Wesley Bolton Samuel Good Jake Jones JonMichael Lopez Honors English 9-1 January 28‚ 2013 WORK CITED INFORMATION: Card‚ Orson. Ender’s Game. New York: Tom Doherty Associates‚ 1977. PLOT SUMMARY AND THEME OF THE NOVEL: Ender’s Game‚ by Orson Scott Card‚ is the story of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin‚ a third born child in a prejudiced‚ futuristic world‚ as he is recruited to train at battle school to fight the “buggers”‚ an alien species that previously
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The Imitation Game is set During World War II and follows Alan Turing‚ British mathematician as he is enlisted to try to break German codes encrypted using Enigma machines. It shows the process through which Turing worked to crack the code. When Britain declares war on Germany in 1939‚ Turing joins a cryptography team‚ led by Commander Denniston‚ aiming to crack ciphers created by Enigma machines‚ which the Nazis use to provide security for their radio messages. Turing prefers to work alone‚ considering
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The scratchy collar symbolizes the entrapment of Waverly by her mother. Waverly’s hobby of chess is important to her and her mother “[has] a habit of standing over [her] while [she] [plots] out [her] games.” (p.98) This habit of Waverly’s mother is a symbol of how she controls Waverly. As her mother stands over Waverly‚ it displays her as a dominant figure and shows that Waverly should be submissive and obedient towards her. Waverly’s mother expects her to listen to everything she says and not have
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Rohinton Mistry’s short story “Of White Hairs and Cricket” and in Anita Desai’s short story “Games at Twilight‚” the protagonists both experience childhood differently‚ but they arrive at the same conclusion about their insignificance. Both narrators talk about how making independent choices can be both harmful and protective‚ but maintaining strong family relationships is crucial. Though the narrator in “Games at Twilight” is younger than the narrator in “Of White Hairs and Cricket”‚ they both face
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three‚ four or five. (The more players‚ the more challenging the leadership exercise.) Each team assigns one leader. The rest of the team members get blindfolded. The team leader hands the rest of their team a rope which is several feet long. When the game begins the leader calls out different shapes‚ such as circles‚ triangles and squares‚ which the rest team must make while blindfolded. The leader can use their voice to direct players to where they need to position the rope in order to complete the
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A Game Design Two supermarkets site in a town on a certain distance. Town residents may usually go to the nearest supermarket‚ but they can choose the other supermarket because it not takes long trip to reach the farther supermarket. Now they will sell a new kind of yogurt that estimate 200 unit will be sold per week in the town. They must decide the price. There are 3 prices they can choose: $10‚ $14‚ $18. If they sell the yogurt for a same price‚ they will sell the same unit. If one supermarket
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Everdeen‚ protagonist from the “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins‚ showing her anger to the gammakers who were ignoring her during her first training session. The story is set in a futuristic apocalypse in which the United States has been separated into 13 Districts‚ all of which struggle to survive under the harsh dictatorship of the Capitol (The government). Being supported by almost all the district 12 with an old rare gesture when she was picked up for the games & being ignored by the gamemakers when
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War Is Not a Game Etgar Keret’s “Not Human Beings” is the story of Schmulik Stein‚ a soldier who is young and jaded by the realities of death and violence. As an officer during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict‚ he is forced to recognize the serious nature of conflict he is involved in when he is recruited to go with Israeli border patrol officers. He is then put to the greatest test of all‚ to dehumanize‚ stand his ground and witness things he may never be able to forget. At the end of the story
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¡§Texts both inform us of the social identities available to us‚ and problematize them; both police our social selves and subvert them.¡¨ Both texts‚ The Crying Game by Neil Jordan and Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas‚ use characters within the discourse to project social identities that have been problematized due to social constraints. Throughout this essay‚ I will focus on sexuality‚ as this type of social identity has been depicted as a central theme in both texts. The characters
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Walmart Group Supply Chain Game Conclusion This time‚ the game was more complicated. We need to plan and control production capacity‚ shipment method and further distribution to different areas. Our performance was not as good as last time. The distribution network of the company consists of a single factory and a single warehouse‚ both in Calopeia. We can build extra factories and warehouses in other places. Actually at first‚ our goal was increasing the manufacturing capability
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