Dungeons & Dragons

Discussion Questions Why did PepsiCo Russia invest in a new portal with social network capabilities? To learn what users expect of social sites, the project team looked at Facebook, Linkedln, Google+ we studied the user experience of the world’s best social networking sites, and combined it with the concepts of enterprise portals. 2 How can intranets help companies achieve their business objectives? Many can receive important company communication. It also, can improve daily tasks. Also…

A Psychoanalytical Approach on Stanger Things Numerous psychologists have developed and offered their own theories regarding personality. These theories have been used to describe human nature in an everyday setting and in characters in fictional works. This paper will apply Carl Jung’s psychoanalytical approach on several character from the Netflix original series, Stranger Things. Carl Jung and Psychoanalytical Psychology Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who began his career in a mental…

"geek," which was originally a pejorative term for a highly intellectual outcast. Nowadays geek culture refers to the subculture that surrounds activities such as collecting and reading comic books, participating in role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons, dressing up as an animal or superhero, boys enjoying the children’s television show “My Little Pony," and even just being computer and technology savvy. The main individuals that are found engaging in these sort of activities are…

I ran through the dark forest covered mountains. The cold, shilling air zipped through my long, pitch-black hair. The bats flew by me squealing with joy as they tried to race me. All was silent except for the brushing of the leaves and the flapping of wings. I soon heard howling and saw the wolves running in the shadows, joining on the race. My red eyes pierced through the coating of the night and gave me access to the world very few have seen. That many have feared. The night. I flew out of the…

Cultural and societal identities have been characterised throughout history using a variety of mediums. As illustrated by many authors; such as Roy, Barker or Barnes, the written word, can be among the most powerful form of rhetoric, giving society the “stamp” of identity as chosen by the author. Culture and society can be described as the defining expression of our identity, national or otherwise. Group identity begins with the basic patterning of social cohesion such as inherited knowledge,…

table top games which is one of the older styles that takes simply a character sheet, dice, a pencil, friends, and time is RPG’s. While I have described card and board RPG games they aren’t like the original, and the best example being DnD (Dungeons & Dragons). Influenced by Lord of the Rings DnD opened up a gateway to many table top and video games design, and stories. From simple friends gathering around a table with nothing but paper, pencil, and dice one of the most revolutionary style of…

innocent’ hero that is a common gothic motif, and the girl (Eleven) is a ‘child monster’ as discussed in “Nightmares of Childhood” by David Kinney. All of these children are shown as outcasts, Dustin, Mike and Lucas being shown as nerds playing Dungeons and Dragons in a basement, and Eleven being found in the woods late at night and having telekinetic powers. The age of these children (middle school age) and the fact that they are outcasts open them to unconventional ways to find their friend…

Two zombies tried to cut us off. Dean ducked the one's outstretched arms and I struck the other with the stock of my shotgun. Neither of the undead would be denied, though mine had to pick itself up off the pavement before it could resume the chase. We made it to the brightly painted red door and I gave a yank. Nothing. I pushed and pulled in desperation, trying the latch for all I was worth but still nothing. It held fast. The reanimated creatures were getting closer and we were running…

of another world that coexists with our own while trying to find their lost friend, Will Byers. With the help of a government experiment named Eleven, the boys are able to understand that Will is stuck in another dimension. Using the boys’ Dungeons and Dragons game board, she explains that Will is stranded a world very much like their own. According to the game’s handbook, "The Vale of Shadows is a dimension that is a dark reflection or echo of our world. It is a place of decay and death. It is…

REVIEWS OF LITERATURE MOVIE: AVATAR YEAR: 2009 TITLE: Textual analysis of Avatar PUBLISHING DATE: 23rd March, 2015 This essay starts with a short and crisp introduction of the movie Avatar which is written in an easy and vivid language. The reviewer goes on focussing majorly on the applications and technology of Artificial Intelligence in the movie. In the movie, artificial intelligence is implemented in the sophisticated interfacing device, in which a human being's consciousness is linked and…