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Is the Gaming World Sexist? Particularly Looking at Lara Croft - Ivy

     How sexist is the gaming world? Okay, I will admit that I know very little about gaming. I played a lot of Mario Kart when I was younger, and I’m really good at Tetris, but that’s about all I’ve got. However, I’m really interested in this topic, so I did a bit of research on wikipedia about it a bit ago after watching a movie called Lara Croft: Tomb Raider . I’m not exactly sure how I landed on that movie, but somehow, I ended up watching it. I haven’t seen any of the sequels, or the remake, but I generally know what they’re about. Lara Croft, in the movie, is played by Angeline Jolie. She, as well as the rest of the movie, is based off of the main character and plot of the video game Tomb Raider . Because the game debuted in 1996, Lara Croft is one of the first and one of the most famous leading female characters in major video games. Thus, along with the fact that I have little other knowledge to use, I will be looking at her.  Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft According to Forbes, L

Public or Private Schools?

The debate of which schooling system is better; public or private, has been an ongoing one with varying answers. There are benefits of both, and each will inevitably possesses an attribute the other does not, however I believe public schools have more advantages. I have personally experienced a mix of both public and private schools, so I have gathered a pretty solid understanding on both systems. With my experiences along with the extra research I have done, I have concluded public schools are ultimately a better choice.  Found here . The first advantage of going to public school is that you do not have to pay a tuition fee. Private schools are, as we all know, very expensive, usually costing families thousands of dollars yearly to send their children there. The typical justification for the cost is that the education you receive is worth the extra money. People tend to believe that just because public schools are free, they do not offer the same opportunities and high level curriculu

A+ A-Words, brought to you by Ellix

Come one, come all I have begun a new endeavor I give to you The A-words with an A+ A few days ago, I decided I must annotate the dictionary. Specifically, A Student's Dictionary (23rd edition). Now, it's taking quite a bit of time, and I don't exactly have an excess of hours to write this blog post. So, I will be talking through the first few pages of words starting with the letter "a".  First of all, what exactly am I writing in said dictionary? I'm giving my general thoughts on words, taking into account their meanings, sounds, spelling, and random statements that come to mind when seeing a word. I'll be focusing on the words "a" through "achieve" for this post. That way, it isn't the length of 40 football fields. So far, I've noticed that there are a lot of words with the same prefixes. Starting off with the first page of words, page 7 in my dictionary, we begin with all the "ab..." words. There are too many of the