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    In the classroom, I have had the opportunity of being in both the social worker role and the client role. These experiences have provided me with great knowledge on how to go about certain situations that may arise, as well as interventions that may be beneficial to the clients. During the in-class exercises, I have noticed that in the role of a social worker I get thrown off if the client responds too strong or responds in a way that is unexpected. I become speechless because I am completely caught

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    can be an excellent tool for sparking interest in new topics in unmotivated gifted students. One of the ways the article suggested differentiating when working with gifted students during the geocaching experience was to assign students different roles during the process (Brown B., K., et al., 2015). I thought this was an excellent idea for gifted students in middle school. My favorite idea from the article that I thought I might be able to apply to my classroom was performing an educaching experience

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    a awful thing to do, but is also furthering the problem and the likelihood of their deaths. People everywhere are often given chances to redeem themselves, so why would these children not get the same treatment? In the world today, kids play role playing games with violence. But when children are involuntarily performing actual acts of violence they are the ones who are blamed. To further prove this point, “Armed and Underage” explains the situation of child soldiers in Africa and how the U.S. is

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    a failure to differentiate among different kinds of influences” (McLellan). People are quick to blame television violence for behavioral activities that children demonstrate, without realizing that there are other important factors that also play a role in such behavior, for example, violence in the real world. For the most part, while some people contemplate that the news for instance, is full of violence, Times Mirror, a nationwide survey found that (of 1,516 Americans conducted February 20-23)

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    “A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.” ― Jane McGonigal, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World  "...But our princess is in another castle!" - toad, Super Mario The implementation of player motivation within games has been experimented with since the dawn of games to produce the perfect formula

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    Introduction: Drama is an important form of literature, which depends upon the performance or role play. Drama as a play theatre performance, can be in the two forms, one is in writing text form and the other is something is performed on the stage with the help of characters and their actions. Drama is having different purposes depends upon its nature. Some are informative conveying a message to the audience and some plays are for the sake of entertainment. Drama is the imitation of the reality

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    Game Knights Employee Interview Questions Interviewing a potential employee is a significant step in the hiring process. Every interview must to tailored to the business’s specific needs and style. For Game Knights, the table top gaming store, questions need to fit a specific gaming genre to ensure the right game advisor is hired for the job. Game Knights needs game advisors that are knowledgeable in specific gaming fields like the following: miniatures, role playing games, collectable card games

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    Roleplaying games with simulated violence can be a good thing for lots of children and adults alike. They allow kids to do things they can’t do in ordinary life. For example is someone wants to feel like they are in a zombie apocalypse then they can because there is a game for it. Roleplaying games allow people to use creativity. Most stories about people shooting other people are because they had other issues in their real life. Some people have had abusive parents or a bully and use games as a way

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    Role-Playing games with simulated violence is diverting to the students because it distracts students from the real world, it can get way to extreme, and it can also be dangerous.Students at Brooklyn’s high school are playing a game with water guns and all the students that play have to pay money, all the money goes into a pot and the winning student or team wins all the money. Role playing games at Brooklyn's Heights New York City high schools are distracting students from the real world. ‘’Using

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    Parkour In College

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    super big fan of Pac-man and I know stuff about it too, like did you know that the creators of Pac-man were eating pizza when they saw it with two pieces gone they thought up Pac-man. Some people don’t know this but if you get far enough in Pac-man the game glitches out because it wasn't supposed to go that far and the map starts disappearing into numbers. Another thing I like is ninjas. I wrote a whole paper on on ninjas and had a presentation, so I know a lot about them. Ninjas were primarily in japan

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