GONE HOME IS THE STORY EXPLORATION GAME YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR by Becky Chambers | 2:45 pm, August 16th, 2013 2 Share on Tumblr It’s just a house. That’s all the game is, a house full of receipts and cups and boxes of tissues. Mundane and ordinary. You can walk around the house. You can pick things up, turn them over. You can paw around drawers and cupboards. You are alone. You are unguided. You can take all the time you need. There’s a lot to uncover in Gone Home, the inaugural
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HIDDEN CITIES TEXT A metropolis home to 1.3 million people, Davao is the biggest city in Southern Philippines. It is also known as a gateway to culture and adventure. However Davao is also of Historical importance. One such reason is the Japanese Tunnel, located in Diversion Road. Nestled inside a resort, I was able to gain access by paying fifty pesos. I was met by a tour guide who narrated bits of information that I found interesting such as the Mickey Mouse money that was on display near
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The major issues in the evolution of our educational system have to do with the removal of religion, standardized testing and NCLB. In the early years of our educational system, religion played a big part until the 60's and when Madalyn Murray O'Hair, pushed for removal of religion from public schools. As an atheist she felt that the separation of church and state was being violated and that religion had no part in the public school system. Standardize tests have taken a one size fits all test
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Night by Elie Wiesel is about death and reveals that when you come face to face to face with death, it is a tragedy to realize that people are really gone. One example of this is, “We jumped at the sound of the shot. Falling to the ground… and then he was still” (Wiesel pg 60). At this point in the story a man was brave enough to risk his life just for some soup, but then he was shot. After this many people heard the gunshots and bombs being thrown from all different directions and everyone was scared
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The Knife Thrower “[…] we felt a sharp tug of disappointment, which changed at once to shame, deep shame […]” ‘The Knife Thrower’, written by Steven Millhauser, is an American short story published in 1997. Some of the main themes in this story are expectations and disappointment, responsibility, forbidden desires and personal moral. As a reader, you can reflect on how entertainers and role models in a small society, and how a group can affect the individual. The story begins in medias res: “When
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Business Communication Trends Paper Marlo Catania Com/285 July 25th 2011 In today’s world there are so many ways to communicate it is unreal. Our society has gone from the average telegraph and postal service to the World Wide Web and Smart Phones. Adding these new communications into an everyday business role has created a highway for expansion and success for business around the world. Although my business does not benefit from much of this as we are off the grid I do see some things that
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Nuclear Thoughts The United States has held a central role in the nuclear arms race since its development over sixty years ago. They were the creators, the first and only nation to ever deploy the weapon against a foreign power, effectively ending Japan’s role in WWII, and still continue to invest millions annually into their nuclear arms program. Over twenty years has passed since the end of the Cold War, and the conception of MAD, mutually assured destruction, the United States continues to fund
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Nuclear Thoughts The United States has held a central role in the nuclear arms race since its development over sixty years ago. They were the creators, the first and only nation to ever deploy the weapon against a foreign power, effectively ending Japan’s role in WWII, and still continue to invest millions annually into their nuclear arms program. Over twenty years has passed since the end of the Cold War, and the conception of MAD, mutually assured destruction, the United States continues to fund
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Nuclear Thoughts The United States has held a central role in the nuclear arms race since its development over sixty years ago. They were the creators, the first and only nation to ever deploy the weapon against a foreign power, effectively ending Japan’s role in WWII, and still continue to invest millions annually into their nuclear arms program. Over twenty years has passed since the end of the Cold War, and the conception of MAD, mutually assured destruction, the United States continues to fund
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all high school students say they have had sex; and 15 percent of high school students have had sex with four or more partners during their lifetime.” ( www.ncsl.org) Among students who had sex in the three months before this survey was completed, 60 percent reported condom use and 23 percent reported birth
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