Checkmate Essays

  • Symbolism In Jeremy Robinson's Pulse

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    1. King infiltrates manifold Beta as Queen attempts to fight off seven regens in secret lab. As King fights his way through the regens, he finds Dr. Pierce, who has been turned into a more intelligent and evolved version of the regens, who is slowly dying. Pierce draws a symbol on the floor, then goes into a coma. As Knight, Rook, Bishop, and Karn fight regens in the town of Tristan da Cunha, Queen rescues Bishop from imprisonment. King, Queen, and Bishop meet up with Rook, Knight, and Karn in order

  • Summary Of 202 Checkmate

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    Rion Amilcar Scott teaches English at Bowie State University. Scott wrote a book of short stories about young children. In the short story “202 Checkmate” Scott demonstrates his ironic approach consistent with the theme that the game of chess is like real life. A father teaches his daughter how to play chess. Chess turns into life lessons, self-realization, and pride. Life can be compared to many things, like when Tom Hanks quoted, “My mom always said life is like a box of chocolates; you never

  • The Chess Queen Enigma Character Analysis

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    together... Checkmate, she whispered. Checkmate... checkmate... checkmate..."(Gleason 109). In Colleen Gleason’s The Chess Queen Enigma, the quote listed above helps to illustrate an insight to the conflict in the plot of the story that the narrator, Avermina Holmes, is possibly facing.

  • The Chess Queen Enigma

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    marks on three patients and the assault on the princess of Betrovia. The dream attempts to tell that the Ankh is continuing her evil deeds and getting closer to finding the chess queen. After every successful progression, she taunts, “Checkmate...checkmate... checkmate...” (Gleason 109). Similarly, Miss Holmes uses symbolism when calling her enemy the Ankh. An ankh is

  • How Does Antony Use Ethos In Julius Caesar

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    He then goes into explaining Caesar’s wrong-doings as a leader which gets the crowd to side with him leaving Antony at risk of a checkmate, if he does not make the appropriate move. During Antony’s speech, he says “Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man” (III.ii.90-91). Basically, Antony is giving credit to Brutus for crediting Caesar as an ambitious leader

  • Personal Narrative: Music And The Brain

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    was fierce. The lone soldier faced seemingly insurmountable odds, with drops of sweat trickling down his face and the stain of the coarse earth covering his milky-white skin. As he breathed his last, I gave out my final command, "Knight to E-4." Checkmate. While most kids spent their youth playing board games, I was always bored playing these games. My mind required something more intellectually challenging. I found my match in the game of chess. Unlike other board games, chess forced me to ponder

  • Narrative Essay About Basketball

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    I woke up the next day with a smile to my lips. I knew exactly what to do. I was already seeing my white pieces gather together, begin their formation, slowly closing in on my opponent, the two dark black slits. Checkmate, I thought, as my pieces finally cornered my angry, tenebrous opponent. I sat on the cold metal benches yet again, waiting to begin another tournament, only this time, I was not nervous in the slightest. The crowd, I could see, was leaning on the edge of their seats, everyone

  • Argumentative Essay: Katie Johnson's Search For Justice

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    When Katie Johnson first filed her complaint in California, she said she was indigent. She was an impoverished person who needed help in her search for justice. The person she accused of raping her, Donald Trump, was a very wealthy man. He had paid "Hush Money" before to buy a person's silence, about something that embarrassed him. So it makes sense to ask, did Donald Trump offer “Katie Johnson” hush money to disappear and not talk? Once she had set up her first meeting with the press, he knew she

  • Personal Narrative: Being Mindful

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    Ever since third grade, I have been battling my dad for the title of the household chess champion. When I was young, he taught me the rules and how each piece moves. I caught on quickly, and I desired to learn more about this complicated game. I challenged my dad frequently, but being only a beginner, I lost every time. My losing streak did not discourage me, though. As we played more often, certain tactics became clear to me, and I started to catch up to my father. Now, our chess skills are about

  • Jake Guernon: A Short Story

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    I won that week a match against Drake, who was a worthy opponent. I was struggling at the beginning because he took my queen on a foolish play, but I sieged his queen and acquired back my queen by bringing my pawn to his side and forced him into checkmate to win. I was very proud of myself for beating another individual at

  • Suicide In Inga Clendinnen's 'Cost Of Courage'

