Scrabble

STORY: AMBI: SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT SAM KAUFMAN: What you are listening to is the announcers from a competitive event. But one that most people don’t think of as competitive. Scrabble. Competitive Scrabble is a pastime for tens of thousands of people worldwide. There are all kinds of people who play Scrabble competitively, even children. COOPER 2 COOPER: (0:57) A very good game would be like a 400. Braggable is maybe 500. The best I’ve gotten in a club or tournament is 568, but I got like a 6-something against a friend. That’s Cooper Komatsu, an 8th grader from Southern California, and one of the top youth Scrabble players in the country. COOPER 1 COOPER: (16:11) We have the best combined rating, and the highest rated player in the tournament, which is my partner. I’m probably third highest rated. Cooper is an energetic, positive kid. And a kid who evidently loves Scrabble. In addition to competing in…

This activity will use all letters from the classic game of Scrabble or you could use any letters, like the magnet ones. This activity will help students with the tenses. When the students are learning the past simple tense, you will give them the sets of letters and you say the infinitive and they write the past simple forms using the letters. For example, you say ‘go’ , the students should write ‘went’ in scrabble letters. This will make a great center for students to do by themselves or with…

In the story "Death By Scrabble", A 42 year old man and his wife are playing a game of scrabble, in the game which ever word is played the event happens. The game starts off with the word BEGIN, his wife plays JIXNED, the game goes back and forth taking turns between the husband and wife. The husband then plays "CHEATING" as the wife plays "IGNORE" the husband plays "EXPLODES" and the air conditioning unit falls. The couple goes back and forth making words. Lastly the husband plays "QUAKE"…

Although Death by Scrabble is a sad but humorous story written by Charlie Fish, in the story, the author utilizes a lot of ironic scenes that provoke readers’ sense of humor rather than lets readers only feel the sadness. One of the irony readers can see is that the husband always expresses the hatred towards his wife while she does not realize anything. It is demonstrated by “I hate my wife,” and it appears a lot of times in the story (1). It stands for the type of dramatic irony, in which the…

The next object that exemplifies me are shells. People collect shells, and I used shells as a representation of a collection of memories.Memories are joyful moments and others are worthy to grieve over. This has helped shaped me, because it shows that not everything you remember has to be positive, because things go wrong in our lives and it’s not perfect, but it shows memorable times that we can reflect on. Fourth, another object that best fits me is Scrabble. This object is made out of four…

voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles. Compared to games, reality is too easy and effortless. Games challenges us with unnecessary and voluntary obstacles that puts our personal strengths to utilize. A few games mentioned in this chapter are golf, scrabble, and Tetris. As a golfer, the player has a fairly clear goal: to hit a ball into a series of compact holes and achieving this task by using the fewest possible strokes. Of course the player could easily walk up to the hole and…

He lives on land that his family has owned for over a hundred years and owns Duty’s Grocery. His wife Ruth Duty becomes a big help to Fannie. Grace met Carlton Duty when the family car broke down on the way to Waynesville, again following the plan of the Lord. Mr. Duty was able to get the Shepherds a house. That is why the house at Scrabble Creek is Grace’s favorite. Carlton Duty seemed protective from the start. When the family moved into Scrabble Creek, “Carlton Duty brought a scythe to cut…

Unlike the typical Commander of this society, The Commander of where Offred works as a Handmaid is very sympathetic towards her. He, like stated above, gives Offred magazines to read, but that is not all her does for her. During countless office visits, The Commander and Offred play friendly games of the popular board game Scrabble: “I’d like you to play a game of Scrabble with me,” he says. I hold myself absolutely rigid. I keep my face unmoving. So that’s what’s in the forbidden room!…

Margret Atwood’s novel "The Handmaid's Tale" published in 1985 is a brutal and unimaginable prediction of America’s future as a totalitarian state. The Republic of Gilead resorts to old fashion traditions in order to get the population back to where it once was. By recruiting fertile women as handmaids who's sole purpose is to carry children for the social elite. The government of Gilead stripped the women of any right to education, forbidding all women the ability to read and write. Instead,…

These struggles include her childhood as an outcast, her problems with her first husband Travis Word, difficulties with her second husband Randy Newhouse, and finally, the endeavor of returning to Scrabble Creek. During the first section of the book, “Scrabble Creek”, Grace was the daughter of Virgil Shepherd, a snake handling preacher. To Florida Grace, this seemed to be a curse and she wished to never become one of the anointed, especially after seeing her mother handle fire (LS 24-26). When…