The Pawn

There are a few ways Scholar's Mate can be done, but the most commonly found is when White moves its King’s pawn forward, followed by, in…

When it's time for Jackson Jackson to return to the pawn shop he does not have enough money to regain his grandmother's regalia. In Sherman Alexie’s short story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem, “Do you know how many good men live in this world? Too many to count!” (Alexie 28) is an important quote because the pawn shop owner likely believes Jackson is a good guy who is deserving of the regalia for free. It almost seems as if the pawn shop owner wanted Jackson to regain the regalia because he did…

The pawn shop is one of the central images in the poem "Evolution". This pawn shop was set up by Buffalo Bill and he had put it right on the border of a Native American reservation. It happened to be right across the street from a liquor store. This would make the Native Americans come inside the pawn shop, after the Native Americans would sell or pawn everything, they had just to go across the street and buy liquor. Buffalo Bill had used this location to prove that the Native Americans were…

“decorative but ultimately powerless, as pawns in a man’s world” (JN 101). Much of Tolkien world comes from old Anglo-Saxon and Norse myth, so again it would make since that his women might fit this idea. Yet looking at the women in The…

positions. The pawns go in the second row on your side of the board. They go in all eight squares in the second row. 2. Rooks will go in the first row corners on your side of the board. They belong in the first row in the 1st and 8th columns. 3. Knights will be placed next. Knights belong in the first row in the 2nd and 7th columns. They are placed…

metaphorically vital piece, the pawn. “These are the pawns. They’re like the soldiers. They move like this, one space forward only except when they fight.” D’Angelo states. The pawn is a metaphor for the lower level, “unimportant” drug dealers in the Pits. Their job is to protect the king by drug dealing and being in harm’s way to keep Avon, the Kingpin, safe. The reason that the pawns are metaphorically the most vital pieces is due to the fact that D’Angelo, Bodie, and Wallace are all pawns,…

The Tragedy of MacBeth Does Macbeth act as a pawn of fate or an agent of freewill? Macbeth act as a pawn of fate because he wasn’t a killer his blood was like milk so basically he felt like he couldn’t hurt/kill nobody. Well that was until somebody close to him convinced him to do something that he didn’t think he would be able to do. Lady Macbeth (his wife) convinced Macbeth to kill Duncan over something they didn’t get. Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan for power but even after he…

Officer Means say, “The Sheriff’s department was trying to pawn it off on the PD.” He also mentioned that her behavior might have been construed as unprofessional, but that he was not offended. This account by Stewart affirms Shauna Karnes’s interpretation of the event. Sgt. Shannon advised Officer Means that an accusation was that she had made comments in front of a civilian that the BCSO didn’t like to do their work and tried to pawn their reports or work on us. She responded by saying that…

face after their relocation. The story tells the tale of a white man with the name of “Buffalo Bill” who opens a pawn shop. This pawn shop was located next to a liquor store. The white man used the stereotype that Native Americans are alcoholics to turn a profit. The story continues until all the Native Americans have nothing else to pawn for money. “Buffalo Bill” then converts the pawn shop into a Native American history museum. He charges five dollars per person, even the Native Americans. The…

game functions. Knowing the basic movements of all the pieces was evidently not the key to winning rounds; therefore, I realized I had a single fatal flaw. I would always be very short-sighted, taking the bait the opponent would lay out, losing my pawns very quickly, and being intimidated over moving my king and queen. However, there is more to chess than just a strategy. An unseen level of ideology clashing; all trying to prevail. It wasn’t until last summer at an internship at the University…