Not much happens in “The Sisters,” the first story in James Joyce’s Dubliners. Some of the meaning in the story comes from descriptions of the light in and around the house where the town’s old priest, Father Flynn’s body lies. Other meanings come through the characters’ memories of the priest, expressed through incomplete dialog and longer reveries by the narrator. Additional meanings can be surmised from the vocabulary, some of the specific words Joyce uses in the story, “like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism.”
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I am learning more about autistic children right now, and in particular what I'm wonder is why is there a sudden raise in such case. How is it that more and more children are becoming diagnosed at a much younger age? What is causing this? I was researching this question online, and this blog that I found in Kid Glue called "Autism Now Affects 1 in 100 Children" caught my attention because that shows that autism is affecting more and more children each year. I decided to choose this to read because I'm currently reading a book called "The curious incident of the dog in the night" and it is written first person by an autistic boy named Christopher. Reading the book really sparked my interest in learning about autism and how it affects not just children, but people in general. "Disorders like this are very bothersome to me. I have a friend whose son is Autistic and it is very challenging." This was a quote that I found from the article. I chose this quote because it shows us how challenging it really is to be around an autistic person. People with autism have to be dealt with care and patience. I recommend this article because you can learn a thing or to if you ever come across a person whose diagnosed with autism. -
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I like that you are making connections between your research inquiry and the book you are reading. Do you personally know anybody who is autistic?
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I love how Carmen introduces herself here, and her topic at the same time.
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Father Flynn's Light - New Journalism - 0 views
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The idea of looking for meaning in the descriptions of the light came to me pretty quickly. Then I realized that I could find other aspects of the story where meanings come through: characters' dialog and internal monologue of the narrator; and in the use of language. I started to see that this initial paragraph could make my whole argument in short hand. Then I would develop these themes in the remainder of the writing.
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This essay began as a set of notes that I put on a Book Glutton version of Dubliners. I'm reading there this summer to see how it works. Then I copied the notes into a Google Doc, and I organized them and re-wrote them into this essay. With this essay I'm trying to figure out what I mean when I ask students to create a close reading of a text. What exactly are we asking students to do? We're not asking them to do research. Instead we are asking them to "use the language of the literature" (as an MIT professor put it in her syllabus ) n their own analysis of the particular, representative and evocatve sections of the text.
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The narrator, a young man is introduced in the first paragraph as someone on vacation. He has had some sort of relationship with the man who at that point lies paralyzed inside his house after he has had his third stroke. It’s night when the story starts and the narrator is out for his regular evening walk. The narrator doesn’t feel invited into outside the house, but he also has a morbid attraction to what is happening with the man who has had the stroke.
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This paragraph was a slight revision from the note I posted on the first paragraph on Book Glutton. I like the way this paragraph follows the arc of the story, not revealing much about the story beyond what we know in the first paragraph. It tries to explain the meanings we can gather from the descriptions that Joyce give us in that first paragraph.
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Teachers Are Talking | EdTechTalk - 0 views
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Ian Jukes
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Even though he goes on and on... There is a lot here to think about. I especially like the 5A's of Asking, Accessing, Analyzing, Applying, and Assessing. http://books.google.com/books?id=ljknGZAWduEC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=ian+Jukes+5A%27s&source=bl&ots=IfufEyLTLp&sig=ui0Fqq0Ak87X9t-SDyAx0rvL1Bs&hl=en&ei=RjRdStOqK5KKMdTjjcAC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8
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In Ariz. Town, Main Street Is A Border Crossing : NPR - 0 views
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Just over the metal mesh border fence, it's San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico, city of about 150,000.
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It's what we sell the most - menudo
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We've got 40,000 to 50,000 on our peak time, people coming across.
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I grew up in - in Mexico. I love Mexico. I love San Luis, my town. Some friends, you know, I'm USA, yeah, I'm a USA citizen.
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I took a gander at this quote. The immigrant said that he loves his town,and his friends and he would like to stay in mexico. This is perfectly understandable. America makes it seem as though once your in,there is nothing else. There was nothing before and there wont be anything after. There are countries of equal significance or even more. All we have to do is look a bit further and we will see the truth.
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My name is Joel Silva. I'm born in the United States. I'm a USA citizen, but I live in Mexico all my life. When I'm 12 years old, my mom, she send me to buy, like, beans, like, potatoes that she pulled in the United States.
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This reminds me of the many people who were born in their home country but then moved to a different country for a better life.
