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    VR porn will pretty much sell itself‚ but a little advertising never hurts. For obvious reasons‚ Pornhub’s new VR headset can’t be advertised on public television however‚ YouTube doesn’t have such limitations. For an ad that’s promoting an orgy‚ one can imagine the amount of excitement this technology will generate. YOUTUBE’S HILARIOUS PORNHUB COMMERCIAL A Pornhub commercial could go many different ways‚ however‚ it seems that that one on YouTube went with the way of some light humor and tame

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    and killed his father (www.britannica.com/topic/Oedipus-complex). Laius and Jocasta were king and queen of Thebes. After suffering many years of being childless‚ Laius visited the Oracle of Apollo‚ who prophesied that if he were to have children‚ the child would kill Laius. Later‚ Jocasta gave birth to Oedipus and Laius pierced his ankles and attached them together with rope‚ so that he couldn’t crawl. Soon after‚ Jocasta gave baby Oedipus to a servant to abandon on a mountain. Rather than leave Oedipus

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    In the play Oedipus the King‚ by Sophocles‚ Jocasta becomes the victim of Oedipus’s fate. Despite Jocasta’s loving disposition‚ incredulous thoughts regarding the prophecies‚ and her protective nature towards Oedipus‚ Jocasta’s tragic fate is inevitable. Jocasta clearly displays her loving character trait repeatedly throughout the play. Immediately after making her

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    Oedipus the King Jocasta is Oedipus’s wife and mother‚ and Creon’s sister. In her first words‚ she attempts to make peace between Oedipus and Creon‚ pleading with Oedipus not to banish Creon. She is comforting to her husband and calmly tries to urge him to reject Tiresias’s terrifying prophecies as false. Jocasta solves the riddle of Oedipus’s identity before Oedipus does‚ and she expresses her love for her son and husband in her desire to protect him from this knowledge (Sophocles‚ 1999). Othello

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    According to Gui Bin and Eun Cho (2015)‚ more than 50% of stroke patients suffer from depression and exhibit many mental problems such as apathy‚ anxiety‚ with limited physical and recreational activities available to them. A study on the effect of VR on stroke patients was conducted with two forms of intervention‚ a well-known training method called MOTOmed and a virtual reality training program. They were separated into two groups‚ an ergometer training group and a virtual reality group. For a

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    Character analysis on Jocasta and Oedipus In Oedipus the king‚ Sophocles begins the story line with the city of Thebes grieving. Oedipus true identity is starting to become question‚ when he is told by a blind prophet that he is what plaguing the city. His wife‚ Jocasta is immediately skeptical about the prophecy‚ and tells him a story about an oracle that she had once received and never became fulfilled. However‚ this did not help Oedipus uncertainty‚ and only to cause more confusion to his soul

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    Jocasta Research Paper

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    Did Jocasta really not know that the prophecy was fulfilled or did she just decide to turn a blind eye to be with her son? To Jocasta’s defense‚ she really did believe her son had been killed as an infant. However towards the end of the play she also says "And as for this marriage with your mother- have no fear. Many a man before you‚ in his dreams‚ has shared his mother’s bed (pg 171 1073-1075)." So was she just playing dumb to the idea that the prophecy had been fulfilled in order to wed her son

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    Gertrude In Hamlet

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    Gertrude is a very minute character in Hamlet‚ yet the same cannot be said about her impact on the action of the play. Certain audiences view Gertrude in different ways‚ some sympathise with her as a character‚ and see her actions as empowering towards women as a whole‚ letting loose of the social conventions of the Shakespearian era‚ in addition to being a caring mother. However‚ I feel there are two options that can be seen here concerning Gertrude as a person‚ and neither of them are positive

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    Queen Gertrude

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    Queen Gertrude‚ the queen of Denmark‚ is a loyal and compassionate person. She is also very naïve. Gertrude was the wife of King Hamlet and when he passed away she married his brother‚ Claudius‚ two months later. She had one son with King Hamlet and his name was Hamlet. Gertrude is a compassionate mother who cares a lot about her son‚ Hamlet. She shows that‚ by wanting him to stay in Denmark. He was going to go back to college in Wittenberg but she managed to convince him otherwise. Also‚

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    Gertrude Ederle Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle was a pioneer in women’s swimming. She was born on October 23‚ 1906. She began to swim at the age of eight. Her father taught her to swim at the family summer cottage in Highlands‚ New Jersey. She lived in and grew up in New York City and at the age of 13‚ she joined the New York Women’s Swimming Association. She won her first big race when she was fifteen years old and began to get a good sized collection of first place trophies. From 1921 to 1925

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