Chess Essay

In my home, there is a record of my brothers and I, from pictures taken on birthdays and vacations or days when we looked ridiculous. They range from out birth to our current adult life, some breaks in between the photos, whether because the film was being processed or we did not have a usable camera at the time. Some of the pictures have been given away to others, class and family pictures to show how much we have grown or for the grandparents to show off to their friends. The exhibit…

The Lottery With an exciting title like “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, one might have a happy, optimistic outlook on the short story they are about to read. Instead, “The Lottery” is a short story that takes place in a small rural town where one’s luck can change with a representation of a piece of paper. After reading the tale, one might feel like they just read an insert from a Stephen King horror story, but that is not how Jackson begins the journey. Once a year, the town’s people gather…

Created in 1958, Sky Cathedral, a piece of assemblage art constructed by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988). As it was created in the 1950s, this piece of art falls into the contemporary period, which stretches all the way from post-war to the modern day. Regarded as one of the most successful female sculptures of the 20th century, Nevelson was born in Russia, however, at of 6, Nevelson and her family moved to America, where she would pursuit her art career. In her early days, Nevelson aspired to…

Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970. She was schooled in Kalamazoo, where she received her bachelor degree in Art, and continued on to receive her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 1997 (Artnet). She lives and works in Harlem New York with her artist and partner (Plagens). Mehretu works on drawings influenced by architectural plans and aerial maps. She adds many layers to increase complexity. She relates the layering to herself as parts of who she is. She…

can be transformed and presented differently between an adaption and original text to allude to separate and various layers of the significant historical background, characters, and themes of the same story. Satyajit Ray’s adaption of Premchand’s “Chess Players” attempts to delineate the historical scene in nineteenth-century Lucknow, a city distinguished for its Nawabi or aristocratic style, its potent civic decadence and its relished taste in music and the pleasures of the palate, to show the…

The 1972 World Chess Championships had a positive impact on views of society and politics within a time of détente and the Vietnam War within the cold war period, lessening tensions. The media portrayed the match as an ideological battle, exaggerating the political importance of the match, convincing society of the political importance of the match. The match attracted the attention of the Soviet Security Agency, the KGB, as well Henry Kissinger, the US National Security Advisor. Even though…

Their outsourcing agreement with Hewlett-Packard will allow the American company to manage the IT infrastructure and operations for Nokia's network’, (D.C.Charma, 2004). Furthermore Capgemini have been made responsible for order management services. Outsourcing is vital to Nokia’s success as it allows the company to concentrate on vital factors such as R&D, turning to selected suppliers for their special skills. The global business co-ordinates activity’s in supplier countries carefully in…

Introduction Sainsbury’s plc is a UK multinational company that deals primarily in grocery retail and offers other services in financial and real estate sector. In the late 90s, the company decided to expand its operations to Egypt. This factor was prompted by several factors including the fact that Walmart, the leading retailer in the world, has opened its stores in the UK and the need to compete on a global scale by having a larger market share. Therefore, the company decided to venture in to…

studied. Interestingly, through out the entire article, Clive Thompson uses a clever analogy between chess and process of human thoughts to deliver his points across. In the beginning of this passage, Clive Thompson talks about the invention of a chess playing robot(342). After 80 years of development, Super computer Deep Blue, the “descendant” of 1915 chess playing machine, eventually defeated the best chess master in the world(342).…

During the summer of 1972 in Reykjavík, Iceland, the Cold War was played out with pawns instead of missiles. The Cold War was condensed to the free world's champion versus the apparatchiks spawned by the Soviet socialist chess machine. When Fischer played Spassky in Iceland, it was an American named Bobby playing a Russian named Boris. He was the maverick American facing off against the establishment Russian. Bobby showed up in Iceland on his own, Spassky arrived with a state-sponsored entourage…