft, you know Crofts Limited"-Incidentally, we've been modestly celebrating his engagement to our daughter. ...