Russian Roulette Game Analysis

Resourcefulness is being able to overcome difficulties quickly and in a clever way. Resourcefulness can also be using one’s surroundings for his/her benefit with prior knowledge and experience. In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character Rainsford shows these skills of resourcefulness as he tries to survive the hunt. Rainsford is an experienced big game hunter that is trapped on a tropical jungle covered island with another big game hunter, General Zaroff. Zaroff has gained so much experience in hunting, due to this he has lost interest in hunting animals and now enjoys the hunt of humans. Rainsford is put in the position to be torched or participate in a game of hunting. When Rainsford is challenged to this game of hunting he is forced to try and survive. Rainsford is able to survive the hunt because he uses his resources and prior knowledge to weaken Zaroff helping him win the hunt.

The first step when partaking in any type of a game is to decide what one’s strategy will be. The strategy that I had to determine was what my investment philosophy was going to be. In this game, my willingness to take risk was greater than it would have been if we would have been using real currency. My risk tolerance would fall between moderate and aggressive.

“The world is made up of two classes—the hunters and the huntees,” (p. 1, 2). At the beginning of “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford and Whitney chat on the deck of the boat. Rainsford believes in the above quote, and he tells this to Whitney with confidence. I would usually not delve into the deeper meaning of this quote, but because of the negative mood portrayed surrounding these words, I knew they must bear deeper meaning. This example occurs to be one of the many times Connell uses the mood to foreshadow what may occur later. In this particular quote, the reader has the ability to conclude that Rainsford will acquire a challenge to his beliefs later on in the story. Indeed, his theory proves to possess an alternative meaning-- one that Rainsford thought impossible. Rainsford succumbs to the antagonist’s horrible game and then kills Zaroff. He eventually becomes a hunter and a huntee, and his theory of the two classes is proves wrong. Connell writes “The Most Dangerous Game” with a dreary mood, which aids the readers in foreshadowing the negative occurrences that will appear as the story develops.

This game is a number computation game and has rules like any other games. It became a very important game to me. In the process of playing this game, I acquired the skill to count in numbers, self- discipline, and self-control. Also interacting with other children assisted me to learn good social relationships, and social norms. (Fletcher et.al., as cited in Berk, 2007).

The Spanish Roulette is a fictional account of events in the life of a young Puerto Rican named Sixto who swears to avenge for his sister’s assault. According to the story, Sixto’s sister had been raped by a local gang member who Sixto assures must suffer the same pain as his sister before he can finally kill him. Evidenced by the story, Sixto fights the thought of killing his sister’s tormentor while loading his revolver, but finally, snaps and decides to go ahead with his plan thereby leaving any logic and moral reasoning not to kill the gang member. The author, Ed Vega’s epic account of the life of Sixto closely resembles his first-person account of the life in Puerto Rico where the street is controlled by gang members who could rob from innocent families, handle drugs and unauthorized weapons including guns, and go about their business without being interfered by people in the community or the police (Lee). This essay asserts that based on the author’s argument and character representation, revenge is the only hope for the weak in the face of trouble when even the society cannot intervene and this argues that Ed Vega proved as creative and a competent writer by using the various features of poetic writing to create the intended image, environment, characters, and build on the theme of revenge.

One of the darker actions examined in this unit takes place in "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. In this short story, General Zaroff begins hunting a man lost on his island named Rainsford. Bored of the usual game, General Zaroff decides he wants something more exciting and chooses to prey on humans. This ill-judged decision has a domino effect on the plot, ultimately ending in the demise of Zaroff. Nonetheless, an alternate ending besides death could have very well been a possibility. Perhaps, instead of hunting humans, Zaroff decides to open a hunting camp to share his passion for the sport with others. Obviously, his boredom is caused by the island's isolation from society. So, Zaroff could have built homes and started a community or decide to leave the island altogether. Then, the course of this story would have taken a completely different path. Maybe, Zaroff finds a wife, they have children and live happily ever after. If only he was able to overcome his dark side instead of letting it consume him.

