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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An accounting analysis Financial Accounting Assignment Module 1‚ August 2014 GEMBA 2015 Group Assignment - Group 9 Scott Couzner Joseph Lew Nicole Sia Jay Tomar Alex Zupancich BURBERRY INTRODUCTION Burberry is a global luxury brand offering menswear‚ womenswear‚ childrenswear‚ coats‚ dresses‚ shoes‚ accessories‚ bags‚ scarves‚ beauty and fragrance. The quintessentially British brand was first founded as an outerwear brand‚ well known for it’s iconic Burberry trench coat and distinct tartan
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Frank Warren’s TED talk Frank warren is the inventor of post secret which remains a progressive communal mail art project. The projected was created in 2005. In this project people are allowed to share secrets anonymously on home customized postcards. Some secrets are selected then posted to the post secret website. This secrets are also exhibited in the museum or used to design post secret books. This secrets come in any form others may be interesting‚ motivational or shocking. The main purpose
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Plath’s poem‚ ‘Whiteness I Remember’‚ and Ted Hughes’s poem‚ ‘Sam’‚ are two poems which describe an experience of Plath’s when she was a student at Cambridge. She was out on her first ride when the horse she had hired the normally-placid Sam‚ bolted. Although Ted Hughes’s is describing the experience he uses insinuations throughout the poem to let out his perception of his marriage with Sylvia Plath‚ hence infuriating‚ the conflict in perspective between the two poems. The ideas of ‘conflicting perspective’
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Julian Friedman in the TED talk‚ “The Mystery of Story Telling”‚ asserts that a writer must make his or her audience his or her number one priority. Friedman supports his claim by explaining the short falls of writers through his own eyes‚ citing his own experience as an agent‚ as well as the eyes of George Orwell‚ speaking on the motivation of writers according to Orwell‚ and even Aristotle‚ talking about how modern writers diverge from the Aristotelian formula for storytelling. The author’s purpose
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Explain the roles and responsibilities of two members of the children’s workforce in relation to looked after children and young people. In this assignment I am going to explain the roles and responsibilities of two members of the work force that look after children and young people and evaluate the regulation of care provision for looked after children and young people. Social workers Social workers form relationships with people an assist them to live more successfully within their local communities
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In the TED Talk‚ “The Neuroscience of Restorative Justice‚” the main idea that Daniel Reisel is trying to convey is that there may be a cure for psychopathic people. To begin‚ people act psychopathic because they become unconnected with others. Furthermore‚ keeping them in jail away from others just adds to this negativity. Reisel compares this to the behavior of a mouse when it is kept separate from other mice. According to the TED Talk‚ “So if you rear a mouse in a standard cage‚ a shoebox‚ essentially
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Post the "What We Think about Ants" chart where students can see it. Explain that you are going to read a story about ants that is fiction (define the word if necessary) but that together you are going to see if you can learn anything about ants by reading the story. Read Two Bad Ants aloud. Take time to discuss the actions of the ants as you read. When the story is over‚ ask some key questions about ants that will lead to factual information. Some examples of questions might be: • What did
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Harriet Welch Explain the influences of two predictable and two unpredictable major life events on the development of an individual: Life stages to talk about Predictable – * His child Hailie and Getting Married * Moving house Unpredictable- * Leave school * Get scouted and become famous and live his dream Eminem Having a Child - Eminem was married in his 20’s this was predictable because he had a stable girlfriend and was engaged therefore this led to marriage. The marriage
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causes of both unemployment and inflation. Explain policies available to the government to combat these two economic issues. Unemployment and inflation have many different causes and the levels of have had severe fluctuations over time. Unemployment and Inflation can be caused by many different things but normally they follow the business cycle with high inflation in times of boom and high unemployment in times of recession. The government can use two different policies to either expand or contract
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