Games Article Reviews Samples For Students

Derek Pearsall’s essay “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Essay in Enigma” is part of The Chaucer Review’s commemorative issue celebrating the work of C. David Benson as he approaches the age of retirement. Pearsall hearkens back to his master’s thesis days when he writes about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; he begins by noting that even though he is quite familiar with the plot of this tale, to the point where he can tell a slightly less salacious version of the tale to his children and grandchildren. However, he also points out that ...

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In the article “Children Need to Play, Not Compete” written by Jessica Statsky, she stated that competitive sports can cause psychological and physical dangers to children brought about by injuries and the fear of losing the game.

Statsky stated that organized sports activities for children between the ages of six and twelve children have become too competitive that the spirit of play have disappeared and sports have been considered as a job where children as tasked to win (2). It was emphasized that winning, which is the primary goal for every professional athlete should not be made applicable to ...

Research Problem/Question: The researchers had based their research on the argument that violent especially shooting video games have become most important leisure activity among youth. With the increasing praise for such games in media and public, these games have stimulated aggressive behavior and feelings of inattention towards friends and family as the users have perceived these animated characters as social beings and they are not actively involved in social activities. Apart from enjoyment and stimulation of aggressive behavior, youths feel no wrong in killing; rather they enjoy playing these games. However, very little research has been done to assess ...

The business intelligence in the production and analysis of the social games gives Zynga a competitive edge over its opponents in the market. The analytic tools used by Zynga helps this business to project the marketing information on the needs of its customers. The identification of the market needs through analytic graphs tool help Zynga to determine the actual products or games that the customers want. The areas to be improved in relation to the products and games of this company area also identified through the business intelligence services. The business data analysis also helps in the retention of customers ...

The research in the journal was carried out owing to the belief and claims by people that violent computer games and other violent videos lead to violent effects on individuals. The claims were that these games and videos make people to become angry easily, aggressive behaviors and aggressive thoughts. Such people have greater chances of committing violent crimes. However, this information had not been proved since there was no reasonable research that had been carried out to prove this. This is why the research was conducted to evaluate this belief. The thesis of the article is to find out ...

Article Reviews

Mayer, J., Wilson, R., and M. Hazlewood. “Personal Intelligence Expressed: A Multiple Case Study of Business Leaders.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 30(2): 201-224.

Summary

This article acknowledges the wealth of intelligences that can lead to success in many different areas of life, focusing on the ways in which personal intelligence (PI) can influence life expressions. Defined as “the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans and life experience,” PI can increase one’s interest in one’s own personality, and the personalities of others, inspire the creation ...

You know the day will not be a smooth one when you see your boss’ car parked in your spot, when you, as usually, arrive earlier at work. The book “The Goal” gravitates around the life and work of Alex Rogo, a Plant Manager within Uniware, part of UniCo company. Alex is a career oriented person, who tries to find a balance between his challenging work and his family life. As he follows two goals at the same time, he fails in both.
In the beginning of the book, readers find out that Alex’s plant is facing some troubles. Although he ...

Bargaining over Strategies of Non-Cooperative Games

The article provides insight to the bargaining process that integrates the process of non-corporative game theory. To understand the applicability of non-cooperative games, the authors discuss the uniqueness, the efficiency, and existence of the agreement reached in the bargaining process. The article shed light to the broad perspective of the non-cooperative games involving two players by including several games that involve the Ultimatum Game, the Prisoner's Dilemma, the Trust Game, the Hawk-Dove Game. Using these two-player non-cooperative games, the author found that the bargaining process proposed result in Pareto-efficient settlements, which typically differed from the Nash equilibrium obtained in ...

The website Math is Fun.com is authentic; the features itself are simple yet attractive. It started on April 19, 2000; it is their 13 years of helping people learn especially students and children. The site covers the full kindergarten to K12. It has a teachers’ page to inspire their student to visit the site for any suggestions and recommendations. Math is Fun updates their featured topic of the month, and forum is open for any feedbacks, new ideas and comments. It shows the real view of what really means about Math is Fun. The simple minimal features added the clarity ...

Abstract

The current paper presents a summary of the article “The Cold War on Ice: Constructivism and Politics of Olympic Figure Skating Judging” by Sala, Scott and Spriggs II. The article addresses the issues of the international political rivalries that took place at the time of the Cold War as well as the inherent rivalries after the Cold War was over. The rivalry between different nations seemed unusual depending on the data obtained by the researchers. Particularly, the authors of the article present a quantitative analysis of constructivist approach allied to international relations. It is worth noting that the researchers ...

Essay 1

Is Google MAKING Us Stupid by Nicholas Carr
The idea that intrigued me most is the fact that modern day society is getting overly dependent on the internet, and hardcopy reading culture is slowly dying. Gone are the days when people could visit libraries to read or conduct research. Today, people comfortably do that from behind their desktops in the comfort of their homes. A lot of information is easily made available, and it helps people to have “immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information” according to Carr.
What I have learned from this article is ...

Boggs, K. C. (1998). IE and NFL spell success for coaching legend. IIE Solutions, 30(1), 14.
- This article provides a discussion of how the former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry applied concepts of industrial engineering such as quality control, computer analysis and industry psychology to develop a program, which improved the team’s performance and achieve multiple successes winning the Super bowl.
- Some of the concepts that were used by Landry include quality control, industrial psychology, and computer analysis. These three approaches are discussed in detail indicating how Landry employed them to making the team a success
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Question 1

John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success is still applicable to the current business environment. The pyramid named loyalty, team spirit, condition and skill present in the team. These attributes are essential to today’s business environment as they help nurture the relationship between the firm and its clients. The Pyramid of Success is applicable not only to basketball where Wooden was a coach but also in our day to day live. Through Wooden, we learned that the end is always a result of our doings and misdoings. Therefore, businesses that want to prosper in the long term should not ...

