once represented to me. Instead‚ it has become a monstrosity‚ a miserable excuse for murder‚ monetary gain‚ bloodshed and a means of justifying pride in one’s country. Soldiers are just like the pawns of their governments in the war moved on the chessboard battle-fields; they think that it is glorious to die for one’s country; they do not know that the very people they fight are merely clones of themselves‚ boys with mothers to return to‚ young men with wives and commitments. They shout songs of joy
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polytheistic religon humans favored certain Gods to pray to and worship and in turn the Gods favored certain humans and gave special attention to. The way the gods treated their followers were as if they were using them as pawns on a great chessboard‚ pushing them all in different paths as if it were somesort of entertainment. Athena knew that Odysseus was a proper man and could win over the Phaecians‚ but she chooses to intercede his natural path and gifts him with the knowledge of their
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Poems are are great way for authors to tell a story using short‚ yet very powerful words. When reading the book/ poem‚ and watching the movie‚ the interpretation differs so much. When reading the poem‚ it is understood that drugs are taking over the thoughts of the afflicted‚ yet in the movie‚ it is just a playful story about some fictional characters. "One pill makes you larger‚ and one pill makes you small." The interpretation used in the passage‚ is that Alice was using some sort of drugs
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14 February 2010 Comparative Essay “Thank God Almighty‚ we are free at last!” Here is Martin Luther’s futuristic view in his speech titled “I have a dream”. In the 1900’s the world was a chessboard were people drew their discriminating lines of black and white. All over the globe did folks endure the racism that was thrown at them. The Emancipation Proclamation was a huge step to diminishing this appalling behavior as it put an end to the slavery. However‚ where the Negros really free? Did
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In chess‚ the objective of the game is to defeat the enemy forces while protecting your king piece. The other pieces have to sacrifice their lives to protect the king. My grandfather was a philosopher; he taught me that life is like a game of chess. We are born as kings‚ protected by the pawns‚ the knights‚ the bishops‚ the rooks‚ and the queen. The other game pieces represent the society who will protect the newborn king so that they will prosper when they grow old. As we grow we must pass down
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In the excerpt from An American Childhood by Annie Dillard‚ the reader receives an intimate passage written from a daughter’s point of view of her eccentric mother. Through a unique string of constructive anecdotes and a warm‚ lighthearted tone‚ Dillard develops her readers understanding of the qualities she sees in her mother and her positive outlook on those qualities. Though a single quality is not explicit‚ the passage provides implicit evidence of her mother’s wit‚ commendable sense of humor
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The Symbolism of Chess It is known that the game of chess originated in India. It was passed on to the medieval West through the intermediary of the Persians and the Arabs‚ a fact to which we owe‚ for example‚ the expression "check-mate"‚ (German: Schachmatt) which is derived from the Persianshah: "king" and the Arabic mat: "he is dead". At the time of the Renaissance some of the rules of the game were changed: the “queen”and the two “bishops” were given a greater mobility‚
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Waverly and Lindo Jong In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Waverly and Lindo Jong experience conflict because of their cultural upbringing. Lindo experienced a wealthy Chinese childhood while Waverly experienced a Chinese-Western childhood. These cultural differences causes conflict between Waverly and Lindo. Waverly finds Lindo’s Chinese ways outdated. One point of a healthy Chinese parent and child relationship includes the parent showing high levels of concern. Waverly does not like
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business users of mobile devices. Patent expert Thomas Frey of the Louisville‚ Colo.-based think tank the DaVinci Institute explains‚ "This is gamesmanship‚ it’s all moving queens and rooks around the chessboard. In the end the legalities won’t matter. All the solutions will be off the chessboard. The players will say to each other: ’If you pay me $X‚ I’ll say you win.’" The recent decision will likely be appealed‚ and it’s possible that it may be struck down. But even if the decision stands‚ it’s
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stochastic mechanisms in SLEUTH‚ random pixels are randomly selected during the various growth cycles. This is the case for all of the four growth types. Imagine an existing village observed urban growth shaped like a chessboard pattern‚ and SLEUTH would have predicted that same chessboard pattern during simulation‚ just one row or one column off. Validating the simulation results would produce zero percent agreement‚ whilst a human visually checking the data would be inclined to think SLEUTH did a great
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