This week we started the “adult simulation” part of MyVirtualLife. The beginning of the assignment was similar to what we did when making our child. We had to input physical traits as well as take a personality and cognitive quiz. Once this was done, we were introduced to the scenario and were asked about questions pertaining to “emerging adulthood” This assignment was exciting! It wasn’t very challenging to do and there weren’t any issues preventing me from completing the assignment. Doing this
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monitoring their child while choosing video games. Depending on the video game that is chosen, does not mean the child will result in violent behavior later on in life. There are many types of video games that may promote either positive or negative effects in children. As there are many types of video games that are being played by children for different pleasures. To name a few, there are adventure, puzzle, platform, educational, and so on. When choosing the right video game for your child, or anyone’s
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the family planning policy of "one child per family". Because of overpopulation, the Chinese government needed to provide the family planning policy of "one child per family." However, the policy caused some side effects on the population. The results are imbalance between developed and undeveloped areas, unbalance of male and female, preference of bearing only male children and increasing of selective-sex abortions. Although China has succeeded with its “one child” policy in the eastern area, the
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Exploratory: Do Video Games Have Negative Effects on Users? The form of entertainment is always changing with the shift in culture and advances in technology. One of the most popular forms of entertainment today is the use of video games. Video games have gotten more and more popular over the years. The use of them over a period of time can have a timely effect on the user just like any drug someone uses or any sport someone plays. Can they be positive effects or negative effects? Some people
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Cienna Hernandez 1. Is your virtual child likely to have any health problems during middle childhood? If your child does not have any health problems, to what do you attribute this? How has your culture influenced your child’s health? (8 points for describing health problems or lack of, 8 points – discusses culture and its influence on child’s health, 4 points for textbook support). Gemma has not had any health problems so far. She doesn’t seem to gain weight even when she eats a lot. Since she
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shooting, the movie theater shooting, and the Columbine are main examples people will use. Statistics prove that 97% of teenagers play video games and 66% of those games are action games, while the other 31% have little to no violence and are usually child friendly (“Violent Video Games and Young People”; Mashburn). In those 97% of homes that have teenagers, the likelihood
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between a father and child changes over the long period of time until the veteran returns. Moreover, they collected data from 42 families of returned prisoners of the Vietnam War and attempted to identify a combination of factors that could explain the variability in the quality of the father-child relationship subsequent to the returning from the War. This information from this book will help convey emotional lives that these children have to endure. This book will strengthen my research by pointing
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Brook University because I strive consistently throughout my educational years to do better academically. I have maintained a GPA of 4.0, and is currently taking challenging classes, such as AP Calculus BC, AP Literature and Virtual Enterprise. Five years ago, I was still an ESL student, a girl in the worst class of my grade. English was a tough barrier in the way of my road to excellent education, but I overcame that obstacle by dedicating my leisure time to studying vocabularies, grammars, and all
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making billions annually for major companies such as Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. You may ask yourself why there is such a demand for these products. The reason is simple; video games are highly entertaining. Through the evolution of, what is in my opinion, an astounding invention, a variety of genres have also developed which makes these games so fantastic. One minute you could be storming a medieval castle, fighting a fire-breathing dragon. The next you could be flying a Spitfire in World War
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young people. If we are working in a more social location other than school, how will our approach be? If we are speaking to another TA or a teacher, how will our tone and gesture, language all be? This all needs to be considered when assisting a child Communication differences Communication differences; when working with children or young people with communication difficulties it is vital that we ensure patience and understanding as they will need to take more time and feel unpressured while speaking
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