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When we think of games, we think of kids, immaturity, and time-wasting individuals who have nothing else better to do. Gamification is about applying game-design elements and principles into non-game contexts in order to improve user experience, productivity, education, assessment, mentality, physicality, and or legality. By using gamification, companies can assess their future consumers and employees, and develop systems that can improve their own company. Our future leaders will be…

Standing Here Ironing in My New Dress As a single parent children have different meaning for standing when it comes to being discipline by their parents. To us standing is shrieking up to be heard for the children they shriek down to heard. What I’m trying to say is if we do not take control in our children’s life style how are we to know when they or shrieking up or down. Sometimes one have to take the time out and explain to your children why these situation occurs even if it is bad on our…

As the time passes by, many changes in the people’s way of living is happening. It includes the arts, music, literature, technology, and even the education. In this fast changing world, education is the very foundation of all walks of life. As Nelson Mandela (1996) said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” But in this changing world, how do education should cope with this many and uncountable changes. This paper focus and aims to show and explain the…

Run, Sheep, Run is a short story written by Rosemary Howland that follows Nancy Martin’s perspective on Mattie Babcock, the new girl at school. Mattie seems to be different than the girls and boys at Edison High, being tall and big boned. In the story, she is described as having a plain face, drab hair, and a big toothy smile, which was the main thing that everyone at Edison High noticed. Before reading this short story, I read the title, which is what I usually do before indulging myself in a…

I've had my ups and downs, however everything has been going better. I ran a business which made great profit, and Sciatis can vouch for this as he supported this company and business. I managed smaller servers, and administrated forums, including two meme pages (not…

How Can We Fight The Underlying Motives And Pathologies Of Religious Homophobia? LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, & Questioning) Americans have come a long way throughout the late 20th century and today. It was only in 2003 that sexual activity between two mutual adults was officially legalized in the United States. The landmark Supreme Court case, Lawrence vs. Texas struck down “sodomy” laws in Texas and in other thirteen states. The outcome of this landmark case was the pinnacle…

The House on Mango Street is a series of vignettes by Sandra Cisneros that records stories of Esperanza’s life on Mango Street in a chronological order. As she experiences things on Mango Street and matures emotionally and sexually, the vignettes transitioned from innocent childlike observations of the world to sharper reasoning of the cultural and social changes that’s happening in the Mango Street community. Sexuality and freedom are prominent themes throughout the novel. Withe use of symbols…

The lawyer discredited the hairstyle as being African-American because a Caucasian actress wore them as if there is not such thing as culture appropriation. This case and many others like Rogers’ put a damper on the fire in the black community’s heart and have been recognized as one of the many factors why the original “Naturalista” movement ended. Today the naturalista movement has influenced all streams of media. In film there is more diversity in roles of black women and the different…

Wave, and despite the fact that there have been many modern celebrities who have spoken up to defend feminism as a fight for equality (Emma Watson, Beyoncé, Ellen Page, Miley Cyrus), there’s still stigma surrounding the word. For example, in 2014, a meme went viral on Tumblr as part of the #YesAllWomen social media campaign. It was in response to 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, who stabbed his roommates before going on a shooting rampage near UC-Santa Barbara that spring. He killed six people before…

Violent humor floods our television screens. Many viewers perceive these aggressive scenes as humorous. Potter (2002) suggests, “The media continually and profoundly affect everyone, and when the messages are violent, people are at risk for a variety of negative effects” (p. 31). On the other hand, “audiences have also demonstrated some ability to resist the power of media representations and even to deconstruct various versions of violent reality,” (Barak 2003, p 192). Such debate remains…