...Cameron Wheatley March 25, 2013 Non-Linear Interactive Story Telling Paper 3 The first video game I really played on a console was Gears of War 3, about two years ago; only because my mom never bought me a Xbox or Play Station. My boyfriend and his friends always played it, while I would watch. The Locust characters frightened me because of their different noises and scary appearance. On the other hand, I was intrigued by the graphics due to the great deal of line work. I also enjoyed the copious amounts of gore involved in the game. I finally picked up a controller and began playing for myself. Since the day I began playing, I delved into all three Gears of War games. I tried to play the campaign or storyline for these games, but they were mostly incredibly boring due to the constant cut scenes. The entire Gears of War series is about the COG or human soldiers trying to save the last human inhabitants on a fictional planet called Sera from the subterranean enemy species known as the Locust Horde or Locust for short. Basically, you are fighting for a place to live. Last week, on March 19th, Gears of War: Judgement was released. I was a bit hesitant about purchasing this game because it was co-developed by Bulletstorm Studio People Can Fly and Epic Games, which changed the graphics to include much less line work. I bought it anyways and beat it in about eight hours over the course of three days. The game play was completely different than any of the other games, when...
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...Whoosh! Went an old chair rising into the sky.Nobody even saw it happen .All they heard were screams .The screams were scarcely heard by anyone.Except Oliver.One night he hears the screams screeching. The next day he was awakened by the dream ,then he tried and tried to remember .When he got out of bed .Gone,all of it gone.His alarm said 12:00 and was flashing as it was unplugged from the wall.He raced outside to his blue SUV and flew down the left side of the rode all the way to a creepy storefront called Tandess’s Tellings. The door creaked on the way in and and a voice said “Why have you summoned the gifted one .”Oliver responded “My dreams are really messed up.”The voice said “that will be 9.95.”Then the mistress mind reader appeared....
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...They Carried. In fact, he often points out that he has made entire stories up, after the fact. He defends his decisions by proposing that what he has done is, in fact, not lie, but rather tell a story-truth. He argues that his reason for doing this is to bring the story to life more than it could live through the happening-truth. 'I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth' (O'Brien, 183). O'Brien believes that, when accompanied by vivid details which essentially make the reader view the scene as a dream, story-truths can carry greater emotional truths than ever possible to be achieved through actual, happening-truths. With this, he shows, contrary to belief, how story-truths are often truer than happening-truths, and demonstrates this through the addition of often graphic details. Happening-truth encompasses actual events that take place. However true these stories may be, they are often times viewed as unreal simply because they have no details to back them up. The entire shit field scene that was put into this book, for example, was turned from a happening-truth into a story-truth because the original version was not believable. The reader can see this through O'Brien describing the letters that he received from Norman Bowker. Norman writes to Tim, telling him that he should write about the event. 'What you should do, Tim, is write a story... You were there --- you can tell it' (O'Brien, 151). Norman does this...
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...manipulatives. Student work in a given learning centre for a certain amount of time, then rotate to the next one when time is up. Teachers will need to spend a significant amount of time training students on how to behave during centre time, as well as modelling how to complete each of the learning centre activities. This will assure that learning centre time is productive, relatively quiet, and organized. AGE GROUP OF CENTRE AND THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILDREN IN AGE GROUP Four and five year-olds are the age group for which the ‘Honey Bees Reading Centre’ is planned. Children in this age range display several characteristics which can be categorized as cognitive, physical, psychosocial and moral. Cognitively * Enjoy stories and can retell them * Are fascinated by words and silly sounds * Have large vocabulary and can express themselves in vocal and non vocal ways * Love repeating phrases, rhymes and songs * Build confidence through verbal expressions * Can tell the difference in sounds Physically * Are active but can tire easily * Are trying to master finger control and may struggle with the scissors * Want to do things for themselves so tactile activities are loved...
