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The issue of video games being linked to obesity is not so much that children are playing video games but it is the type of video games that they are playing. There are many exercise games that actually promote physical activity such as the Nintendo Wii, Xbox Kinect, and Dance Dance Revolution. One study conducted in Redmond, Oregon in which a dance pad game was installed in a third and fourth grade classroom and the at-risk students were selected to become mentors to the other children, found…

richly imagined world of Hyrule, full of engaging characters, thought-provoking puzzles, and the most memorable musical instrument to ever appear in a video game (Video Game History Timeline). Ever since then, new consoles have been invented. The XBox, Wii, and HoloLens has all been created in the 21st century. The HoloLens has been the newest invention to date, allowing user to explore virtual reality. Virtual reality can be described as the use of computer technology to create the effect of an…

Call of Duty began its saga with Call of Duty 1. The most famous one is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Call of Duty 4 came out in November of 2007, and it was the most popular Call of Duty that ever existed. The design of this CoD was unbelievably amazing, the company who made it, Infinity ward, got millions, even billions of dollars for it. (www.eurogamer.net, 2014) The best thing people liked about Call of Duty 4 was the multiplayer, which allows you the ability to play online with players…

Username (IGN): https://namemc.com/u/Mineaids (Yai) Age: 16 How long have you actively played on Mineage?: 1 month (Actively) Time usually spent on the server: 1-6 hours daily. Can your computer handle recording up to 30 FPS?: Yes, 1080p60. Do you have access to Teamspeak and/or Skype?: Yes, both. To start my helper application off, I'd like to start off by apologizing for all the toxicity I've spread on the server these past few days. I know I have been acting immature and I am deeply…

I don’t really know if there was ever a specific point that I realized all of my friends hated me because I think a part of me already knew. Middle school is usually bad for most people. Some people consider high school years the best years of your life, that is because I think that it is such an improvement from middle school. There is also not a specific reason that middle school is so terrible. It may be the discovery of highlights or black eyeliner or it may be the longing to be in high…

Social media has taken control over lives of millennials. It has changed how millennials views of social media platform. If you are like myself, and are active on social medias’ like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, you must know what Snapchat is. Nowadays, everyone has some sort of smartphone, but if you are too young to have a phone you have an Ipod, Ipad, etc to connect to the media outlets like Snapchat. Souza e Silva talks about how having a location-based application can affect how you use…

Stepping Back to Continue Forward A prominent feature of the social work profession is that it cares for its consumers as well as its professionals. As a social work student in my third year of BSW coursework, I have learned the importance of coming alongside consumers and coming alongside myself. Supporting myself means managing my personal triggers, biases, and burnout, which I handle by pausing to examine my journey and myself. Self-reflecting through quotes is one way I step back and look…

Based on “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?”, “American Flag Stands for Tolerance”, and my own experiences, our relationships with others define who we are by revealing of our actions. Etgar Keret, author of “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?”, wrote about Yoni, a young man, making a documentary, knocking on people’s doors asking what they would wish for if they had three wishes. “Hard like that - rapping at his door. Just the way Sergei doesn’t like” (5). As Yoni goes around…

Nowadays, world have evolved to a state where as young as one years old to as old as sixty years have been exposed to video games. Start from a big box to hand-held video games console. Video games has always been associated with teenagers as them been criticized by the society as mind paralyses and destructive garbage. Therefore, it gives bad impression to people who play video games among the society. However, video game gives more benefits than negative effects. Researchers have gone through…

Introduction The year is 1943: It is a warm summer day with children playing outside and wives doing laundry, happily waiting for their fathers/husbands to come home from work. In place of this peaceful scenario, anxious mothers are instead working in shell casing factories and steel mills while children are working at scrap yards wondering when dad will come back home again.or if he ever will come back at all. In the years of World War II, a sense of patriotism brought together women and…