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But my purpose to learn English to testify who is God, who is Jesus Christ
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This is so an obscure note, what does learning English has anything to do with testifying who is God and how can he testify who is God? No one can testify something that is beyond human understanding such as the notion of creation and the existence of a God, if in the first place He does exist
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We've got 40,000 to 50,000 on our peak time, people coming across.
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Wow, 40000 to 50000 people a day during peak time along just to cross the border for work is more than said for. I can imagine a line of cars waiting to get through the border every morning and evening. Like an never ending line of people, thirsty, hungry and exhausted.
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HOSALIN: This my other home right here.
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This quote makes a lot of sense. Anyone who spends the majority of time in a certain are (like students in school) consider that place to be their second home. But with these peoples hours, it may even be their first homes. o_O
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But when I got out, back to work.
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I found this extremely shocking because I can not believe that someone could get committed for a crime and still work as a legal immigrant in the USA.
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Mayor ESCAMILLA: Right now, we're on Main Street and you can see that there's some farm workers right now.
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I found this interesting because when I go to main street I only see Asian families and people. I see markets and small business, but in Arizona Main st is full of Mexican farmers and immigrants
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Tens of thousands of Mexicans legally cross every day. Many pick produce in southern Arizona's vast farm fields, and all of them cross the border on San Luis's Main Street.
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And usually at three o'clock in the morning you'll see the buses that park in the business parking lot. They'll just park there and wait for the workers.
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Its funny how even transportation is effected by the works who work over there. The buses on main street, flushing don't even wait for workers to get out during the week, they just run.
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they really like it a lot. Unidentified Man #7: (Spanish spoken) Ms. ESCAMILLA: (Through translator) And with that, they go to the fields to work really happy. Mr. SILVA: I work in the farm before in Mexico, but I started to work in the United States (unintelligible) 17 years old. When 1986, my wife, she passed away. I lose my car, I lose my pickup, I lose my small beans I had. I lose everything. And now I feel like my life is over. I don't see a reason to live. And these guy, he offered me to cross his car, and he put 30 pounds of dope inside. When I'm coming to cross the borderline over here in San Luis, Arizona, the officer, he saw me nervous with the way I speak to him. So, when the guy opened the trunk, he (unintelligible). In prison, I'm going to the book library and I find the bible and I start to read it. I never speak English the way I'm speaking to you now, never.
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Yeah, because you're working 14, 16 hours a day.
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I agree with Nicole, that is more than a normal working day of a 9-5 job. 14 to 16 hours a day is intense work. I'd be tired, hungry and bored.
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Unidentified Man #4: No.
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You've got thousands of people coming across every single day just to commute to work.
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It is crazy how so many people do this everyday i never knew about this.
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Tens of thousands of Mexicans legally cross every day.
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My name is Hosalin. We don't know each yet. He knows me because we've met each other in the different jobs here. Lettuce, melons, watermelons, (unintelligible). Like a big family, all of us.
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it show the busy at work on Main Street.and the different jobs on Main Street.
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Mr. SILVA: We are now in the parking lot of Sol Supermarket. This is the area where the buses parking. You can see buses from there to here. No cars. Morning, coffee.
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i think this is intersectuing because it shows that buses are comeign from like mexicoon and goign abck this is liek hte place for them to get off and get off to go to work thats why i think this was cool and worth to write about because without the place they cant go to work really.
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We come very early every day to sell food to the guys
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You can see buses from there to here. No cars. Morning, coffee.
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Dang, that's weird. In NY you cant cross a street without finding a couple of cars in the street.
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: (unintelligible) is different here. (unintelligible) across the line and go to work and come back, five, six, seven p.m. So tired.
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Like a big family, all of us.
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Mexican people all consider each other family, even if they dont know each other because thats how strong they feel about there culture.
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I'm buying a whole meal to everyone here and the best is the Panchita
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They probably have good relationship that's why that guy is buying a whole meal to everyone here.
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I'm going to the book library and I find the bible and I start to read it. I never speak English the way I'm speaking to you now, never.
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HOSALIN: This my other home right here.
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HOSALIN: This my other home right here.
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this is my job to pick up the beans, to carry the boxes to them
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They don't have time to eat at home because they leave very early
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You can see buses from there to here. No cars. Morning, coffee.
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We are working from two in the morning until four in the afternoon.
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So, this is my job to pick up the beans, to carry the boxes to them. You can put the melons in here. These are two small ones. The (unintelligible) is more big ones.
