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    members of the white family are staying in their warm and cozy home, Laburnum Villa, waiting for a visitor who knew Mr. White before. While waiting for their visitor, Herbert White and his father are playing a game of chess While Mrs. White knits near the fire place. The game of chess ended as Herbert White is crowned the victor of the game. After the game, Mr. White’s friend, Sergeant-Major Morris arrives, they welcome him over with a whisky. As the night passes by, Morris tell stories about…

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    Sample Cover Letter

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    To Mr. bobby I am writing this letter to you to request to reconsider the decision, which you took the decision to terminate me for the position of being an Aide of the Extended work day at Key school. I would like to inform you about in Mr. bobby I don 't know in what Ms. Carla or Elizabeth told you. but I am really sure that Elizabeth said that I ignore it and not help her finding the child that is not truth. Elizabeth and I went outside to look for the child and he wasn’t there. I…

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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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    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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    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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    Slate/Ethos: Hi, I am Sabrina, an executive recruiter for my Human Resources Outsourcing Company, and am going to talk about the historical fantasy book called The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye. Candidate: Nikolai Karimov, one of the main characters, is an orphan who was taken under the care of Galina Zakrevsky, a mentor for the Crown’s Game that I will elaborate on later. He grew up to be handsome, so people often wanted to do activities together. Logos: However, neither his clothes nor his low…

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    Outliers Reflection

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    Outliers list all these reasons as to why some are successful over others, but in the end I still believe in hard work and determination. I wasn 't raised asian and nor am I famous at chess or basketball both of which I spent more than 10,000 hours on. I also never had a high IQ, but still was separated into a specific group of students, believed to excel. Life is honestly full surprises, if you are born within a certain month period…

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    Have you ever had trouble writing a paper? Well I have with every single paper I have written until now. Writing paper was certainly not easy for me but taking reading and composition 092 has benefited me in the best way by stating from the basics of writing a paper. Until I figured out the writing stages and what they can do to help me for the rest of my college career. The writing stages process has six stages which are understanding, brainstorming, outline, rough draft, revising, and…

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    Board Game Analysis

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    For the Multimedia Project, I chose to do a board game based on the theme of Happiness. I chose to a board game because I enjoy playing board games myself. Also, drawing has always been my extracurricular passion. Last but not the least, I feel I have learned a lot about happiness this term and I hope I can share what I have learned in a fun, accessible way. The message that I am trying to get across lies in the rules of the game, where people need to have to take the right actions and improve…

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