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Writing Experience for Paper 2: (Web Essay)

This was a very fun project to do. I enjoyed using solely the Web to create my essay.

The three topics I chose to discuss in my essay were: 1) Women Prize Possession 2) Women Sports 3) Sexual Appeal in video games.

In part 1, I described adventure games like Zelda and Mario, and in the end of the game when you complete it. You are to save a Princess Zelda and Peach respectively. I never actually realized this until I started doing some research online about women in video games.

In part 2, I describe the inability for video game creators to create a realistic women's sport game. In my paper, I show a photo of Princess Peach playing basketball, and the game cover of what would've been WNBA 2k9 if it were ever to come out. The difference here is that video game creators create animated sport games which aren't half as good as realistic games.

In part 3, in the 21st century most people understand that "Sex Sells". Video games use sex to try and sell games, like any other form of media. This isn't right for creators to do. When a character like Lara Croft is wearing short-shorts in an action-adventure game. She isn't necessarily wearing the right type of clothes. Shouldn't she be wearing armor, some sort of protection.