Essays Tagged: "Scrabble"

Ouija Boards

people regard them as'evil' or a 'tool of the Devil', yet they continue to be sold in stores along Scrabble andMonopoly as a game. The Ouija board was invented in the early 1890's by William F ...

(2 pages) 32 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Family Life during the Great Depression, as compared to Family Life nowdays.

hey listened to the radio a lot (battery powered), played classic (in our time) board games such as Scrabble, and Monopoly which were first sold during the 1930s. Neighbors got together to play card g ...

(2 pages) 67 0 4.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Catcher in the Rye, By J.D. Salinger Holden "Trapped in Adolescence"

ly. I always say that my grandma was one of the smartest people I have ever known. My family played Scrabble, that board game. I think that every time we played that game with my grandma she always wo ...

(5 pages) 42 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Senior Citizen Life Stage

things. I watch TV.I can't wait to get old.Live in home with other old farts. Play shuffleboard and Scrabble. "If I could only remember that seven-letter word!" Now I'm old." (Unknown author)The above ...

(12 pages) 216 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Commentary on 'A Gift' by Rahila Gupta.

The speaker explains how the other woman's silence was her preservation. It was what protected her.Scrabble was one of the few times when, "words that choked on your vocal chords come pouring out of ... ds come pouring out of your fingers." The speaker however is quite the opposite. The words from the Scrabble table rioted and grew in her mouth and eventually they were released from her mouth but wer ...

(3 pages) 16 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Saskatchewan Poetry

ual way to emphasize, reinforce and/or organize a poem's context. For example, Burkhart structured "Scrabble" in such a way that the length of the stanzas coincides perfectly with the narrator's decre ...

(4 pages) 3108 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Past Present and Future Paper

growth. Out of boredom, I decided that I would enroll in college classes online instead of playing scrabble or surfing the net.I believed my level of professional competence was exactly in line with ...

(4 pages) 1474 0 4.4 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Dear Henry...Assignment: Write a letter to someone deceased. Can be a fictional character, a historical figure, a family member, etc.

silence envelope us. Those were the best times. They sift through my brain even now.I miss playing Scrabble with you. I miss beating you with the word ‘zit’. I would joke that it was the on ...

(4 pages) 27 2 4.8 Oct/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Untitled

e so right (perfect) in every way does anything with you, even putting together puzzles and playing scrabble., all those meaningless games.All of those games and time shared were worth more than that ...

(1 pages) 812 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

culture paper

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Aug/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community