Powerball Essays

Lottery Winners When a person buys a scratch ticket, or a powerball ticket, their hope is that they will win the lottery. If a person wins the lottery, one could claim up to 1.5 billion dollars. Imagine what someone could do with all of that money. There are so many possibilities of great things to do with such a reward and one would be extremely happy to win the lottery. In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, winning the lottery is not something to be happy about. In a small

It was a Saturday night, so cool outside and misty, but all I could hear was 20, 24, 26, 35, 49, 19 those were my winning numbers for Powerball on September 5, 1964. I couldn’t believe what I just heard, my winning numbers had been called and all I could do was scream for joy because I had just won 430 million dollars. In my mind, I was thinking what was I going to do with all this money that I had just won? Then, I thought about all the good things I could do all over the world such as, give money

As of Wednesday, January 13th, 2016, the current Florida Lottery Jackpot is estimated to be $1.5 billion ($1,500,000,000.00). That is enough money to travel the world about 60000 times, and that is stretching it! One could place multiple one dollar bills in a consecutive line around the world to form a complete circle and still have enough to buy their favorite ice-cream. Though these are excessive examples, they still hold true. A far more practical use would be to spend a portion of it

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shocked to learn that there is a 96.9% chance that you have purchased a losing ticket. Before you go out there and spend all of your spare income on Powerball tickets on the 3.1% chance you will win 175 million, keep in mind that the expected value of playing the game is winning $1.78, according to a Business Insider article “Three Math Facts That Every Powerball Player Needs To Know.” Most play with the hope they’ll win, but it’s all in good fun. But what about playing a lottery in which the “winning”

What a wonderful country we United States citizens live in. A country just full of hope and opportunity, with so many chances to change for the better, and plenty of rags to riches stories. But are those just fairy tales anymore? The American Dream, the hopes and aspiration to become wealthy through strong will and hard work, may only be just a dream anymore. Let us see how the odds are stacked against us common people, those who were not given a small loan of a million dollars. The American

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ro's Journey Essay In the short story A Brief Moment In the Life of Angus Bethune by Chris Crutcher, the protagonist, Angus Bethune, lives in a house with his father, and his stepfather. As a wider than average teen with less than average parents, Angus often gets badgered by others for his weight or his family situation, and by himself for his newly found lack of dancing skills. He decides that even if he can’t dance he can’t just back down now. By going to the dance, and dancing with Melissa,

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need of money financially, he was only interested in living his life to the fullest. Jack would handout “$5,000 in a single day” to Brandi, his granddaughter, resulting in a drug overdose related death (Witt 8). Jack didn't blame himself or his powerball winning. Jack selfishly blamed all of his problems and hardships that he witnessed on his “granddaughters drug using friends” (Witt 16). Jack was so distracted by his life that he didn’t even think about his family. On the other hand, Kino wanted

of eccentric happy many who lived life as large as his giant cowboy hate. He and his family were well liked by their community and was a successful a millionaire before he won the lottery. In 2002 Jack Whittaker would win the 314 million in the Powerball multi-state lottery which at the time was larget pot ever won by a single person. In the decade after he won he has lost most of his money has had several brushes with the law gotten divorced, lost his granddaughter and daughter to drug overdoses

Even though winning the lottery is a major thing to happen, the lottery winners weren’t that happy anymore after a while. Their money was gone and they were back to the same people they were before. A guy named Jack Whittaker was a man who won the Powerball, which was $315 million in 2002. Jack was generous to give millions to charity and he even started a foundation, but $545,000 was taken away from his car along with cashier’s checks because his car was parked outside of a strip club. Jack’s house

village Town square, there were 300 people. People were gathering that morning around the box, family’s gathering there kids. Mr. Summers, and Mr. graves began the lottery, the lottery is not exactly what you think. You might think that it is the powerball it's not, what they did is fictional the lottery is not real they had a box that they had little pieces of paper in and they would draw and whoever get the paper with the dot on it would get stoned. Which basically means they would get stones thrown

The Rhetorical Analysis of – Why We Keep Playing the Lottery Consciously and constructively sensitizing the public of the need to understand the game of playing the lottery, Adam Piore, a freelance journalist with main focus on international business and travel, wrote an article titled “Why We Keep Playing the Lottery”. He wrote to make his audience understand the tricks in playing the lottery, and also to understand that the American Government extorts money from the poor community through the sale

Could you go off the grid and disappear forever? This is what Dewey Andres did, or at least tried to do, in the book Coup D’état by Ben Coes. Dewey tried escaping to a ranch in the Australian outback, but Aswan Fortuna still manages to track him down. That is also when the Americans come calling. They need Deweys talents to pull off a clandestine mission, a coup d’état in Pakistan. For Dewey, it is a race against the clock to pull this off and make the world a safe place again. The title of the book

The American Dream Are American’s living, or are they just surviving? The working class of America seems to strive for success by working an unsatisfactory job, rather than fulfilling a career that feeds their own success and passion. They tend to believe they are chasing the “American Dream” when in reality they are chasing the “American’t Dream” by allowing their own dreams to be silenced by another person’s ambitions. American’s continue to “live” a life where they constantly complain about being

it offers a false hope of ever getting the money you want. You should not waste your money on the lottery but invest it in other places instead. The lottery is a tax on poor people and there are multiple ways that it does that such as,When Powerball jackpots get high enough, media coverage increases. People who normally don 't play start buying tickets. It drives up the jackpot even higher. Then eventually someone wins. We go on with our lives. But some people keep playing the lottery, and some

each day, and training with coaches each weekend.” She has worked hard and this had made her change as a person. On the other hand, some people say you cannot change as a person. This point of view makes sense because in the article “Why winning Powerball Won 't make you Happy” It states “Overall Happiness levels of lottery winners spiked when they won, but returned to normal after just a few months.” However, If these people would have used the money correctly, they could of had life-changing events

How many of you wouldn’t mind to win the lottery? Well, about 300 million tickets `are sold for the powerball jackpot lottery and the stats are increasing. Out of those three million tickets sold only one main person will win. Isn’t that crazy! But what could the lottery really do for you? What would you buy? Maybe a brand new car, or a new house for your family. But you know what? It can't buy you love or happiness. And that is exactly what I am going to talk to you about today. You may think that

Lottery is defined as a gambling game or method of raising money for some public charitable purpose, in which a large number of tickets are sold and a drawing is held for certain prizes (Lottery). The history of lotteries date as far back as 200 B.C., when the Hun Dynasty in China started a lottery to help raise money for taxes, known today as Keno. In addition to raising money for taxes, the Chinese Lottery revenue was used to build the Great Wall of China. In 1446, Jan Van Eych, a Flimish painter