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...a True War Story How to Tell a True War Story is written by Tim O’Brien. It is set in Vietnam between the years of nineteen fifty-four and nineteen seventy-five. In this section, the story starts out by talking about a man named Rat Kiley. Kiley is writing a letter to a friend’s sister telling her how good of a man he really was. He also writes about different stories that happened and how he was the first to volunteer for things, just to emphasize the greatness of this man. The sister of the deceased man does not write back to Rat Kiley which greatly upsets him. The story goes on to identify the man as Curt Lemon. Eventually, it is clear how Lemon died. Kiley and Lemon were tossing a grenade back and forth to each other when suddenly Lemon ended up stepping into a booby trap. Another man in the military by the name of Mitchell Sanders tells O’brien a story to teach him lesson. The story is about two men who set out to the mountains on a mission. After a few days of living up there, the men hear strange noises. It gets worse and worse so they order that the land below them be attacked. They pack up their stuff and walk down the mountain. When they reach the bottom their commander asks them what they heard and the men reply with nothing. Sanders claims the moral of the story is that no one listens, you need to listen to the quiet. He goes on to say that the moral of a war story cannot be extracted without a deeper meaning surfacing. The meaning behind the story is if he really...
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...A. Introduction One of the ways to tell and educate the children about moral values is by telling a story. At school, teachers usually tell the students some inspiring stories which usually are fiction, such as fables, legend and other folktales. One of the most famous stories told by teachers and parents is Kancil (Mousedeer) story. Kancil story is kind of fable as the characters in the story are animals. Fables, which frequently feature animal characters, are told with the intention of educating the listener or the reader[1]. The stories which often use animal characters are memorable way of reinforcing moral and ethical precepts and of teaching practical lessons on how to get along in the world[2]. Kancil (Mousedeer) is one of the most famous characters in a fable in Indonesia and some other Asian countries. There are a lot of stories using Kancil as the main character. In Indonesia the story about Kancil is influenced by the culture of the people in one region. Therefore, as Indonesia has a lot of ethnics with their culture, it makes Kancil stories are told in different version and different name based on the language, custom, value and religion of one society. For example, Aceh and other Malay people call Kancil as Pelanduk with the famous story “Hikayat Pelanduk Jenaka”; while in North Sumatera, Bataknese people call it Paes. However, still all the stories about Kancil describe him with the same character. Kancil is usually described as a clever, tricky and...
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...In the stories “The Jumping Tree”and “The Ravine” the two characters Rey and Vinny had to make a decision.The characters had to choose either to follow their heart or their friends.In my opinion Vinny made the best decision. The first way that he made the best decision is that Vinny was fearless in what he does. First, he was fearless because he was telling his friends to not jump from the fifty foot cliff.In the story it said that he told them not to jump even though Joe-Boy would call him a chicken.Another way is that Vinny climbs the muddy trail.It said in the story that even though that it was muddy,slippery,and that Vinny was afraid of heights ,but he was still climbing the trail to the cliff.As you can see Vinny was fearless even though...
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...John Edgar Wideman’s Our Time is a story of the world he and his family grew up in. In the story, Wideman takes us through the life of his brother Robby. He tells this story from different points of view, using both his voice as well and Robby’s. While telling Robby’s story, he tries to open our eyes to multiple injustices and dilemmas both inside and outside of our legal system. In using Robby’s voice, Wideman attempts to tell Robby’s story from Robby’s own point of view. Wideman attempts to provide insight into Robby’s mind. I have trouble separating Robby’s words from Wideman’s. In the story, Wideman tries to communicate what he went through growing up to the reader. In addition to using Robby’s voice, he also includes the viewpoint of their mother. Our Time starts off with Robby opening up about a very influential moment in his life; the death of his close friend Garth. Robby said to John, “It all started with Gar dying.” (Wideman, pg. 663). Garth’s death was a major turning point in Robby’s life. It cast a shadow over Robby’s own life. Robby already had a negative, cynical outlook on life. And Garth’s death exacerbated it. Robby resented the doctors that they couldn’t do more for him. “It’s our time now. We can’t let Garth down. Let’s drink this last one for him and promise him we’ll do what he said we could. We’ll be the best. We’ll make it to the top for him. We’ll do it for Garth.” (Wideman, pg. 663) By saying this, Robby is letting the deceased control his actions...
