...Essay about Death by Scrabble An essay about the short story by Charlie Fish Link: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DeatScra.shtml The story is made by Charlie Fish in 2006 and is called “Death by Scrabble”, it’s about a husband and wife who play Scrabble. The husband feels that all they ever do is play Scrabble. The husband tells the story, in a way so you can read what he is thinking in the text. The husband is 42 years old, and has a lot of problems with his wife. He feels bored all around the clock. He doesn’t’ really speak to other people than his wife, and that irritates him. Already in the start of the story, you can read that the husband hates his wife because he say, “It’s a hot day and I hat my wife”. I think he feels like that because all the ever do I sit around home, play Scrabble and drink tea. He feels bored and wants to do something else, just anything than sitting and playing Scrabble. He wants to come out and meet new people, and going on adventures, for example he says in the story “If she wasn’t around, I’d be doing something interesting right now. I’d be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. I’d be starring in the latest Hollywood blockbusters.” That really shows how he is felling about playing, with his boring wife. Not only does he hate his wife, but also he wants to kill her, because everything she does is annoying him. He says in the text after they have played Scrabble, for a little while “If only I had D, then I could play MURDER. That...
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...Is Scrabble a Sport? When it comes to determining what is classified as a sport, there are three areas that must be addressed. These three criteria are as follows, the action in question must have physical activity. It must have a competitive atmosphere around the event. Finally, it must have an official governing body. The event that I have chosen to research in order to judge its worthiness of sport-hood is Scrabble. The rules of Scrabble are players have 100 tiles consisting of different letters with different values for those letters. You need to make words and whatever word you make gives you a score. There are areas on the board where you can have double/triple word and letter bonuses depending where you play the length of your word. You are then rewarded a score and your opponent has to spell a word connected to your word in some form and through that connection you add up your scores as you go along. Physical activity is defined as rigorous exertion and complex physical skills. Regarding Scrabble, proponents of calling the game a sport such as Dave Brannan, CEO of Mind Sports International, in a BBC Sportshour video says that “Mental agility is a sport, if you were playing golf why would one hit a good shot or not? It’s the pressure, it’s the stress. It’s what is going on mentally, it’s not necessarily their swing or anything else physically. Everything in sport, even if you are a footballer…is being able to think under pressure”. (Brannan 2014) He argues that mental...
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...“belonged” the Emperor a position she was “brought” up from a “baby”. The word belonged suggests how she is a possession, an object, a thing without feelings to her a woman capable of making her own decisions. It implies it is the purpose of women to serve men; it’s what they’re bred for. The recurring b’s her conveys that she felt angry but there was very little she could do about it.(4) By contrast the women in the future dystopian novel once had freedom before and lost when Gilead came into power. Offred compares the value of the board game Scrabble when it was “once the game of old women”, “Now of course”; the value is “Now it’s different” it “is freedom”. Atwood uses the repetitive “Now” to emphasize how the sight Scrabble is intoxicating Offred and how she longs for freedom. It also demonstrates how the short sentences here to have more impact and importance to the statements. She also shows how simple luxuries like a common game of Scrabble can contribute to freedom that the citizens of Gilead used to have, one that the reader can relate to. (5) The reminiscence of Marlene’s guests in Act One of their past might explain why Marlene is so keen to take responsibility of her life; her life is not...
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...English month activities and contests Division of Valenzuela Canumay West National High School Action Plan for English Month Celebration Academic Year 2013-2014 English month activities and contests A. Spelling bee - to spell words correctly Mechanics: 1. Each participant should bring with him/her a 1/8 illustration board, chalk and a rag. 2. The participants will have 10 seconds to think about their answers. 3. There will be three rounds; easy, average and difficult with ten questions each. 4. Proctors will tally scores and eliminate participants after every round. 5. There will be three winners; the first, second and the third placer. B. Essay writing - To write unified, coherent and well organized paragraphs. Mechanics: 1. Participants will be given exactly 1 hour for writing their entries. 2. The topic of the essay will be based on what the proctor will give. 3. The entries should be at least 500 to 700 words. 4. The entries will be read and judged by the proctors according to the given set of criteria. Creativity 40%, structure 20%, adherence to topic 10%, grammar 10%, length 10%, “wow” factor 10%. 5. There will be three winners; the first, second and the third placer. C. Declamation - To recite a declamation piece with proper pausing, intonation and rhythm with proper facial expression as well. Mechanics: 1. the criteria for judging participants will be as follows: ...
