Nt1330 Week 3 Assignment Test

Even the smallest of items can carry the utmost importance, as author Kwame Alexander presents within his novel “The Crossover”. Chuck Bell is a retired basketball player, known best for carrying the Italian Euroleague team to a championship, before retiring early. The ring he obtains from accomplishing this he treasures dearly, and makes sure he is the only one able to handle it. He makes sure his twin sons know this. The ring represents Chuck himself, when people see that ring they think of Chuck. The text states “WHOA! There it is, filthy, JB says. And even though we’ve seen dad wear it many times, actually holding his glossy championship ring in your hands is more than magical.” This portrays how special the ring is to the family,

            Furthermore, this lottery does not arouse the optimistic personalities that lotteries are known for, but rather conveys the apprehensive side of everyone in town and how serious it is to them.  When Mr. Summers cites, "Well now...guess we better get started, get this over with, so we can get back to work," it sounds like this drawing is not going to be as long and as serious, according to his light tone (p.424).  But in response to Mr. Summers, Old Man Warner says, "Bad enough to see young Joe Summers up there joking with everybody" (p.425).  This indicates that this drawing will be no

The lottery offers a wonderful opportunity to possibly win millions of dollars. While this might seems amazing, it might not be as wonderful as imagined. In fact, maybe even the opposite might true as stated by numerous studies and research done since the 1970s.

For the candlelight ceremony, there are three candles to represent scholarship, service, and character. The scholarship candle was lit by Selena Tan ‘18, the service candle by Malik, and lastly, the character candle by Stacy Miller ‘18. There was a struggle lighting the last two candles giving many a laugh and after many attempts, the service candle could not be lit.

wide lottery in which everyone is expected to participate. A black box holds hundreds of

The prize pool value is at least 300 times larger than the price of one raffle ticket

     When we are introduced to the lottery, we see the traditions that are currently observed. These include

Phase I—Qualitative—MET Early in the research process, two additional agencies the Ohio Lottery had been using for creative development were called in. Because their work was also meant to stimulate demand for lottery tickets, input from these agencies was deemed critical to the overall success of the research project. “We wanted to get buy-in from them from the beginning,” explained HirtMarchand. It also helped that Ingram considered engagement with the research vitally important for each of its agencies. And each agency had numerous questions, among them: What is the understanding of the pay-out or odds and how relevant is this understanding to making a purchase? Are purchases of lottery tickets routine or impulsive? Are purchases perceived

Includes an exclusive Pumpkin Spice Prize Candle with the same hidden surprise and chance to win a ring valued up to $5,000.

Due to respect, they stick to keeping the lottery ritual going. However, when it comes to ceremonial meaning, there is none. Making the ritual almost nonexistent and instead, using the lottery as an enjoyable tradition

town has a lottery every year round. The person that wins the lottery has a huge

The fun filled journey you take when you burn a Prize Candle speaks to your sense of sight, smell & touch.

When I think of the lottery, I think of a game basically where they choose one number and something or something gets chosen.

One by one the men draw for their family’s chance at the lottery (Jackson, 250). The tension is so thick, one could not help but anticipate the grandest prize (Jackson, 250-251). A prize that would change the life of the winner forever, most certainly. It would stand to reason this is a subtle tap on the shoulder regarding how greedy we have become as a society.

- For really big prizes ($1,000,000), shows may pay similar to a lottery, where the money is in a fund that pays over x amount of years, or the winner can take a reduced lump sum immediately. For example, if you were to win $1 million on a show, they might tell you (after the show is done taping) "okay! We can give you $50,000 a year for the next 20 years, or we can pay you $450,000 lump-sum right now and that 's all you get."