Chess Essay

music on their own accord. Native Americans, despite being idolized by White people throughout the novel, face many of their own struggles. People drown their sorrows in alcohol and live in constant poverty, begging on the street. Flathead Indian Chess tells her sister Checkers that “You ain’t really Indian unless there was some point in your life that you didn’t want to be.” (p. 98) Two white hipsters named Becky and Veronica; however, would love to be Spokanes. They think being Native…

heavily surrounded by other cultures. Both Mom and Waverly must adjust to the world that they are both experiencing. Waverly chooses to put her focus on chess to allow herself a freedom from the world that her mother keeps her in, she is put in a box by her mother’s unchanging beliefs and insecurities. Waverly would have been able to enjoy chess without her mother, but her mother gave her the extra push to be great at the game. Although the game may seem to be the focus of the story, it comes…

Berry Gordy Jr. was born in November 28, 1929, in Detroit, Michigan, to his parents Bertha and Berry Gordy Sr., he was number seven of eight children. Gordy was brought up in a tight knit family with strong morals. Berry Gordy Jr., dropped out of high school in the eleventh grade, with hopes of becoming an professional boxer and hopes of becoming rich quick. A career he followed until the 1950, when he was drafted in the United States Army for the Korean War. After his return from Korean in…

Let's get one thing straight. We are not the Breakfast Club. We did not meet by chance, and we did not leave whether or not we would always be friends a mystery to those who were watching us. As far as I know, we will always be friends, and if we are not, I’ll always try to remember what made us, us. But in terms of the Breakfast Club, I believe we have helped each other quite a bit, and we all are extremely different. It was right before the summer, so the day was warm but also wet and…

Do you want me to beat you at chess?” Marco asks, his straight black hair waving in front of shiny hazel eyes. “Sure, I guess…” My voice trailing into a mumble. My heart is racing. I can’t play chess. This kid is like seven years old. Will I hurt his feelings if I…

The Joy Luck Club is not only the title of an amazing novel and now a movie; it is also the name of the weekly gathering that four Chinese women have participated in for many, many years. The movie The Joy Luck Club opens after the death of Suyuan Woo, the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. Suyuan passed away without fulfilling “an important thing on her mind” (Tan, 1989 p. 38): to be reunited with her twin daughters who she had left while escaping from the war in China. The other three…

lot of reporting. A section was broken down into IQ and chess. It was said by Jonathan Levitt that the better you are at playing chess, the smarter you are, but not everyone believes this is a true statement. Jonathan Rowson, a writer of a few books about chess, believes Levitt is mistaken. Rowson argues that the most important abilities in chess are not intelligences at all, but psychological and emotional factors. The comparison between chess and IQ is strong. It relates well with the rest of…

The simplicity of early childhood can be rather appealing to adults who can remember their joys of running and playing. There can be great pleasure in watching young children run around and explore carefree, where the burdens of the world are not weighing on their shoulders. Lewis Carroll often enjoyed spending time with the Liddell children whom he lived next to at Christ Church University. Alice Liddell’s actions and outlook inspired Carroll to write his series of Alice and her adventures.…

On Thursday, April 19. 2016 at 7:00 Pm a Junior Music Recital was held at Barry University in the Cor Jesu Chapel. Performers were Leonell Figeredo, Yanessa Morillo-Delerme, Travis Hogue, Evan Post, Beverly Coulter, Daniel Daroca and two unknown females. Dr. Coulter and Mr. Daroca played the piano. The space was large. 45 people were seated in the chapel. The piano was placed at the front of the room to the left of the persons seated. People were also seated to the side of the room. There was a…

Time is fluid, as are the actions of people, that’s what makes writing a piece about a decade that truly encompasses it impossible. There is always something before, something that inspired people, that challenged their thoughts and brought them to where they are. Therefore, I wanted to show through this decade that the world is made up of building blocks one thing leading to another. You’re about to read a microscopic look at the decade of the 70s, there is always more going on, beyond what I…