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...sharing his ideas and concept of the game, and to our classmates, our competitors, for a healthy competition. THE PROPONENTS ABSTRACT Arithmetic is the oldest and simplest branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple daily counting to advanced science and business calculations. In common usage, the word refers to a branch of mathematics which records elementary properties of certain operations on numbers. Scrabble is a popular word game and board game in which 2-4 players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15×15 game board. The showcase was made to help those students having difficulties in arithmetic like solving simple problems and computing sign numbers. The game is entitled “Double Bag Math Scratch”. It is inspired by the game double bag scrabble with a twist of mathematics. We use the word scratch because it is synonymous to scrabble....
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...fact, and it hadn’t yet been discovered. Except by me, for whom it was intended.’ (chapter 9, p. 62) (2) ‘So that’s what’s in the forbidden room! Scrabble!...Now it’s forbidden, for us. Now it’s dangerous. Now it’s indecent. Not it’s something he can’t do with his Wife. Now it’s desirable…We play two games. Larynx, I spell. Valance. Quince. Zygote. I hold the glossy counters with their smooth edges, finger the letters. The feeling is voluptuous. This is freedom, an eyeblink of it. Limp, I spell. Gorge. What a luxury. The counters are like candies, made of peppermint, cool like that. Humbugs, those were called. I would like to put them into my mouth. They would also taste of lime. The letter C. Crisp, slightly acid on the tongue, delicious.’ (chapter 23, p. 149) (3) Offred uses [scrabble] as a mirror for herself, as a way of hearing her own voice in an otherwise engulfing, enforced silence. Atwood uses it, I would suggest, as an image of the text, as a mise en abîme, in which one can see this autobiographical ‘tale’ as a Scrabble board on which we must also play. If we have trouble with the plotting of the narrative or the structure of the text, we can think of it as a Scrabble board on which we must also play. If we have trouble with the plotting of the narrative or the structure of the text, we can think of it as a Scrabble board which grows (one step, one letter, one word at a time) in a seemingly haphazard manner in several directions at once around the invented, constructed...
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...Analysis of ”Death by Scrabble” ”Death by Scrabble” is a short story. The author of this short story is Charlie Fish. The short story is about a husband and wife playing Scrabble on a blistering hot Sunday afternoon. The husband hates his wife and he keeps thinking about all the things that he would have been doing if she weren’t there. The wife is close to winning, which makes him hate her even more. Now he wants to kill his wife. The letters they spell in the game will come true, or at least that’s what the husband thinks. He is desperately trying to find a fatal word to use against his wife, but she ends up using the word DEATH and that surprises the husband enough for him to choke on a scrabble letter and die. The short story opens in meduas res because he starts out by saying, “it’s a hot day, and I hate my wife”(1). The short story has a very closed ending, because we know that he is dead. The story is divided into three part, Introduction, climax and ending. In the introduction you get to know a little bit more about the teller, and he tells us about his relationship to his wife. The climax is when you know they both are looking for words to kill each other. The ending is when the husband is choking on a Scrabble letter and dies. Throughout the short, tension is being build up, and we can see that the words they are writing, is how they feel about their marriage. The narrator is the husband, and we know that because he says “I”. The narrator is very limited, because...
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...THE BENEFITS OF PLAYING SCRABBLE Scrabble is a board game usually played by two up to four persons where each take turns in forming words from letter tiles which are chosen randomly. Playing scrabble is a good way to expand vocabulary skills as well as practice spelling. In addition to simply forming words, the game has a point system which determines who wins the game. Each letter has a corresponding point where commonly used letters are worth 1 point while the least used gives a whopping 10 points. When a player forms a word and places the tiles on the board, the points on the tiles are summed up and tallied on a score sheet at the end of each turn. To be able to win the game, a player needs to strategize on using as much letter tile as he can per turn in order to get as much points as possible. There are also multipliers found on the board where points can be doubled or tripled when they land on the multiplier so strategy and planning are also needed in order to be able to place your tiles on these multipliers while at the same time not giving the opponents any openings that will allow them to place their tiles on the multipliers. This point system also practices a player's skills in addition, multiplication, as well as subtraction. Scrabble also encourages a person to read books. Since this game relies on words, a players has to learn new words by reading the dictionary, thesaurus, and other books. This, in turn, allows a person to unconsciously broaden their minds and...
