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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Dr. J.F. van Dijkhuizen Literature 6B: Shakespeare: An introductory course 5 August 2011 How are relations between different ethnic groups represented in The Merchant of Venice and Othello? Now in the early twenty-first century we tend to associate racist attitudes as fallacious and inhuman. The Merchant of Venice and Othello can‚ therefore‚ present challenges to modern readers and audiences because‚ to a certain extent‚ Shakespeare presents relations between the different ethnic
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merits of Prof. Williams proposals. The marital rights and partial immunity‚ according to Prof. Williams is important measure. It indicates that offence of rape is somehow different according by who is made. If it was made by to victim known person like cohabitee‚ husband‚ ex-cohabitee or ex-husband it should get lesser sentence than rape by stranger. Also it is suggested that domestic rape would be classified as assault and not as rape or indecent offence‚ because it is less harmful to the victim
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Introduction- The relevance of Shakespeare and many other writers and artists who worked in previous eras is relevant to modern society . Many people argue that the enduring popularity of Shakespeare is a testimony to his relevance‚ and that additionally‚ he has made major contributions not only to the English language‚ but to the way in which people think and behave. Shakespeare has quite literally shaped society in many ways. From the linguistic point of view‚ it has definitely affected the
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What do you like and what don’t you like in the system of our education? No doubt that education plays a very important role in our life. However‚ having studied at the University for 3 years‚ my own opinion about the system of higher education in Russia has formed and I’d like to share my thoughts with you. First of all‚ I would like to single out the things I like. Due to the system of our Education we get thorough knowledge for our future profession which will be very
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William Shakespeare (April 23rd 1564 – April 23rd 1616) Little is known about ‘ the morning star’ of English literature . He was born on the 23rd of April 1564 in Stratfordupon-Avon as the son of a glove dealer. He studied for 5 years at Stratford grammar school ( as written in the village documents) . At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway and they had 3 children : a daughter ‚ Susanna ‚ and two twins (Hamnet and Judith). Hamnet died at the age of 11 .In 1585- at the age of 21- Shakespeare left
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How does Shakespeare Present Beatrice and Benedick’s relationship as the ’reality’ of love and Claudio and Hero’s as merely the ’appearance’ of it? The idea of love at first sight was popular in Shakespeare’s day. Romeo and Juliet‚ for instance‚ fall in love at first sight. Moreover‚ Claudio’s methods of courting Hero through other people would have been an accepted tactic among Elizabethan nobility. Shakespeare’s drama mocks love and human courtliness between two couples who take very different
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England‚ William Shakespeare did not seem destined for greatness. He was not born into a family of nobility or significant wealth. He did not continue his formal education at university‚ nor did he come under the mentorship of a senior artist‚ nor did he marry into wealth or prestige. His talent as an actor seems to have been modest‚ since he is not known for starring roles. His success as a playwright depended in part upon royal patronage. Yet in spite of these limitations‚ Shakespeare is now the most
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CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ELIOT’S WASTELAND T.S.Eliot was born in the United States in 1888 and was educated there and in France before settling down in England and at length adopting British citizenship. He published his first poems Prufrock and other Observations in 1917 and all his work is strongly individual and creatively personal. With The Wasteland(1922) he established the reputation which made him the leading living poet of the English speaking world‚ though his output for some years was extremely
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Make Someone like You You may wonder why someone is always able to turn the spotlight on themselves and make others under their charm. Are they born to be attractive? Or do they have magic power to remain popular? Actually‚ attention can be shifted to the word “LIKE” itself. It consists of four parts‚ “L” representing “listener”‚ “I” coming to “interaction”‚ “K” referring to “kindness” and “E” standing for “excuse”‚ which are qualities of great significance to make someone fond of you. To make someone
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