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    clear China 's history and remove the unorganized Chinese system to create order in the Chinese society. However the Chinese’s supposed "unorganized system" was, in fact, a structured system and the removal this caused chaos in the society. “King of Chess”, like all the novellas in Ah Cheng 's composition, follows a progression from a structured chaos to a chaotic structure. Mao, when he assumed power in China, sought to get rid of the generation old heritage, tradition, and culture that was…

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    Ruin A Child Analysis

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    are doing. I know as a child I was always delighted when my parents praised me for my work. A good example is I love to play chess, I have played chess since the second grade and my special interest supervisor always came to our school on Friday and we usually do many things but one thing I enjoyed was when we played chess. So, later on she told us of a tournament for chess that had all surrounding counties for special interest groups participating and it was to be held at Troy University. Our…

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    including the school's Chess Club. During that lunch, the members of Chess Club taught me about a chess variant, bughouse, which turns the typically slow-paced individual game into a brisk competition between pairs of players. Six months later, I walked into Georgetown Day School as a student. I dropped by Chess Club so I could see some familiar faces, and somehow they all remembered my name from the 20 minutes they spent with me half a year earlier. I became a regular at Chess Club, even…

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    The main reason that I chose the Game of Life analogy to be the central theme of this book is because it is the best way to explain in words, the extraordinary situation that we find ourselves in. It also helps to illustrate what we are, where we are, and why we are here. But as I explained earlier, anything that can be put into words is not the truth. While words can guide you closer, they will never succeed in describing the truth directly. So to make the ‘Game of Life’ analogy more…

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    It looks into the resemblance Chess has to the business world. One example of this is how in Chess and business thinking for the long-term is more effective than short-term planning. The authors believe that all of the skills gained from Chess will help improve future leaders and the economy therefore should be incorporated into school curriculum at an early…

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    Human Consciousness

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    of the major talking pints of this debate was a chess match held in 1997 when for one of the first times a machine was able to best world chess Grandmaster, Gary Kasparov, as he was defeated by IBM’s ‘Deep Blue’. The oxford dictionary claims consciousness to be ‘the state of being aware of and responsive to one 's surroundings’, well in this case the computer was definitely responsive to the moves made by Kasparov, out of millions and millions of chess moves to consider and calculate the…

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    battlefield and to combat the opposing general; this is the essence of Chess. Chess is a noble two player strategy game with a reasonable skill floor yet an infinitely high skill cap. This depth leads to a highly captivating game, one where ”An outsider looking on casually might find the intensity incomprehensible. But anyone who has played the game a few times understands how it be engrossing in the extreme”(Shenk 6). The goal of Chess is to maneuver the pieces so that the opposing king is…

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    The aspect of college that I’m most worried about is grades. While growing up, I always believed that grades was an important part of my education, and I strived to achieve the highest grades. I was very successful in doing so in high school, and I joined honor society. I knew what I had to do to achieve those grades, but I’m worried that could change in college since I don 't know what to expect from the classes. I just hope my test anxiety doesn’t affect my performance in school. Besides…

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    Scholarship Jacket Themes

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    Booker T. Washington once said “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” This proves that doing well in life depends on how well someone overcome challenges in life. In the short stories “the scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas and “Rules of The Game” by Amy Tan, we meet two smart and brave girls, Martha and Waverly, who excel in their fields and who want recognition form others. To overcome obstacles, Martha…

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    A Knight’s Tale is about three friends who pursued the challenge of jousting after their master, Sir Ector, died. William Thatcher took his dead master’s armor and went on to win his first tournament. As William, Roland, and Wat went on to compete in many more tournaments, William meets Jocelyn and instantaneously falls in love with her. William Thatcher was born in the Cheapside borough of London in the early 1350’s. Even though he was not very wealthy, he had always dreamed of being a knight.…

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