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The life of people on Main Street in Arizona is very different from ours. They focus a lot more on farming jobs. Though the lifestyles are different, we both have our own special things.
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And usually at three o'clock in the morning you'll see the buses that park in the business parking lot. They'll just park there and wait for the workers.
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How did they afford to have buses waiting for them if they didnt have much money?
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Right now, we're on Main Street and you can see that there's some farm workers right now.
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This is different from flushing main street, there are no farms and no farm workers in the city
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cause you're working 14, 16 hours a day.
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Tens of thousands of Mexicans legally cross every day. Many pick produce in southern Arizona's vast farm fields, and all of them cross the border on San Luis's Main Street.
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But the four-lane road also serves as a border station between the U.S. and Mexico.
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The Main Street in Arizona, as a border station, must be very desolate compared to our Main Street in NY. But since there are so many people crossing the border everyday, it must be very famous too.....
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Tens of thousands of Mexicans legally cross every day. Many pick produce in southern Arizona's vast farm fields, and all of them cross the border on San Luis's Main Street.
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Yeah, because you're working 14, 16 hours a day.
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They is crazy for a people work more that 12 hour a day, they don't have any time to do the other thing,because some of they need woke up at 2 am.their life just only work and sleep.
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We come very early every day to sell food to the guys. They don't have time to eat at home because they leave very early. We are working from two in the morning until four in the afternoon.
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This is a very nice thing this person is going she makes sure they eat i know theyhave to pay but still she thinks of them
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We come very early every day to sell food to the guys. They don't have time to eat at home because they leave very early. We are working from two in the morning until four in the afternoon.
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Sometimes we not take a break. Sometimes we not taking no lunch. We're working straight.
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That is very difficult since they are working 14-16 hours a day. They must be very strong. I don't think I can work that long without taking a break or eating. If I am able to do those things, then I can work those hours.
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Unidentified Man #2: Hello, sir. How are you doing? (Spanish spoken)
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Len Chenfeld's Outside Shot at Basketball Glory - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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At 5 feet 9 inches and 150 pounds, Len does not imagine himself playing in the N.B.A. or even the N.C.A.A. tournament
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I can relate to this because I am 5'11 and 153lbs, and being that i didnt play h.s ball i cant see myself making it to the N.C.A.A tournament let alone the N.B.A.
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Kenny Anderson grew up in LeFrak City, Queens, and had an army of recruiters tracking his skills by the sixth grade. Stephon Marbury, raised with six siblings in Coney Island, became “Starbury” and the subject of a book, “The Last Shot,” by the ninth. Both played for powerhouse city high schools (Archbishop Molloy, Lincoln), went to Georgia Tech on scholarship and left college diploma-less for the N.B.A. and its attendant fame and fortune.
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This is very discouraging for me because these NBA stars were being tracked since 6th grade and had books made about them. They went to big "powerhouse" schools and i cant compare to these acomplishments at all.
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Animation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.
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The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although several other forms of presenting animation also exist.
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The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although several other forms of presenting animation also exist.
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Early examples of attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion drawing can be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion.
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The phenakistoscope, praxinoscope, as well as the common flip book were early popular animation devices invented during the 1800s, while a Chinese zoetrope-type device was invented already in 180 AD.[3][4][5][6] These devices produced movement from sequential drawings using technological means, but animation did not really develop much further until the advent of cinematography.
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An Egyptian burial chamber mural, approximately 4000 years old, showing wrestlers in action. Even though this may appear similar to a series of animation drawings, there was no way of viewing the images in motion. It does, however, indicate the artist's intention of depicting motion.
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Shows an early form of animation. I makes you realized how old the concept of animation is.
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This has been claimed to be an example of early animation.[1] However, since no equipment existed to show the images in motion, such a series of images cannot be called animation in a true sense of the word
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The way this is information is said confuses me. I think its should be explained more clearly. I would write Although this was thought of as animation since the images did not move some people don't consider it animation.
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The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames.
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Shows how the animation was created which is helpful in understanding the process of animation.
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Georges Méliès was a creator of special-effect films; he was generally one of the first people to use animation with his technique. He discovered a technique by accident which was to stop the camera rolling to change something in the scene, and then continue rolling the film.
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The earliest surviving stop-motion advertising film was an English short by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper called Matches: An Appeal (1899).
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A 5,200 year old earthen bowl found in Iran in Shahr-i Sokhta has five images of a goat painted along the sides.
