Serious game Essays

  • Serious Games and Learning

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    Contents Serious games 2 Common game attributes 4 Serious games and Learning: 6 Who uses serious games? 7 Games in higher education: 7 Games in schools: 8 Meeting the needs of today’s learner 9 Let the games begin 10 Conclusion: 11 Description of a learning artifact: 12 Construct a model: 13 Discussion of learning artifact: 15 References 17 Serious games Serious games refers to video and computer games which are designed mainly for the purpose not for purely

  • Personal Writing: The Evaluation Of My Coaches

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    Every new coach brought a different approach to coaching. The varying techniques of coaching brought about different attitudes and expectations during practices and games. I found that during practice, coaches had either the nice-guy or the drill sergeant approach. They also had different methods of coaching during and after the games. Practices are very important to basketball. If you practice hard and take it seriously, your team can become successful. All of my coaches in high school took practices

  • Pel?: Edson Arantes do Nascimento

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    Nascimento. His father was Dondinho, another excellent soccer player. His birth name João Ramos do Nascimento. Pelé’s father had been a great soccer player before Pelé was born. Pelé’s father had to retire prematurely. During a game, he was slide tackled and sustained serious career-ending injury to the knee. Instead of playing the sport he loved, he had to resort to scrubbing floors to support his family. As a result, Pelé’s mother was greatly opposed to Pelé playing soccer. However, after Pelé was

  • Comparing the Roles of Women in Arcadia, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Look Back in Anger

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    In Oscar Wilde’s drama The Importance of Being Earnest, he uses light-hearted tones and humor to poke fun at British high society while handling the serious theme of truth and the true identity of who is really “Earnest.” Truth as theme is most significantly portrayed through the women characters, Gwendolen and Cecily but to present serious themes comically, Wilde portrays women to be the weaker sex of society, despite the seriousness of the subject—the identity of the men they want to marry

  • race in sports

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    of sports is so unique, and people have different interest and fascinations. From being a child I can remember watching the Red Sox and Celtics with my father and becoming a die hard fan for those teams due to my family being serious fans. Not only did watching those games turn me into a good New England fan but it also gave me some good quality time with my father and brothers. The movie we watched showed all the emotions that can come from sport. Whether it would be a gratifying moment with a win

  • Herodotus

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    historical work. He contrived to set before his fellow citizens a general picture of the world, of its various races, and of the previous history of those nations which had one. He also was very careful to diversify his pages by scattering among his more serious matter tales, anecdotes, and descriptions of a lighter character, which are very graceful additions to the main narrative. Two men are famous contemporaries of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, who were both from Athens. Thucydides (460 BC - 400

  • Essay About Family: My Father's Illness

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    had seen my father sick before, but by the reaction of my mother and the deathly look on my father’s face I knew that something was seriously wrong. My father's eyes opened, and he called out for my sister Kelly and I to come to him. In a very serious and sad voice, he told us that he was very sick, and he was going to the Fort Wayne hospital. My mother told Kelly and I to help her pack some things for him, because he was going to be leaving soon. We helped her pack, keeping quiet because we

  • Film Versions of Shakespeare Comedies

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    darker, more serious undertones. In adapting these comedies it is for the director – in the cinematic context – to decide how to interpret the play and which elements are privileged and which are suppressed. This variance in interpretation is exemplified in comparing two of the more recent cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare’s comedies, Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night and Kenneth Branagh’s A Much Ado About Nothing [‘Much Ado’]. Although both films can to an extent be seen as comedies with serious, almost

  • A Concussion is No Laughing Matter

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    America, “every 21 seconds, someone in the United States suffers from a brain injury.” Most doctors consider concussions as a mild form of brain injury because they are usually not life threatening (cdc.gov). Even so, the effects of concussions can be serious. Any blow to the head can warrant a concussion. Sport accidents, falls, fights, and car accidents are th...

