Seven-card stud Essays

  • Poker Hand Nicknames Research Paper

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    Tennessee Ernie Ford Singer of the popular country/folk song "Sixteen Tons." High Five The "high" card (Ace) combined with the five, nicknamed for the popular celebratory greeting. Plane Crash Because the A/4 combination resembles the double Ace combination with one of the "wings" missing (the 4 being a 'partial' Ace), and the Ace associated with flying:

  • Comparing Change And Loss In Carol Ann Duffy's Poems

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    Change and loss are inevitable Compare and contrast the ways in which change and loss are presented in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection ‘Mean Time’ Both Williams- in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’- and Duffy – in ‘Mean Time’- present change and loss as central, complex ideas. The consternation of change is an intrinsic human fear, as demonstrated by characters in both works of literature. Setting, characterization and allegory are just some of the ways they present

  • Spirited Away: Feminism In Disney Movies

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    I could never deny that I am a huge fan of Studio Ghibli movies. Their movies are simply magical—the elements that are put into the movies create a beautiful combination beyond comparison. From the surface, one could witness the stunning hand-drawn animation, the graceful voice acting—not to mention the impeccable soundtrack music that never fail to perfectly match the tone of the movies. But there’s another reason why my love for the movies runs really deep—the intrinsic values underlying those

  • The Giver: A Perfect Society

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    “Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting” (Anne Lamott). Can you picture our world as a perfect society? For perfection to be achieved everything would have to change. Through the book, The Giver, Lois Lowry shows how a perfect society is not always ideal for everyone. The rules of the society portrayed include a discipline wand, chosen spouse, and release. While a dystopian society may seem perfect, the novel represents the limitations and expectations of an ideal community.

  • The Heat Movie Analysis

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    Paul Feig’s The Heat, starring Sandra Bullock as FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn and Melissa McCarthy as Detective Shannon Mullins, was released in 2013 as an action-comedy film. The movie incorporates humor filled with action as Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy team up to take down a drug lord in the streets of Boston. Within the first few minutes of the movie, the audience is captivated and wants to know what happens next. The audience follows the characters played by Sandra Bullock and Melissa

  • Commissario Alec Blume Character Analysis

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    Commissario Alec Blume is the title character in the Commissario Alec Blume series of novels by British detective mystery author Conor Fitzgerald. Blume is an American expatriate that has been living in Rome for the last 22 years, ever since he moved there with his parents. Both of his parents were shot and killed in a bank robbery on the Vai Cristoforo Colombo leaving the proverbial teenage loner on a strange city. When we first meet the character in the first novel of the series – The Dogs of Rome

  • David Fincher's Use Of The Sloth Scene In'se7en '

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    David Fincher does not shy away from depicting grotesque and horrifying scenes to present a message; furthermore, Fincher’s portrayal of “planned” violence, use of lighting, and choice of music, and close attention to sound evokes a sense of fear and disgust towards each of the individually portrayed “sins”. In Se7en, Fincher conceptualizes John Doe, a sadistic and self-glorified serial killer; moreover, he presents Doe as a deeply evil character that truly believes that he is “opening the world’s

  • How Does Money Buy Happiness Essay

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    Have you ever thought that money can buy a person’s happiness? People cannot live without money, money can buy every one’s happiness. People can buy whatever they want with money. The issue of some individuals who do not understand how to use and spend their money, is that they do not know what are the things that they really need to use, and the reason of why do they must buy them. Many people are spending their money on things that they do not need, so those people are wasteful with money. At

  • Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff

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    Tom Wolfe, a renowned American journalist, and novelist who has written a dozen successful American fictions from 1965 to 2012. In particular, Wolfe’s novel, The Right Stuff, illustrates the early stage of the United States space program and the story of the fearless American astronauts and test pilots who made massive achievements and contributions to the science and practice of aviation, such as broking the sound barrier and conquering the space. Before the Tom Wolfe’s career and destiny as a

  • What Is The Purpose Of C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity

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    C. S. Lewis presents remarkable ways that different topics and arguments can coincide with each other and make complete connections with the purpose of his book Mere Christianity. After reading Mere Christianity it became apparent that his use of rhetorical devices is unlike any other. He has the ability to portray his arguments in a way that his readers could understand. This quality is quite impressive and every writer, who is trying to persuade, can definitely look upon his work to see a glimpse