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Cinematic Creativity and Production Budgets: Does Money Make the Movie? - 0 views
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i believe this is a a brief summary of the book when looking at the abstract section of this page when you go to the link. All about Film budgets and discussing whether or not its necessary for a movie. Its just bits and pieces of things that are good to read hear and there so you know more about this industry. I am very serious about filmmaking. As you can see thats all I ever talk about when I'm on diigo or youthvoices. I am convinced that this is what I am going to do in life.
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First Impressions Count When Making Personality Judgments - US News and World Report - 1 views
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"In an age dominated by social media where personal photographs are ubiquitous, it becomes important to understand the ways personality is communicated via our appearance." I think it's pretty true that our appearance may reflect our personality. For example, if someone appears very neat and healthy and always smiles warmly, he must be very confident; if someone appears very untidy, I bet this person is very lazy. As we shouldn't judge a book by the cover, it's hard to absolutely tell a person's characteristics based on his appearance. Yet first impression is always very important because we are just used to remembering and judging by what comes into our vision first.
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Why Do People Like Horror Movies? They Enjoy Being Scared - 0 views
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I came across another piece of information a couple of days later which dealt with more theories of why people love to watch horror films. This news article titled "Why Do People Love Horror Movies? They Enjoyed Being Scared" by ScienceDaily states that new research suggests "horror movie viewers are happy to be unhappy." Investigators generally use one of two theories to explain why people like horror movies. The first is that the person is not actually afraid, but excited by the movie. The second explanation is that they are willing to endure the terror in order to enjoy a euphoric sense of relief at the end. However researchers Eduardo Andrade and Joel B. Cohen have argued that those two theories are incorrect. Horror movie viewers are happy to unhappy because in their book, their "novel approach to emotion reveals that people experience both negative and positive emotions simultaneously -- people may actually enjoy being scared, not just relief when the threat is removed. As the authors put it, "the most pleasant moments of a particular event may also be the most fearful."
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I'm learning more about multiple personality right now, and in particular what I'm wondering about is what cause multiple personality and is there a way to over come multiple personality disorder. I was researching this question online, and this blog post caught my attention because the blog post was about this book"Switching Time" by Dr. Richard Baer. The book is about a girl who has multiple personality disorder, she had 17 personalities. People who suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD, have normally suffered something tragic in their lives that cause them to split mentally in order to protect themselves. Don't we all do that when we are in stressful situations? We become someone who we aren't, sometimes only momentarily, but for a brief moment we don't even recognize ourselves. The difference is we are aware of this behavior when it happens, but what if we were suddenly forced into extreme situations repeatedly - how would we handle it? The quote I chose here is basically saying that MPD happens to people that go through something tragic in their lives. And to protect themselves their mind splits. It also says how we all do that sometimes but the difference is we know it and MPD patients don' t. When we change that's intentionally but MPD patients don't get a choice they just have it and they have to deal with the disorder.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Document - 0 views
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Cunningham, 80, whose innovative choreography has been expanding audiences' expectations about dance for more than 50 years, is reticent about connecting the dots. "The only relationship between the virtual and real dancers is the one you make for yourself," he says, comparing the experience of watching Biped to channel surfing. But that may be precisely the point, according to Roger Copeland, author of an upcoming book on the choreographer. Copeland believes that Biped, like much of Cunningham's recent work, is about how to focus your attention in a world full of distractions. "It's a model for a very progressive society, where different components are able to exist side by side without encroaching on one another." That may sound like a pipe dream, but in Cunningham's inspired rendition, it's an irresistible one.
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This is what I'm talking about. Years before his time Cunningham was showing us how to live through his art.
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Gameplay of World of Warcraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 9 views
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its a massive multiplayer role playing in short mmorpg i love playing mmorpg :3 yeahh i jus wanna take up space :D
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In it, players design a character to play based on a number of starting options, such as the race of character and its type or class.
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There are many games similar to this.. such as maple story, flyff, ragnorak... its nothing new. The only thing good about WoW is the graphics and the fact that they update the game every single week. I'm rather tired of kinds of games because all you do is level and fight. It got pretty boring to me.
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Why is it so important to have a character design? I mean I get it when a person picks what character they want to be, but why do you need to pick the color of their hair, or race?
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a player then has four to seven of the game's ten character classes to choose from
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Also it needs a minimum level in order to choose a hero class. This gives players motivation to keep playing until they reach the levels they need.
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How to make a character. Alliance or Horde? Different "races" available.
