Mara Drake-Shoffner Mr. Morgan Business Software 1A September 23, 2013 From One Controller to Another Video games and computer games use a game controller as the input device that directs movements and actions of on-screen objects. Two commonly used game controllers are gamepads and motion-sensing game controllers. Game controllers not only enrich the gaming experience but also aid in the movements and actions of the players. A gamepad is held by the player with both hands, allowing
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Cava 1 Jennifer English 98 Sunshine November 3, 2013 Love for the Game In the narrative story, “the eye of the beholder” by Grace Suh was about a young woman who realizes that no matter what anyone says it will never stop her from being who she is. I had a very similar epiphany about how I let other people stop me from doing what I love and let their judgment change me. Baseball has been a part of my life for a very long time. Like the narrator of “eye of the beholder” I learned not
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point by getting the ball in the hoop. Some key skills you need on defense are strength, agility, speed and stamina. Those two concepts are very important in basketball language; they allow the game to be played. I believe the most important key item in basketball is teamwork. This isn’t a one-man game; you need your teammates to win a game. Teammates can help you by passing, playing defense and knowing where there spots are on the court. Basketball is its own sport; it is a much faster game than
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Iron is quite an abundant element in the universe. The sun and stars contain iron in quantity. The Earth's core is said to be made up of iron, with about 10% occluded hydrogen. Iron is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust. Iron is also found in minerals such as taconite and magnetite, which is commonly seen as black sands along beaches. Iron was used to India to construct the Pillar of Delhi. Iron is not always magnetic.” The ferromagnetic iron is in a allotrope. When
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Eugene Lee English 101 James Hall September 9th, 2014 The Most Dangerous Game “The Most Dangerous Game”(1924), by Richard Connell is a short story about a man who ends up on “Ship-trap Island”. On this island lives a man who seeks the ultimate game. He is referred to as General Zaroff, and Rainsford the protagonist, is “the most dangerous game”. The general sends Rainsford into the jungle, and gives himself three days to kill Rainsford. Rainsford is able to avoid the general, and kill
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The House on Mango Street: Socratic Seminar Level Two Questions: 1. Why would Esperanza intentionally accept and offer a passing bum shelter? Esperanza would intentionally accept and offer a passing bum shelter because she feels sympathy towards them. Even when she finally owns a decent house, she claims she “won’t forget who [she] is or where [she] came from” (87). Her past let her experience “how it is to be without a house” which again reiterates that she once was similar to
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, Rebecca’s case is among many of the young suicide cases due to cyber bullying (When Cyberbullying Turns 6). As reported by “Cyberbullying Statistics”, nearly half of teens become a victim to cyber bullying, but only 1 in 10 of the victims tell a parent/guardian (12). Cyber bullying has been a growing problem in recent years but remains to be a problem parents know nearly nothing about. It is an increasing contributor to teen suicide and dangerous metal health factors towards teens (Cyberbullying Effects
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R600- Video Games Essay Response Alejandro Espina One of the most interesting facts about Video Games is that at this moment they are already part of our culture. Most of the teenagers around the world including me are gamers, and in my opinion I think there are more helpful benefits than dangerous consequences about it. On one hand what I think according to the people who are against video games such as Bushman on his “Why do people deny violent media effects” is that they are afraid
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pharaohs this respiratory disease was disabling and the cause of much death (TB facts, 2013). Physicians have more than ten drugs to choose from when treating this disease. However, just like most bacterial diseases, TB has been evolving over the years to fend off many of the effective antibiotics, thus making it harder to treat. The evolution of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a serious, as yet unsolved, public-health problem. It is particularly troubling in Southeast Asia, the countries of the
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ancient China, usually incorporating the use of dice or verbal exchange of riddles.[4] During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc. had to drink[5] There were even
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invented the first passable video game. The game was similar to Ping-Pong and was played on oscilloscope. Nowadays a high percentage of kids have access to video game consoles, PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox etc.; smartphones that can also be used to play video games, Pc, tablets etc. An overwhelming number of American children between the ages of 2 and 17 are playing video games. According to the research firm, 91 percent of kids between 2 and 17 are gamers. NPD says that the growth has
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Blame the Game Nowadays, whenever a teenager or a group of youth commit a crime, many people point fingers at video games being the cause of violence in teenagers of today’s time. I disagree with this, as there are more pros than cons when it comes to teenagers playing video games. Video games are known to boost children’s social, health and learning skills as well as improve their creativity and imagination. Video games prepare people to make decisions faster, and this fact has
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Case Study The article that was given to us covers various ethical issues that take places throughout many different situations. It mostly talks about the privacy rights that are being taken away from us when we go on basically every website on the internet. There are websites that get paid to allow spy ware to be on their websites so when people go to download from a certain website they are also downloading the spy ware without knowing it. For example if you go to a game
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days. In no other sport are there different types of surfaces that play a major part. The clay slows the game down and the grass makes the ball skid and speed up. The weather also plays a part, wind or heat. The tennis ball is very light, and wind can push it in any direction. Spin also gives the player something different to expect every shot. Get up and running if he hits slice or stay back for that top spin. Being an individual sport (in most cases), makes it you versus your opponent, reading
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The best way to describe Ninjump rooftops is a game that cannot escape mediocrity for many reasons. These game is a continual side-scroller. You take control of a Ninja who is running on rooftops collecting coins and killing animals. This game is a good for a waste of time and nothing more, players who are looking for some depth and challenge will certainly not find it here. But to say this game is terrible wouldn't be right but other games who follow this style do it a lot better. Firstly