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...The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster If a tree falls in a forest with nobody around, does it make a sound? At one point in his 10th novel, The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster briefly refers to this philosophical concept. If a man, however, lives a life that nobody else notices, did he really live? That's the real debate that he proposes with this novel. The book opens with the sentence, "Everyone thought he was dead." It refers to a silent film comedian named Hector Mann who just disappeared one day back in 1929, but it could just as easily refer to the protagonist of the story, David Zimmer, a literature professor at a liberal arts college in Vermont. David's life came to an end the day his wife and sons were killed in a plane crash. That disaster sent him diving headlong into drink and depression and he lived in an almost catatonic state in front of the television every day. He saw no purpose to living, but he was also unable to take his own life. He divorced society, quit his job, and broke off all contact with the people in his former life. One day, a spark of life emerged while he watched a short clip of a Hector Mann movie on the television. He laughed. That moment of laughter made him realize that there was still something inside him that wanted to live, and he realized he needed a purpose, something to occupy his mind and to get him through every day. David decided to write a book about Hector Mann and his movies. He had previously written several books of literary...
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...Counselor as Companion on the Hero’s Journey The story of the hero’s journey has been told and retold in oral and literary traditions for centuries. The hero motif captures the strength and perseverance of the human spirit of men and women so elegantly that it has not been bound by either culture or religious tradition (J. Campbell, 1949). In this article a counselor discusses his experiences while working with a male client named Steve. Steve’s story is very inspiring to everyone. His story shows us that we should believe in ourselves. This story has touched me and I believe people can learn from it. I believe the counselor learned many things from Steve. The first thing I believe that the counselor learned from Steve is that believing in yourself is the strongest belief you can have. If you don’t believe in yourself no one will. Also no one can change you or what you want or believe in. The counselor also learned that some people have a lot of hope; and with that hope people can do anything. Another thing that the counselor learned was that setting small goals is better for a person to do. It may seem hard and take more time, but you can still accomplish your goals and maybe more. The counselor’s behavior may have changed as a result of working with Steve. The counselor may have doubt in Steve also, feeling like he did have limitations as the other doctors were telling him. Another thing that may change as a result of working with Steve may be that the counselor treated...
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...It’s all about the Literature Heather Henegar Grand Canyon University: RDG-514 July 2, 2015 It’s All About the Literature As with any area in curriculum and instruction, teachers should not be fully dependent on one source, but rather use a variety of resources to help students understand content. The same can be said with the use of textbooks. Teachers should supplement core curriculum with quality trade books (GCU, 2012). Trade books can offer a wealth of information such as a means to expand vocabulary, clarify concepts, explore real-world situations, and entertain (GCU, 2012). Furthermore, Johnson & Small, (2008) stated, “In contrast to textbooks, nonfiction trade books can support instruction in nearly every subject…which allows a teacher to front-load experiences with a concept” (p. 132). The following table lists trade books that can be used to enhance and supplement instruction in Math, Science, Social Studies, and Reading within a fourth-grade classroom. Book Title | Content Area | Summary | Appropriateness | Standards | Millions, Billions & Trillions by David A. Adler & Edward Miller (2013) | Math | In this book, Adler helps students to connect large numbers to other things they already know. There are also hands-on activities that can be done, such as using one-fourth cup of sugar to illustrate what a million might look like. This book also tells students how long it would take to count to a million, billion, and trillion (Adler & Miller...
