Luck

Vietnamese/Chinese New Year! The diversity of our country is surreal. No matter where each culture came from, they were able to bring their home to their new home – the United States. I was completely enamored with the Vietnamese/Chinese New Year celebration at the St. Andrew Dung Lac Catholic church’s event center, which also doubled as a Catholic bible school on Saturdays. The colors, the people, the food, music, and everything gave broaden my perspectives and experiences of other cultures. It…

Rocking-Horse Winner Story Elements "Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it" (Thompson). Being able to manage luck is a privlege, which is not easy. The outcome can either be good or bad depending on if you are capable of handling the luck properly. This short story is fiction, written about the times before World War I. The moral of the story is not to revolve life around luck, and accept life the way it is. This had a…

The fear of numbers is called numerophobia or arithmophobia which is the exaggerated, constant and often irrational fear of numbers. The website fearof.net says: “Arithmophobic might fear all kinds of numbers, especially complex mathematical computations. Just the thought of solving a difficult arithmetic equation in school or doing calculations in day-to-day life could cause intense panic in the sufferer.” I wish I would have known about this phobia in high school, I would have tried to get…

Thank you for visiting the LottoFund website! What is your most cherished dream? Perhaps, you want to start a business? You have every detail worked out, and is simply waiting for the right moment to make it happen. Or, perhaps you have a long-standing desire to travel the world, alone, or with your family? It may be that you have a creative idea that you’ve been holding on to since childhood, a dream that doesn’t let go. On the other hand, maybe you are struggling with an illness, something…

Disney endured major difficulties in Paris and received a huge backlash in its practices from the French claiming American cultural imperialism. They faced backlash when it came to the dress code standards which were deemed unacceptable and against France’s labour laws. It is alleged some training was perceived as invasive and totalitarian which was the opposite in Asia and were easily implemented with the view of Disney’s core values as the “happiest place on earth” (thejhannanarepublic, 2015).…

The Highs and Lows of “Albatross in the Red Sky on Friday: Does Irrational Superstition on the Great Lakes Make a Difference?” Bowling Green State University, Firelands Campus student Sara E. Cordle wrote an in-depth essay entitled; “Albatross in The Red Sky; Does Irrational Superstition on The Great Lakes Make a Difference?, explaining how the maritime superstitions had a major impact on the seamen of the Great Lakes. The author states how these superstitions can affect the seamen…

The novel “Thieves Like Us” by Edward Anderson strips down conventional understanding by questioning the legitimacy of crime and undermining certainty while limiting the ability of the reader to distinguish between the narrator and the thoughts of the main character, Bowie. By breaking down the rules of formal thought, this novel forces the reader to simply just think critically about meaning. This comes in many forms as the novel asks about what it means to steal, whether anything can be set in…

wasn’t in this pocket” (127). This makes me feel like that good luck charms and other mecilanious things does work. It also felt of it as a sign of lots of bad luck. Another support of the bad luck theory was when Louie killed an albatross, which is a sign of bad luck, then Louie said, “After a plane crash, Louie replied, what more bad luck could they have?”(144). It was very ironic of him to say that because he meets plenty more bad luck. Another thing I noticed in this chapter was how my…

Incidents of Irony in the “The Lottery” “The Lottery” what an oddly amusing title selection for the short story by Shirley Jackson. Many instances occur that contradict with what the reader thinks is happening and what actually happens, this keeps the reader guessing throughout the whole story. The term irony describes these occurrences exceptionally well. Throughout the story Jackson gradually reveals the underlying meaning of something much darker than one may imagine beginning with the title:…

the snakeskin and asserted that his action might actually bring good luck. Huck’s naughtiness and childish nature eventually caused Jim to be bit by a rattlesnake. Playing the prank on Jim showed that Huck still differentiated Jim from normal white people and did not considered Jim as his companion. However, the relationship between Huck and Jim altered significantly after this conflict. Jim attributed all his misfortune to bad luck instead of suspecting Huck of his shortsighted prank. Jim’s…