Alex Pham author of "Boy‚ You Fight Like a Girl" investigates the ever growing world of online gaming and how gender affects both worlds. The "fastest-growing segment of the computer game market"(185)‚ adventure gaming‚ has hundreds of thousands of players that average twenty hours of play a week and thousands of them are playing as characters of the opposite sex. This gender switching is making games not only challenging‚ but also confusing‚ and possibly embarrassing. Pham first introduces a character
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Earthquakes: Why do some places suffer more than others? Whilst earthquakes are perhaps the most frequently occurring natural hazard‚ their impact on people‚ property and communities varies enormously from one place to another. It is possible to identify a number of factors that cause some places to suffer more than others. Whilst some are large scale and are to do with tectonic location‚ others are decided at a much more local scale‚ and relate to building design and levels of preparedness. Perhaps
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Freedom is to have the power to do whatever your heart desires without any hindrances. In the story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munroe‚ the narrator realizes the idea of freedom and the lack of it. She seems to define freedom as free will. As a young girl growing‚ she was allowed to do anything and everything. The narrator spent most of her time outside with her dad in the field‚ whereas other girls her age had to help out in the house. That was her freedom. In her limited world‚ the narrator feels
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Boys and girls both like the same sports. They should be able to play together. As most know‚ cheer can be a girly sport‚ while football is for boys. There is no permanent rule that states that though. While some boys would like cheer‚ girls could enjoy football. For example‚ soccer is mainly played by boys and girls‚ so why not play on a team together? Boys and girls should have a choice to play on the same sports team because everyone enjoys different things‚ the rules aren’t much different‚ and
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Sports: More Than Just a Game More than 7.6 million high school students played sports during the 2010-2011 school year‚ an increase of nearly 40‚000 students compared to 2009-2010 according to usnews.com. Why is this number so high? The benefits of playing sports are not just physical. While many students get involved in high school athletics for sheer love of the game‚ there are significant benefits from these extracurricular activities as well. Being an athlete teaches life lessons like
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She also looks at the very different worlds—outside and inside‚ the male sphere and the female sphere— described by Munro in the story. ‘‘My father was a fox farmer.’’ So begins Alice Munro’s short story ‘‘Boys and Girls‚’’ a narrative which highlights the almost invisible societal forces which shape children‚ in this case‚ the narrator and her brother Laird‚ into gendered adults. There is no doubt that males and females are biologically distinct at birth. Yet the behaviours and roles ascribed
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A group of boys were stranded on an island with no adults at all. When they all got together‚ they formed a tribe so they can all stick together and think of some ways to survive and how to get rescued from this island. Everything was going great‚ everyone had fun‚ food‚ water‚ and shelter. Everyone had a job to do so everyone can survive all together. But one of them didn’t do their job and there was a plane in the sky and the person who didn’t kept the fire going‚ which was Jack‚ was supposed to
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Why was the opposition to the state more often unsuccessful than successful in the period 1855 – 1964? Divided opposition. One reason why opposition to the state between 1855 and 1964 was mostly unsuccessful is the divided nature of oppositional forces. One example of this is the Civil War of 1918 where Richard Pipes argued it was a ‘foregone conclusion’ that the Reds would win. The Whites were made up of many different oppositional groups such as the SRs‚ Liberals looking for a tsarist revival
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Why is it Important to Follow Orders Given The purpose of this essay is to further my knowledge of the Army NCO support channel‚ chain of command and why we‚ as soldiers‚ use them. I will also be explaining the importance of obeying a lawful order from a first sergeant and performing that order in a timely manner. First I am going to talk about The Army NCO support Channel. The NCO support channel is designed to be subordinate to and supportive of the chain of command. The NCO support
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Account for why some enterprises become successful innovators and why others do not. It is a difficult question to answer why some enterprises become successful innovators while others do not especially in these days of rapid technological changes‚ high inflation and highly fluctuating exchange rates in the world of borderless world. The first reaction is it could be due to the strong entrepreneurial leadership of the enterprises in terms of knowledge management or an acute sense of financial investment
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