Essays on Winner

“The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson are two extravagant literary works from the America history. This paper is a comparison and contrast of these two suspenseful and dynamic short stories. These short stories are different to each other in terms of their tone and style, but share tragic ironies. Both of them keeps the reader in the dark throughout the short story, but both of them have powerful emotional endings. “The Lottery” is a tale about an annual tradition in a small village where the whole village comes together, and one of them ...

Literature is universal. In modern societies, literature refers to the art of the written works that includes poems, short stories and novels. Literature reflects life. The themes usually portrayed in literary pieces are life, death, sickness, and survival. Literary pieces are written for children and adults alike. The manner by which the story unfolds in a literary piece signals whether a story is written for a child or for adults. This essay talks about the differences between how childhood is constructed in literature intended for adults and how childhood is constructed in literature intended for actual kids. Using the ...

In O’Connor’s “A Good Man is hard to find” and Lawrence’s “The Rocking Horse Winner,” both writers look at the destructive nature of the family. Although the setting and conflict is different in both stories, the writers choose to show that all families have disagreements with each other. These disagreements often lead to negative reactions to the members of the family. In “The Rocking Horse Winner,” the story centers on a young boy’s need to experience a positive relationship with his mother. He tries to win her love, but fails in his attempts. Similarly, the ...

Thesis statement: Although both the stories carry the same theme of lives wasted in the pursuit of materialism, The Rocking Horse Winner takes a more moralistic point of view towards the subject when compared to The Destructors which is a lighter hearted attempt.
Outline:
Paragraph 1 – Introduction to the main theme of the stories, materialism and poverty. The similarities and differences in the setting of the tales are discussed

Paragraph 2- Differences in the authors’ approach towards key concepts are discussed. Focus of the paragraph is on The Destructors.

Paragraph 3 – The approach taken by The Rocking Horse Winner is discussed.
Paragraph 4 – The main point of views of the protagonists of each story, Paul and Trevor are compared.
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Games are an important part of human life and help in relaxing the mind. Card games improve the intelligence of players as they are required to apply deep thought and sound decision making within a limited span of time. However, it is imperative to note that each game has its own rules, hence evoking varied tastes and preferences among the players. One of the most interesting games is card games, which come in various forms and types. There is a lot of calculated moves and intelligibility behind all the moves made by each player. Notably, the game also develops ...

Introduction

This literary comparative essay gives an insight of differences and similarities that are revealed in “The Rocking Horse Winner” and the “Hamlet”. “The Rocking Horse winner” is a story that is based on the social status and desire for money as the main themes. The story is authored by D.H. Lawrence who focuses on the story of the young boy, Paul, who thinks that by winning his mother love, he has to search wealth though gambling His mother thinks that they would be rich if Paul would be lucky. Paul asks his mother why they are happy and the ...

Compare and contrast

The following short stories have been analyzed and compared in this essay: ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’ by D.H Lawrence and ‘Rules of the Game’ by Amy Tan. As the very titles suggest, these stories are in strong connection with games. But when one goes through the story, it becomes evident that these are actually manifestations of the strong emotions a player and his folks have for the game and especially, victory. Also, these stories teach that being too passionate about victory or glory of triumph can be derogatory for mental peace as well ...

Introduction

Sudden death in football is a scenario whereby there is a tie in the final score at fulltime, the teams then go ahead and plays in the overtime where the first team to score first team to score wins the game. This rule has been applied in football for many years. However, in the recent past, the rule has been a subject of debate in the world. This rule has been disputed by many people who have various arguments about the rule. It has sparked a heated debate with the majority of people arguing that it is unfair. The ...

McConnell versus Grimes for United States Senate

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When most Americans think about election time, they often refer to the Presidential election that occurs every four years. However, the outcomes of the United States midterm election most often affect Americans on an individual level compared to the outcomes of the Presidential race. Midterm elections are held every two years after the four-year Presidential election has occurred.
Virtually all United States Congress, including the House of Representatives and Senate, have seats up for grabs, and at least three-fourths of our 50 states will hold gubernatorial elections as well (Pfiffner and Davidson 254). It should come as ...

The subject of the Electoral College has caused much debate over the past few decades within the United States, especially during election time. The reasoning behind the debate is the fact that the voters’ individual selections are not actually tallied up to determine the winner of the election, but rather their votes are translated into Electoral College votes to determine the winner. In many cases, the winner of the Electoral College votes is not actually the candidate who earned the majority of individual votes from the country’s voters.
One alternative which could be substituted for the Electoral College ...

