Audio blog homework #6

Read this short story about Mrs.Stevens who won the lottery.  And summarize her story and explain how would you do if you won the lottery ($100 million dollars).

A 58-year-old grandmother in Massachusetts won one of the biggest prizes in U.S. history—$294 million. If she had taken a lottery payout, Doris Stevens would have received $11 million a year for 26 years, before taxes.

Mrs. Stevens decided to take the lump sum payment. People who take the lump sum get paid within 60 days, their total lottery payment is reduced by almost 40 percent. Mrs. Stevens’ lump sum was $168 million, but after the federal tax was applied, she received $110 million. Stevens who recently divorced says that her ex-husband has already called her to ask about a “loan.” She laughed. “I wouldn’t lend him a quarter to call the police if he was getting robbed. Let him borrow money from his new young girlfriend who makes him so happy.”

What is she going to do with her money? “Well, the first thing I'm going to do is to help out my children and grandchildren, of course. Next, I hope to revolutionize the housecleaning industry.” Mrs. Stevens answered. She was a housecleaner for her entire life. She says she’s going to establish a National Housecleaner Helper Corporation. Her corporation would focus on giving seed money to various individuals and research firms to develop more efficient and more powerful house cleaning cleaners and tools.

“When was the last time you saw something new in housecleaning?” Mrs. Stevens asked. “They keep claiming they’ve invented new products that remove any and all stains and dirt, but they still haven’t invented a product that removes an ordinary ballpoint ink stain from your ordinary white shirt. This industry needs some new products. I hope to revolutionize the cleaning world, so that my ‘sisters’ will have an easier time of it in the future. We’ve all spent too much time on our hands and knees. If men had to do housecleaning, you know that they’d be inventing more powerful products every week.”

*Lottery payout: Lottery payouts are the amount of money that lottery winners get, payout a sum of money paid out

*lump sum:  A lump sum is a single payment of money, as opposed to a series of payments made over time

 
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