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Pharaon
Is being a Pharaon a good way to improve your knowledge about ancient Egypt?
I have recently played an old video game called “Pharaon”. As its own name suggest it is set in ancient egypt. It was published by Sierra Entertainmet in 1999. This is a city building videogame which is played by missions. In each mission your aim is to build a city leading with specific requirements in order to pass to the next one, and eventually, you will become a Pharaon and then you will be running a big metropoli.
Frankly I think there were a lot of egyptologists involved in the creation of this game otherwise it wouldn’t be so close to reality. This game is incredibly specific dinasty periods, settlement locations, social relations, gods, markets, all of them are the original ones as every single detail is based on historical evidence.
The sticky points of this video game are its poor graphics (as it was released in 1999) and the way it deals with time since buildings are built instantaneously being the only important thing that breaks reality.
To tell the truth I got engrossed with it. It make me feel passionate about egyptology and passion is of paramount importance learning a subject. Pharaon will make our students not only learn about this civilization but also change their point of view about history from a tedious subject to a hobby.
In light of the above I strongly recomend this game in order to learn about ancient egypt. It can easily provide them with a holistic vision of how that society was, interacted with the and why does
Ricardo Badia (271 words 1 hour)
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Should the government have a say in our diets?
Nowadays obesity has become a big problem in western countries where millions of children suffer from it. For that reason their governments are increasing their control in our diets. For instance, countries like Sweden or Denmark have an additional tax for fast food, and here in Spain lots of school meals are supervised for nutricionist in order to bring to our childrens the healthiest food as possible.
The benefits of having a healthy meal at school are uncontless not only can it reduce obesity rates in our children but also can provide a reference which could be followed by this students during their lifetime. Taxation has also become efficient reducing obesity rates. Changes in taxes have a big influence in food prices and that involve more people consuming more or less one type of food.
On the other hand, this type of policy has recived some critics. The main critics focus on the fact that Governments should not interphere in people’s diet because they consider it as an invation of privacy.
In light of the above, it is said that this two policies doesn’t have an impact in the overall population. The control over the school’s meal affect only to those children who have lunch in their schools, while a decrease in fresh produce have an influence only in people with low incomes.
To sum up, governments should have a say in our diets, but maybe the policies they have taken should be improved.
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My last trip to London (1)
This summer I decided to go to London again in order to improve my English. I had just been there last year doing an English course and I did a big improvement reaching there the B2 level (upper-intermediate). For these reason I decided to come back again. This year I have spoken with native and no-native English speakers even more than last year but I have the sensation that I've improved less despite I did a bigger effort. At the end of my stay I was speaking with my teacher and she told me that mostly all students have the same sensation. The higher your English is the slower your improvements are.
Anyway I'm proud of myself because I'm still improving and today I feel more confident with my English. In addition I have made new friends from all over the world and I have visited very beautiful places like Greenwich Park, Westminster or the South bank.
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I'm Ricardo
Hello to everybody. My name is Ricardo. Today is my first day in Italki. I would like to make new friends here and also I would like to improve my English. I'm an upper-intermediate student of English and I would like to became an advanced student. I want to learm English because today it has become a global language and I'm very interested in meeting people from other cultures, also I think it will help my career.
As for me, I'm Spanish, I live in a city called Zaragoza in northeast Spain. It is halfway between Madrid and Barcelona. It lies in the Ebro river. I'm studying a master degree in Geographial Information Systems and Remote Sensing in my city university.
Thank you for everybody who is going to read this and correct it :) I hope I can help some people with their Spanish too.
Bye bye for now.
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