  • Analysis Of The Magnificent Seven

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    The Magnificent Seven is one of the most famous films from the American western genre, it was shot in 1960 and directed by John Sturges. The film tells the tale of seven gunslingers who are enlisted by a village on the border of the United States and Mexico to protect the villagers from a group of bandits who keep stealing from and causing pandemonium amongst the villagers. Although there are many scenes throughout the film that are worthy of an in depth analysis the particular scene being analyzed

  • The Pearl

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    “Cold and deadly as steel” were the words used to describe Kino at the climax of The Pearl by John Steinbeck (87). However, in the beginning of the story, Kino, the protagonist, is a regular man who is amazingly in touch with nature and his surroundings. John Steinbeck’s The Pearl is a fictional novella. The novella follows the family of a poor diver named Kino. The inciting action happens when Coyotito, the baby, is bitten in the shoulder by a scorpion (5). The family then needs medical attention

  • Lonely Broken Lion Summary

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    Loken: Lonely Broken Lion Project ID 618539-Xlibris Written by: Ashley Broadway Copyright 2014 Children’s Book About the book: The story is set in the heart of the jungle, where there is a lost, lonely, broken lion named Loken. This lion has not had the easiest life, and has seen many hard times with is father. Loken is a different lion; he has the strength of many lions; but the heart of a lamb. He is looking all over for a friend that understands him, and can handle is unique behavior.

  • Hope In An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

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    Hope: The Battery for the Soul Christianity has three theological virtues that are more important than all others: faith, love and hope. While the Bible says, "love never ends," hope is a virtue that is specifically meant for life on Earth. Faith and love are mindsets for the present, whereas hope looks towards the future. (Encyclopedia Britannica) Although the greatest of the theological virtues is love, which is one's mindset towards others, and faith is one's own internal mindset, hope is a

  • No Summit Out Of Sight Book Review

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    Summit out of Sight, written by Jordan Romero and Linda Le Blanc, describes the experiences Jordan Romero had while on his journey to climb the Seven Summits. Realizing his dream at age nine, Jordan decided to climb the highest peak on each continent, and with the support of his family, set a world record as the youngest person (age fifteen) to climb the Seven Summits, even climbing both Mount Kosciuszko and the Carstensz Pyramid, which are topics of debate as to which mountain should be the official

  • Compare And Contrast Hitman

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    The differences and similarities between Hitman (2007) the movie and Hitman the video game series are striking, and they deserve rigorous examination. While there are some differences between the plot and style of assassinations, they also have some similarities of the well known Hitman suit and the bar code on the back of Agent 47’s head. First, the plot in the movie starts off with Agent 47 who does not have a name because he was raised as an orphan from birth by a shadowy organization named

  • Reflection Of Epicurus's Letter To Menem

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    Introduction The definition of happiness and pleasure, is something that from a very early age the human being has always wondered what it is? And as one can achieve and have a pleasant life, the philosopher Epicurus in one of his letters wrote the Letter to Menem, which talks about the happiness and the pleasure and thoughts that man forms while he is alive, I propose in this work to make reflections that The philosopher Epicurus does about what is really happiness? And how can I get it fully,

  • Should Students Get Good Grades

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    Money, everyone loves it, everyone also has the chance and opportunity in life to support themselves and make their own source of money. Recently though there have been debates and raising questions about whether or not students should have the opportunity to gain money from doing well in school. Students get paid for good grades is a high debate that has gone on in the past, and is yet again making another comeback to continue its settlement against the argument. Although the idea of students getting

  • My Writing Development

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    I am currently a teenager whose writing has developed significantly over the past few years. In fact, my writing was absolutely shocking when I was younger; it was only recently that it has improved. From about year 6, I noticed that my writing was not very good, especially when I found out the importance of using punctuation. Yes, I did not use commas AT ALL. Also, my vocabulary choices were practically always informal, and I was never able to judiciously incorporate effective language into my

  • A Lust For Power In Dante's Inferno

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    A Lust For Power For as long as man ate the forbidden fruit, individuals are poisoned with the need to be superior and the want to exercise their power on those of lesser stature. In Inferno, Dante Alighieri explores different ways in which individuals abuse their power, leading to the conclusion that although some individuals may have the power to use their platform for good or peace, they choose to act selfishly in order to be above others. Dante achieves in conveying this concept through his