Alex Pham author of "Boy‚ You Fight Like a Girl" investigates the ever growing world of online gaming and how gender affects both worlds. The "fastest-growing segment of the computer game market"(185)‚ adventure gaming‚ has hundreds of thousands of players that average twenty hours of play a week and thousands of them are playing as characters of the opposite sex. This gender switching is making games not only challenging‚ but also confusing‚ and possibly embarrassing. Pham first introduces a character
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Marie Curie was a famous Polish chemist. Marie and her husband Pierre Curie were early researchers in radioactivity. She received her first Nobel Prize in 1903 for physics‚ together with Pierre and Henri Bequerell‚ for research in the area of radioactivity. In 1911‚ she was given a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in discovering radium and polonium. Discovery of Radium and Polonium Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of radium and polonium. She
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In As You Like It‚ Shakespeare develops a sense of fulfilment and acceptance through belonging in a variety of theatrical‚ character and plot elements. Evaluate the effectiveness of the play to your understanding of belonging. Shakespeare’s As You Like It‚ explores facets of love and acceptance‚ demonstrating how relationships with others can facilitate a sense of belonging. The comedic structure of the play‚ allows for the reduction of Elizabethan social paradigms through the use of a utopian
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allows her a special kind of freedom. Her disguise was required only so that she could reach the safety of the forest‚ however‚ she chose to keep the disguise and even befriends Orlando‚ who thinks “Ganymede”‚ is actually a teenage boy. Gender‚ in As You Like It‚ is culpable to change. Its fluidity is a result of the effect of one’s surroundings on their character and personality. After Duke Frederick banishes his niece‚ Rosalind‚ for the crime of being her father’s daughter‚ Rosalind and Celia decide
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Famous Thinkers Famous Thinkers Two famous thinkers of today would be Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber. These two philosophers study the spiritual being and the route of the human mind on the path of enlightenment. Andrew Cohen was born in New York City in 1955 to an upper class secular Jewish family. Ken Weber was born in Oklahoma City‚ Oklahoma in 1949. These two philosophers believe that a human’s perception of enlightenment is based on what that person has experienced in their life time. The
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In the immediate aftermath of hurricane Katrina‚ more than one third of the evacuees in Houston shelters reported that they had spent time in the Superdome in New Orleans. About forty percent of the evacuees said that they had spent at least one day on the street or overpass waiting to be rescued. Moreover‚ 34% had reported that they were trapped in their homes‚ and some of them were trapped and waited for 3 days to be rescued. The National Guard as reported by evacuees rescued most of the people
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive storms to ever hit the United States and left behind much devastation to the south coast‚ particularly New Orleans‚ Louisiana. However‚ there were many ways that some of this physical and emotional damage could have been prevented‚ particularly by the government systems and engineers. When the Levees Broke‚ a movie directed by Spike Lee‚ clearly showed this and the interviews of those who lived through the storm were truly heart wrenching. However
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Living Wills‚ sometimes called Advanced Directives‚ are legal documents accepted in all 50 states. They clearly define a person’s wish to decline life-support or medical treatment in certain circumstances‚ usually when death is imminent. Generally‚ a living will takes effect when a person becomes terminally ill‚ permanently unconscious or conscious with irreversible brain damage. <br> <br>A living will also allows a person to state with particularity the forms of treatment are wanted and not wanted
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Famous Thinkers Paper: Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. PHL/458 Mr. McDuffie October 2‚ 2012 While exploring history and trying to realize the famous thinkers of our society‚ countless men and women stand out. Famous thinkers are individuals who used determination and critical thinking to overcome hard times in order to do well. The two famous thinkers that thrust out in my mind are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and Bill Gates
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million Americans are without electricity after Hurricane Maria‚ like a 50-mile wide tornado‚ virtually obliterated the island’s infrastructure. Essentials like food and water are nearly impossible to distribute‚ especially to the parts of the island that were hit the hardest. Local officials worry they may not reach everyone in time. Yet Donald Trump remained silent all weekend on the worst U.S. humanitarian crisis since Hurricane Katrina crushed New Orleans. Instead‚ the president obsessed over whether
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