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Mario debuted as "Jumpman" in the arcade game Donkey Kong on July 9, 1981.[24] He is shown to be a carpenter and has a pet ape called Donkey Kong.[25] The carpenter mistreats the ape and Donkey Kong escapes to kidnap Jumpman's girlfriend, originally known as the Lady, but later named Pauline. The player must take the role of Jumpman and rescue the girl. Jumpman was later renamed "Mario" in the 1982 arcade game Donkey Kong Junior, the only game in which he has been portrayed as an antagonist. In…

Our 11th year is getting off to an exciting start with four new BOD members. We are incredibly excited about the new energy and talent joining the Board. Our community meetings last Fall were tremendously helpful along with the support we received from Floricane. New C3 Board Chair Jennifer Tompkins says, “This year is really about setting up for the next 10 years and we are looking forward to expanding the reach of C3 more broadly across RVA.” After nine years on the C3 Board and the last two…

any effect on the war efforts. Men would regularly talk openly in front of women about battle plans, strategic movements or new weaponry. Mary Elizabeth Bowser was one of Jefferson Davis’s slaves who relaid crucial information to northern generals. Davis assumed that his slave who never do anything to rebel, which might have cost him the war. Bowser listened in on important conversations and would sneak into Davis’s office while he was out and read his documents. She would memorize these…

On December 5,2016 I watched a TED talk on Steve Job’s he is foremost known as being the owner of the world famous companies Apple, Pixar, and NeXT. Throughout his speech to Stanford's graduating class of 2005 he told three stories about himself, which each included three significant things he learned throughout his lifetime. The first story he shared explained how he dropped out of college because it didn't interest him. Jobs didn't leave school, he stayed and took classes that caught his…

Duke Ellington is an originator of big-band jazz, Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist and band leader who composed thousands of scores over his 50 year career. Duke Ellington was born on April 29, 1899 In Washington, D.C. At the age of 7 he started learning piano and got the nickname duke. He wrote his first composition ‘soda fountain rag’ at the age of 15. He was awarded an art Scholarship in the Pratt institute in Brooklyn, New York, Ellington followed his passion for ragtime…

“ The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.” These words are from Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created many popular icons in the gaming world. This man has been referred to as “ the father of modern video games ,” but he doesn’t receive a higher salary than any other employees at Nintendo on his own accord . Despite growing up about two decades before video games existed, Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most well known people in the…

Shroob. Their home planet is shaped like a purple mushroom, known as the Shroob Planet." Types of Shroobs •Yoob Description: Yoob was a giant Shroob based on a Yoshi who ate all of the Yoshis and put them in eggs. He then ate mischievous Baby Bowser, heroic Mario, ghostbusting Luigi, exited Baby Mario, hilarious-loving Baby Luigi, and the smart Toadbert. A boss, Sunnycide, is inside Yoob controlling him. •Shrooblet Description: Shrooblets are small Shroobs found near Holli Jolli…

Recently, there has been a spotlight placed on the issue of missing children of color in the Washington, D.C. area after the Washington D.C.’s police department most recent Twitter campaign provided the public with information of recent missing children’s cases in order to help locate the missing children. This campaign took on a new purpose once the public took note of the sudden multitude of missing children tweets, and many people assumed this was a sudden epidemic never before seen in the…

“Moses” to African Americans, help slaves from the South escape to the North. Tubman worked as a scout and spy under the Union forces in Beaufort, South Carolina and as a nurse to the injured slaves that sought refuge in the North. Mary Elizabeth Bowser worked as a spy for…

A Western set in the arcade world, the Disney film Wreck It Ralph has elements of both a disguised and revisionist western in its use of the traditional official hero vs outlaw hero dichotomy, as seen in the characters Fix It Felix Jr. and Wreck It Ralph, but also in its unconventional preference for the homestead and community rather than the horizon. Wreck It Ralph’s use of the official/outlaw hero dynamic is clearly laid out in the beginning of the movie, in which we see Felix being awarded…