Seventh Grade Probability Carnival

In “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D. H. Lawrence, and “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, the two authors illustrate symbols and themes throughout their stories in which one common idea is present: perhaps winning is not always positive.

            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 Game of Lottery As mentioned before, the most popular form of lottery is the methed of random number selection. In the American lottery, a player first picks five different whole numbers between 1 and 59. Upon calculation, there are 5,006,386 combinations that could be made from the availability of these numeral combinations. After the player has chosen their five numbers, they pick another, final number that is between 1 and 35 - the powerball. A list of the combinations would look like (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), (1, 2, 3, 4, 6) and so on all the way up to (55, 56, 57, 58, 59). Thus, in calculating a player's chance

The group included trouble makers the follow the rules kids. The goal of the bet is to see who can get the highest grade on the probability test. There were five participants and each person needs to put in fifty dollars, and in total the winner would get 250 dollars. The winner will also be thought of as a smart students because the teacher announces everyone’s grades in class. It would not matter how they receive the grade because all that matters is what grade they get. Each participant came up with an idea that will help him get the highest grade in the class.

Last week I attended the University of Wisconsin – Superior’s event called Dr. Seuss Bingo. Some of my friends joined me, their names were Liz and Taylor. The event was very enjoyable as we all had some items we wanted to get, such as I wanted a package of PowerAde, Liz and Taylor both wanted the body pillow that the Campus Recreation provided as just a few of the winning items. When the event started we all were laughing and having a good time. After people started winning all the prizes when none of us did we started to get upset when we got so close to winning and then someone else won. Me and my friends didn’t end up winning until the very end when there wasn’t much left to pick from for prizes.

Hit it! Hit it! Hit it! Don’t lose your aim, because if you lose it, you lose the way. A birthday party without a piñata just doesn't seem to be a birthday party. There's a joy that tiptoes up and takes over the whole party when the expectation of candy, the ability for young children to handle a bat and destroy something, and parents can mess with the little children. The element of danger and malice all in good fun is in the air and it makes a giddy happiness that is addictive to the point where they are giggling and laughing before they know they are or the reason why they are. Handling a bat blindfolded while laughing hysterically is a time that nobody should miss. In “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, things are done the way they have always been done, even if there is no reason why. Certain people remember where the rituals created, and certain people seem to know why they are important. Yet tradition is important, so they continue. “The Lottery” is an excellent example of an allegorical short story. Jackson uses symbolism through the description of the characters, significant objects, and the actions in the story.

All you have to do to win the Jackpot is to check if your ticket matches the exact numbers drawn in your favorite lottery. “Jackpot” is the prize winning in Row/Level 1 of a particular draw.

The board game I have chosen to center my paper around is Candyland. This child`s game was played quite a lot in my childhood years and therefore has a profound impact on my board game experience in general. Even though it has been quite a while since playing it, I still have strikingly strong memories of parts of the game. Based mainly on pure chance and card draws, it is just as likely for a child to win as an adult. As such me and my brother mainly played it with each other in younger days.

Looking at the atmosphere within the setting of “The Lottery” and “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” one can make a clear perspicacity that the atmosphere of these two stories had a great role to play and impact on the characters.

In today's society the actions taken in this story would have been considered morally wrong and punishment for committing these crimes would be handed down by the court system. The judicial system of today would punish them with incarceration or death by leathal injection. This legal system was actually illegal, more of a marshal law. These people were ruling themselves. The best example is Mr. Summers, he made it a happy gathering, conducted all the civil activities, and then was also the executioner. He brings with all his justice and ruling, death. The purpose of the lottery is to weed out the people and learn the cycle of life is to accept democracy.

Reflection “The Lottery and The Most Dangerous Game” This is a compare and contrast essay of The Lottery and The Most Dangerous Game. I wrote this essay to find out the similarities and differences in the essay. Spelling and punctuation are always the essential problem in my writing process. I revised those grammar mistake first, and also capitalized all the title.

While I walked around I tried some of the carnival games that were there. The first game I tried a water pistol game. The object was to shoot the target with a stream of water that moved a little creature up a slope and the first one to the top won a prize. When I started playing there was only an elderly gentleman playing against me but by the end there were several children playing against me. After the children thoroughly beat me in the game I walked next door to play the basketball game. To play you paid a small fee to use three basketballs that you would try and make it into several different baskets that had varying amount of points assigned to each one. As I have horrible hand eye coordination I ended up with only twelve points when

The summer before 8th grade was a great time. I hung out with friends, went camping, and did many more fun activities, including going to Missouri. I went to Missouri to visit my dad, step mom, grandma, and grandpa. We were all hanging out at my step mom’s bar and pizzeria Alley Cats having a good time. I was eating pizza hanging out with my dad and his friends. In the bar they have a tv that has Keno going on it which is a gambling game. You have to get a card, fill out what numbers you want to use, and then pay for it and turn it in. My grandma always plays the game and normally makes out pretty good while playing. I asked if she would pay for me to play a game and she said sure. She gave me the red sheet and told me how to

I feel like this game was very well thought out but I feel like it was a little of a rip off of Russian Roulette. Our odds are better than those of Russian Roulette but the pot is smaller the majority of the time. This did help me understand probability because of the chance of winning and ours is 2 in 8 chance so that is a 25 percent chance of winning. We all worked together by dividing and conquered. The girls worked on the spinner and the art and the boys wrote the instructions and did the prices for the prizes. I felt that since Rachael did bad on a quiz and I felt a little pressure but she was always kind of nice and not that bossy. I learned that fair games are ones that are not modified so that way you will not win. In Las Vegas games

The Lottery begins like any other day. Clear and sunny skies, flowers blossoming, and green grass. Seemingly nothing out of the ordinary. Then people begin to gather in the town square. What is this lottery that is taking place? Do the people of the town agree with it? These questions can only be answered by exploring the minds of the people in the town.