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Benny Wins Powerball

By Erin Gough

Benny wins the Powerball and faces pressure from his siblling to share his winnings.

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In Australasia Tags: family, child-rearing, Irony, luck, cruelty

The Lottery in Babylon

By Jorge Luis Borges

Borges describes a world in which all contingencies of life are being determined by a lottery.

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In Latin America Tags: social mobility, luck

The Lottery

By Shirley Jackson

There is an old ritual set in rural small-town America in which a yearly lottery determines who is to be stoned.

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In North America Tags: rituals, tradition, cruelty, luck

tags

  • Ambition 1
  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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