Can a gamer apply their online skills and traits to real life situations that will solve many of the world’s problems? In the TED Talk “Gaming can make a better world” American game designer and author Jane Mcgonigal places much emphasis on the topic of productivity through gaming. She believes that “if the rewards to create a better world‚ were similar to an online game‚ then more gamers would be willing to take action to better society”(3:30). She adopts a provocative tone in the form of “creating
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TED CASE STUDIES NO: 770‚ 2004 TURMERIC- Alyson Slack PATENT Case study Turmeric is a tropical herb grown in East India‚ and the powdered product made from the rhizomes of its flowers has several popular uses worldwide. Turmeric powder‚ which has a distinctive deep yellow color and bitter taste‚ is used as a dye‚ a cooking ingredient‚ and a litmus in a chemical test‚ and has medicinal uses as well. In the mid-1990s‚ this product became the subject of a patent dispute with important ramifications
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Langston Hughes’s‚ “Early Autumn‚” is an example of something that can happen in everyday life. The conflict in this story shows how one decision can result in a time of sadness. I believe the author uses the end of fall and the beginning of winter to show just how cold and empty the relationship is between the characters. It could represent that there was nothing to say‚ in the story it seemed like she was happier to see him than he was or maybe he was in shock. “The leaves fell slowly from
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Religious hypocrisy fortifies congruity in poisonous societal classes. For example‚ in the short story Salvation written by Langston Hughes we find a young boy brought up to believe that he would see a light when he was saved. During a church revival meeting the minister asks all the young unproclaimed to come forward and be saved and one by one they all went to the altar claiming to
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The speaker of the poem is by the author Langston Hughes himself. This is a lyric poem because it expresses Langston’s emotions towards the river. By identifying the speaker‚ it allows the reader to understand that the speaker is using the river as a metaphor for representing life. In this poem‚ the speaker and the author are the same. The subject of the poem is the slavery‚ and the emotions the speaker expressed is happiness and love because of civilization. In the poem‚ the poet used imagery
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half African American‚ people assume that I am loud and for a lack of better ghetto because that is associated with being black. Another example would be getting asked if I ride horses to school as a result of being from Texas. In Chimamanda Ngozi’s TED Talk‚ “The Danger of a Single Story”‚ she addresses the negative impact of only knowing a single story about a given topic. She discusses how she was looked upon with pity due to her African background. In many English literature pieces‚ Africa is the
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many firsthand accounts of prison life. It can be found in the writings of Jack Abbot‚ Brendan Behan‚ and Eldridge Cleaver‚ and in films like "Cool Hand Luke"‚ "Brubaker"‚ and "Shawshank Redemption." There are‚ of course‚ exceptions. One of these is Ted Conover’s new book‚ Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. It is one of a very few recent books to get beyond the stereotype of the brutal guard to explore the complex nature of correctional work.
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Fourth main causes of civil war is‚ relative deprivation and discontent. Ted Gurr the writer of “Why men rebel" defines relative deprivation as “a perceived discrepancy between men’s value expectations and their value capabilities”. The theory claims that the coincidence of “deprivation-Induced discontent and sense of identities such as cultural identities is the main factor of political mobilization”. The theory of Gur is similar to the theory of Stewart that expresses when there are political‚
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Predator General purpose – To inform the audience about serial killers Specific purpose – To inform the audience about Ted Bundy‚ a person that committed outrageous crimes. Central Ideas – What makes a person a serial killer? Ted Bundy proved that even a handsome and smart individual with everything going for him‚ can become a monster. Introduction – (Attention getter) As Ted Bundy once stated‚ “We serial killers are your sons‚ we are your husbands‚ we are everywhere…” (Orienting material) A serial
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This is my father‚ Ted Scheer‚ most people around the island know him as The Crab Mon‚ and The Spoon Mon. He received these nicknames by doing what he loves. The Crab Mon nickname came around when he would work at the Weston doing race crabs. Kids and adults would pick out a hermit crab‚ and then after all the crabs had a name‚ he would put them in a bucket and flip the bucket over in the middle of a ring and let the crabs go. The winner is the first crab that reaches the edge of the circle. The
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