In 2011 Yurcich decide to take on his next challenge as he moved again to Shippensburg, Pennsylvania and became Shippensburg University's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. During Yurcich's first season Shippensburg saw immediate success as Yurcich's offense set school records for almost every offensive statistical categroy for points, touchdowns, total plays, first downs and total offense. In 2012 in his second season as the Raiders leader of offense, Shippensburg led the NCAA Division II rankings in total offense with 529.2 yards per game and was second nationally in scoring as Yurcich's offense put up a staggering 46.9 points per game, while the passing game finished with 387.7 yards per game. While at Shippensburg, Yurcich found
David Elkind is a child psychologist and now teaches Child Development at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He is an author of many different books about child development and even has written some children's books. The Power of Play was published in 2007. This book has been helping teachers and future teachers develop a better idea of the way children understand the world around them through play.
No college wanted anything to do with Chris Herren, except coach Jerry Tarkanian at Fresno State University. Chris got a chance to start over, however was reluctant to leave his family and friends and move over three thousand miles away. His fiancé Heather talked him into the offer,...
A two million dollar legacy: one strange game for 16 players. Mr. Westing tried to put everyone into his trick. Mr. Westing, the guy who has millions of dollar but no one can share with him. His building-sunset tower has been rent for 16 people, which are a family, a doctor, a judge, a secretary, and a thief. One day, they found the dead body of Mr. Westing in his old house. Westing’s legacy said he would give two million dollar to the person who found the murder. He said he was murder by one of his inheritor. A suspenseful game began.
“It’s not what you have it’s what you don’t have that counts” (Raskin pg.43), at least in The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The sixth grade students at GLMS have recently read the novel, and watched the movie The Westing Game. This is a novel and movie that has it all, mystery, murder, suicide, bombs, thievery, and yet a $200 million prize. The Westing Game novel and movie contains many similarities and differences that are worth your time.
Facing hardships, problems, or obstacles shouldn’t discourage one from completing their task or job. Many of authors usually put their characters through tough complications to show the reader that no matter what happens; anyone could pull through. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connel, the main character Mr. Rainsford gets stranded on an eerie island with a bad reputation. He meets General Zaroff and gets thrown into a huge hunting game, where his life is on the line. In the end, he wins the game and will continue to hunt animals, but not people, as the general once did. He will continue to hunt because one, hunting means everything to him. Two, he will not continue the general’s crazy ways, and resort back to the legal and non-dangerous to other humans sport. Third, he feels powerful when he becomes the hunter and not the hunted. Giving up hunting would be like giving up his life, so just because of a minor block he had to overcome, he will not give up hunting.
“Winning” and “Who Moved My Cheese?” touch on the topic of dealing with change. The need for change Welch talks about is confirmed in Who Moved My Cheese?” when one of the characters refuses to change methods. Welch mentions in “Winning” that if any employee has resentment to change and doesn’t want to adapt to new formats and settings the best move is to let go of the employee, in Who Moved My Cheese?” if one of the characters refuse to change they run the risk of not surviving. Welch believes in the principle of lack of change leads to death which is a big component of what Who Moved My Cheese?” is about. Also, looking into the future is a big theme in both books, peering into what’s the next developments and updates that will happen
In “The Most Dangerous Game,” General Zaroff isolates himself on his own private island, to prey on the most dangerous prey, humans. He decides to purchase this island as his own for a couple reasons, to lure future game in and to be isolated. The island itself is a perfect place to hunt a human. An island being, a mass of land in the middle of a body of water, allows General Zaroff to hunt with the peace of mind that the game can not escape. General Zaroff was an amazing hunter and planned his game perfectly on his very own island.
Just like in every society, in every story there are conflicts. What is the line between man and beast? What separates the hunter from the hunted? Where does sport end and murder begin? In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the protagonist, a man by the name of Sager Rainsford, is trapped on an island in the middle of the ocean. A simple adventure to the jungles of Rio de Janeiro soon becomes a story of terror, survival and escape when Rainsford realizes he is not alone on the seemingly deserted island. Soon after arriving, he meets the psychopath, General Zaroff, a Cossack aristocrat who is also an experienced hunter. Zaroff entices Rainsford by telling him there is big game on the island, the biggest there is. The Most Dangerous Game illustrates that there are men, and then there are monsters when Rainsford, unknowing of what Zarloff’s true intentions are, becomes entangled in a frightening game of where the hunter, soon becomes the hunted.
