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The Lottery Articles on tradition: This article discusses how different cultures address death: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/19/local/la-me-0819-lopez-dyingwell-20120819 This link discusses American Culture: http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/american_culture.htm Here is a link to what The Bible has to say about culture: http://www.openbible.info/topics/traditions This is an interesting look at how different cultures have different traditions when it comes to childcare: http://alphamom.com/parenting/interesting-parenting-traditions-from-different-cultures/ Somebody made a short movie based on the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV03h3XWTDU Criticism: http://home.netwood.net/kosenko/jackson.html http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Jackson.htm GROUPTHINK: http://www.psysr.org/about/pubs_resources/groupthink%20overview.htm http://www.abacon.com/commstudies/groups/groupthink.html http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/theory/grpthink.html http://boingboing.net/2014/08/05/ho