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...Almotari 1 Hussein Almotari Mr.Borrelli ENG2D1-07 March 4, 2013 The Sane Sanity is the basis of the mind. Without sanity, people become mindless. In Charlie Fish’s short story-Death by Scrabble, the protagonist displays very strong mental instability. He is playing Scrabble with his wife and he secretly wants to kill her the entire time. His sanity then becomes questionable as the story progresses. The theme of sanity is reinforced in “Death by Scrabble” by the literary devices foreshadowing and irony. The story begins and right away we know that the husband hates his wife. The very first words are, “It’s a hot day and I hate my wife.”(1) The first statement makes you realize that the story can only go downhill from here. You cannot tell what the outcome of the story will be from these words, but it foreshadows that there is going to be a consequence for his words. He begins to complain about his life, how he has not done the things he has wanted to do and he does not have the things that he has always wanted. He truly believes that all of it is his wife’s fault. He looks at her in disgust and everything she does aggravates him. He over- exaggerates the things that he could have been doing. He makes the life that he would have had sound amazing compared to the one that he has now. This is the first sign that he is unstable...
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...2. One of the most popular TV Shows in America, Wheel of Fortune, has been around for a while, but it is still a very popular show. What is unique about this show is the fact that letters play a bigger role than anything else. In the bonus round of the show, contestants are automatically given the letters R, S, T, L, N, E because back when the show was started, early contestants mostly chose those letters. This is case with my data as well. As you can see on the data table, the most common letters from the article are R, S, T, L, N and E. Today, the contestants are given additional 3 consonants and an additional vowel. If I was a contestant in the show, I would choose G, H, M as my consonants since they are the mostly used consonants after R, S, T, L, N and E in my data. Letter | Frequency | Relative Frequency | A | 122 | 8.5% | B | 23 | 1.6% | C | 51 | 3.6% | D | 46 | 3.2% | E | 193 | 13.4% | F | 24 | 1.7% | G | 57 | 4.0% | H | 65 | 4.5% | I | 129 | 9.0% | J | 4 | 0.3% | K | 17 | 1.2% | L | 61 | 4.2% | M | 32 | 2.2% | N | 126 | 8.8% | O | 11 | 0.8% | P | 26 | 1.8% | Q | 2 | 0.1% | R | 87 | 6.1% | S | 113 | 7.9% | T | 133 | 9.3% | U | 41 | 2.9% | V | 15 | 1.0% | W | 25 | 1.7% | X | 2 | 0.1% | Y | 31 | 2.2% | Z | 0 | 0.0% | 3. Looking at the stem-and-leaf plot, it is obvious there is a big difference between some of the letters. The percentage of relative frequency for the letters ranges from 0% to 13.4% meaning that while...
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...-ALBERT EINSTEIN Mattheans welcome the newly elected CM officers For this school year 2013-2014, the CM election was automated. It was held at July 5, 2013 under the supervision of the new APSAD, Ms Rodhora Arevalo. The election was between two parties: The LIFE PARTY (LEADERSHIP INTEGRITY FAITH AND EXCELLENCE) and LET’S PARTY (LEADERS ENSURING TOMORROW’S SUCCESS). A meeting De Avance was held at the gymnasium a day before the election. Continue to page 3 WANTED: VARSITY PLAYERS Try outs! Try outs! All sports like Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, Chess, Dama and Scrabble. It is for the preparation of the Interschool Competition or rather a District Meet. All coaches are preparing for Matthean’s potential to ba a varsity player. For the basketball and volleyball players were all set mean their players were already complete while the sports like badminton, chess, dama and scrabble are still on going to search for their players. Continue to page...
