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    Beer Game

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    the Beer Game itself prior to the game being played. I did read the summary provided of the game‚ but if I had done a little research on the web prior to the game‚ I would have had quite a bit of insight. It seems this game is very well known and used quite often in schools and management training to show the supply chain in action. The game has been around since the 1960’s when a group from MIT’s Sloan School of Management introduced the game as a part of a research project. The game was originally

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    Game Theory

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    literally no more clean dishes left leaving them no choice but to wash a dish. In creating a game theoretical model to try and better understand the quandary in our kitchen‚ we will use repeated prisoners’ dilemma games‚ collective action analysis‚ and finally‚ a two species evolutionary game. We begin by applying a Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma I (PDI) model to our situation. The rules for a PDI game are simple; the two players can either cooperate (wash) or defect (not wash). The players can

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    The Hunger Games

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    The Hunger Games Movie Analysis Project Title To analyse the movie‚ “The Hunger Games”‚ by focussing on HR related issues. Director: Gary Ross Stars: Jennifer Lawrence‚ Josh Hutcherson‚ Liam Introduction It is the story of young girl name Katniss Everdeen. Her life changes when she volunteers for Hunger Games to save her younger sister. The movie is all about surviving against the odds. There are 12 districts‚ where a young boy and a girl get chosen or volunteer to fight against each other

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    Political Game

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    Politics is a game in the true spirit. It has two or more parties contesting each other‚ each being equally dedicated to win. Each maintains a team‚ whether close knit or not may be circumstantial‚ and has a lot in stake. Like any other game it has not only the player taking interest but also a large audience to watch its every minute movement‚ cheer its wins and boo its losses. It has its own set of supporters‚ who may however be divided on their favourites from the team. Any game requires a balance

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    Games At Twilight

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    Childhood is a phase in life in which people develop at a much faster rate. In Rohinton Mistry’s short story “Of White Hairs and Cricket” and in Anita Desai’s short story “Games at Twilight‚” the protagonists both experience childhood differently‚ but they arrive at the same conclusion about their insignificance. Both narrators talk about how making independent choices can be both harmful and protective‚ but maintaining strong family relationships is crucial. Though the narrator in “Games at Twilight” is

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    Video Games

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    I got my first video game console in the summer of 1991. My parents purchased it from SEARS for my birthday and at which point I had no idea what it was. A couple of the kids and their parents knew that it was and were shocked that my parents spend $100 dollars on something like that. It was still in the box until one afternoon I came home from school. I set it up in the living room‚ only room with a television. Popped in Super Mario Bros‚ this simple 8-bit game would change the entertainment

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    Hunger Games

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    Periods 1-2 Book Talk: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins What the book was about: The Hunger Games is a book taking place in the nation of Panem‚ the cruel‚ superficial capitol surrounded by twelve districts. To keep the districts in order‚ and to remind them how powerful they really are‚ the Capitol makes each district send a boy and girl to take part in the Hunger Games‚ a brutal‚ gory fight to the death live on television‚ made so each person in

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    Hunger Games

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    The Hunger Games Chapters 1-5 1. I would describe District 12 geographically by being in the slumps. It is a poor place; therefore I compare it to a place of poverty. 2. Katniss crosses the gates to go hunting and she is able to get food to feed her family. 3. Gale is Katniss’ best friend and somewhat of a love interest. 4. The reaping is a lottery where someone is selected to participate in the hunger games. A boy and a girl are selected from each district. Katniss responds by putting her

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    Game Theory

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    Solution to Tutorial 1 2011/2012 Semester I MA4264 Tutor: Xiang Sun∗ August 24‚ 2011 Game Theory 1 Review • “Static” means one-shot‚ or simultaneous-move; “Complete information” means that the payoff functions are common knowledge. • Normal-form representation: G = {S1 ‚ . . . ‚ Sn ; u1 ‚ . . . ‚ un }‚ where n is finite. • si is strictly dominated by si ‚ if ui (si ‚ s−i ) < ui (si ‚ s−i )‚ ∀s−i ∈ S−i . • Rational players do not play strictly dominated strategies‚ since they are always not

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    Rules of the Game

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    The scratchy collar symbolizes the entrapment of Waverly by her mother. Waverly’s hobby of chess is important to her and her mother “[has] a habit of standing over [her] while [she] [plots] out [her] games.” (p.98) This habit of Waverly’s mother is a symbol of how she controls Waverly. As her mother stands over Waverly‚ it displays her as a dominant figure and shows that Waverly should be submissive and obedient towards her. Waverly’s mother expects her to listen to everything she says and not have

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