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    Narrative research Introduction Games and story, which on opposite sides of the interactivity. After reading a paper named “Games Design as Narrative Architecture” by Henry Jenkins, I think controlling the balance of gameplay and storytelling is important to game designers if they want to design a game with narrative. For this essay I will be analysing two completely different examples, focusing on their narrative and gameplay in order to explain this issue. In addition to this, I will also provide

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    Written Response Most Persuasive Assertion Michel Foucault 's assertion that one’s own "author-function" can exceed their own work is a claim in which can be backed by an array of existing and deceased author 's. An agreeable claim, even though Foucault attempts to disassemble it later on in the essay. Foucault initially states, "One might say that it is not true that the author of a novel is only the author of his own text; in a sense, he also, provided that he acquires some "importance," governs

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    Buena VistA university | A Theoretical Analysis of H.P. Lovecraft’s “Beast in the Cave” | Senior Seminar | | Cory J. Dahlstrom | 7/28/2012 | H.P. Lovecraft has been called “one of the best, worst authors of our century.” In the following paper, I will explore his earliest work, “The Beast in the Cave,” a story written when he was around fifteen years old. I will explore its meanings and context through the lenses of reader response, deconstructionism, new

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    Horror The Supernatural Genre Horror is an ancient genre, it roots lodged in ancient myth and folklore. Since then the genre has evolved, even sometimes doing without elements of the supernatural on which the original horror stories where founded. Despite the emergence of natural horror, horror which incorporates elements of the supernatural still remains superior. While horror can be successful using only natural circumstances, horror that utilizes elements of the supernatural evokes a more

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    H. P. Lovecraft

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    H. P. Lovecraft: A Creative Case Study It is safe to say that most who enter a specific field seek to leave a lasting impact upon that will last long after they are dead and gone. Obviously, not all end up so fortunate; to create such a powerful legacy, one must be truly innovative and bring something truly unique to the table. In the field of creativity studies there is a model of understanding creativity called the Four C Model. In the article Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity

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    Personal Narrative-Leng

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    Page 4 of 18 I noticed it was getting harder to finish assembling my gun; I was losing the outside light. The sun was already setting, even though it was just after three. I remembered when I had gone to Middle School, during winter, of having to walk through Arkham's icy atmosphere instead relaxing in the warm luxury of riding in the car, which we'd sold to defray, in part, another of the old man's expeditions, this time to Nepal in search of the legendary Plateau of Leng. Such dangerous destinations

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    was the most powerful being. This was not a direct cause, but it ultimately led up to Loki being banished from Asgard. In Mysterion’s case, after he kicked The Coon out of Coon and Friends for his foolery, he set out on a mission to team up with Cthulhu. This enabled him to control one of the darkest sources of evil, similar to when Loki ate the witch’s heart. Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam, faced a struggle all too similar to the one Kenny faces everyday. She refused to seal the deal with

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    paradise that was lost to humanity, which always struck me, as a brilliant SF setting (hence, my deep love for Cthulhu Rising) but not terribly well supported (alas, such is the nature of the monograph project) or TOME’s End of the World, which fed into 1970s theories of catastrophism (some GOO coming to wipe out humanity). And, yes, there have been supplements and adventures in between but Cthulhu has always taken the approach that investigators are the brave Hans Brinkers who stick their thumbs in the

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    primary outlet for his stories was “Weird Tales”, a pulp magazine whose circulation barely reached twenty thousand a month although its influence on horror fiction has been enormous. His two most famous works were “The Outsider” and “The Call Of Cthulhu,” who’s contributions to the supernatural horror genre and original approach to dark fantasy revitalized the genre and influenced every important new writer in the field. (Charles 1) H.P Lovecraft was born on August 20th 1890 in

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    celebration of conquering Ib, Bokrug rose once again with his army of lizard-like people, and then killed all the inhabitants of Ib, known as the Thuum'ha. From there, Lovecraft then continued to write, which led to his most famous work, "The Call of Cthulhu"

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