Backgammon

First Lord of the Navy he did get too involved in detail - he was often kept busy by derails and one example of this was that he enquired about the number of duffel coats issued to each individual ships by their commanders, and gave orders that backgammon rather than cards should be played on Royal Navy vessels. Once the war was well underway he seemed to have been much more concentrated on the bigger picture. Unlike Hitler, Churchill was greatly helped by the fact that he was not a totalitarian…

Thoreau and His Motives Henry David Thoreau is a tremendously complex man to understand. Thoreau was a Harvard graduate and an abolitionist.This man wrote “Civil Disobedience” and had many reasons for doing so. Some of his thoughts given throughout the essay are, he did not like the way the government was run, the voting system, he did not respect some of the reasons he was taxed, he also wanted the readers to learn how to be more outspoken against the government, and lastly he wanted to…

later recall the informal life at the Petit Trianon under the reign of Marie Antoinette, as she wrote: ‘(The Queen) entered the sitting room without driving the ladies from their pianoforte or embroidery. The gentlemen continued their billiards or backgammon without suffering her presence to interrupt them’. While Marie Antoinette was in residence at her Trianon she no longer played the part of Queen of France but instead lived as she innocently stated ‘like a private person’. Madame Campan also…

What is a natural high and why is it so important? A natural high can be defined as, “an excited state that is not due to the ingestion of drugs or another substance”. In this day and age, it is rarely heard that an individual achieved a high without the usage of drugs or any other artificial substance. The importance of reaching this excited state independently shows the inner strength and determination of a person. Although it takes more time and effort to achieve this mindset, the feeling is…

Kanila Gunasekara Lecturer – Prof. Daya Edirisinghe Semester – Summer 2015 Assignment 2 Content What is sports? 3  Benefits of sports 3  Rules and regulations 4  Fair play  Level playing field What is Ethics? 5 Sports and Ethics 5  Olympics 5  Violation of ethical principles in sports 6  Drugs  Advertising  Harassments  Bribery  Positive aspects of ethics in sports 7 Reference 9…

Girl in landscape is about many things however one of the areas that it seems to touch on specifically are concepts of racism and prejudice. It does this by using it’s abnormal setting to create situation where it personifies these issues through the characters it creates. with this is promotes an ideal of individualism. The term racism refers to the assertion that there is a superior and inferior group based on race. In this case the book does not say exactly say much about the human…

Let 's go back to approximately 1500 years ago, when the Middle Ages, or Dark Ages, began. During this era, life changed drastically for several Europeans. Not only did education and politics slowly wither away from people’s lives, but the economy broke down completely and left many citizens in an appalling situation. Without a strong and central government, the people had to take on a new approach, to ensure that societies and villages could run smoothly again. This new idea was called the…

RMS Titanic “The length of the Titanic was 882 feet and 9 inches (that’s about 269 meter). The ship was 92 feet and 6 inches (28 meter) wide and 175 feet (53 meter) high” (RMS Titanic FAQ). The tragic sinking of the RMS Titanic, is a well known event that took place in history. To this day, the loss of numerous souls, have wandered the thoughts and prayers of many people worldwide. Did you know the RMS Titanic took three full years to build? In the early 1900s, White Star Line company designed…

and races, movies, theatre plays and musicals, parties, comedy acts, television shows, and concerts. Did the ancient Egyptian have any of these to entertain them? We know that they played a good deal of strategic board games such as a modern day backgammon or checkers, from the paintings recovered from tombs and temples. The boys in Egypt would wrestle and play tug-of- war for fun, like any boys at that young age (Swenson). Some would role play like charades, obstacle courses, and tag. Some…

In the recently published first volume of memoirs, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk describes how a 1950’s child hood among Europe -yearning cosmopolitans in the crumbling ruins of the Ottoman Empire helped to shape him as a writer. The key, he said, is to understand the concept of huzun. This turkish word describes a kind of melancholy, he says, not so much a personal state as one shared by an entire society, a mood of resigned despair for the great past - a murky, black white…