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election. Yoda is a person who has changed the world by commanding an army of millions and led them to victory against evil forces. Yoda is the best candidate to become president because of his loaded words, his plain folk personality, and stacking the deck. Yoda is the best candidate to win the…

The year was 1843, and the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was bustling with excitement. All over the city, people were running errands, setting up shops, and carrying on with their daily lives. For soon, an important boat would enter the harbor,and it would take its passengers on a journey to the Caribbean Islands. I, David Carson, was 38 years old and employed as one of the many carpenters in the city, but I would be among one of these passengers. I was searching for some new environment in…

Getting past the eye of a trained individual is nearly impossible, even to those who know little of the game, cheating will be pretty obvious. In card games cheating takes many forms. It can vary from hiding cards to using complex methods to cut the deck. Cheating becomes a skill of its own and in many cases the effort put into it outweighs the gains that winning the game would bring. In modern times cheating in card games has become extremely hard in the professional scene,…

Card "Tricks"-Kruskal's Count A deck of cards can have multiple applications, for when you are bored you can pick up a deck of cards and play classic card games such as president or something as simple as gold fish. However, a playing cards can be used to amaze your audience with a card trick that supposedly reads their mind by guessing which card they had in their hand. Some card tricks are performed by visual manipulation whereas some actually involve a mathematical relationship. Kruskal's…

diseases include smallpox and ophthalmia. Ophthalmia is a highly contagious eye infection, which can cause complete blindness, sometimes even wipe out the whole ship. The African Americans that are driven mad by the conditions are brought to the top deck and beaten to death, then immediately thrown overboard. Sadly, there are still more violent ways that the negroes were killed. Those with the deadly contagious infections were thrown overboard to drown; left to die of water inhalation. The…

All it takes is a second for one deck to be switched out for a stacked one. Insist that all players keep their cards above the table in plain view. One way to spot a switched out deck is if the cards feel cooler than they did the last round. The reasoning behind this is that through shuffling and dealing, the cards warm up above room temperature while a stacked deck has not been handled and is still at room temperature. Thus after switching it in, a stacked deck will feel cooler. Rule 3.…

the book to be able to have a say. Get to know people, before judging them from there outside, get to know them on the inside too. Bridie finally gets a chance to go out with her father Deck all alone for once. Her older sister Cole who is dark skinned is sick so she stays home with her mother Sandy. Bridie and Deck go out to the public gardens to have a day together to try and connect and have some fun. Bridie finally feels closer to him now she was happy in the moment. Bridie and her father…

better card than others, however often times it doesn 't matter what deck of cards one is dealt, rather how they use them. Usually the harsher deck of cards result in creating a stronger person, mostly because of the obstacles that are formed from this. This doesn 't make someone with an easy deck of cards weak, it just says that they have it easier. In the book the Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls, she is dealt an unfair deck of cards but overcomes her struggle and makes something out…

copper arsenate (CCA) is a group of pesticides containing chromium, copper, and arsenic that protects wood from termites, fungi, and other pests that degrade wood and make a building less safe, but is it really helping or would it be better if your deck collapses from being chewed and degraded by termites than using arsenic on the wood and poisoning you and your family. Chromated arsenicals have been used as a wood preservative pesticide since the 1940s that is a lot of…

revealed that shimming was used heavily during the construction of the pier to maintain a flat deck surface. This raised the fascia boards up and greatly decreased strength of the connection to resist uplift. These geometric conditions, in addition to the reliance on the fascia board to resist the uplift forces at the exterior stringers, are definitely at fault for the wide spread failures. The design of the deck relied on the connection of the fascia to the pile cap to transfer the stringer…