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addition to the ethnic discrimination I’ve read about in the reading this semester by Lisa Nakamura, I also realized it involves extreme stereotypes. The WoW is set in a “high-fantasy world” where players are able to select race-based avatars “races” (orcs and dwarves) and “classes” (mage, warrior, priest). They are under the imaginary world of Azeroth where they find themselves in the midst of an ongoing battle between two warring factions, the Alliance and the Horde. Players kill monsters and complete

The goal of anthropology is to holistically study and examine the similarities and differences among all forms and contexts of humanity. With the existence of virtual humanity, it is certainly possible to compare and differentiate simulated humans to that of real-life humans (whether past or present) and that can be done through the thorough analysis of games. “World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)” where players descend into an online realm where a world

In the World of Warcraft unit, my group has chosen to be the Draenei race. This race is an extremely tall class, standing at an astonishing eight feet tall. The female version of the Draenei character is around 7 ½ feet tall. The Draenei race is an octopus-human hybrid-type race, with plenty of classes to use in the actual game. They have long tails and hooves, according to the World of Warcraft Wiki page. They also have fangs. Their skin color is mainly blue, and their blood is also blue. According

I have decided to do my essay on one of Ansel Adams most famous photographs from his long and successful career titled Half Dome. The photograph of Half Dome medium of the photograph is black and white. Ansel Adams in my opinion is one of the greatest photographers of all time. I believe his photographs are a work of art. Ansel Adams was a true visual genius with a camera, he went to a location set up his camera and the end result was always perfect. When I look at a photograph that was taken

Persuade Essay Imagine it is 1990 and you just heard one of your friends got the new Super Mario World video game. It’s after school and your friend invites you over to play this new game with him. When you both sit down to play you become engulfed in the new colors, structures, and features of this new game. The only thing you can think about is the graphics being far better than any game you own at home. Nowadays, the graphics of video games are of much higher quality than in the 1990’s

Structure of a poem. “Hope” is the thing with feathers The poem of my chosen is: “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson. Birds are sometimes considered as symbols of spirituality and viewed as free and self-sustaining. In this poem, Dickinson describes a bird as a symbol of hope, that inspirational power ever present in the soul, which prevails even when we are facing the worst situations in life and have used all our resources and lost all our strength. The storm imagery and the

Student ID: 12172021 Deceptive honesty, deception that highlights honesty. Can we use honesty to justify deceit? We can say an individual is honest when they do not lie, but what about an individual that brings out the truth in others? One’s ability to understand, interpret, and conjure the truth may make them even more truthful than someone who is always honest. “Why are you fearful?” (42:2) are the first words spoken by Jacob at the start his sons’ journey to Egypt. This innocent question carries

Growing up as a gamer, I have experienced many new things in the video game industry. I’ve been playing video games since the Sega-genisis that I started playing when I was three years old. I’ve been gaming almost my whole life, I have watched new console been introduced, seen video games go from 1080p to now an amazing 4K which makes the graphics look amazing. Modern video games even have virtual reality that you as a consumer can now play in your own living room. But, even though we have amazing

John Muir is best known for his efforts to preserve the wilderness of the United States, which greatly contributed to the preservation of countless natural areas of the US through the National Parks Service. During his travels across the country and abroad, Muir recorded his thoughts and beliefs about nature and the fundamental connection people share with the earth. By voyaging into the wild and shedding the restraints and ideals of modern society, Muir argues that people can expand their understanding

Page 1 of 12 ZOOM RUNNING HEAD:VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOR1Violent Video Games and Violent BehaviorJuan HerradaGlendale Community College Violent Video Games and Violent Behavior2Violent Video Games and Violent BehaviorThere have been over 200 school shooting incidents ― an average of nearly one a week ― since the horrifying morning when 20-year-old Adam Lanza marched into Sandy Hook Elementary School and did the unthinkable (Miller, H). Many adults including parents and