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The game has three roles, DPS (damage dealer), tank and healer, a member of any class can be customized for the DPS role, while members of some classes, known as hybrids, can also be customized as healers, tanks or any of the three roles.
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every game has different jobs so that there is a varaity in the gameplay and for obsesive people who wish to have all the classes to have a little more fun
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Each character is assigned a role at your decision. Play in a group or individually.
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Players can also participate in player versus player combat, either in large groups or small team matches.
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It is a good way for the character go to the PvP and have match with other player.
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These are indicated by having yellow exclamation marks (!) above their heads, while yellow question marks (?) represent quests ready to hand back and complete.[26] Quests usually reward the player with experience points and in-game money
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Hmm the yellow questions I have seen in other games for quests and stuff....
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al and periodical events have also been added, such as Halloween, Midsummer and weekly fishing competitions
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Although it's in a fictional world, there are still realistic things, such as Halloween. This makes the game more attractive and interesting.
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i agree with you,the game will following the real holiday and create some activitly or quest about the holiday.
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Yea, I think when there's events like these, people get drawn in because they get rare items or whatever
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I think that this is giving people a excuse to be anti social and have no life why talk to real people or go outside when there is a whole vertual reality the mirrors the real world.
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I agree too. holidays always makes pepole happy and when there favorite holidays are in the game its more interesting.
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But isn't one of the main attractions of video games to put people in an alternate world? I, in fact, don't think the game is very realistic. The whole idea of fantasy is what is so different from real world. I think that's what is most appealing.
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Professions are different from roles. You can actually get useful skills fit for that profession.
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Characters can be resurrected by other characters that have the ability, or can self-resurrect by moving from the graveyard to the place where they died.
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To start, players select a game realm or server to play on.
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Each realm is in one of four different categories, depending on which set of combat rules it uses.
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The main goal of the game is to defeat monsters and complete the mission, which is very similar to the one that I used to be playing.
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players are mainly focused on defeating monsters and completing quests (Player versus environment)
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open combat between players is permitted (Player versus player)
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player verses enviorment what the hell is that I think it is more sane to do player verses player I won't go coocoo.
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Enhancing a character's reputation can gain access to rare items, unique abilities and profession-based patterns and plans,[29] as well as lowering cost of items sold by NPCs belonging to that faction
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Players are also able to customize their character through the use of talents, which are further abilities related to their character class.[9][10]
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This sound fun, and very engaging becasue people can can create characters depending the person.
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roleplay versions of both these types, where players are encouraged to control their character as if they were an inhabitant of a fantasy world
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I can't imagine someone getting so in to the game... but I guess it's fairly normal also. How do you do that? o_o
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This sounded like Sims, but it would be interesting to have this combination of battle and civil life
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People get addicted to a game. And when they are playing their favorite video games they have no idea about whats going on around them.
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This does sound like Sims, however it is more fantasy. I guess it's what someone wants to get out of the game. I think that the idea of going on hunts and the whole monsters and dragons thing makes it very different than Sims.
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In one of the updates following the release of the Burning Crusade expansion, the rate at which characters gain experience from killing monsters was increased, along with reducing the amount of experience required to gain further skills and abilities.
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Race determines the character's appearance, starting location, and initial skill set, called "racial traits".
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"Racial traits" does not only determine the appearance of each charactor, but also affect their skills in combat. I like how this is designed.
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Characters are also able to learn two primary professions from a list of ten. These can be gathering professions, such as mining, herb gathering, or animal skinning. Characters can also choose from crafting professions, such as blacksmithing, leatherworking, or enhancement professions such as enchanting or inscription.
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Different areas added because of new editions. Objective is to earn experience points to level up and become better. There is communication through text chat. While traveling, one could ride a boat or a plane.
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language players are encouraged to use, offering in-game support in that language
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This allows players to explore areas and defeat quests without other players outside the group interfering.
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Gameplay of World of Warcraft
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this game iv heard of many times and it is suppose to be a good game however i find that it gets extremely tedious really fast and it gets boring after time which is good for a game that you piad for and have to keep paying for in order to play it
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World of Warcraft is a place where people can leave their everyday lives and live a "cooler" much perfered life to escape reality. It is here where a great world of interaction occurs and technology truely shines as we see it in action.
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I can see how people get addicted because they dont want to miss out on any extra priviledges so they buy all the extra game packs ot keep up to date with the game.
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Includes holiday-based events and uses weather effects. How sentimental.