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...Segmenting (breaking down a diverse market into homogeneous groups) ↓ The STP Marketing Process Segmenting, Targeting, and Positioning Targeting (choosing a specific segment for your campaign) ↓ Positioning (designing a distinctive message to appeal to the targeted segment) Segmenting Breaking down a diverse market of people into smaller, homogeneous groups Segments should be measurable, sizeable, Market Segments of Potential College Students Wants a community college Wants a mid-size school – not too big, not too small and reachable Wants a small, private, liberal arts school After segmenting → target a specific segment (focus your campaign on that group) → positioning Wants a large school that’s affordable with a lot of major choices On what basis can a market be segmented? Demographics Age Income Gender Education Occupation Segmentation by Demographics – Meets the needs of child and parent Psychographics AIO (attitudes, interests and opinions) VALS II PRIZM Lifestyle Market Analyst Personality Products consumed Bases for Segmenting (cont.) Product benefits (benefit segmentation) Based on benefits people seek in a product Ex. Cars – economy, basic transportation, status Family buying behavior and decision-making Initiator, evaluator, decision-maker, purchaser, etc. Product usage patterns Owner Psychographics: active, affluent, and educated, embrace technology, shy away from conventional status symbols Owners view the...
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...Rhea Hunjan English Oct 10th 2013 How does Offred change her way of coping while under different circumstances? The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood shows a women’s life within a totalitarian society. Offred, the protagonist and narrator, struggles to remain sane within herself, this is express through her internal battle of balance of hope between her past, and the present she is in. As she tries to handle the different situations, her coping methods vary with her state of mind within the circumstance. Offred’s struggle is manifested in two different occasions through the book. Her hope to stay sane in one situation is done by her reminiscing the past she had and telling us that her past life identity must be hidden from others, while under different circumstances she copes by convincing herself that the present is where all her attention should be, and who she is now is who she must remain to survive. As Offred struggles to keep her sanity, she uses different methods to cope with her situations. Towards the beginning of the book, in Chapter 14, Offred tells us that she has “another name” however using it is forbidden. She also says “ I keep the knowledge of this name like something hidden, some treasure. I’ll come back to dig up, one day. I think of this name as buried”. This statement shows how she want to keep her identity hidden from this world, so one day if free to go from this situation she can come back for her name, as she connotes her name with a treasure...
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...Introduction Have you ever heard of mind games before? We are not talking about brain teasers or the John Lennon song, we’re talking about psychological games that almost everyone plays among each other all the time. You may ask your self, why do we play games? We humans are curios about surrounding and environment, playing games that engage and challenge our curiosity makes us feel more aware brain power, and that in itself gives us a sensation unmatched and our activities. Games usually seek out stimuli just slightly more complex than their preferred level of stimulation and eventually games provide that sort of stimulation. They also help the mind develop by teaching cooperation and competition, exploration, and invention. Mind Games: Definition Mind games or brain games are activities that are fun but challenge your brain. Games that make you think, strategize, and remember information, are all games that will help train your mind. In fact, many of these basic characteristics are what you find in many of the games you already play. Moreover, mind games are psychologically manipulative and deceptive practice intended to deceive or confused somebody. The purpose of these games is to improve your memory, thinking, reaction time, and cognitive ability. These games are especially...
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...all the knowledge that women lack. Women are unable to compete with the men who are able to educate themselves through writing and reading books. Since women were forbidden from reading books and writing, they were unable to educate themselves and gain awareness about the world. Therefore, they thought the society they lived in was normal and fair. The narrator of this novel, Offred, reveals how she was invited to her Commander’s study. Offred observes the many books on the walls but tries not to stare for too long. Although Offred was forbidden to be in the Commander’s study, she could not disagree to meet her Commander. The Commander requests that Offred play scrabble with him. Offred understood that playing scrabble was not allowed, because women were forbidden to read. However, states that she enjoyed playing scrabble with her Commander. Since women are unable to read and write, they are forced to remain in positions lower than men. The handmaids of this society must conceive with their assigned Commander during a ceremony. This ceremony involves the Commander’s wife watching the sexual act. The narrator of the novel reveals that the ceremony she was participating in included the Commander’s wife sitting right under her. Offred was able to see how uncomfortable the wife was but could not do anything. “Above me, towards the head of the bed, Serena Joy is arranged, outspread. Her legs are apart, I lie between them, my head on her stomach, her public bone under the base of my...
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