... technological development which has incorporated into people's daily lives (Hellström et al., 2012). Over the last decade, there had been an increase in academic attention given to online gaming as the dominant activity among college students. From sport-related games to mission-based games and quests inspiring users to complete challenges, interactive games cater for a wide range ... , 2011). Some games require players to learn about social, political and historical development. The vast majority of gamers state that the gaming activity has positive effects for them and online gaming ...

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... and vice versa. This then challenges players to find other ways of determining the true sex of those around them. Although the nature of most online games makes absolute insight into the true sex of a player impossible, once a player's sex has apparently been found it can significantly alter that ... game influences a player's gender decision for his character and the ability to perceive the true sex of that player. Many people in massively multiplayer online gaming environments are not concerned with the true sex of their fellow players. These players are focused on immersion into a fan...

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... servant Antonio. We first see their relationship in Act II scene 1. Particularly seen in Antonio's dialogue throughout the play, this scene has a definitive example of the homoerotic themes within the text when Antonio says, "If you with not murther me for my love, let me be your servant."" Antonio's attraction for Sebastian seems even more apparent in Act III scene 3 when ... ...

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... apparent theme. Various people or groups are in some way marginalized or excluded. Some of these groups (of people) that will be discussed are women and Grendel and his mother, the monsters, at the end the marginalization of these two groups will be compared and contrasted. The main question is; Why and ... the men in the hall. This is the case with all the women in the text, their role is limited to serving men, by offering gifts, and keeping the peace. In addition to that, monsters, such as Grendel and his mother are excluded because they do not resemble the other people that live in ...

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... women as being trivial than men; described as "war-thirsty" and "kill-greedy" (lines 1497-1499). Through the usage of Grendel's mother's monstrous actions and characteristics, the author portrays how women were perceived as insubstantial, especially compared to men, during the time the novel was written. ... Women during this time also tried extremely hard to get by day to day being treated and seen as the way they were. The author shows this through Grendel's mother's unending commitment to the battle against Beowulf, "Up again quickly, she gave him hand- payment/ with a terrible crush, ...

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... (1993) makes an interesting statement in her paper. "Both women and men felt that women had more of a presence online and that it is easier for women to make their voices heard online than in face-to-face conversation (We 1993, p 1). An interviewed man made the point that women are able to ... of men and women, which does not really exist in CMC. On the other hand, it seems that men become more open online than in face-to-face communication. Online, men do not hesitate to give hugs or even kisses, whereas in more conventional conversations, they are more physically reserved. Once again .....

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... . They were held in very little regard or value in their society. Good women were peaceful and unassertive, greeting guests and serving drinks to them. The author of Beowulf shows Grendel's mother as a strong and combative monster. The queen of the Danes, Wealhtheow, does assert herself in the interest of her husband and children, which reveals the masculine fear of feminine ... her intelligence and ability to control men to protect her children and their place on the throne from Hrothulf, their cousin, in case of an untimely death of the king. Grendel's mother is portrayed as powerful, ...

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... emphasis on emotional and social-experiential gratification may not be easily derived from the internet. The second quantitative study provided a more systematic analysis of gender differences between conventional and online buying motives (Dittmar - Good! et al., 2004). Consistent with prior study, gender differences in conventional buying were found: women emphasized more on emotional, social-experiential, ... motives were considerably more prominent than that in social-experiential motives, while the gender gap in identity-related motives was least prominent. In contrast, gender diffe...

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... in language, emotional and artistic expressiveness, esthetic appreciation, verbal language and carrying out detailed and pre-planned tasks. For example, women generally can recall lists of words or paragraphs of text better than men. Whereas men tend to be higher in independence, dominance, spatial and mathematical skills and rank-related aggression." What are the reasons for these differences? Some researchers blame ... while we think in different ways we can come to the same conclusions but, more often than not, for different reasons. According to a national survey commissioned by the...

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... between 10% and 17%. (Broadhurst 80) Both services have well over two million subscribers and cater to homes and businesses respectively, yet are remarkably monopolized by the male gender. America OnLine, though it is the fastest growing service and earning a reputation for being remarkably easy to use, is also only 15% to 30% female. (Broadhurst 80). The soon to be released ... relationship between a man and a woman communicating on the Internet is to shatter to the egalitarian illusion that the Internet is merely a sharing of texts. While some women hope that the text based and facele...

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... society. It mocks religion, belittling it with the story of Alan who so easily worships a horse in absence of a biblical figure. The text also questions the concept of "normality". The composer clearly values the need for internal social change in order to, at least, attempt to ... fight the ultimately pointless and furthermore, damaging life, that people of contemporary society so readily accept. Evident in this text is Existentialist philosophy. Existentialists believed that life had no intrinsic meaning. At the end of Equus, Dyasrt finally places a symbolic chain in his ... the Absu...

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... a bill ordering the military to revert back to sex separate recruit training. This bill however, was rejected due to it being discriminatory (online). Another article in which the discrimination argument can be supported by would be the article written by Richard horn which argues that Women have ... of subs until a larger, newer submarine class come out of production until then females should not even be considered for approval onto United Stated submarines (online). Due to all of this bickering, the United States war department, after much disagreement, sent a female sailor on board a...

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... Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan society in England in the sixteenth-century. Although Othello is set in Venice and ... through Brabantio's reaction as Shakespeare uses Brabantio as a vehicle for the representation of higher society's views on matters. Another value revealed in the text is that of marriage. In the Elizabethan era marriage was not just a spiritual union but also a property transaction; the bride brought a ...