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A typical dungeon will allow up to five characters to enter as part of a group.
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i agree. Teamwork makes everything a lot easier because 5 heads are better than 1 !
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General idea of questing. Awards and experience points are given after completing a quest.
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As well as banding together to form groups, players can also band together to form guilds. These structures allow players several benefits, such as easier communication and an identifying guild name and tabard. Guild members can also be given access to a central pool of resources known as a guild bank.[13] Guilds can also make use of an in-game calendar, allowing guild members to view scheduled events, and respond to them with whether they can attend or not. This calendar can also be accessed without need to log-in to the game, using the Armory feature.[14]
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Characters can only communicate and group with other characters of the same faction. Each faction has five races to choose from. Race determines the character's appearance, starting location, and initial skill set, called "racial traits".
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This paragraph explains the types of quests. Death happens but characters can be brought back to life.
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As well as dungeon-based raid challenges, several creatures exist in the normal game environment that are designed for raids to attack.
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Death Knights are a hero class, which means the player needs a level 55 (at least) and they start at level 55 with many skills, abilities, weapons and armor. While a character can be played on its own, players can also group up with others in order to tackle more challenging content. In this way, character classes are used in specific roles within a group
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different class character have different skill, if your lvl is higher,then the class will more high,and the you will hagve more skill
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The Alliance currently consists of Humans, Night Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes and Draenei; the Horde currently consists of Orcs, Tauren, Forsaken, Trolls and Blood Elves.
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most of the game have 2 different alliance,it will make the game more interest and fun.
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In common with many MMORPGs, World of Warcraft requires players to pay for a subscription, usually either by credit-card or by buying a card from a retailer to redeem for a pre-determined amount of subscription time.[15]
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This paragraph shows that one can improve "reputation." There are rare abilities available.
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Further options to customize the appearance, such as hairstyles, skin tones, etc are also available.
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REALLY? I thought that was just in games that "dress up" their characters as opposed to fictionous animated characters.
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Players can discover 'flight masters' in newly discovered locations and then use those NPCs in order to fly to previously discovered locations in other parts of the world.[19
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As well as banding together to form groups, players can also band together to form guilds.
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Players can interact with each other, which makes the game more fun. The players can also share experience with each other.
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Depending on the race chosen and the expansions installed, a player then has four to seven of the game's ten character classes to choose from.
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I'm a little confused... based on whatever they choose before, they then choose another character classes??
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the game only have 3 main character,after up lvl,it can upgrade to other character.
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Gameplay primarily consists of completing quests and dungeon runs, and other in-game activities, in order to obtain rewards which will allow one to improve one's character and equipment in order to be able to complete the more difficult quests and dungeon runs.
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Overall, I am very bored of this lesson and feel that this is pointless because I really don't care about the history or explanation of the "Gameplay of World of Warcraft." Plus, this game is rather boring and makes me not want to play. Great.
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I agree. The game seems really confusing and pointless. I don't find it necessary to learn about a fantasy world that isn't really interesting or beneficial.
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A number of facilities are available to characters when in towns and cities. In each major city characters can access a bank in order to deposit items, such as treasure or crafted items.
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Characters can also choose from crafting professions, such as blacksmithing, leatherworking, or enhancement professions such as enchanting or inscription.
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Professions... part of the game... I like! It's gives me something to do when not battling :]
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most of the people doing for the game money,you make the own thing and sell it out.
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very similar to other mmorpgs where people can choose jobs for their characters.
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n this game world, players use their characters to explore locations, defeat creatures and complete quests.
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Players have to explore locations themselves. That means the plot is not determined by the game and it will leave the players more to imagine.
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Although the game world remains reasonably similar from day to day, changes have been made over time. Seasonal events that reflect on real world events such as Halloween (as Hallow's End),[23] Christmas (as Winter Veil), Children's Week,[24] Easter (as Noblegarden) and Midsummer run for a period of a day or two up to several weeks.
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Gameplay primarily consists of completing quests and dungeon runs, and other in-game activities, in order to obtain rewards which will allow one to improve one's character and equipment in order to be able to complete the more difficult quests and dungeon runs.
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The many quest can get boring if there is no one singular goal of enemy to defeat and you whined up giving up.
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in-game calendar
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this seems useful - like a timeling/schedule for when everyone is free to play
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First, some realms allow player versus player combat to take place almost anywhere in the game world outside of areas for new players.
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The system of players vs players makes the game in touch with the real world. Players vs. real players in the game.
