Morality Play

every facet of a game’s design. In the early days of gaming the psychological role of the medium was fairly simple: make the game engaging enough to keep players pumping coins into the arcade. While that mentality is still very much alive in free to play titles, creating an online world consistently engaging enough for players to inhabit for years is another matter…

interested in watching the play even though we did not have the best weather conditions. Luckily, I was able to get front row seat tickets to see the play The Glass Menagerie performs by PCPA. When I went inside the theater the first thing that I noticed was that the majority of the audience was mature people and I thought that this might have an impact on the performance. I was disappointed because I imagined a really big theater, but at the end, I ended…

what bothering them, find out before you blame video games. “Violent video games have been blamed for school shootings, increases in bullying, and violence towards women.” People are quick to blame sometimes, while yes some children and teen that play violent games and they want to reenact them in real life this isn 't always the case. With most kids and teens that become violent it isn 't always the game giving them the idea or the encouragement of hurting others. Sometimes it something at…

the game. Which for some can influence or inspire them to commit crimes based on the games they are binging. Do they learn their lesson? Well this leads psychologists to create studies where they gather people from different age groups and have them play similar games for hours while they study their brain patterns and their psychological triggers. There is no sure way of knowing whether or not someone learns their lesson from a crime or feels a thrill from committing a crime without doing…

production of a play. However, I am not really sure what was going on in this play, which does not mean I did not like it, but I was in awe/confused most of the time. The reason why this production was so different because its not one of those classics like Shakespeare’s “Richard III” where you know what you are getting yourself into when you are an audience member. Instead, this play had concepts of body changing and to me there was not a single main actor the entire time. By changing who the…

person-to-person. For example, people go for walk to slim down, while others may just go to enjoy nature. Powerful desire makes us do different things, and that’s what powers the habit loop which is known as a craving. Craving drives the habit loop, and it also plays an important role in forming new habits. Some work we do just once, but because of the end reward, we may keep doing it over and over again. This means we have started to crave the reward that we get from that work, and that’s how…

The play “Spring Awakening” is directed by Shelly Elman and is originally based on Frank Wedekinds play. The a few characters struggling to transition to adulthood. The personal strife of the characters differs through desire, confusion, frustration and many other effects. Nonetheless, the characters all end up with the drastic questions: Who am I? And what does it all mean? When I first heard about the play in class I had no idea what I was actually going to be looking at. The day of the play,…

respect child’s play, which makes a playing child “a head taller” than his or her actual height (Vygotsky, 1980) “(Berger). Play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination, physical, and emotional strength. Play is important to healthy brain development. Through play, children at a very early age engage and interact in the world around them. There are two different types of play, Pretend play which occurs when the child is alone, then there is also social play.…

who is two years old boy, and Athena, who is one and a half years of age girl, and along with Athena’s mother and Ryker’s aunty. I wanted to observe the two children around the same age being of different sexes because I wanted to see how they would play together, I also wanted to see what I can learn from them both. In this paper, I want to discuss who Ryker and Athena are. Then I want to talk about I will describe what I observed when I watched the two kids at the playground. Next I will talk…

Miller created a unique play - "Death of a Salesman", which is still very popular in different parts of the world. According to the play, the action takes place in Brooklyn, in the postwar years, at the end of the 1940s. The play tells us about the 60 years old, unhappy salesman Willy Loman, his family, and his misunderstanding of achieving the American Dream. We see four main characters: Willy Loman - the father of the family, Linda - his wife, Biff and Happy - his kids. The play begins with…