Prodigy Children research.

Nicholas Nip (born March 10, 1998) is a United States Chess Federation (USCF) National Master (NM). He is the youngest USCF Master in history, obtaining a rating of 2207 at the age of 9 years 11 months.^[3][4][5]

Nip's feat broke the record held for a decade by fellow chess prodigy Hikaru Nakamura. However, the new record is not without controversy because matches were included in the rating calculations, prompting allegations of manipulation.^[6]

On April 21, 2008, Nip played ten simultaneous games on Live with Regis and Kelly. He defeated nine and had one draw.^[7]

Nicholas Nip from the Bay Area just broke the record for the youngest USCF Master ever. At nine years and 11 months, Nicholas earned 20 rating points in a Mechanics quad on March 4, Tuesday night, pushing him to 2207. Nicholas Nip can be very proud of whose record he shattered: GM Hikaru Nakamura became the record-holder for a decade in 1998, when he was 10 years old and 3 months. (Hikaru broke Vinay Bhat's record from 1995.)

Nip first learned to play chess in kindergarten at the Academic Chess Program. Since age six, he learned from the husband and wife team, Lina Vark and Eric Hicks. Nicholas won the first tournament he ever played in: the 1st grade championship in the Northern California Regional Champs. Nicholas recently participated in the fifth session of the U.S. Chess School , organized by Greg Shahade. This session was led by GM Yury Shulman and held at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco. Yury, who said that Nicholas Nip reminded him of Nakamura, commented on his overall impression of Nip from the session:

In the simul against me, Nicholas played well in the opening, converting to simply drawn endgame and was overplayed by GM boring play. By the end of our session he was able to improve his endgame technique by simply adding some knowledge to his play! He was unstoppable in blitz competition - unbelievably fast calculation and very good technique in conversion of advantage are his strongest points. He needs to work on his endgame, of course, on his positional play; he has a very easy receipt to improve - accumulate the knowledge! Then use it :)

He is also a very friendly kid. He impressed me with a little thing - when everyone left for lunch, he set pieces on every single board for the next class.

Nicholas has gained the 200 points to push him from expert to master in less than a year. You can see the details of his meteoric rise on MSA.

San Francisco blogger and Life Master Michael Aigner (fpawn) writes: "The fact that he has already defeated 9(!) different established masters, including this writer, at slow tournament time controls bodes very well..." Read more on Aigner's blog.

Here is a win from Nip against Eric Schiller, who contested Nicholas in match in the Fall of 2007. Nip plays the Black side of a Panov Sicilian, and demonstrates fine technique, not exactly the type of master scalp you'd expect from a nine-year-old!

Journal entry : Before you Read.

My mother always wanted me to be in the medical career, she says that its an easy job and pays really good, it was her desire for me to be inspired by this Carrier ever since i was born because she send me to live with her sister who was a medical assistant and so i lived with her for a few months, but i noticed she was very careful on everything like she got mad if i played with dirt and she also was very strict about the schedule for eating, and i got used to it but didn't like it since then, after that i came to the united states and started to aim for new things, like for example a mechanical engineer, but then after i was reading bout the career i noticed that you needed to be really good in math to be in that career so i just close that door of desire in me to be a mechanical engineer because math is my weakness and i don't think i would ever master it. so i went back to the medical area. i think i can be a pediatrician because i have a good way with little kids and i also am a very good talker and i think i can help them in there pain whatsoever. i got good charisma and very friendly i think those are my talents also i can make people laugh. right now i am living the expectations wanting to do good in school and after that go to an institute and get a degree on medical assistant and from there to aim for the pediatrician.

Guide Reading Questions.

What is a prodigy and why does the mother want the main character to become one?
Prodigy is when someone wants to inherit their passion for life into their family or young ones. The mother wants her to become a prodigy of something so she can become what her mom couldn't be so she is making her daughter to be like Shirley Temple.


How does the mother prepare her daughter for fame?
She prepares her daughter by taking her to a beauty training school in the mission district, and let people cut her hair to leave it curly like Shirley Temple as her way to become a prodigy like her.


What talents does the girl have?
She has the power of strenght against her mother on not willing to change just because her mom wants her to be a prodigy, she has the prodigy of being strong and willing

Why does she start the piano lessons and how is the mother going to pay for them?
She starts the piano lessons because the neighbor on the first Flor was a retired penis and he had a piano so the mother asked him to give her daughter lessons, The mother works on cleaning houses, so she is going to work extra so that she could pay for the piano lessons for her daughter

Describe the piano teacher
The Piano teacher is old and can barley hear, or see, so when the girl plays the piano he thinks that she is doing a wonderful job when she knows she doesn't because to her it sounds like a cat going up and down from a garbage can.

What do Auntie Lindo and Jing-Mei's mother have in common?


In your own words, relate the events of the recital.


What does the author mean when she says, "I didn't have to do what my mother said anymore... This wasn't China"? page 97


What words does the author use to describe her mother's disappointment in her?


Why does Jing-mei come back to play the piano after her mother's death?

Pilgrims Seek Religious Freedom in Plymouth

Thanksgiving is celebrated mostly in two country's that are United states and Canada, this holiday started in the 1600 hundred and started to become popular in the 1800.We celebrate now a days thanksgiving by inviting people that we care for for a diner in the thanksgiving night and having a good time eating turkey and saying thanks to everything we appreciate in life.not like back then where it was celebrated as a religious act, because now we celebrate thanksgiving regardless of people's religion Asian,Spanish,African Americans and whites celebrate this. in my country its called " El Dia de Gracias " its a celebration which we adopted from the united states. its like the day of the turkey on which has become very popular, like when thanksgiving is coming you know you will eat turkey its like something you have to do or else it wont be fully thanksgiving but still many people eat chicken because they don't like turkey and still celebrate it with respect for this holiday.

