Chess Essay

I was interested in two topics. One topic being camp life and the other being prison camps. I was interested in the topic of prison camps because I had completed a project in Language Arts about concentration camps. I wanted to see how similar or how different they were to each other. I was more interested in camp life than prison camps because I can compare how they lived and how I live. I was intrigued to see what their daily routine was. The “Camp Life” was not the dream life theses…

Yoko Ono is a woman who is most commonly known as the woman who married the Beetles’ star John Lennon. In the article by Arthur C. Danto titled “Life in Fluxus”, Danto goes into detail about Ono’s art style, how she met and influenced her husband, and the amazing and shocking art she and her husband produced. Danto never outright defines what Fluxus means, but rather lets the reader learn the definition through Ono’s work. Similarly, Ono would often let the viewers of her art participate and…

Managing to ignore the voices in my head that tell me I’m not capable, the determination inside of me grows; I wanted to prove myself wrong. While droplets of sweat brim over the tip of my nose, aching muscles bicker in rebellion with each step. I came to a stop as my neck stretched back to examine the enormous mountain that towered over me. As the sun set behind it, an ominous silhouette stared back and cast a shadow over a trail leading into darkness. My friend’s eyes widened in wonder as I…

Harry and all of his friends become members of the Griffindor house. Of course Draco Malfoy became a member of the Slytherin house and he swaggered forward when his name was called. Harry saw a terrible ghost as the Slytherin table that had a gaunt face and blood-stained robes. Harry’s professors were Professor Filtwick, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, a black haired man with sallow skin, Professor Quirrell and Dumbledore. Harry received a new broomstick, a Nimbus Two…

What is conflict? In literature, conflict is a struggle between opposing forces. This struggle can be eternal, and it is only something that the main character has to deal with. The main character’s conflict could be external as well, something they have no control over. The stories “The Necklace,” “Rules of the Game,” and “The Most Dangerous Game” all deal with conflict. These stories have titles that express their conflict, and these conflicts change the main characters through the…

York, Shkreli’s mother and father worked as janitors and due to them not having any kind of education. Martin has three siblings; two sisters and a brother. As a kid, Martin enjoyed playing electric guitar and chess (Barrett, 2014). According to Goldman (2015), Martin would play chess with an older man by the name of Marty who taught Martin a lot about biotech stocks. There is an observation that Martin’s friend, Marty, might have been the key source that opened Martin’s young mind to the…

In Fogelin’s book Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal, Fogelin claims that any forms of reason or logic should all be left to their own devices and between themselves through 1) skepticism and relativism and 2) rationalist metaphysics. On many different issues, we as thinkers and philosophers are exposed to opposing extremes to a common disjunctive principle. Fogelin in his book does forfeit the idea that some choices are unavoidable, and in many cases, we…

We live in an era of intelligent technology where our watches tell us not only the time, but they also remind us to exercise. Our phones recommend the best places to hang out, and our computers predict our preferences, helping us to do our daily work more efficiently. However, all of these digital assistants demonstrate only a tiny sliver of artificial intelligence, and it’s plain to see how we’re still ages away from Skynet and Blade Runner scenarios. Or are we? Since the beginning of the…

The family lost their son and the guy was scared to face the old man in his sleep. The guy was going to kill the old man and their son was killed while at work. It is about a guy who has to kill an old man and a family who were gave a Monkey’s Paw. The family was wondering where their son was and the guy has to kill the old man. The guy has to kill the old man and get arid of his body. The family was told by the soldiers that their son was killed at work and they gave the father a Monkey’s Paw…

that “we are becoming centaurs. But our digital tools can also leave us smarter even when were not actively using them” (360). Clive Thompson waists not time on explaining what it means to be a modern centaur. He begins by explaining the game of chess and what it's like playing man vs. man. He explains that as technology improved, people began to play against the new technology of computers. In 1997 a grand master champ at chessman by the name of Garry Kasparov played against the best super…