In the United States, the president is elected through a secret ballot by the citizens, and then finally decided by the Electoral College. After voting has been done, the candidates have to win by a popular vote in every state, and then the Electoral College votes determine who wins the presidency. The Electoral College is a body that verifies and determines the winner of the US presidency. It was established in March 1794 by the founding fathers and has been included in Article II section I of the U.S. constitution which states that, a president has to be chosen ...

Apparently, American idol is not a strange name in the minds of the youth in, not only America, but also many countries across the world. Taking after the UK found pop idol, American Idol is arguably one of the most popular reality shows in the contemporary world today. Perhaps this is attributable to the fact that it features the most common music celebrities such as Rihanna and Chris brown. It is particularly important to mention that there has been uproar in the social circles concerning the transparency of the procedure followed in selecting the judges and the winners in ...

There are various modern day sports that people engage in today. Among the most established of these, both globally and locally, are football, baseball and basketball. This paper seeks to make a general discussion of these three popular sports.

Football

Arguably the most popular game in the world as evidenced by the global spectacle that is the World Cup held every four years, football simply refers to the sport that entails kicking a ball with one’s foot with the objective of scoring a goal. This type of football falls under the category of association football, which is also invariably ...

D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" tells the tale of a family torn apart by perceptions of luck, fortune and success - of particular note is Paul, the young boy who understands, over the course of the story, that his mother does not love him or his siblings; he ends up coping with that (and his increasing illness) by creating a system for winning horse races by riding a rocking horse for hours on end, hoping to raise money to support the family. Paul in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" drives himself to illness and death due to the constant pressure and ...

In today’s world, where democracy is the determinant of the political systems, voting processes are paramount political tools. There are various electoral systems used in the United Kingdom. Each of the electoral systems has various advantages, disadvantages, strengths and weaknesses. The different electoral systems have unique features that distinguish them from other systems. They vary from one another depending on criteria of determining the winner and the definition of majority under the system. The first electoral system used in the United Kingdom is referred to as first past the post (FPTP) (Quinn, 22). According to this system, the ...

Among the various issues faced by societies globally is the danger associated with the so-called global warming or climate change. Although often used interchangeably, global warming and climate change are two different scenarios that have synergistic relationship. Defined as the overall increase in the global temperature due to excessive accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, global warming differs from climate change which is defined as the abnormally drastic change in climate patterns which have started since the beginning of the 20th century. Despite their differences, global warming and climate change are often seen as two inseparable phenomena. The ...

Following the new millennia, it is said that auctions became popular to both the government and the e-commerce world. An auction is the process of bidding over a certain product. Whoever has the highest or lowest bid will get it. Auctions are done to sell over licenses for operations of different products, for example mobile phones licenses and taxi medallions. This also goes to radio spectrum licenses. However, auctions can either come out good or bad. According to Klemperer (2002), designing a good auction is mainly based on “elementary economics”. Poorly designed auctions can lead to “fiascos”, since the ...

For more than 225 years, the American people have been governed by a federal democracy that has inspired many nations around the world to emulate this form of government with varying degrees of success. One of the reasons attributed to the stability of the American government is the way political power has been fragmented to be shared between the states and the federal government. Nevertheless, as successful as American democracy has been for the past two centuries, it is not without its problems. An aspect of major criticism has been the way the president of the United States is ...

On January 6, 1994, the heat was on between Tanya Harding and Nancy Corrigan. Who would be the Olympic champion in figure skating? To make sure she would take home the gold, Tanya decided to injure Nancy. Not many competitors will go to this extreme, nonetheless this is a world where winning is power and this is the ultimate goal for Eduardo Suárez and his daughter Margarita.
“The Cuban Swimmer,” is a play about a Cuban family whose daughter, Margarita, is in a swimming race from San Pedro to Catalina Island. The father, Eduardo Suárez, is Margarita’ ...

The Bush v. Gore case commenced following the November 2000 elections where George W. Bush was declared the winner. Gore sought for a physical recount of votes in various Florida counties: Nassau, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties. He requested the recount in a trial court in Florida, the Leon County Circuit trial court, relying upon one of its statutes that provided for contesting the election’s outcome. The statute allowed candidates to challenge election results if there were receipts of illegal votes, or rejection cases of legal votes that were significant to change the outcome of an election, or ...

