Pong

In this assignment we were asked to find things in Robert Zemeckis 's 1994 Forrest Gump that can be connected to what we have learned throughout this year in United States History class. Events from the vietnam war, the riots, President John F. Kennedy’s time in office and so many more. In the beginning, when Forrest was telling his lives story to the nice young black lady at the bus station. He telling the young lady that his mother named him after Nathan Bedford Forrest. Who was a lieutenant…

Two words no one wants to hear come out of a teacher’s mouth: “math project.” That’s right, I, along with the rest of the math class was assigned a math project in which we had to build a functioning catapult that would launch a ping pong ball at least 3 meters in order to get it inside a small box. Talk about complicated. To make matters worse, we did not have the liberty to choose our own groups and enjoy myself while working on the project because she assigned the groups too. The group that I…

I can also practice my throwing skills by throwing a baseball or playing ping pong with my friends. I have a goal to beat my mom in ping pong, but I have not realized this goal yet because I don’t set aside a time to practice. I also enjoy hiking with friends, family, or both. When the weather is nice, we hike Mount Tamalpais, Mission Peak, the Pinnacles, or…

I learned a lot about my positivity over the past two weeks of recording my data. My average from the past two weeks was .82 which is not a good ratio. My average negativity score was 2.7, and my average score positivity was 2.3. My best positivity ratio was 6 and this will be the day I reconstruct and find out where I am most positive. In these past two weeks I had several exams and some quizzes which could be why ratio was so low. I was overwhelmed with stressed the first week I was…

In Forest Gump, Forest gets shot in the buttocks during the Vietnam War. During his stay at the medical ward, he discovers that he can play ping pong. Forest had never played ping pong before. Through assimilation and accommodation Forest is able to pick the game up rather quickly and become an expert, which allows him to win competitions for the military. Also during the war, Forest had a great friend Bubba…

By 1974 there were 100,000 pong games in the market of which only one tenth were produced by Atari. Bushnell decided not to patent any of his ideas. If he would have done that the gaming industry would not have been same as we see it today. Atari made another product disruption when…

The History of Video Games and the Impact on Our Society from 1950-2000 Video games have had a large impact on our society over the decades. It has become one of the most popular interactive mediums in recent human history. Many people either have a home console or computer that they play video games on in their leisure time. The global video game industry today is now worth $99.6 billion, and is projected to be worth $118.6 billion by 2019 . How have video games become this popular? What…

As an effect of globalization, today states are increasingly faced crimes which crossed national borders. Thus, more and extra international cooperation is an essential component of criminal investigation or prosecutions. Since criminal activities go beyond the national borders, it is clear that the international community has recognized the need for enhancing cooperation, particularly with respect to gathering evidence located outside national state borders. Officially demarcated borders…

just go over to his aunt’s house to play ping pong since that was the original plan. My parents said that was fine if we were home by midnight. We arranged for the boys to pick us up on the corner of my street instead of walking all the way to his house. We were pulling into his driveway when my mom calls me. “Allyson why are you at Taylor’s house and not Mrs. Lori’s house?” my mom yelled, “You told us you were just going to her house to play ping pong and yet you’re at his house.” I replied,…

Unfortunately, due to poor advertising the Magnavox Odyssey, only three years after it was initially released was dismissed. Fortunately, that same year Atari released a game called Pong that was an automatic hit when it was placed in arcades and pubs. Thanks to its massive success, Atari decided to release a home version of the ping-pong like game. Videos games reached a “golden age” in October of 1977 when a video game system that was programmable was released by Atari that had more than 200…