Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events 6 Awesome Board Games That Teach Cooperation Commonopoly in action. Photo credit: Big Hope. The most popular board games are based on competition. Monopoly epitomizes the winner take all nature of the genre. But what happens when that model gets turned on its head in favor of a more collaborative approach which pits the players against the game itself? Whether winning means saving the world from infectious disease or corralling a bunch of puppies, it's all or nothing in the land of cooperative board games. Commonopoly Object of Game: This oversized board game was inspired by the classic Monopoly, though not without a collaborative spin. Target Age: 12+ Number of Players: 2-4 Co-opoly Object of Game: Players work together to establish — and then run — a democratic business with all of the challenges inherent in such an endeavor. Target Age: 13+Number of Players: 2-4 Pandemic Object of Game: Here, players unite against four diseases with a goal of eradication. Target Age: 10+Number of Players: 2-4 (more can play with expansion pack)
Bass Pro Failed to Hire Blacks and Hispanics at its Stores Nationwide, EEOC Says in Suit Retailer Also Retaliated Against Employees Who Opposed Discrimination, and Destroyed Records, Federal Agency Charges HOUSTON -- Bass Pro Outdoor World, LLC (Bass Pro), a nationwide retailer of sporting goods, apparel, and other miscellaneous products, engaged in a pattern or practice of failing to hire African-American and Hispanic applicants for positions in its retail stores nationwide, and retaliated against employees who opposed the discriminatory practices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today. According to the EEOC’s suit filed in U.S. The lawsuit alleges that managers at Bass Pro stores in the Houston area, in Louisiana, and elsewhere made overtly racially derogatory remarks acknowledging the discriminatory practices, including that hiring black candidates did not fit the corporate profile. “As a law enforcement agency, the EEOC is uniquely positioned to challenge systemic hiring discrimination,” said P. Added R.J.
Why Mixed-Race Americans Will Not Save The Country : Code Switch What do mixed-race Americans mean for the future of racism? Roberto Westbrook/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roberto Westbrook/Getty Images What do mixed-race Americans mean for the future of racism? Americans like to fantasize that a mixed-race future will free them from the clutches of racism. But this illusion is incompatible with an America in which the presidential election was won by the candidate who ran a "Make America Great Again" campaign, which many critics have pointed out was widely heard as a call to "Make America White Again." If the election results are a vindication for those championing the politics of President Trump, the demographic trends point in the opposite direction. "What Biracial People Know," a recent op-ed in The New York Times, argues that the growing multiracial population may act as a "vaccine" to the bigotry that buoyed Trump's campaign, granting America "immunity" to the longstanding politics of exclusion shaped by racism.
Vacation Places Guides with Large Pictures: Beaches, Festivals, Wildlife + Anthropological Video Games A cluster of teen-agers gathered around a small table, and passersby could hear them exclaim, “Asian! Yeah, I knew it!” and “Aryan? Aiding the swarms of museum patrons who stopped to play were volunteers from Games for Change, a New York City-based nonprofit that encourages the development of what it calls “social-impact games.” I selected an adult worker, rather than a child, to box up hats on the assembly line, and asked the volunteer, “Do you find that most people choose children to work?” “By the end, you have to,” she said. “So, are you supposed to feel a sense of accomplishment in this game? “You feel good when you complete a level. When I reached the third level, I sent out too many unfinished orders, and my contract was ripped in half. When playing a game, one always takes on a role (banker, shortstop, sword-bearing elf), which involves both identifying with that character and maintaining an awareness of yourself as the player.
Affirmative Action Pros and Cons Affirmative action is a policy that gives opportunities to minorities, women, and any group who has been subject to discrimination in the past. People are split about the positives and negatives. We put together a few of the points that each side makes. Pros Students and workers who start at a disadvantage get a boost to succeed.Affirmative action creates diversity.Special preference is given to minorities to make up for years of discrimination.Affirmative action is needed to break stereotypes. Cons It may be demeaning to minorities to say that they need affirmative action to succeed.A society cannot be truly color-blind until they stop making decisions based on race.Affirmative action may create reverse discrimination.Because of affirmative action, a minority may beat out someone more capable for a job or school, simply because of race or gender. You decide. Learn more by checking out History on Affirmative Action. Sources: Balanced Politics
Making Education Fun Through Game-Based Learning Like a lot of teachers, Lucas Gillispie had no problem with the textbook material he taught to his high school students. His biggest challenge during his seven years in the classroom was connecting with the teenagers in his classes. His solution, it turned out, was right in front of him. So when the game-loving teacher became the instructional technology coordinator for Pender County (N.C.) By May 2009, Gillispie was seeking buy-in from his district’s management team to give 15 Cape Fear Middle School students a chance to get together after school and play World of Warcraft (WOW), a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with more than 10 million subscribers. Together with teachers and the school’s principal at the time, Edith Skipper, Gillispie identified students to invite and launched the program in fall 2009. “We saw amazing things,” Gillispie says. The program was so successful that at the end of the school year, the principal suggested expanding its reach.
Group at Missouri Capitol pushes for non-discrimination law for gays and lesbians JEFFERSON CITY — While the U.S. Supreme Court was hearing arguments Wednesday about same-sex marriage, a group of Missourians gathered at the Missouri Capitol hoping to make it illegal for an employer to fire someone simply for being gay. Discrimination against gays and lesbians is not against the law in Missouri. For the last 13 years, legislation has been introduced that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes in the Missouri Human Rights Act. Each year, the bill has gotten little traction. Rep. “Very few people in Missouri even realize that’s legal,” Engler said. Sen. Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate this year changing the law, but neither has been granted a hearing. “History is written by the victors,” he said, “and we will be victorious.” A dozen municipalities in Missouri have amended their local anti-discrimination laws to protect gays and lesbians, including Kansas City and Jackson County.