The Electoral College system comprises of the complex system of state and federal laws as well as constitutional provisions under which American voters elect the President and Vice President. The system has continuously developed since the first presidential elections. It has delivered undisputed election results in the majority of the presidential elections that have taken place; selecting the candidate with the most popular votes despite close contests. However, in some cases, candidates who got fewer popular votes than their principal opponents were elected. For instance, in 2000 George W. Bush won the election despite receiving fewer popular votes than ...

Introduction

Debate of voting system change in the last western developed countries still employing single member plurality voting that is Canada, Britain, and the United States; perpetually revolve to the supposedly catastrophic experience with PR in Italy and Israel at some point. It is supposedly since the catastrophe is characteristically emphasized, devoid of benefit of information, scrutiny, or chronological background. This replicates both the prejudice of political elite and their unawareness of other countries and other voting systems. Neither has academic critics been without such prejudice. If we traced the connection linking English-language articles critical of PR ...

Introduction

Contemporary studies view parties as alliances of politicians whose ultimate objective is to win electoral office. Parties make promises on behalf of their candidates about what they will do if elected, and help improve chances of reelection for incumbents through their records of implementing their programs (Bawn et al. 571). It is plain to see how these parties might serve democracy. Citizens can give more effective direction to government by voting for a party instead of an individual. They create an incentive for responsible governance by holding an entire party rather than a single politician accountable for government actions ( ...

Most people consider higher education to be an advantage and a benefit that is supposed to increase a person’s chances to get a high-paid job and life full of abundance soon after graduation. The side effect that students and their parents usually agree to is high tuition fees and, thus, most probably six-figure student loans that will take a lot of time and effort to repay (Hacker, and Dreifus). Meanwhile, for their book Higher Education: How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — and What We Can Do About It Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus tracked ...

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Golf is an increasingly popular sport with increasing number of followers and amateurs wanting to play the sport. Until 2007, the entire sport of professional golf was played around a series of unconnected tournaments, with no champion at the end of it, just individual event winners. In 2007, the PGA Tour system was initiated, which consists of 43 events and 4 PGA play-offs. The final playoff winner will be crowned the PGA Champion for the season. To qualify for the PGA playoffs, the players have to compete in the previous 43 events, and points are awarded on ...

Shirin Ebadi was born June 21, 1947 in Hamadan (western Iran) in the family of a prominent Iranian lawyer and professor of commercial law. She graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Tehran. From 1975 to 1979 until the Islamic Revolution in Iran Shirin was the president of the city court of Tehran and she also was the first female-judge in this country. However, after the revolution, just like all other women she had to leave her post. But Ebadi did not leave the judicial system and took the position of clerk of the court. According to ...

INTRODUCTION:

I have chosen a commercial advertisement by Pepsi which was launched in 2012’s Super Bowl. Through this ad, they are trying to sell the product to a major share of people. They seem to claim that when somebody drinks Pepsi, they get happy and enjoy a great mood while drinking it. It also shows that everybody has a right to drink it irrespective of social status. This advertisement which is titled as “King’s Court Pepsi” commercial can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcf01QTcO6E.

SUMMARY OF THE AD:

The commercial starts by showing the spectators a ceremonial king’s hall where the extravagant throne ...

Communication-Comparing Two Events

Introduction
Whether it is international or local business, sports or cultural festivals, hosting events provides a country with numerous benefits including provision of employment opportunities to the residents of that particular country. Events and festivals are the building blocks of tourism attraction that forms a significant percentage of gross domestic products. There is a positive correlation between the number of tourists’ attraction and economic growth of a given country. Countries endowed with numerous tourists’ attraction both domestic and international earn relatively high foreign exchange (Ricky, 2010). In addition festivals and events boost national pride as well as encouraging international ...

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The mother-daughter relationship – probably one of the robust bonds of the nature, is displayed in a distorted manner in The Rocking Horse Winner of D.H. Lawrence and also Amy Tan’s ‘Two Kinds.’ Both these short stories explain how the parental-love and the relationship between the parent and children get strained. This essay attempts to explore the ways in which parental-love has been portrayed in both these short stories.
An atmosphere that is full of unconditional love, ease and permanence is one that is optimal for the growth and development of a ...

DRAG RACING

The drag race track event has some of the super champ drivers that run 120 mph in 11 seconds. Contestants board street cars and accelerate over 100-m parallel tracks to overcome the machines anti-spin electronics with immense skill adrenalin. Hundreds of drivers in drag race come to grace this event once they pass the weight, body style, and engine size test. The experience I had at the drag race made me realize that the motor sport provides a dual and a contradictory tussle for the racers. Drag racing entails motor sport racing using specialized automobiles. The race uses a ...