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This calendar can also be accessed without need to log-in to the game, using the Armory feature.
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World of Warcraft requires players to pay for a subscription
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A large amount of World of Warcraft revolves around questing.
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These structures allow players several benefits, such as easier communication and an identifying guild name and tabard.
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When a player instructs their character to yell or say something, a chat bubble appears above their head containing the spoken words in a similar way to a comic book image.
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Each battleground has a set objective, such as capturing a flag or defeating an opposing general, that must be completed in order to win the battleground.
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inding a difficult to locate object, or delivering an item from one place to another.
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In each major city characters can access a bank in order to deposit items, such as treasure or crafted items.
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As well as gaining in-game money, items and experience points, many quests will also increase reputation with a faction.
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These matches are among a small number of characters (between 2 and 5 per side) in two teams.
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the rate at which characters gain experience from killing monsters was increased, along with reducing the amount of experience required to gain further skills and abilities.
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A mailbox can be used to collect items won at auction and also to send messages, items and even in-game money to other characters.
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You have to pay for everything the messages that are sent must be important
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These mods can help the player by automating simple tasks, grouping similar spells or abilities together and enhancing the way information about the game environment is presented to the player.
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Some of the harder challenges in World of Warcraft require players to group together to defeat them.
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lol, how did i know jessica highlighted this one? but anyways, not when it's like a big boss monster
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. Seasonal events that reflect on real world events such as Halloween (as Hallow's End),[23] Christmas (as Winter Veil), Children's Week,[24] Easter (as Noblegarden) and Midsummer run for a period of a day or two up to several weeks.
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There are also realistic events in the fictional realm, which made the game more attractive.
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yea those are fun because you get to celebrate it with people from all around the world
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These are indicated by having yellow exclamation marks (!) above their heads, while yellow question marks (?) represent quests ready to hand back and complete.[
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These dungeons allow up to forty players to enter at a time in order to face some of the most difficult challenges.[3
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The ability for players to communicate with each other using voice chat was added some time after the release of the Burning Crusade expansion.
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In a change from the previous Warcraft games produced by Blizzard, World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where thousands of players can interact with each other. Despite this change, the game draws many similarities with its predecessors.
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Sometimes, quests of this nature are linked together by a common theme. Where one quest ends, another starts, forming a quest chain.
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If you stop playing the game that you get experience points dont you have to play the game to get the points
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I know!! That's the worst. You just want to give up halfway but if you do complete it, you get something good out of it.
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Dont quests get boring after a period of time? The game designers or whatever you call them must come up with a lot of ideas if the quests are never ending.
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However, most players prefer to use Ventrilo or Teamspeak, as they come with more customizable features and provide better sound quality than the voice service in-game.
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i've used ventrillo back when I played a game called gunbound and it was great.
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Yea, and during guild wars but it's kinda weird when your teamates and you only chatted by texts and not hearing each other's voices.
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a character may get attacked and killed by a creature, becoming a ghost at a nearby graveyard.
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LOL helen. You can die. You just respawn at the nearest respawning point. And you also lose exp which is a total ...
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As well as being able to complete quests and enter dungeons, players can also fight against other players in the game.
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When a character dies the items being carried degrade, requiring in-game money and a specialist NPC to repair them. Items that degrade heavily can become unusable until they are repaired.
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These locations act in a similar way to dungeons or instances in that only a set number of characters can enter a single battleground, but additional copies of the battleground can be made to accommodate additional players.[34]
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As well as banding together to form groups, players can also band together to form guilds. These structures allow players several benefits, such as easier communication and an identifying guild name and tabard. Guild members can also be given access to a central pool of resources known as a guild bank.[13] Guilds can also make use of an in-game calendar, allowing guild members to view scheduled events, and respond to them with whether they can attend or not. This calendar can also be accessed without need to log-in to the game, using the Armory feature.[14]
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it's fun if your guild is a good one. they back you up and help you out until you're strong enough.
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The ability for players to communicate with each other using voice chat was added some time after the release of the Burning Crusade expansion.
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This added function brought the players more fun from making people network with each other. People can share their experience or ask others question while playing through this voice chat.
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I think voice chat is awesome because you can continue to walk around without having ot stop and type. Its much easier to talk while you're hunting. many games have this feature right now which is awesome.