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only through the realistic representation of the event itself, but also the insensitivity created by the music and overall depiction of the game. I realize that violent games are marketed frequently and there will always be certain individuals who get offended, but most other games are generic or fictional events. This game is more personal because it is portraying a real event, which is why we should increase our sensitivity when attempting to market this particular game. I will argue that this
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complete ending. Ender “passes” his “final examination,” he destroys a race that humans know very little of and find dangerous. The buggers’ “planet burst apart, becoming a sphere of bright dust, hurtling outward.” (Card 295). Card implies that the physical bugger world meets its end, and the beginning of a new world for anyone to take. Peter and Ender play a game that represents another symbol. The game represents a direct symbol to the real world and what happened. Peter symbolizes the evil that
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Pickup Sticks, Basketball, ect.. First, physical skills are very important to almost any game that children or adults play. The first game that needs a lot of physical strength is Basketball. People need a lot of physical skills because players need to use body muscles to protect the ball from the opposite team. Players also need balance and agility to run fast with the basketball to shot and keep balance from being pushed to take the ball away. Another physical game is Legos. Legos are physical
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? * What new technology or difficult algorithms did you need to develop? * Implementation * What were the actual steps you took to implement the game? * What were the most difficult aspects of the development? * What were the major setbacks you encountered? * Where did you go for help? * How did you solve the problems you encountered? * Final Product * How does it work? * What are some
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Wolff 2 Julian Wolff Mrs. Wiggins US History 11/7/14 The Most Influential President Out of the presidents available for this essay I have chosen James Monroe. I think James Monroe was the most influential of the select presidents because, He was the first president to have been a U.S. senator, He served in the continental army, and the acquisition of florida. The importance of him being the first president to have been a U.S. senator is that he has had experience in the government
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Game Concept Hunter Introduction Hunter is an extremely addictive 2D side scrolling RPG game for an arcade machine, you will face wave after wave of monsters from elder dragons to sabretoothed monsters before facing the ultimate boss in an attempt to prove yourself a true hunter to your village, this game is different from others because of the vast array of levels to rank through and the endless ability to customize your character from armours to long swords. Background The
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Video Game Violence “ Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.” Rick Perry. For some people like Adam Lanza and SeungHui Cho it was just a mixture of things such as mental illness, fictional video games, and most likely family issues. Video games are not always the main source of the problem, it’s a combination of fantasy and the real world. To begin with is the fact that Adam Lanza is mentally ill with and has violent masculinity. Here the Huffington Post says this
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Chapter 3 Construction of a Definition Game playing as the selection of inefficient means – commonground that games is different from working. “Technical activity” where an agent employs the most efficient available means for reaching a goal, same with games goal oriented. Games are goal-directed activities in which inefficient means are intentionally chosen. (ex. Racing game one goes around track rather than cutting straight across the infield. * Goal is to win the game. (however
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Brittney Lemon Lee-3 4 November 2013 A Lack of Empathy In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, he utilizes characterization and the setting to illustrate that the lack of empathy can create unhuman-like behavior. The sinister character Zaroff is characterized as somewhat of a villain in the story. Zaroff knows who Rainsford is-a very skilled hunter. He even mentioned about the books he wrote. Zaroff was obviously a fan of Rainsford and maybe even idolized him for being a somewhat
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name of Mariah West who, like many of us, was an extremely devoted texter. a. She was so good that she could text at dinnertime under the table, without anyone noticing. All of her friends had seen her texting and driving, they tried to warn her that it was dangerous. She just did not seem to think so. Yet her luck ran out. b. The day before graduation, she was headed to a Minor League Baseball game texting one of the players she was going to see
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Should War be Shown on Television? The first war to be covered on television was the Vietnam War, which lasted roughly around 20 years. Since then, there has been lots of controversy centered on whether war should be televised or not. I firmly say that war shouldn’t be televised. Many things can (and have) been televised, but I think showing war on television would be crossing the line. In the 1940’s, most people didn’t have their own television, so this was never a problem. War scenes are
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Chris Powell Ms. Lee New Technologies 325 March 10, 2015 Game On! The Potential for Gamification in Education Educators across the country, from graduate schools to middle schools, are increasingly focusing on gaming methodology to turn learning into an interactive experience. Gamification uses game design elements in nongame contexts, but it should not be confused with a traditional game of any kind. More than other disruptive technologies, gamification has the potential to change content
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base where students sorted the bags into the correct indicated bins. This site was outside the Kibbie Dome in the tail gating lots. I ended the day with somewhere between 3 and 4 service learning hours. This project I feel was a success if we had not been there most of the tailgating participants would not have recycled. Game day recycling made it quick and easy for the fans. I feel it could have had better communication. Some students who were participating didn’t quite know how to talk to a
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Purposes of game engines console – Mass Effect – originally used the unreal engine (developed by epic games) but later on, it started to utilise the assets that the frostbite engine (an in-house made EA engine that only companies that work for EA may use) the frost bite engine is possibly the best engine you can use, everything looks seamless and a pc with high enough specs make it look almost photo realistic. With it being an in house thing studios from bio ware, to DICE to ghost studios
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Dangerous Ethics: Jackson's Untenable Solution Given the extreme circumstances surrounding the Earth Systems, Inc., dilemma, Terry Jackson's suggestion that the company itself purchase stock is not unsound. Certainly, Jackson's proposal is also not entirely unethical in terms of its clear ambition to serve the company's interests and promote its survival. It seems that Jackson is reacting to a “bottom line” crisis and is motivated to urge these measures to save the business
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