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The topic of identity has been the subject intense and passionate discussions, with politicians, critics revolutionaries equally tending to divide world into opposing groups. In post-colonial era, this led an emphasis on dichotomies such as oppressor-oppressed, colonizer-colonized, master-slave, settler-native, us-them. Each country seeks establish its uniqueness by contrasting itself others, i...

The East is often portrayed as dangerous or mysterious in numerous Western literary works that attempt to depict it. As Edward Said has argued, this due the tendencies view fundamentally other and inferior. Rather than resisting such preconceived notions, Khaled Hosseini his novel Kite Runner (2003) reflected a pro-Western stance through stereotypical representation of Afghanistan which fits in...

A long line of work emphasizes the correlation between institutions and economic performance (Adam Smith 1776; W. Arthur Lewis 1955; Douglass C. North 1990). Rich countries have laws that provide incentives to engage in productive economic activity. Investors rely on secure property rights, facilitating investment in human and physical capital; government power is balanced and restricted by an ...

This paper introduces a constrained optimization method which uses procedural personas to evaluate the playability and quality of evolved dungeon levels. Procedural personas represent archetypical player behaviors, and their controllers have been evolved to maximize a specific utility which drives their decisions. A “baseline” persona evaluates whether a level is playable by testing if it can s...

The UK government’s new policy of distributing rapid coronavirus tests to local authorities in England has divided the medical and scientific community, with some calling for be halted because they could falsely reassure people increase spread covid-19. Critics are also concerned that policy, announced on Sunday 10 January, was being rolled out without sufficient provision who test positive, s...