Last week I attended the University of Wisconsin – Superior’s event called Dr. Seuss Bingo. Some of my friends joined me, their names were Liz and Taylor. The event was very enjoyable as we all had some items we wanted to get, such as I wanted a package of PowerAde, Liz and Taylor both wanted the body pillow that the Campus Recreation provided as just a few of the winning items. When the event started we all were laughing and having a good time. After people started winning all the prizes when none of us did we started to get upset when we got so close to winning and then someone else won. Me and my friends didn’t end up winning until the very end when there wasn’t much left to pick from for prizes.

Cook County was having more patients than it could handle complaining about chest pain. Also, determining if the pain could be a heart attack was a very inefficient and a long process with too much information. So they streamlined the process, mainly considering 4 things which were the EGG, fluid in lungs, systolic pressure, and unstable angina. The results were more accurate and saved time. This showed that, sometimes with too much information, there is too much of the complicaticated information and an answer can’t be reached and with less information a correct answer can be reached quickly.

This Operation classic board game tests your senses and ability with amusements such as ringers, burps, barks and more. Utilizing tweezers and an unfaltering hand, what do you hear? It sounds like a loo flush, looks like Cavity Sam has an instance of terrible pipes, work on the operation and bail him out. Press his nose to see whether it was a win. At that point listen up and the game will let you know what to get next.

Harrah’s Casino has impacted the Cherokee people financially in a innumerous amount of ways. A paper written by Carol Alexander from the University of Tennessee at Martin discusses the variety of ways in which Harrah’s Casino affects the Cherokee people both directly and indirectly. Some of examples of this include the total yearly salary provided for Harrah’s ~1,800 employees, the trust fund for the reservation’s children that a portion of the revenue is funneled into, the types of businesses the gambling revenue has helped to establish and the like.

1. Yes; due to the hints left by the author and overall mood of the story, I could discern that the type of lottery they were conducting was unusual and had a dark twist awaiting the end. However, I was not expecting such an extreme turn of events. Once the ending revealed itself, the entire plot immediately "clicked" in my mind. In paragraph two of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson it established that though the children were out of school, "the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them." Leaving school for the summer should have been a weight lifted off their shoulders, enabling them to experience their sense of renewed freedom without restriction. Inversely, their mysterious sense of unease hints to the reader that something is odd.

In “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, the characters encounter many life-changing problems. This fictional, but suspenseful, piece contained a variation of conflicts for each character. Whether it was a character vs. character, nature, or himself each one shows the person’s true colors, and shapes them to be who they are. From the start Rainsford believed hunting was completely justifiable. However, once he had that experience with Zaroff his opinions changed. Rainsford encounters many conflicts and because of that, many aspects of his feelings and thoughts toward a variety of subjects is revealed.

This game involved a lot of teamwork and helped the players learn how to work together. They had to help each other come up with strategies on how to knock down the opposing teams castles. In addition to that, they also needed to come up with strategies on how to build their own castles and make sure the opposing team doesn't knock them down. The seventh graders used the help of their surrounding teammates to build the hula-hoop castles at a quicker pase and created smart tactics on how to defeat the other team. One strategy that they often used was knocking down the rivals’ castles while their rivals were in the middle

The purpose of participating in the stock market game is to explore the fundamentals of the stock market. It does this by providing a tangible, real-time simulation of the stock market, and how current events affect the DOW. The stock market game also teaches students to make smart decisions and most importantly to be patient.

You has pointed out a very interesting point of the story regarding to rule of the lottery.That it is kinda irony for the fact that when someone won something in a game that they participate in, that person would received an awards, but instead, in this short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. The person that won the lottery would received a punishment. In this case, the punishment that the winner received was peoples in the whole village threw rocks at him/her. I, too, did not think people would kill someone just for the fun of a game, but then I realized that most of these people did know what they was doing, and they just following other. Even though, little