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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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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Do people really die online‚ or do they live on forever? Joanne Harris’ short story‚ “Would you Like to Reconnect?”‚ follows the story of a mother who has just lost her son and although he is dead‚ his twitter account remains active and maintains communication with the mother. Because of the grieving and confused character of the mother‚ the weary‚ lonely mood of the story along with the repetition and symbol of the twitter notification‚ the story clearly conveys a theme of how social media can be
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The Characteristics of Shakespeare’s Comedies Shakespeare wrote many different forms of literary works and one of them is comedy. At the end of his professional life he had written four famous comedies which were later called his "romances". Shakespeare’s comedies were not primarily love stories but they all included a love plot. His romances all had the happy ending of a comedy‚ but in a way they hinted on violence (Prentice Hall Literature). His focus and emphasis was clearly towards the
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is for the flow of life to reach you personally‚ to be a participant in the unpredictability of life‚ for better or for worse. To never be surprised is to live an incredibly sheltered life‚ or to be completely insensitive to the ebb and flow of live around you. I often like to be surprise even from the childhood. My surprises come just on holidays such as St. Nicholas or Santa Claus. I remember when my parents tried for years to make for us my holiday surprises‚ like putting at foot tree or in boots
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The Romantics and the Realists Romanticism and Realism are separate artistic periods that overlapped each other for almost a decade‚ and even though they are very different‚ there are similarities as well. Romanticism was an intellectual movement in the arts from 1790s until 1870s. It focused more on the individual‚ unfairness‚ irrational‚ creative‚ emotional‚ and the transcendental. Realism was also an intellectual movement. It began in about 1861 and lasted until 1914 when World War began. Realism
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A.J. Ford Period 2 Mr. Miller 1/14/13 I adore comedy films. Comedy films really make me happy‚ because I am a person who attains great fulfillment out of simple laughter. After all who does not relish a good laugh? I have seen a range of comedies from stand-up comedy with Mike Epps‚ to Wedding crashers. I am absolutely a fiend for comical movies. However I do enjoy a plethora of movie types from comedy‚ romance‚ action‚ biography‚ historical‚ and horror. Diversity is integral when
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Mans gregarious instinct to live in harmony and peace with his fellow man is well illustrated in the two texts‚ As You Like It and It’s a Funny Kind of Story. In both theses texts the major character experiences a sense of alienation from their worlds for numerous reasons. In the coarse of the action in the two dramas this is apparent alienation will be removed through a greater understanding of the positive aspects of human nature of which Love is the major contributor. Duke Frederick after
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it‚ I definitely have a sense of humor‚ however‚ I have an inner feeling that lacks satisfaction. Satisfaction can be sustained if I had some moment that was so embarrassing it would make me laugh hysterically. Now‚ before I tell you about my moment‚ I want to tell you the reason behind it. Out of all the joyous and comical times I have had in my life‚ I have come to the conclusion that the best ones have come following an extremely embarrassing moment. So my moment with Bar-Ilan came just a few
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