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HλLF-LIFE Half-Life, a science fiction first person shooter developed by Valve Corporation, it was their first video game to be released. At the time Valve was creating this game they were an unknown game company. It was very hard for Valve to find a publisher but they had what Sierra Entertainment wanted, a game based on the Quake engine, later signing Valve on a one-game deal. The game was released on November 8, 1998, on Windows, PlayStation 2, OSX, and Linux. Developed on the GoldSrc…

A Potential Answer For Every Situation (Draft) Critics against the utilitarianism are arguing that applying the principle of utilitarianism to the situation requires too much time, some outcomes by applying it are morally arguable, it urges violating of personal integrity, it allows being injustice to someone, and it’s no publicity that is very much disputing the moral principles. Louis P. Pojman, in the paper “Strengths And Weaknesses Of Utilitarianism,” clarifies the fundamental…

Introduction The world is moving towards an integrated and independent global economy. We are moving towards a world in which cross-border trade barriers and investments have started to decline, distance as perceived is reducing due to the advancement in transportation and telecommunication, material culture is beginning to look similar all over the world and also national economies are becoming interdependent, integrated global economic system. This world is where the amount of goods and…

In literature, femininity is a theme commonly explored by literary critics. How femininity is represented in literary texts depends on several contextual factors including the date it was produced, and the author’s background. In this essay, I will be exploring the representation of femininity in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and John Milton’s Paradise Lost in relation to these factors. Milton’s Paradise Lost and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice were written around two centuries apart, the…

divergence, but applaud and ascribe great merit and credibility to the delicate sentiment of a true critic. To this end, perhaps there are pleasures…

play written by Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, highlights the issue of domestic violence within society. Literary critics at that time it was published often overlooked the violence. Modern critics, however, try to understand where the interpretations went wrong and how the characters are representation of society’s fatal flaw. Susan Koprince, a modern critic, extensively analyzes the importance of the characterization of Stanley and Stella Kowalski, stressing why their actions fit…

Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7th,1943. She was the youngest child, and she had one sister, Gray. Nikki Giovanni’s real name is Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.; her older sister called her Nikki and the nickname stuck. In August her family moves to Cincinnati, Ohio, and her parents acquired jobs as housekeepers, (“Giovanni”). She gained a lot of appreciation for her African American heritage from her outspoken grandma. Nikki and her sister went to Knoxville often to…

simple statement that proves his point that few people would be able to disagree with. Another example from the text that helps support Pinker's claim is when he brings up an argument that could be used against him only to refute it. Pinker states: Critics…

In her article “Bleak House as an Allegory of a Middle-Class Nation”, Stuchebrukhov argues the allegorical nature of characters in Dickens’ Bleak House as a means of dichotomizing outdated aristocratic Britain and Industrialism. She argues that Dickens’ idealism toward perfect equity does not undermine the novel as unrealistic but rather further establishes it as an allegory. Stuchebrukhov analyzes several notable characters, placing each in their respective category – aristocracy or lower class…

In spite of decades of diversity policy and practice, America is in many ways more divided than ever when it comes to issues of identity. Critics from the political left argue that we simply need more diversity to overcome the division, while critics from the political right argue that diversity has devolved into an unworkable set of unfair entitlements that are themselves the cause of the division. Understanding the Misunderstanding, the first part of the four-part series Ourselves Among…