Children are always taught to render love and respect to their parents. As children, there also appears a steady obligation to take care of our parents especially when they are already old. Personally, my mission in life at this point of my life is to be successful in my career and seek for an employment that would render me greater income so that I would be able to provide my mother’s needs all the time. This paper presents the story titled The Rocking Horse Winner and how the story connects to my own life situations.
Many people are ...

Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy is an interesting, inspiring, and educative book that combines both athletic and Christ-centered approach to life. It discusses the importance of faith in relation to leadership. The book goes over story after story as it illustrates on how to tackle challenges and situations particularly in leadership. In the book, Dungy reflects on symbolic stories that are based on his football career and his walk with God. Following his victory as the first African American coach in Suoer Bowl 41, Dungy reflect on how he went through hard times and major challenges but he managed ...

Shirley Jackson’s 1948 short story, “The Lottery,” tells the tale of a small village that holds a special lottery event for the entire village each year on the 27th of June (1) . For readers who have never encountered “The Lottery” before, the story’s title may suggest something positive. After all, today most people think of a lottery as an event in which people take a chance to be the recipient of a large amount of cash or some other desirable prize. However, in Shirley Jackson’s story, the lottery the townspeople engage in is a much darker ...

Introduction

Migraine is characterized by recurrent moderate to severe headaches and autonomic nervous system symptoms such as aura. The headache pulsates on one side of the head only. Additional symptoms of migraine include sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting. According to Robbins and Lipton, migraines are caused by both genetic and environmental factors and affect up to 15% of the global population at some point in life.1 Typically, the severe headache persist for over two hours but may last up to three days.

Pathophysiology of Migraines

Migraines are chronic neurovascular disorder. Goadsby asserts that the condition starts in the brain and ...

An example of a successful social media campaign was the Frito Lay Do Us a Flavor campaign. Originally, according to Thomas, the campaign was launched in 2006 where people were asked to relay their suggestions for the next flavor of Lay’s potato chips in various locations; but never in the U.S. . When it was finally launched in the U.S., the goal was explicitly stated as aiming to beat the global record of 1.2 million submissions through social media. The campaign was so successful that it reportedly generated the following: 3.8 million submissions; over a billion Facebook impressions; 3.7 ...

Question 1

In the movie, there are 3 doors, one door with a car and the other two doors with a goat on each. An individual wins the car when he selects the door behind the car. The host of the theory will never open the door with the car since he knows what is behind each door. The host Monty presents the choice for an individual to stick with door 1or else select the other doors. In Professor Rosa classroom, Ben finds himself in a fix to answer whether he could stick with door 1 or opt to chose from ...

In Short-Story Characters

Loneliness is a human condition that people almost universally wrestle with, at least during some point in their lives, which is why it is such a compelling subject for writers to depict with their characters. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “lonely” is defined as “being without company, cut off from others, not frequented by human beings, sad from being alone, and producing a feeling of bleakness or desolation” (n.d.). A person may feel lonely when all his friends are going away to college but he is still in his hometown working at the same job he has had through ...

On November 7, 2000 the Presidential election took place and it was a competition of candidates for presidency between republicans and democrats as Bill Clinton was vacating the position. Former Pres. George W. Bush was the Republican candidate, and the former Vice President, Al Gore, was the Democratic candidate. Due to the differences of the respective counts from exit polls, which revealed Gore was leading, to actually ballot counts, which declared Bush as the winner on the Florida state, this statutory case became ...

Motivation and Control: Thanks for nothing

The following paper is based on employee motivation in an organization. It describes the reason as to why companies and managers do not often motivate their employees through praise, yet it is a fairly easy and obvious tool. Also, it gives the steps that I would take to motivate my employees after observing above average performance. However, the paper shows clearly that too much praising may have some downsides that managers may need to alleviate. It also gives the measures that a manager can take to ensure that recognition is distributed fairly and justly.

If praising employees for doing ...

Program: - Political Science: Researching Political Analysis

Introduction –Definitions
First past the post
Proportional representation
Comparative analysis

Compare and contrast the merits of First Past the Post and Proportional Representation
Electoral Systems in the UK and one other country with a PR system
Introduction-Definitions
The provocative argument informing this discourse on first past the post and proportional representation emerged from a recently held British referendum to decide whether first past the post should be replaced by proportional representation as an electoral systemic procedure. A “no” vote for a change from FPTP to PR resulted from the referendum.

First past the post

This voting system is also known as “winner take ...