1. Is the Lottery a collective act of murder? Explain your answer

Yes, The Lottery is a collective act of murder because the whole town killed Tessie at once, all together. If it wasn't a collective act of murder only one person would kill her when she was chosen to die.

2. Is it morally justified? Explain your answer

I don't think it is morally justified. They shouldn't kill people based on picking paper out of a box and who ever got the one with the dot on it dies. They shouldn't even be killing people. I think it is very unfair for the families that have to go through this and for the person that gets chosen.

3. Is tradition sufficient justification for such actions? Explain your answer

This tradition is not a sufficient justification for this action. This is because there is no "good" reason to kill anyone. They should not pick someone each year to die because it is tradition. Traditions should change.

4. How would you respond to cultures that are different from ours that perform 'strange' rituals? Can you think of any examples?

Different cultures have different traditions and I support that because it is what they believe in and it is normal to them. However it is a tradition like the 'Stoning' where people pick a paper and if it has a dot on it they are chosen to die, in my opinion that is a bad tradition and a bad ritual in their culture. If it is a ritual like The First Nations have where they have their fire ceremonies and tell stories of the wild and the land we leave on, that is a tradition that is good and it has been going on for a very long time because it is a good tradition and nobody has a problem with it.

5. What is Shirley Jackson trying to tell us about ourselves?

She is trying to tell us that things can change and they can be good change. Not all traditions need to stay the same. She also wants us to see that this town is willing to kill one of their friends because the mayor of leader says so, or because they have done it for so many years before this.

6. How does this story connect to the Hunger Games?

This story connects to The Hunger Games because just like there is The Reaping, there is also The Stoning in The Lottery. One person is chosen to get stoned to death if they picked the piece of paper with the dot on it. Two people are chosen to go to The Hunger Games if their names get picked, and they have to fight to the death. 

I am doing the article about spices and illegal drugs found in our souces of water.
The problem in the article is that if all these things are going into our water, and we end up drinking the water, we have no idea that we are drinking all this stuff thats inside the water. The article states that when a person is to take an illegal drug it will then come out of their body via feces and urine. It then states that it goes into the sewer but eventually the little particles of drugs end up in our water sources. I chose this article because it made me wonder 'what am I actually drinking?' Then i found out that during different holidays there seems to be and increase of certain foods etc. For example chocolate and vanilla show up on the weekends mostly, most likely because of parties and events, another example is suagr and things to make sugar cones and waffle cones, the amount of them found in our water shoots way high when the fourth of Juky comes around. This is a huge a problem because if we dont know what we are drinking in our water it could get us very sick and we might not be able to figure out why we are getting so sick because you would never think of the problem being our water.
A way we can fix this is to increase our filltering systems and make it clear to people that there are drugs in our water so they are aware and maybe they will change how the discard there drugs.

I think that The Waterslide is funnier because there is more action and more of a funny story and the stuff they do in The Waterslide is better in terms of what kids imagine in their heads. Instaed these kids actually did it because they were bored.

I dont have one that I can relate to more because I think I can relate to both of them. I can relate to Turlington's Dog because I love dogs and I especially love tea cup dogs! They are so cute and I am a dog lover! I can also relaate to The Waterslide because I used to always do crazy things with my friends to fill time when we were bored! I loved doing things like that, to let your imagination tell you what to do! So I can realate to both of these stories.

I sympathized the most with Burt because he loves dogs and when he saw the new family dog he wasn't so sure he would like it. But when he spent more time with the dog and did stuff with her they had a close boned and they really loved eachother. Another example is when Tissue fell down the heating vent Bart got her out right away! I relate most to Bart because I am a dog lover and so is he.

I would recomend The Waterslide to a friend because there is more action and it is the silly things they do in the story that make it funny and it made The Waterslide a story that is a good story.

I prefer comedic stories better because they are normally

It was a cold winter day and my sister and I were bored out of our mind. Our whole drive way was covered in snow, as we were looking at at our drive way we noticed that it was very steep. Then we realized that we had a drink cooler that was big enough that we could both sit in.
 We then noticed that the snow itself wouldnt be slippery enough for us to slide down. So we made a path where the cooler would slide down. We did this by getting saop and some water, this created an ice texture and it was very slippery.
At the top of the driveway we were looking down at the path, we started to smile and our eyes lit up! We knew that our day wasn't going to be boring after this! As I stepped in the cooler and my sister Snow White held the cooler so it wouldn't slide away.

"Snow White get in quick!"
"I'm coming Cinderella!" said Snow White so excited.

Snow White jumped in and the cooler jolted foward. With a blink of and eye the cooler zoomed down the drive way, our hair was flowing and our cheeks were flattenned by the wind. At the bottom of the driveway we came to a stop. Our hearts were beating so fast.
"Lets go again!" said Cinderella.-*

I chose PS I Love You as my connection because when he dies his wife goes through heart break, this is a story of how she goes on with her life. These two stories are alike because when the sniper kills his brother you need to infer what his life would be like after he killed him. His life would be so hard, he would be praised because he killed the enemy but also he has to live with the fact that the enemy was his brother. If you think about it, when the sniper shot at the enemy he didnt know it was his brother, he just knew it was the enemy. If he knew that it was his brother, would he have still shot? In PS I Love You The man gets killed and his wife needs to learn how this cant effect her whole life and how she needs to move on. She needs to live with the fact that her husband is dead and what is going to happen now. To help her move on Her husband wrote her notes before he died telling her what to do and when to do it. In The Sniper when he realized he shot his brother you have to think that his life just didnt go on normaly, yeah sure they were enemies and it was his duty to kill him but in the end they are still brothers and when something bad happens to family you stop and put all your focus towards them.
This is why I chose PS I Love You as my text to text connection to The Sniper.

In the story The Sniper, he killed a man thinking it was the enemy (which it was) but it happened to be his brother. This connects to the story of Pat Tillman because the man from his unit shot at the men that were on the top of the hill. They shot because they thought the men were from the enemy unit not thinking that these men were from the same unit there to protect them when the drove through the valley. In both of these stories these men are both war brothers. In The Sniper they were literally war brothers, however in Pat Tillmans story, being in an army with these men makes you feel like they really are your brothers. When Tillman was shot dead by friendly fire he was shot by his war brothers.

#1 If we had known that two brothers were shooting at eachother, we probably would have thought that the sniper would try to wound him instead of killing him even though he was on the other side. But they are still brothers and he wouldnt want to actually kill him.

#2 Irony is when something happens that isnt excpected. (ie. if a fire station burnt down its ironic because they put out fires.) This effects the story because you wouldnt excpect the other sniper on the other side to be his brother.

#3  In the story the street represents the barrior between both sides of the war. It seperates the two snipers because it goes staright through both sides (ie. it seperates them.)

#4 The resolution is the the enemy sniper died. This is a representative of real life because in war you dont know who your shooting at and when your enemy dies you feel happy and a sense of sucsess.

#5 The sniper wants to see his victom because he is curiuos of who he killed and if they were in the same unit.

#6 In this war no side really wins because once the war is over the majority of your team and the enimies team are dead.