The holocaust is known for the great number of deaths; including the six million Jews. Ida fink is a writer that captures this time period in her works. In “The Key Game” she appeals to pathos because of imagery used, connections to your own family, and dialog used by both the father and mother. Through her fiction stories, she tells tales that relate to what could have been and probably what was. Ida Fink is known for telling her stories in a journalist like tone with very little color. In her stories, she does not like to tell you how to feel she instead leaves that up to the reader. Fink does place some hints of emotion just by writing the story alone. The interpretation of her works is left up to the reader. As you read through her stories some will find more emotion, some will find more logic, and some may see more ethics. At the moment, we will be looking more on the side of emotions within this story.
Game Theory, originally derived from the subject of Mathematics, aims to provide a way to understand strategic social interactions; such as in the case of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It can be understood as the study and explanation of strategically, mutually-dependent actions and decisions (strategies), made by what are assumed to be ‘rational’ decision-makers (players) in competitive conditions that involve both conflictual and cooperative options (games); where the objective of each player is to achieve the most desirable outcome from a set of potential outcomes (payoffs) (Carlson & Dacey 2013; Myerson 1991; Prisner 2014; Turocy 2001). Despite being a mathematical theory, its application in international relations has been prominent
Funerals, the place where people go for money and free food. The Westing Game by Ellen Raski is a story of a mysterious man (Sam Westing) who is murdered and leaves a fortune to one of twelve heirs. They have 10,000 dollars to find out who killed Sam and the desire for the money. They all were put into groups of two and were given clues to find his murder. The whole concept of money blinds the heirs from what is actually happening in the real world. In the Westing Game, Ellen Raski uses money to act as a power to show how strong the value of emotional power is and how we get caught up in artificial power searching for emotional power.
Within the first season of House of Cards, Frank Underwood has to make a series of decisions which he uses to strategically move him forward on his path back to the white house from the senate. There are four key strategic interactions that allow Underwood to fully be in control of his own destiny as he pursues breaking into the white house these are, helping pass an educational bill, working with Zoe Barnes, working with Peter Russo, and agreeing to vet possible Vice Presidential candidates. As Underwood’s strategy goes on it is clear that each step he takes will move him closer and closer to the white house and will eventually land him a seat as the Vice President of the United States. Throughout the first season of the show, Underwood uses strategic thinking, framing, and commitment devices to negotiate efficiently with others and change their perceptions to allow him to gain political power in the most efficient manner possible. While Underwood uses these tools in his strategies, it is clear he also uses a great deal of misdirection in order to get others to collude with him in his actions to gain political clout.
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey is a collection of autobiographical excerpts depicting Abbey's experiences as a park ranger of Arches National Monument in 1956 and 1957. In the chapter, Water, Abbey discusses how the ecosystem and habitats adapt to the arid and barren weather of the Southwest over time. In addition, he explains that the streams, riverbeds and other means of water end up finding their own ways to support their ecosystem's struggling animal and plant life. Abbey also explores different and unusual means of water such as flash floods and quicksand. Furthermore, Abbey contrasts how the environment adapts naturally to very low water conditions with how human demands to expand outside water sources to attract more civilians and
Before the Assassin Game was advertised to the school, the group’s planning included reference to Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and his “Three Rules of Epidemics”. The results from the social experiment revealed to us that while our small idea spread like a fire through the school and proved these laws, there were also some unexpected and unanticipated results dealing with Gladwell’s principles. The entire idea of the Assassin’s Challenge at Odyssey started with Kinzy as she explained how the game worked to our group, who then developed rules for playing it within our school. As it is a game played at different colleges, members of the staff such as Mr. Lin had previously knowledge on the game and assisted in further spreading it through discussions
In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, Ibsen conveys the idea of women equality. Women equality, where women would have the freedom that men had and would be able to enjoy and relish in a world where their true potential was not forcibly pushed inside of them. In 1879 most women were still confined to the home solely as of mothers and wives. Ibsen, being raised mostly by his mother, saw the truth of being a women from a man’s eyes and decided to show the rest of the world that same enlightenment. In this enlightenment Henrik Ibsen's use of the "well-made play" illuminates the developing strength of the protagonist Nora Helmer to help the social status of women in a male dominated world.