The Most Dangeous Game

The story is about a man named Rainsford who after the boat he was on a boat that crashed into the reef or rocks and it got damaged and sunk with all of the people in it, Rainsford survived and swam ed to the shore, he heard shot guns in the air so he knew there was human life in the island he had arrived. he went looking for signs of life till he found a mansion, in there he met General Zaroff who's passion was to hunt, as they introduced to each other, the both could understand each other because they both love hunting the difference was that Rainsford was a beginner compared to the general, he had hunted for years and many animals.

Rainsford and general Zaroff had one thing in common and that was the love for hunting. they hunted with reasoning and not with instict. the only difference between them is that Rainsford didn't have had the experience as general Zaroff on hunting because the general had killed the most games around the world. another thing in common they had was that they both were well spoked and very high class and they could spoke in a way that they can connect form on anther's experience and passions for life.

The conflict in this story is man vs nature, because the conflict is about hunting and how can it be understood in different ways, for example if someone kills another human its called murder, and if someone kills an animal its called a hunt. now both of this has to do with killing a living thing and it doesn't matter what you call it murder or hunting its still taking the life of another living thing for fun or just because.this conflict is resolved by no other way than the hunt. it was the general who said that the only way that Rainsford was going home or another place other than the island to escape was to play the game of Zaroff vs Rainsford for the hunt, if Rainsford survived after 3 days Zaroff would admit defeat and let Rainsford escape the island under the condition that Rainsford wouldn't tell no one that zaroff was murdering people for game called hunt. at the end Zaroff and Rainsford were fighting hand to hand. and the winner would of be sleeping in the big bed that night. the story ends on how Rainsford says that he had never felt better in that bed, so Rainsford won and was still proud to call himself " the beast at bay ".

i think that Rainsford is not going to stay in the island because there's to much crime in it and his mission was to leave the island as soon as he got there and i don't think he would like to stay in that fierce island for more time, i think he would go back to land and tell the truth to the police about the island and general Zaroff and he would say that in his defense that he killed Zaroff self defense from he was about to do and that he had evidence in that mansion because there was proof of all murder Zaroff committed in his trophy room, i don't believe that Rainsford would become another Zaroff because he was against him from the beginning his passion was to hunt animals and not human life.

If i was rainsford i would of killed general zaroff when it was not too late before he can send me off to the island trying to hunt me because then it will be a really big risk if i got killed and died over just wanting to go home.i think general zaroff knew that he was going to win and the ironic thing was that he failed and he was shocked when he saw rainsford and was planing to kill him anyways if he survived or not thats why the broke into the fight on wich rainsford won.

Response to literature-The Necklace

1. Why was Madame Loisel upset when her husband gave her the invitation to the party?

Madame Loisel was upset because she didnt have nothing fancy to wear "What do you think i have go in" irritated and impatienly she said.

2.What seems to be the main conflict in the story?

The main conflict in the story is that Madame Loisel is very greety and she wants to have what she dosent have to show it off, she wants people to envy her of her wealth that she dosent have so she take everything the husband trys to do bad, because she thinks she deserves more than what she has.

Descriptive Essay

Cristiano Ronaldo

I picked Cristiano Ronaldo to make this essay because i watched him play soccer since he was in Manchester united, since then I've been looking at most of his games and to me hes is one of the best Soccer players there is. Since he started to do really good tricks on the field he became one of my favorite because he has agility , skill and talent with the soccer ball, his moves and tricks have impressed a lot of technicians in the world and that's why many soccer teams want him in their team. Because of that Cristiano Ronaldo has become the most expensive athletic worldwide.

Cristiano Ronaldo Dos Santos Aveiro is his complete name, he was born in February 5Th 1985 in Madeira Portugal, C.Ronaldo was discovered in his teen years playing in a Portuguese team called Lisbon, Since the year 2003 Lisbon had beaten Manchester united. The leaders of Manchester united which is another team of soccer in England decided to make him an offer to C.Ronaldo to join their team, C.Ronaldo decided to wait till the contract with the team Lisbon was over and in the year 2006 he transferred to Manchester united for 132million dollars making him the most payed and expensive soccer player.

Some of the interviews I've seen from him shows me that he is welled speak ed he has a way to communicate simple, he is not an extravagant person. Only when he needs to. he goes to the Charity's to show that he cares about them. what I've seen and noticed about him that makes him a nice and an idol to me is that sometimes he doesn't go to training to go to a charity and then he gets lay ed off a game for not going but he did it for a good cause.

As for now he is still in Manchester united in the England team he would stay for at least 2 more years.After that we will see where he goes and am going to still admire him and try to be as good player as i can so someday i can do all his tricks.

When i was 8 years old, my aunt Adriana was getting married. As the day went on everyone was going crazy for everything. they were looking for the numbers of the people that were invited to the church wedding, to see if they were still able to come.After that was done they told me i had to carry the rings in a little pillow walking down the aisle and whenever i asked why did i had to wear the man dress my mom would ignore me. id get mad and kept saying the same question over and over again until she screamed at me. it was a shocking momment because she screamed at me like if she wanted to bite me. As soon as we ate, we headed to the church and while i was wearing that stupid man dress called tuxedo i spilled some soup on it and my mom was having a heart attack on me saying that why did i never payed attention and that i have to learn to eat. by the time we got to church everything was