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...Children of Heaven BACKGROUND: Released in 1997, the Iranian film, ‘Children of Heaven’ is a story of two siblings from a lower class, who struggles with, and, for a pair of shoe. Directed by Majid Majidi. Majid Majidi His work is uncluttered and elegant: the story flows in a simple, linear manner with no flashbacks or flash-forwards; no special effects to jazz things up; And the soundtrack played a vital part in shaping the whole experience of the viewer. It’s not just the music. It’s the strategic use of silence. It is called the sound of silence The cinematography and editorial pacing of Children of Heaven takes advantage of the full range of cinematic story-telling techniques, Such as tracking shots, pans, a wide range of camera framings, camera reversals, and point-of-view shots – FEW POINTS WORTH HIGHLIGHTING IN THE MOVIE: 1. the narrow alley in which we see the children running most of the time, projects the economic state of the community and the director’s insight to enhance the proximity of the situation and also the realistic projection of how many hardships the faced to keep the secret: running in dirty uneven lanes, with gutters, children playing, crowd moving about. 2. A director’s decision on what camera movement for what shot? The decision is a combination of Director’s POV i.e. what he wants to communicate or what does he want the audience to focus on and the audience tendency of observing things i.e how best can he leave an...
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...or phrases from different parts of the story that show how Johnny's environment physically affected him. "Pretty skinny," the superintendent laughed anxiously. "Look at those legs. The boy's got the rickets -a dry, hacking cough that lifted the lint which had been settling in his lungs all morning. 2. Copy and paste three sentences or phrases from different parts of the story that show how Johnny's environment mentally affected him. "he snarled curses at them -- curses he had learned from the lips of various foremen" "Once or twice he laughed aloud, but without relevance to anything he had seen or felt" "There was no bitterness in him, nothing but an inordinate hunger for rest." "Johnny smiled patiently, and his mother was aware of a distinct shock at the persistent absence of his peevishness irritability." 3. Re-read the last three paragraphs of the story. Describe what will happen to Johnny in his next week Jack London had written a sequel to "The Apostate." (Be realistic and specific!) He will more than likely end up in some other place working or maybe even dead. He was already in bad health 4. Suggest three specific intentions Jack London had when he wrote this story. a. To tell a story of poverty and raise awareness of it. b. Maybe flashing back on similar experiences he had or maybe about someone he knew. c. Just for the sake of telling a good story, maybe he was in a dark place at the time. 5. Decide on a theme for this story. Write the theme by completing this sentence: ...
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...Being an active good listener in the veterinary office is of the utmost importance. When a client is explaining their pet's problems to the receptionist, they want to know that receptionist is listening effectively. Not everyone is a good listener, listening is really hard work and it takes concentration. There are a few things one can do to become a good listener and there are signs that someone is not listening. If a friend is telling a story, they expect to be listened to. There are a few things we as people do to let them know we are not listening. Distracting ourselves is one of them. Sending a text message, watching a dog in the distance or thinking about what needs done at home are all ways of distracting ourselves. Interrupting someone as they speak is also a good way to let them know you are not listening. Topping their story with one of your own can let someone know they are not being listened to. Just because you've done the same things as them doesn't mean they want to know about it. Just listen to their story and be genuinely interested in what they are saying. There are several ways to break those habits and become a good listener. Squarely facing the speaker, uncrossing your arms, leaning towards the speaker and making eye contact are excellent ways to start. Repeating things back to the speaker is another way, however this needs to be used when appropriate. Also realize when you're not listening and fix it. Be mindful of what the person is saying to you,...
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...Flanders and Conversions: Two Family Stories From the Reformation and Modern America. His books were adopted by the Yale Printing Press and are used widely in many Universities all across the country. Many Religious groups have taken Harline’s scholarly works and used them as educational tools and belief strengtheners in the Church. Harline is now a history professor at Brigham Young University. Harline received inspiration for his historical texts from extensive research of Belgian and Dutch archives. What made Miracles at the Jesus Oak different from his other books was that he wrote five different stories in one contextual text showing each miracle in a different light. He tried hard to stray from the typical religious view on writing about miracles and this caused for his entire book to be a success. Section 2: Each chapter begins with a story, and typically that story entails setting out for a miracle. Each story is told as if it could be in fact a movie; the description is so vivid that it’s very easy to visualize everything. You visualize a humble peasant who suffers from lack of breast milk for her fourteenth child. After feverish praying and searching far and wide she is given a miracle, which is presumably given to her by God. Harline sets up the book and his reasons for writing his story in the prologue. Because of reading this you understand where his though process came from and you are told what finite range of time the five stories are taken place. Nonetheless,...
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