No-win situation

Trophies For as long as I can remember, no matter what sport I participated in, I received a trophy. When I got my second place trophy in karate in 2006, I was ecstatic. I had earned something, and while it was a lot of work, it was completely worth it. When I played soccer as a child, we were easily the worst team in the league. We lost every single game except one, and that was the one I didn’t go to. When I got the participation medal at the end of the season, I hated it. Even today, it’s a…

Rhetorical situations In the everyday life we are often required to give our opinion about what happens around us or to try to convince people of our opinions and ideas. When we try to convince people of the real importance and validity of our statements, we try to present our thesis making it look better than what it actually is and we change our bias, the arrangement of our word and even the tone of our voices. Therefore, we slightly change our version in order to persuade our interlocutors.…

Nate Silver’s introduction to The Signal and the Noise offers up an intuitive definition of the split between prediction and forecast. Prediction is judgemental and accounts for future changes and opinions, whereas forecast is pure scientific fact and interpretation of the past events. Neither are anywhere close to perfectly predicting any scenario, but there are times where one produces a mostly accurate estimation of the future. Each strategy has its strengths and weaknesses, which Silver…

In the story David and Goliath, the author Malcolm Gladwell tells us the significant stories of individuals who overcome personal battles in their own unique way. The biblical story of David and Goliath is used as an example of real world problems today. An article writer from the website Word Press explains “Sometimes what we think is an advantage becomes a disadvantage – and vice versa (where a weakness becomes a strength as we learn to compensate against it).” In addition to this quote, I…

the hospital for a month and was released. The doctors could not figure out what cause her complications but I knew that it was a life changing event for me. This humbling situation caused me to fall down on my knees, totally surrender my life to Christ and develop a real relationship with Him. I believe that it takes a situation to occur to open your eyes up to change, it takes a desire to want to change and a belief within to open your heart up to…

voting present in a one-vote system. In the ranking system, the “greater of two goods” problem would no be longer an issue. To illustrate this, imagine a situation in which a voter ranks Candidate X as ‘1’ and Candidate Y as ‘2’. If Candidate X wins, their MNM will increase and accurately reflect the voter’s consent for them to govern. If Candidate Y wins, their MNM will still increase, reflecting the fact that although the voter supported Candidate X more, they still support Candidate Y to some…

controversial events that most readers would consider strange in his collection of short stories called “Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.” Many of the characters, like Penny from “Go, Fight, Win” and Leonard from “Blowing up on the Spot,” have absurdist views. By creating characters like Penny and…

in every win/lose situation, our nation will soon not recognize the feeling of loss. Losing will turn into a medical condition that needs to be quickly treated with a roll of chocolate…

no matter how difficult a situation is, always think about the good and never give up on anything. Nate and his family, and eventually Abby’s are in some very tough battles with money. Throughout the book, this creates Abby’s and Nate’s bond even tighter by learning more about each other. In the beginning of this book, Nate and his football team, from Valley, Massachusetts, were playing a game on a Saturday morning. Nate gets the chance of a lifetime to potentially win one million dollars. At…

Every culture has different views on what a heroic person is described as. Today a hero would be known as someone who steps up against what is wrong. In the poem Beowulf Translated by Seamus Heaney, heroes are portrayed a differently, the main character, Beowulf, is known as a hero. Beowulf is presented as a hero because, he defends and protects his people, he was loyal to the people he served, and he was victorious in important battles. A sign of a heroic leader is someone who defends and…