Answer:
races were of different lengths.
Explanation:
According to the author, stadion is the 184-metre sprint, the long distance race was of 3680 metres/4024 yards and the hippios was a middle distance race of 1093 yards.
Stadion was the most prestigious of all the events at Olympia
The author includes details comparing races to show that races were of different lengths.
Answer:
In general, it possible to state that there is nothing fair about the lottery tradition in this case
Explanation:
In <em>The Lottery </em>by Shirley Jackson, to "win" the lottery means that someone in the family will be sentenced to death being stoned until the end. At the en of the story, after Bill Hutchinson draws a black dot in the first round of the game, which means that someone in his family will die in a really cruelty way. The real controversial part in the story, is that if it was not this family another one had to be, the practice itself is so cruel, no matter who the "winner" is. Someone has to die anyway.
A. The sentence works fine. one could argue B, but a colon is used to separate a run-on or show two complete thoughts in the same sentence, so arguably B would not work either.
The sentence had repetitive words replaced with synonyms and pronouns. "but my father disliked..." is too much alike to "my father disliked" so it would get tedious and harder to read.
They replaced it with "but he hated ... " to get some variation.
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