Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is an outstanding example of the neoclassic genre of mock epic. Pope uses the mock epic to satirize the triviality of 18th-century high society through exaggeration and parody. Basing his poem on an actual incident that occurred among some of his acquaintances‚ Pope intended his story to put the episode into humorous perspective and encourage his friends to laugh at their own actions. A mock epic is a poem dealing with petty subject matter in the exalted style
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Introduction: The Sims is one of the most popular video games series for players and it is developed by Maxis and is published by Electronic Arts. Electronic Arts is the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue after Nintendo and Activision Blizzard. It is an American developer‚ marketer‚ publisher and distributor of video games and it has been founded on May‚ 1982 by Trip Hawkins. [1] As of May 2011‚ the franchise has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide and it is also the best-selling
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Test 2: Report on Capitalism Simulation Game On February 20th‚ 2014‚ in Values in the Workplace‚ we played a game simulating capitalism. The goal of the game was to get into teams; each team had a certain amount of the same resource. These resources could be traded and bought from one another‚ with a goal of creating “Widgets”. These widgets are then bought from the consumer. The team‚ who ends up with the most amount of money‚ wins the game. The strategies that arose during the simulation were
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“Are intellectual property laws ruining the game & graphic design industry?” Have you ever woken up one morning with the idea to create an invention that no one else knows about? Well what if I told you that someone was able to steal your idea without being charged a cent. You’d feel a lot of anger and frustration building up inside you right? This is the turning point where you take matters into your own hands‚ but how would you do that without knowing what to do? Yep you guessed it‚ Welcome
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friendly‚ lucky‚ and neat (not sure how many a child sim can have) 5) Carole’s character traits: Lucky‚ flirty‚ family-oriented‚ vegetarian‚ and artistic 6) Larry’s character traits: Heavy sleeper‚ green thumb‚ bookworm‚ easily impressed‚ and good sense of humor 7) Regina’s character traits: Great kisser‚ bookworm‚ natural cook‚ neat‚ and never nude I love playing the Sims 3...there’s so much things to do... 1. Make a REALLY fat sim‚ and then make them work out a lot‚ watch them
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to include SimCity 2000 (1993)‚SimCity 3000 (1999)‚ SimCity 3000: Unlimited (2000)‚ SimCity 4 (2003). It also released some non-sim titles‚ such as 1991′s RoboSport and the well-known1995 3D Pinball for Windows‚ which has been included as one of the standard system games in many Windows releases. After such success with the SimCity series‚ Maxis tried various other Sim- titles. Some of these attempts includeSimAnt‚ SimFarm‚ SimEarth‚ SimLife‚SimTower‚ and SimIsle. Maxis was also approached by companies
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mirrored in the gaming community. Players can create businesses within the game‚ whether clean or dirty‚ a player can acquire currency through their endeavours. For example‚ certain individuals within the highly popular simulation game called The Sims Online‚ a
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Gregory Lambert Ms. Amy Glaves English II September 4‚ 2012 It’s a Man’s World…Or Is It? It’s a man’s world… That statement is as stereotypical and offensive as it is wrong‚ but even today‚ many people still believe it to be true. Zoe Flower felt that way about the video gaming industry before she researched and wrote her article “Getting the Girl: The Myths‚ Misconceptions‚ and Misdemeanors of Females in Games” (Alfano 329-33) for Playstation Magazine nearly a decade ago. She begins her
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Game Based Learning Web-Sites for Students Game Creation Web Sites for All Joyce McCawley www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bitesize/ One of the games on this site is found under KS2 and called Questionaut. It has all of the elements of a video game. There are strategies required to move from one level to another‚ the students answer various questions to move on and they are rewarded when they meet the goal. The designers change the questions frequently so the student is playing a new game when
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