x–Opoly‚ Inc. X-Opoly‚ Inc.‚ was founded by two first-year college students to produce a knockoff real estate board game similar to the popular Parker Brothers; game Monopoly®. Initially‚ the partners started the company just to produce a board game based on popular local landmarks in their small college town‚ as a way to help pay for their college expenses. However‚ the game was a big success and because they enjoyed running their own business‚ they decided to pursue the business full-time after
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Cooper English 101 08/08/2013 Video games effects on social life Many people have always been looking for some type of entertainment‚ and it has been through many forms‚ from playing with toys‚ to playing cards‚ to playing sports‚ and etc. However‚ nowadays with so much access to technology and everything that it offers. Various entertainments are way more exciting and sophisticated. Among the new electronic inventions‚ the 21th century has revealed video games‚ a new exhilaration creating a virtual
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Affirmative Action or Reverse Discrimination Colleen Koehn Business Law 1038 Instructor Jackie Sexson March 1‚ 2010 South University Online There has been a large debate in recent years if affirmative action has gone against the American way‚ has affirmative action caused reverse discrimination? The establishment of affirmative action was put into place to create equal rights for racial minorities‚ ethnic minorities‚ women‚ the physically disabled and those who served in the military
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One of the most significant current discussions in legal and moral philosophy concerns affirmative action. Affirmative action is an action or policy intended to eliminate discrimination against ethnic minorities‚ women‚ and the disabled in workplaces and educational institutions. In employment and educational institutions‚ affirmative action does the followings: names and demolishes discriminatory barriers for instance biased testing or recruitment; performs outreach to the inadequately represented
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A Game Design Two supermarkets site in a town on a certain distance. Town residents may usually go to the nearest supermarket‚ but they can choose the other supermarket because it not takes long trip to reach the farther supermarket. Now they will sell a new kind of yogurt that estimate 200 unit will be sold per week in the town. They must decide the price. There are 3 prices they can choose: $10‚ $14‚ $18. If they sell the yogurt for a same price‚ they will sell the same unit. If one supermarket
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Snakes and ladders or Chutes and ladder is a children’s board game. It is played on a square grid‚ each small square is marked with a number from 1 to 100. A player starts from 1‚ roll a single die and then move depending on the number on the die. On the way there are ladders and snakes. Ladders are reward; skip a player to a higher level whereas snakes are penalty leading to lowering in level. Any number of players can play simultaneously and one who reached 100th square earlier is winner. It
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Affirmative Action in the Past‚ Present‚ and Future Communications 220 May 22‚ 201 Affirmative Action in the Past‚ Present‚ and Future President Lyndon B. Johnson said in a 1965 speech at Howard University‚ “You do not take a person who‚ for years‚ has been hobbled by chains and liberate him‚ bring him up to the starting line of a race and say‚ ‘you are free to compete with all the others‚’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair” (Calloway‚ 2010‚ p. 72). From the end
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Affirmative action is something that helps people in minority groups and women‚ get some of the same jobs that white men would get. When affirmative action first came about‚ the country was very different. We have evolved as a society‚ but we still have not gone too far. We are a lot closer to the bad times than we think we are. There is a lot of controversy surrounding affirmative action‚ but I think the United States does still need it. There are definitely pros and cons to affirmative action‚ as there
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Affirmative Action The Government should not continue affirmative action because it is no longer effective in preventing discrimination. Affirmative action has done a lot more harm than good because it is not hurting people that should not be denied opportunities. Affirmative action gives minorities an advantage‚ but it is not changing how people see them. It is no longer needed because minorities will still be able to get jobs and have plenty of opportunities without it in place. Affirmative action has
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Video Games Affect The Brain? How does playing video games affect the brain? In the article “Brains on Video Games‚ “ six experts discuss the positive and negative impacts that intense video gaming have on the brain. These impacts can be physical and/or mental. Here we will discuss some of the physical effects. One of the physical impacts‚ according to two of the experts‚ is on the gamer’s vision. Daphne Bavelier and C. Shawn Green claim that playing a certain type of action-based video game “results
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