  • Stefan Edberg

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    ”Ostkustenspärla,” a very memorable victory for him. Star even in school But a couple of years went by before he ”dared” to go in for tennis full time. He was in the ninth grade as took the big step and gave tennis the big chance. -I felt I had a serious chance of becoming a worldplayer. Because I had just won JEM and taken a set on Mats Wilander who was a professional player, Stefan says. But it couldn't have been an easy choice, because Stefan was also a very good student with an average about 4

  • How Children Carry the Weight of Child Abuse

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    destruction. Fathers physically beat their little girls. Mothers leave newborns in locked cars, and some parents degrade their children with verbal daggers. Child abuse is much more serious than people want to believe. Child abuse comes in different forms: neglect, physical, and verbal abuse. But what are even more serious are its effects: inability to properly function in society, fear of trust, and a broken self-esteem. We should all be there to help these children, by holding their hands, or even

  • Does TV Affect American Culture

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    are many movies and television shows that reflect American culture. A show or movie must address some current societal problem or trend in order to truly reflect American life; murder, rape, racism, and, on a less serious note, parties, shopping, and sports are topics that deserve serious consideration by the public and the media. The show Beverly Hills 90210 attempts to be an accurate portrayal of the life of a typical well-off American teenager growing up in the 80's and 90's. The producers of the

  • Hamlet

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    to make decisions and act. In the play Hamlet the protagonist is marked by an indecisive nature. By analyzing every aspect of a possible action, Hamlet inevitably finds a reason not to act. His actions are untimely. The often procrastination of serious acts lead to an even more complicated situation. The complexities of the events which take place in the play do not always provide Hamlet with a possible clear decision. He is constantly faced with a challenging dilemma that adds to the intricacy

  • Tempting Fate: Essay on "The Monkeys Paw"

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    the paw. Mr. White’s first wish was a simple one as he thought. “I wish for two hundred pounds,” he had uttered so easily thinking that this was as straightforward of a wish as there could be. Little did he know that tempting fate in such a way had serious consequences. At this point in the story the writer foreshadows the grim events that follow when Herbert says, “Well, I don’t see the money, and I bet I never shall”. Ironically Herbert is correct. The twist of the story revealed itself when Mrs.

  • Jokes

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    attention from the baseball game his Grandfather was watching, he shouted........ COLDWATER, GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THE WAY! *********************************************** A dad walks into a market with his young son. The >> > kid is holding a quarter. >> > Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the >> > face. The dad realizes >> > the boy has swallowed the quarter and >> > starts panicking, shouting for help. >> > >> > A well dressed, attractive, but serious looking >> > woman in a blue

  • Personal Growth Experience

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    and tried to push my son’s education so that he can succeed in his life. I came from a large family in Brazil. I wasn’t the only child; I learned to share, how provide for myself, and for my 3 sisters, and 3 brothers. My father was a serious man; he had a job, and still came home to provide for all of us. During dinnertime he insisted that everyone had to be home and had to sit down at the table and talk about their day. This was a must in my family too. The reason why he had that rule

  • Offred's Narrative Technique in The Handmaid's Tale

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    describing it as "....a small defiance of rule....like the candy I hoarded, as a child..". When it comes to serious defiance, she draws a definite line, " "No. I can't" " she says when the doctor offers to impregnate her, "The penalty is death". Perhaps that is what Offred is really afraid of. Death is her real fear. In order to keep herself sane, Offred has invented several survival mechanisms, games w... ... middle of paper ... ...ve technique. Works Cited and Consulted Atwood, Margaret

  • Serious Trauma

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    Serious Trauma On a boring Wednesday afternoon, I sat in a brightly lit CPR classroom listening to the instructor drone on and on. I began to wonder if I would ever actually need to use these skills. I highly doubted it. The past two years I have worked at the "little-kid-infested" North Fork Swimming Pool, where there have been absolutely no emergencies. A bloody nose or a stubbed toe here or there but never any serious traumas. These skills that I thought were so useless were put to the

  • Counterfactualism in History

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    counterfactual history — Robert Harris's "Fatherland" is a good recent example — seems to indicate that this type of history is equally appealing. Sometimes known as "what if", or "alternative" history, or, in the title of a recent collection of serious counterfactual essays edited by Niall Ferguson, "virtual history", it takes as its starting point some historical event, assumes that it turned out differently — Harold wins at Hastings or Napoleon at Waterloo — and develops a possible course of events

  • Creating and Maintaining an Environment for Students to Work In

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    consistent, rules should be made based upon a positive behavior, not too have many rules because they won’t be enforced, “rules must fit within the school’s code of conduct” (Malone, 1998, pg1998), make them creative by using humor but still being serious about them (McFarland, 2000, ... ... middle of paper ... ...m EBSCO database. Mandel, Scott. (1995). Teachers helping teachers. A simplified idea to make life easier. Canada. Retrieved April 24th, 2005, from PacificNET. Net Matthews,