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... a personal analogy that helps the reader understand what the chapter will discuss. It would be true to say it is not the quality of the texts arguments that makes the text effective, but also the power of its underlying values and assumptions. Because most arguments are not merely intellectual but have strong emotional overtones and spring from heart-felt convictions, underlying ... . Mackay in future chapters reveals that, caught up in our "consumer driven lives", we forget the essentials the human relationships, love, the basic values that ensure happiness. Thus, knowing the text as a w...

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... those three features in one commercial was a really tricky way to get men's attention and to keep it, and I might add that it really works. The text in this commercial is jumping out all over the place, you know immediately after the anchors show the graying man in the background that its going to be a ... commercial for hair color, then the text if flying out again because you know the man is going to make a move on this woman and that she will obviously reject him because of his gray ... rejected, but we also know that he will come back when his facial hair is colored and that the bea...

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... the women's responsibility, whereas today the responsibility of having a successful marriage is placed upon both men and women. The main focus of this expository text taken from the magazine Women's World is on how women should work on making their marriages a success, whilst abdicating men of all responsibility, in ... the working women, and less on marriage as the only really successful career option for women. The contemporary males of today, on reading this text, would see it as suggesting a belittling of them and a put down, that they are unable to look after themselves and live a s...

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... Analyzing the extract from A Woman on a Roof in light of Structuralism is very interesting indeed as multiple levels of meanings emerge to make the text denser, while also facilitating interpretation. This extract gives the reader an insight on how some men view women. Indeed, this extract, though to ... interested in that which makes meanings possible rather than meaning itself. For instance, it is not necessarily concerned by the actual story of the text but rather in devices which provide meanings, like characters, plot and various literary techniques. In the extract from A Woman on a...

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... order for the reader to fully understand and relate to such themes, symbols are introduced analytically. Objects represent a theory or idea. The text focuses on many dark themes and symbols, such as; trees and blood are manipulated to understand these themes. Another method that is often applied ... the novel is the feminist lens. Feminist literary criticism views literature to see how the culture, economy, politics, and society in the text oppress women . Anderson communicates the power that men hold over women through the characters, themes, symbols and imagery in relation to the ......

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... were with the rioters or against them. Thus one might emerge as in a category of ethnic minority and pro-civil order, or indeed as a white, British rioter. Thus Lewis (2011: online.) wrote that 'families and other local residents, including some from Tottenham's Hasidic Jewish community, also gathered to watch and jeer at police' during the riots in London. The association ... was strange that 'no one would say what colour Mark Duggan was. No one would say the unsayable, that the rioters were, I suspect on the whole, black' (Birbalsingh, 2011: online.). In Ferguson, the racial...

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... has the ability to speak to responders of different times and places as they all share different perspectives, including feminism, gay, lesbian and queer, which makes it such a "great text." Shakespeare reflects Elizabethan contexts and values whilst depicting a tragedy instigated by jealousy and mistrust. Geoffrey Sax's representation of "Othello," a film directed in 2001 focuses on the role of ... despite being set in the Elizabethan era. Thus in examining these different interpretations, the varying portrayals that mirror the composer's context reinforce why Shakespeare's "Othello" is ...

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... women controlled by men because of their sex. Both excerpts include excellent use of grammar, well thought points, and powerful quotes from the text. They both serve their purpose within the larger text of Ayres book. However, when read individually, "The Little Women" packs a more powerful punch. The first writing rule a high ... Ayres provides a clear direction for the discussion. Readers know what to expect from the paper and are not surprised by information later on in the text. "The She-Dragon" lacks definite direction. The introduction tells that Sally Brass will be discussed, but...

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... seductively wearing garments of small proportion and the interview content is resigned to small corners of each page where the gravitational pull of her body actions creates a passage to the text. The interviewer isn't concerned with Jennifer's career or her opinions of life, but demeans her as an object for male pleasure. It must reiterate that this is the intended purpose ... technology has been hugely successful, this feature has been developed over the previous year; the increase in adverts featuring technological accessories has coincided with this development. The discourse is how...

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... using computers? Would you say you are computer literate? Why? Chart for the above questions Person Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 M1 Chat, email, music, movies, games. 20 hours Online gaming. Yes. Unreal Tournament, Civilization. 4-5 times a week Yes Accountant Database entry, Simply Accounting, and Excel. Very comfortable. Yes I have experience with many different programs and OS. M2 Research, email, surfing ... environment. Through my observational study of the uses of computers some uses that are widespread today were not in use in this facility due to the environment. Uses such as online gaming...

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... the 18th century were subject to, Manley's novel employs a more subtle approach in highlighting the contradictory foundation upon which 18th-century concepts of femininity and female sexuality were based. The text presents a society in which the stringent regulations of femininity and sexual chastity were upheld, and in so doing, traces the logical consequence of a belief in and implementation of arbitrary societal ... for a woman who doesn't fit into the proposed mold of "femininity", simply because she happened to be on the receiving end of a series of unfortunate events. Manley's text...

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... oppositions, a male narrative voice and critique of conventional gender/norms and roles allows this lesbian narrative space to be drawn out from the main text. Jim's killing of the snake can perhaps be viewed as a way to confuse boundaries. The snake can represent a phallic symbol, which ... and Antonia with the situations in which she places them, resulting in the defiance of gender norms and offering a lesbian interpretation of the text. Farwell begins to define her idea of the lesbian narrative space by suggesting "we can conclude that a lesbian can occupy heterosexual ... lesbian nar...

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