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Arenas are a further development to player vs player that were added in the Burning Crusade expansion
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High end dungeons allow more players to group together and form a raid. These dungeons allow up to forty players to enter at a time in order to face some of the most difficult challenges.[33] In the Burning Crusade expansion the most common group sizes are ten and twenty-five,[32] based on the idea that these groups would be easier to fill and coordinate.[32] As well as dungeon-based raid challenges, several creatures exist in the normal game environment that are designed for raids to attack.[20][23] [edit]
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In the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, a new player vs player zone was introduced called Wintergrasp
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A number of facilities are available to characters when in towns and cities. In each major city characters can access a bank in order to deposit items, such as treasure or crafted items. Each bank is unique to that character, with players able to purchase additional storage space.[21] An additio
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sade expansion was the concept of guild banks, allowing members of the same guild to contribute items, resources and in-game currency to a central poo
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After a set amount of experience points have been gained, a character gains a level, opening up the option of learning new skills or abilities, exploring new areas and attempting new quests.
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some realms allow player versus player combat to take place almost anywhere in the game world outside of areas for new players. In these environments, members of opposing factions can attack each other at any time.
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A number of features have been added to World of Warcraft, either prior to the original release or in one of the following content updates.
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whats wrong with constant updates with technology? it only makes it better..
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expansion was the concept of guild banks
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guild bank or storage is really helpful, helps stores everything you and your members donate to your guild
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Over time, a number of additio
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3D-representation of the Warcraft universe that players can interact with through their characters. The game features two continents on the world of Azeroth. A second world, known as Outland, was later added in the expansion World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.[16] The second expansion, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, added a third continent, Northrend, to Azeroth
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Open world serves as a great way to roam and complete quests, tasks, meet new people and in a way get lost into a massive world away from your ordinary life
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Players can also use facilities such as boats and zeppelins in order to move from one of the continents on Azeroth to the other. Players can communicate with each other using text based chat, separated into different channels for ease of use.
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Things can be used within the world and can be interacted with. Communicating with players can bring a more interesting experience to the gameplay to form alliances and discovering enemies.
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The mechanics of each class vary, with some tending towards melee combat while others are more suited to attacking from range or casting spells.
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Players can communicate with each other using text based chat, separated into different channels for ease of use.
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Players can also modify their in-game experience through the use of third-party modifications such as macros and add-ons.
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I think that this makes the game more appealing because users always want updates
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Players are able to transfer their established characters between realms in the same territory (North America, Europe, etc) for a fee.
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It seems that they charge you for everything, what an ingenous way of raising money
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Mages can be animal skinners,
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Dungeons
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More regular events such as a fishing tournament have also been set up for players to take part in.[25] Other changes include adding weather effects such as rain, snow and dust storms to areas,[19] or redeveloping areas of the game in order to add new quests or to continue a particular storyline in the game.[23][24] This can also include adding new dungeons to locations for the players to explore.[20][25]
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character classes are used in specific roles within a group.
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There is a great variety of classes. I will be dizzy choosing from all of them just like choosing from the game Neverwinter Night
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nal features and improvements have been added to the game world, such as additional locations to explore.
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it's always better when they keep on adding new stuff to the game, so you'll get bored not as fast
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In a change from the previous Warcraft games produced by Blizzard, World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) where thousands of players can interact with each other
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Comparison of a default World of Warcraft user interface (bottom) to a heavily modified one (top)
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This game was actually the first of this type I had known or heard of. Although I have never played this game, I think I would have enjoyed the setting and the interplay between players.
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combat, either in large groups or small team matches.
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Both Draenei and Blood Elves were added as part of the Burning Crusade expansion, which is required for these options to become available
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An example of what I meant by players having to buy extra game packs to keep up to date with the game and have as much fun as possible.
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These include using the same setting of the world of Azeroth as well as following a similar art direction.
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people who like warcraft in general would like this world, so it is no wonder it remained there
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These re-tune a set of dungeons in the Outland area for high-end characters, improving their replay value.[32] This feature is also available in Wrath of the Lich King for players who have reached the new level cap. A "looking for group" option allows players to passively find other players interested in doing the same instance
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Each bank is unique to that character, with players able to purchase additional storage space.
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weather effects
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Characters can also learn secondary professions, such as cooking, fishing and first aid.
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Victory rewards the character with tokens and honor points that can be used to buy armour and weapons.
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character in: the Horde or the Alliance.
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These include using the same setting of the world of Azeroth as well as followi
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This was seen as an attempt to encourage newcomers to the game, as they would be able to play alongside more advanced characters much earlier than before.[30]
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