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War And Video Games, Nicholas A. Perry
War And Video Games, Nicholas A. Perry
Senior Honors Projects
War has been a subject of many different mediums. Through the portrayal of war, great movies have given insights on human conditions in wartime. War has also been the subject of several video games that are incredibly popular in mass culture. The difference between war movies and war games are that war games are interactive, requiring the players to act out violence in a digital form whereas movies are passive and reiterative in outcome.
There have been many criticisms of war video games ranging from their ability to condition players to violence to their role as propaganda for recruitment, but …
Persuasion In Contemporary Presidential Campaigns, Dylan Moore
Persuasion In Contemporary Presidential Campaigns, Dylan Moore
Senior Honors Projects
Persuasion has been the foundation and objective of political campaigns since the first contested presidential election in 1796. While this foundation has not changed, the methods of persuading have undergone many changes over the years. Persuasion tactics of past presidential campaigns have used mediums such as print and television but it was not until the last two presidential elections that voters had the internet to supplement their decision-making process.
It is with the rise of the internet that we can see the greatest shift in contemporary campaigns tactics. Candidates’ websites serve as a “one stop shop” for voters to attain …