The Dice Man

creative writing class in high school. It was for my final grade in that class. My short story was called “The Gambler.” This is how I started the story. The teacher gave us dices to roll. We would roll the dices with pictures on them. Then pick a topic and a theme from what you had rolled on the dice. My story is is about a man who gambled away his money and his life after he got back from the war. He gambled and lost everything he had eventually ended up living on the streets of New York City. By

dissolve and in ten minutes a table will come up with a dice and instructions, now have fun.” Like Ruth said in the next fifteen minutes their ropes fell off and a table came up with instructions and a dice. The instructions said use the dice to move forward and search for the key to get out. “Hmm thats seems simple enough we just have to search for the key,” Sarah says. George then takes the dice and puts it in his pocket, but once he put the dice in his pocket they fell through the floor “AAAHH,” the

the focus of so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ for hundreds of years. They have been called the puppet masters who secretly pull the strings of the world’s events from elections to revolutions, and from business monopolies to stock market crashes” (Dice 1). People are

However, I can say that no matter what the choice I decide through a dice throw is worse than deciding via Kant’s Categorical Imperative and Bentham’s Hedonistic Calculus. Dice Throw, while it can be calculated using math to project the probability of getting a particular number. It is still a random way to assign decisions to each of its number and use it to solve a moral dilemma. Thus, I can safely state that throwing dice to make an important decision is not the best way and it involves neither

feathers fall into filthy runoff water./ The gutter spits them down the throat of a sewer./ the sewer gives us nothing,/the curb at least returns the dice.” (Lines 1-4). Water setups up the sewage imagery as the sewage imagery turns to the curb imagery which sets up the imagery for the rest of the poem which is a dice game. The emotion and meaning for the dice games are delivered in stanza two with the ending section being a collaboration of hopes and dreams that were once obtainable but now in prison

Markov Chains Game Introduction Probabilistic reasoning goes a long way in many popular board games. Abbott and Richey [1] and Ash and Bishop [2] identify the most portable properties in Monopoly and Tan [3] derives battle strategies for RISK. In RISK, the stochastic progress of a battle between two players over any of the 42 countries can be described using a Markov Chain. Theory for Markov Chains can be applied to address questions about the probabilities of victory and expected losses in battle

The first dichotomy is that of biblical and mythological allusions. Throughout the play Shakespeare conjures up images of the bible as well as famous Grecian myths, all of which serve a unique purpose in the production. Act 3 Scene 1 takes place in Venice and focuses on the rumors of Antonio’s failed business ventures along with Shylocks ambiguous reaction to the news. “Shylock: A bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce shows his head on the Rialto; a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon the

Scientists battled with ideas in math and physics, while philosophers battled with ideas of God. It was an intellectual revolution concerning the methods for determining humanity's place in the universe. Blaise Pascal was a physicist, a mathematician, and a man of God. He was a

In the Odyssey, we are introduced to a magical goddess known as Circe. She is the daughter of Helios. Since Circe is a magical goddess, she has powers that can turn men into pigs. Her powers are so strong that they place a hold on a man. In “Circe” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Circe’s Power” by Louise Gluck, readers can see two different sides of her. Duffy’s version of Circe shows a side of her that shows authority over men whereas Gluck’s version shows Circe being heartbroken by Odysseus and how she

Almost every man in the world can be seen as good or bad in some way, shape, or form. The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, has many examples of how bystanders judge a man on his actions. The book is about a woman named Janie who is on her journey to find true love and just like everyone else, she has a few problems along the way. Throughout the novel, Janie is with three different men. Two of the men she enjoys her life with, but only one of them she loves dearly