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    attend a sacred ceremony where the native’s vulnerability would become a reality. Eventually, a futile effort to stop the massacre of celebrants came to a surprising stalemate. The Spanish were able to capture Motecuhzuna and hold him as King in checkmate. Ultimately the weakness and stupefaction of Motecuhzuma was enough to cause the powerful empire to crumble onto the Aztecs. Motecuhzuma’s deputy would sound the formal decree of surrender. Without any formal battle, the indoctrinated Aztec’s followed

  • Notre Dame Pros And Cons

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    It has been one long debate since the 2016 Fiesta Bowl with regards to who Notre Dame should start at quarterback in the season opener at Texas. While the talk has created some great anticipation as head coach Brian Kelly decides who will be under center this year, the lack of media concern with anything else considering the fighting Irish has almost been pathetic. One of the key issues that has received vary little, if any publicity is the fact that Notre Dame will undoubtable have one of the most

  • Sustainability: Corporate Social Responsibility

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    Sustainability is part of the core values of the firm and ExxonMobil viwes CSR as a key componenet of sustainable development as shown in the figure above. In order to achieve this, the firm adopted 8points strategies that guide and measure the firm’s commitment to good corporate citizenship. These strategies include: • Integration • Investment and cost discipline • Operational excellence • Portfolio management • Project execution • Risk management • Technology leadership • World-class workforce

  • Black Males Essay In English

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    I became a serious chess player (read many books and studied the game) in the “Sankore Society,” I was underestimated as a player which allowed me to checkmate players: Dr. Thomas Girdon and Walt Prescott, etc. For many years, I was a member of one the oldest USA Chess Clubs: Franklin Mercantile Chess Club of Philadelphia, founded in 1885, is currently open for members. Currently, I teach chess to African

  • Theme Of Ignorance In Animal Farm

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    ignorance ultimately leads to a curse, parallel to the peasants in Russia during the time of Stalin’s influence. Simply used as pawns and tossed to the side for the grasp of power, the animals of the farm, and the peasants in Russia were edging towards checkmate. The animals were deprived of proper education, and only obtained basic knowledge. For example, in the novel Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote, “Boxer could not get beyond the letter D” (Orwell 30). Boxer, the cart horse, was only one of the many

  • King's Shadow Quotes And Analysis

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    Theme sheet When a person is determined to figure out a Rubik’s Cube, he or she has one trait in common to a scientist who experiments with black holes. They both will never back down on what they are doing, as they perceive that while being alive, anything will be possible. In the well-written novel, King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Alder, the point that the author tries to portray is to never abandon hope. Throughout the entire storyline, there are several different characters with actions that prove

  • Waverly-Personal Narrative

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    While walking down the overcrowded street near my apartment, I was gratefully showing off my beautiful and smart daughter, Waverly. As a mother of a chess prodigy, I could gladly say that I am proud. In every single shop I would exclaim “This is my daughter Waverly!” and the crowd would stop to reply with a surprising gasp. I really did treat her like she was my princess, but she didn’t seem to care. One day after I proudly claimed Waverly as my daughter for the 5th time in a fish store, she gave

  • Final Chapters Of The Sorcerer's Stone

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    ‘let me think- let me think…’The white queen turned her blank face toward him. ‘Yes…’ said Ron softly, ‘it’s the only way… I’ve got to be taken...You’ve got to make some sacrifices! I’ll make my move and she’ll take me -- that leaves you free to checkmate the king, Harry’”(Rowling 283). This showed strong Ron was was mentally and physically. After the chess game, Hermione and Harry went on and came to a room full of potions and a riddle. “Hermione let out a great sigh and Harry, amazed, saw that she

  • Essay On Rg3 In The Nfl

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    Why RG3 truly is the best QB in the NFL (This piece may or may not contain high levels of satire.) So, Robert Griffin the third is 'officially ' the best QB in the NFL. The source? Why only the mouth of the great man himself! The former Heismann winner, Offensive ROY and “saviour” of the Redskins sure has a lot to live up to, with the current crop of vets being amongst the greatest to lace up. Here are the five reasons why RG3 holds the title: 1. The Lord above When the big QB upstairs has

  • Twilight: A Very Brief History Of Poker

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    pawns. The objective is to overthrow the opponent's king, reaching the square where it lives, with some of the pieces of the opponent, to check, making the other player unable to move or eliminate the attacking piece in order to escape the attack, checkmate. The rules are well-known,