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Everyone plays games. From the youngest of people to the oldest, we all enjoy a good game. It is a way for us to wind down, relax, and have a good time with our friends and family. However, in recent years, games have become a lot more than just ways to pass the time. They have evolved into something in which the new generations immerse themselves into. They have come to dominate the entertainment industry. By analyzing the recent surge in gaming sites such as the Playstation Network, we can see…

Movies are an internationally adored form of entertainment, however sometimes they can bring unforeseen consequences from the very nature of movies that makes us love them. Viewers can become so emotionally affected by films that it brings them to horrific actions. Take a look at the following five movies that caused fatal events, because the next time you walk into a theater, it may be your last. Number Five: Scream. The movie Scream debuted in 1996, featuring the frightening killer Ghostface…

Before the game, some participants were presented with digitized photographs of two White faces and some with two Black faces. In actuality, the participants were playing with the computer-controlled avatars. In the game, the participants were randomly assigned to be excluded or included by the avatars. The results suggested that exclusion by racial ingroup and racial outgroup threatened the four basic needs. Moreover, being excluded by racial ingroup appeared to hurt more than being excluded by…

The High Five Messages Change Is Constant In the game My Personal GPS, I had to guide an avatar through a series of games that tested my learning skills and work habits. At the end of the level, you either passed and were awarded a key, or failed and had to retry the game. For some of these games, I didn 't receive a key on my first try and had to repeat the level until my skills matched my evaluation. This caused me to have to rethink my avatar’s actions and adapt to the different situations I…

The Gods and Goddesses of Hinduism There are three great god and goddess in Hindu. That is the god of creation, the god of protection and the god of destruction. Brahma Brahma is considered to be the god of creation, which is considered to be the god of pray in the Vedic myths and officially named Brahman in Hindu mythology. Brahma is directly linked with cosmic will brahman, which is generally believed that everything in the universe is from the Brahman and is back to Brahma after destruction.…

myths and narratives, that people engaged in sex that was not heterosexual in South Asia. With that being said, Pattanaik reiterates the reason for Krishna’s birth on earth was to rid the earth of greedy kings (Pattanaik 80). Before being born as his Avatar Krishna, “Vishnu was approached by the earth goddess in the form of a cow and begged him to save her: the ambitions of man was breaking her back and greed was making her udders sore” (Pattanaik 80). Pattanaik write that this is a…

Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and The Picture Of Dorian Gray Main Thesis Wilde uses several echoes within The Picture of Dorian Gray. This central argument is supported by several examples of Dorian Gray acting as double to not only several characters within the novel but within mythology as well. Wilde merges the Gothic and the aesthetic in the book. “The merger is possible, and inevitable, because of the tendency of Gothic writing to present a fantastic…

In the movie Avatar soldier Jake Sully is split between two worlds and has to choose which one to fight for. In J.D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye teenager Holden Caulfield is also divided,between adulthood and childhood. Salinger puts hidden meaning behind many things in the book that are an example of Holden’s struggle. For instance, Holden has “quite a bit of gray hair” on one side of his head while the other still has color (Salinger 57). This is odd considering Holden is only 16. The…

simulate real life situations. The use of a 3D avatar was used in three stages to study and improve emotion recognition in children with autism spectrum disorder. Stage one, participants were asked to interpret what emotion the avatar was feeling. Stage two participants were given different scenarios and were asked to guess what emotion the avatar would feel based on that specific scenario. In stage three, the children were a certain emotion that the avatar was feeling and was asked what…

Australian’s traditional narrative of the colonisation of Australia has been long founded on the European coloniser’s stories alone. Excluding the Aboriginal voice and views of the colonisation of their land. Recent texts such as The Secret River, have been produced to disrupt this traditional ideology and contributed to the undermining of these traditional ideas of colonialism. These texts can be interpreted and read in a number of different ways. The Secret River, a postcolonial novel, by Kate…