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“10 Legendary Chinese Folklore Heroes Who Are Ready to Battle in Your Favorite Video Games”
anthropologist, anthropology, black magic, China, Chinese folklore, Chinese mythology, cinema, cinema studies, culture, east asia, film studies, folklore, folklorist, game studies, gamer, games, league of legends, literature, moba, monkey king, mythologist, Mythology, pop culture, ps5, smite, storyteller, sun wukong, video game studies, video games, warriors orochi, writer
Get ready to fight alongside Sun Wukong and other iconic heroes from Chinese mythology in these epic video games! If you’re a fan of video games and Chinese folklore, then you’re in luck! From the mighty Sun Wukong to the cunning Da Ji, these legendary heroes are ready to battle it out in your favorite…
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Summer is a wild time of endless gaiety; A lazy, balmy, mild time; of human laxity. Of days with cares abandoned beside a socky shore, And breeze-swept, heathered stretches of Scotland’s ageless moor.
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Poet Alexander Bacchus on Morocco, Marrakech, Accepting Ones Faults, and Living Intentionally
I first met Alex doing research on a local variation of Darija. (Moroccan Arabic). We both managed to find ourselves in Fez, that day, sitting across from one another and, the moment I saw this cat I realized I found my foil, my nemesis. A sheep in Wolof’s clothing, so to speak, for this cat…
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I couldn’t help but feel like a fraud. Here I was, leaving behind everything I’ve ever known in the hopes of finding something better. But what if I never find it? What if I spend the rest of my days wandering aimlessly, searching for something that will never come?
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The Five Commandments of Storytelling
creative writing, creativity, drama, dramaturgy, Ela, els, English, History, orator, poet, poets, rhetoric, stories, story, storytelling, teaching, tefl, tesol, writer, writers life, Writing
1. Inciting Incident The inciting incident destabilizes the protagonist by upsetting the balance of their life for good or for ill. Every inciting incident is either causal (the result of an active choice by an AVATAR) or coincidental (something unexpected or random or accidental). In response, the protagonist forms a goal, which they begin to pursue. Read…
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Video Résumés are Hard
archaeologist, Archaeology, Blogging, designer, English as a second language, English teacher, esl, grad school, graphic designer, human centered design, human computer interaction, instructional design, instructional designer, Kansas City, KCMO, Mizzou, narrative design, narrative designer, novelist, poet, resume, teacher, tefl, tesol, travel journalism, travel writing, ui, university of missouri, user experience, user interface, Ux, web design, web designer, writer, Writing
So here it is. I need a job. Rather, I want a job. This is my explanation behind making this goofy video. It’s a start. To tell you the truth, I followed a template from some rando-blogger who seems to know what they’re saying.
Nicholas Andriani Rankin 