roman’s blog

In the book Conrad makes only a few references to women and but shares his overall attitude about them and his view of what ‘European’ men think or ought to think of women.  Marlow himself runs in to five different women throughout the book the most significant being the native woman and Kurtz’s “intended.” The [...]

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So what is plagiarism? Plagiarism is using someone else’s ideas or work in your own work without giving credit to the original author (citing). It is considered stealing and has high consequences especially in professional settings and it doesn’t matter whether plagiarism is intentional or not. I am personally guilty of a specific type I [...]

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I didn’t realize the entire picture about bias until we’ve learned that everything written has a bias of some form or another. The written work we went over in class this past week has had some clear and obvious example of bias especially from first story from the ‘Old Favorites of the McGuffey Readers.’ Summed [...]

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So it seems my thesis will be something like… ‘The future of video-gaming is likely to see players using devices that allow their brain to control and interact with objects in virtual environments and simulated situations that involve other people just like them.’ I think mind-video control is the prevalent topic when it comes to [...]

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So I’m researching the ‘future of video games’ and for the first time I really feel like this is a cool topic to do research on. Although my thesis is still in development, I hope it will come out clear and still be arguable because it is hard to be certain about the ‘future’ of [...]

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