Read the excerpt below from the short story “rules of the game” by amy tan and answer the question that follows. on a cold spring afternoon, while walking home from school, i detoured through the playground at the end of our alley. i saw a group of old men, two seated across a folding table playing a game of chess, others smoking pipes, eating peanuts, and watching. i ran home and grabbed vincent’s chess set, which was bound in a cardboard box with rubber bands. i also carefully selected two prized rolls of life savers. i came back to the park and approached a man who was observing the game. “want to play? ” i asked him. his face widened with surprise and he grinned as he looked at the box under my arm. “little sister, been a long time since i play with dolls,” he said, smiling benevolently. i quickly put the box down next to him on the bench and displayed my retort. what is the primary conflict in the excerpt? internal: meimei vs. lau po external: meimei vs. lindo external: meimei vs. lau po internal: meimei vs. lindo

The primary conflict in this paragraph is external: Meimei vs. Lau Po.

In this paragraph Meimei is excited to see a congregation of people sharing their love for chess, so she runs home to get a chess set to join and practice with them as well. The conflict in this scene happens when the man, who will soon be introduced as Lau Po, makes an assumption based on  Meimei's gender. He surmises that because Meimei is a girl, she must be in the park to play with dolls, and this causes Meimei to be offended as she wants to be seen as a serious chess player.

by: nita twenty thousand leagues under the sea some time ago, i decided to read twenty thousand leagues under the sea, by jules verne. i figured that because it was so well known it must be an extremely interesting book. in addition, it was science fiction, the one area that i was always interested. my assumption was only partially correct, for i only was to a degree interested in the piece of writing. when jules verne was writing this book, he must have been reading some incredibly dull science book the day before, for that was what the book was written as.  

the style of writing was utterly against my tastes, and though the plot was moderately interesting, the style of writing really ruined it. often, the author will trail off describing some marine animal for pages at a time. two entire chapters were almost entirely this! however, the setting and characters of the story seemed to be well thought out. nevertheless, 20,000 leagues under the sea was an extremely tedious volume. when the story was introduced, jules verne described m. aronnax, the main character, whose love for marine biology was more important than anything else to him did.  

this immediately led to the international crisis about a bizarre aquatic creature, which immediately dragged m. aronnax into the action. due to his expertise on the matter, the public expected pierre to be the one to solve this mystery. m. aronnax, under all this pressure, concluded that the animal was to be called the narwhale. at first, the matter was taken lightly, and only expert scientists were involved. however, when this animal began to become a threat to all ships in the water, the military took the issue into its own hands.  

it promptly fitted a frigate, the abraham lincoln, to destroy the beast, and invited pierre to join them, for his science capabilities. for many months they searched, but could not find this narwhale anywhere. when they found it, it attacked the ship, disabling it, and sending m. aronnax, ned land (a harpooner) and conseil (servant of pierre) overboard. soon, the three were guests in the narwhale, now known to be a ship, the nautilus, commanded by captain nemo. during the stay aboard the nautilus, pierre conseil and ned encounter and discover many wonderful and interesting facts from the sea. often, they would accompany the captain in an under water expedition.  

several of these excursions were to hunt, and others were simply to explore a submarine region. one of the times when the purpose was just to investigate an underwater region, captain nemo and m. aronnax explored the lost city of atlantis. on a separate occasion, pierre found that there was a supply of coal underwater that the nautilus used as a source of fuel. in addition to underwater excursions, the nautilus itself was on a round the world journey, which accounted for the most exiting time of the book. this was when captain nemo was attempting to access the south pole.  

that meant passing the great ice barrier, and surviving with very little air. during this rather long voyage, the submarine gets wedged between two icebergs, and is almost crushed! to add to this, the inhabitants of the nautilus almost die of suffocation from the lack of air. finally, at the end of the book, the three friends narrowly escape that nautilus.  

this all occurs during the maelstrom, which is a deadly storm, which makes the escape so daring. at the end, the three friends end up in a fisherman's shack, not knowing how they arrived, for they were knocked unconscious. that is how the events in the story twenty thousand leagues under the sea took place. the main character in this book was an extremely well recognized marine biologist named m. pierre aronnax. m. aronnax is one who gets the most benefit throughout the course of the book. pierre was always curious, which often got in the way of following his instincts and good judgment.  

also, he sometimes talked to himself! in addition, his faithful servant, conseil, follows his master during all of his adventures. conseil never really said much, and the role he played was one of a calm and humble person. another character of importance was ned land, the most well known harpooner of all his time. this man proved himself to be very useful when the threesome attempt to escape the nautilus. on the other hand, ned land was always quick tempered, and free willed.  

these qualities almost got many people killed many times during the book. the next most important character and perhaps the most outlandish one of all was captain nemo. note that this was not his real name, however, the actual name was never given in the book. captain nemo was forever strict and secretive to everyone. he never showed any emotion on his face, and never showed any bodily expressions in any way except when he was in extreme anguish. the setting that the story took place in was quite interesting.  

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me before you gives us insight of life meaning in unique way. it answers question about what kind of life you want and people’s struggle to be in the ideal condition of worth living. the author, jojo moyes, was intrigued by the case of daniel james who persuaded to end his life after suffering for years.

it begins with louisa clark, a girl with boring life, lose her job at the café and start to stand on her feet by applying job as a private carer of disable man. the near location and the money they offer push her to come to the castle where the interview conducted. she was doubted by camilla traynor, a mother of quadriplegic man, with her inexperience but somehow, she is fully gain employed by camilla and her husband, steven traynor.

on the other hand, will traynor, the disable man louisa take care of, is not an easy man to catch. he has sharp comments with everything she has done and seems unreachable. as time passed by, will become more open to louisa and they start to communicate better. that is until will has his sister, georgina, visited.

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