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    History of Bingo The first bingo games dates back to Italy in 1530. It originated as a game of "lottery" called, "The Lottery Giuco". When Italy was unified in 1530, the Italian National Lottery Bingo EL Giuoco the Lottery d'Italia was organized, and has remained, almost without rest, to date. Today the Italian State lottery is indispensable to the government budget, with an annual contribution of over 75 million dollars. A couple hundred years later, this type of lottery immigrated to France in

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    Bingo! In the modern vernacular, this unrestraint cry has come to express an unanticipated and successful outcome or discovery. Indeed, for those who participate in the card game, the ultimate goal is to be the one to exuberantly yell out “bingo” upon successfully filling up their numbered cards with markers. Since its inception, bingo has been enjoyed and embraced by young and old, and has been a time-honored game played in various venues: churches, parties, and charity events. Before there were

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    the Bingo Game the King? Deborah Reber a famous poet once stated, “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” Letting go of a loved one is never an easy decision to make because in reality, decisions will not keep the loved one alive. By allowing a loved one to be at peace, a person gives allows himself the opportunity to be at peace with whatever trial he faces. In “King of the Bingo Game”

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    The objective of the first interactive learning activity is to promote a deeper understanding of the core tenets of the Constitution. This can be accomplished by playing a BINGO board game. The prepared BINGO cards will contain a total of twenty-five squares with five rows going across and five rows going down. Three BINGO cards will be distributed to parents containing the key tenets written on the inside of each of the squares. Some of the tenets will be duplicated inside the squares while other

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    The object of the first interactive learning activity is to promote a deeper understanding of the core tenets of the Constitution. This can be accomplished by playing a BINGO board game. The prepared BINGO sheets will contain a total of twenty-five squares with five rows going across and five rows going down. Three BINGO sheets will be distributed to parents with the key terms listed in the PowerPoint slides as checks and balances, federalism, judicial review, limited government, popular sovereignty

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    King of the Bingo Game

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    Analysis of “King of the Bingo Game” Ideas of slavery, identity, and what is acceptable behavior differ greatly in the past-Civil War North and South. Ralph Ellison’s “King of the Bingo Game” depicts how traditional southern slave mentalities are in conflict even after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of the slaves, leading many, like the nameless main character to try and find a new identity and giving him a taste of power to control his life and the lives of others. From the beginning

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    In Ralph Ellison’s pre-civil rights Northern United States, a Bingo game takes place. A poor black man is attempting to the play the game to pay off medical bills of so a female figure in his life- Laura, can live. The man wins bingo and goes up to the stage to spin the wheel and earn the cash prize, but he can’t let go of the button that controls the wheel. The audience and white men don’t like it and grow unruly, tackling him on stage. In that moment he sees he spun the winning numbers, but is

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    Desperate times call for desperate measures In the short story “King of the Bingo Game” by Ralph Ellison, the protagonist is put in a situation where he’s broke and has to make money fast; desperation was upon him. He plays bingo with high hopes of winning some quick cash. If things go his way, he will be able to afford to take Laura on a much needed doctor’s visit. During this tough time he went through desperation, to try and help someone he cared so much about, and facing obstacles that appeared

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    of the Bingo Game” Ralph Ellison’s “King of the Bingo Game” was first published in the literary journal Tomorrow in November, 1944 ("King of the Bingo Game”). “The story is customarily examined as a prototype for Ellison’s novel Invisible Man,” but the work was based on his own experience ("King of the Bingo Game”). Ralph Waldo Ellison is a famous American novelist and his novel Invisible Man won the National Book Award in 1953 ("King of the Bingo Game”). The story takes place in a Bingo Hall up

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    Prejudice in "King of the Bingo Game"

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    Ralph Ellison’s “King of the Bingo Game” is the story about an unnamed black man, in the 1930’s, who is hoping to win the bingo game that is being held at the local cinema, in order win enough money to pay for his gravely ill wife to see a doctor. The central idea of this story is about race, and the inability for a person to be the master of his or her own destiny, when they live in an unfair and prejudicial system. The main character is completely alienated from the world around him. He is a

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