Instruction:

David Colander presents a journal known as eastern economic journal in 2016. A set of rules are important to organize the teaching of introductory economics. These rules offer an advantageous instructions and suggestions, which provide a platform for further discussions to unify. If a teacher follows all these efficient rules, then they make grading easier and students can remember all material related to the course. Many Economists argue that our way of teaching is not well and we are teaching the wrong directions as well. Every teacher should keep in mind that every principle is a tool not a ...

Business Case Analysis of 1 Up Toys

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Business Case Analysis of 1 Up Toys

Ronald Mannak, the founder of 1uptoys, created a company out of a desire to develop cutting-edge toys and gadgets. His friend, Patrick Grasso, decided to enter into business with Mannak. Both Grasso and Mannak invested a total of 24,000 Euros with Mannak having a “55% share” in the company (Smits & Bodewes, 2011, p. 5). In order to get more capital to start the company, Mannak made the decision to sell the idea before developing the products. In June 2006, SilverLit decided to sign a licensing agreement with ...

Economic transformation has led to tremendous change in the role, scale and meaning of major urban airports worldwide. The major gateway airports are attracting spatial concentrations of commercial activities, leading to transport induced growth (aerotropolis). In Australia, airports are becoming major business centers and are being leased off to private companies by the government. The airports are no longer public goods but profit oriented ventures. As a result of development of these airports by these private companies, complications arise which relate to land use, environmental impacts and implications, infrastructural transport and stakeholder relationship. The impacts of airports are a challenge to ...

Psychology

In their research “The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal”, Whitson, Galinsky and Kay (2014) addressed human emotions that are linked with the uncertainty of the world. They suggest a hypothesis that these emotions (such as fear, surprise, hope, etc.) should promote the need to endow the world with structure and order using a variety of compensatory measures.
The reason to conduct the experiments described in the article was a desire to prove that the certainty of the emotions plays a greater role than its valence in the process of activating compensatory control. Moreover, the experiments ...

Rushkoff uses a lot of military language in this essay. What is some of this language? Identify some of the key words and phrases?
It is evident that in the essay “A brand by Any Other Name” the Rushkoff has used a lot of military words. For instance, in his earlier paragraphs, he has utilized the words “Defense Mechanism” where he is addressing the general audience regarding, how the companies are spending million for the development of strategies to identify the children’s predilections. Moreover, in the next paragraph has utilized the words such as “Battle” and “Radar” while describing ...

Article Review

Article Review
This paper focuses on the clinical assessment, diagnosis and management of children aged 18-24 that are thought to have autism. Since there are difficulties with diagnosing autism at such a young age, the article selected discusses these issues while providing the most recent data available on this subject. This includes presenting the symptoms that do appear at this age, reviewing how successful current methods to detect autism at this stage are and what the best treatment plans are composed of. Also included in this article is how to respond if a child under the age of 2 is ...

Blood Breathe Alcohol

This paper talks about the increased level of alcohol consumption in the University amongst the students and other college fans, especially during the game days compared to other social days. A game day here refers to the day on a campus football events (Glassman, Wercb, Jobli, & Bain, 2007; Nelson &Wechsler, 2002; Prevention File, 2008). This article talked about the problems that the university officials are facing while dealing with the issue of alcoholism. It sufficiently addressed the preventive measures put in place, like the limitation of tailgating to three hours before the start of the game and the ban of ...

Teaching is one of the most challenging professions in the world. This is so because as a teacher, one gets to interact with a variety of personalities in one setting and therefore has got to devise mechanisms of identifying these personalities and addressing each individual personality according to their own needs and wants. A class of thirty students will comprise of thirty different personalities and it is the role of the teacher to address these student’s personalities without excluding any. Identifying the student’s strengths and weaknesses therefore is the most important thing to do. In order to meet the ...

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Shakib, S., Veliz, P., Dunbar, M. D., & Sabo, D. (2011). Athletics as a source for Social Status among the youth: Examining Variation by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status. Sociology of Sports Journal, 28(3), 303-328
The journal article highlights problems experienced in sports and athletics with a closer focus on the universities. The author has provided a broader sampling and research synthesis from different parts of the world thereby representing a wider and a better scope on the world of sports especially in addressing the race factor in different parts of the world. The author is an established researcher and a writer from the ...

There have been discussions from various sets of people on the possibilities on whether media violence causes aggression or not. This has been a topic that has been covered by researchers, psychologists, media pundits and other scholars on trying to determine the extent that media violence has on the aggression of people. Some people agree with the fact that media violence has a direct influence on the amount of aggression that people possess. They believe that media violence is the cause of aggressive and violent behavior. This has been supported by some of the facts that they possess from various researches ...

Southwest Airline is a company that has effectively managed its culture to conform with the company’s customer orientation. It has intended to influence how employees interact with the clients to make them feel at home. It promotes having fun and was built on “Luv”, which is the name of the airfield during the company’s inception. Their flight attendants engage their employees to join games during the flight and to sing songs. It has won the airline industry’s most coveted Customer Satisfaction Award in 2009, which has made it as one of the most profitable company’s at ...