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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Hughes’s opening line is sculpted in such a way that it gives the reader an abundance of sensations. The poet achieves amazing efficiency in the line “far out at sea all night” in that the reader is exposed to distance‚ time and environment. The metaphor of the house being “out at sea” projects the image of a boat “far out” feeling totally isolated. The house faces wave upon wave of inexhaustible pounding from the wind as a boat would from an enraged sea. The time scale of “all night” could literally
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In the middle of the nineteenth century‚ the largely self-educated British physicist Michael Faraday was visited by his monarch‚ Queen Victoria. Among Faraday’s many celebrated discoveries‚ some of obvious and immediate practical benefit‚ were more arcane findings in electricity and magnetism‚ then little more than laboratory curiosities. In the traditional dialogue between heads of state and heads of laboratories‚ the Queen asked Faraday of what use such studies were‚ to which he is said to have
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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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you catch him lying‚ he’ll just shift gears and go on as though nothing had happened” (Goleman). Ted Bundy was one of the most famous psychopaths in the history of the country (Nordheimer). People say he was the perfect killer- handsome‚ intelligent‚ witty‚ and charming (Boynton 25). Bundy was the complete opposite of what people thought a serial killer looked like‚ so his victims did not fear him (“Ted Bundy”). Robert Keppel‚ an expert on serial killers‚ stated‚ “He taught us that a serial killer
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