Twin Galaxies

such as Space Invaders and Pac Man as mentioned before. The earliest known competitive eSport tournament occurred in 1972 at Stanford for the game called Spacewar. The grand prize of offered for the winner of that tournament was a year subscription to Rolling Stone. Because of that tournament, and how well it was received and after earning a much bigger following, the industry leader Atari held a tournament drawing in 10,000 players from across the United States. But, as mentioned before, multiplayer games were non-existent at this point, so what the tournament consisted of was you trying your best to beat the computer and earning the highest possible score you can achieve. After a man named Walter Day foundation an organization called Twin Galaxies to keep track of video game high scores, it was able to gain sponsorship and eventually the record-breaking high scores were published into the Guinness Book of World Records and eventually the Guinness Book of World Records created the Video Game Masters Tournament 1983. Over the next several years the tournaments would get…

supermassive black hole contains 17 billions times the mass of the Sun, only slightly smaller than the most massive black hole ever found, which is 21 billion solar masses. For comparison, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way totals only 4 solar masses . This newly found black hole lies in the center of the galaxy NGC 1600, which lies 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus. Supermassive black holes likely form by taking in lots of dust and debris early in their…

years is not a simple thing to do because children tend to drop out of the study or move away. Fortunately for Raine, the next few paragraphs go on to tell that he lucked into a major source of data in a remote island, from which people don’t tend to move away. Because of this, Raine was able to show that children who indicate certain behaviors do in fact tend to have criminal records when they get older. The last transitioning phrase to catch my attention was during Fischman’s explanation of…

The Text The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earlier plays. The first recorded performance of the comedy was on December 28, 1594, as part of the Christmas festivities at Gray’s Inn in London. The exact date that the play was written is uncertain, but it is generally agreed that it was written sometime during 1589-1594 and between The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love’s Labour’s Lost. It was first printed in the First Folio in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death, and is…

A lot of people think just because you’re an identical twin, that you must be the same in every aspect of your life as the other person. In my case, and in others, being an identical twin doesn’t prove that we are the same in all areas of life. I have an identical twin sister, named Emily. Emily is pessimistic, high maintenance and very well organized. I, on the other hand, am more optimistic, open-minded and easygoing. We have the basic similarity of our physical aspect because we are…

Emma's family had warned her that Gabby was a bad influence. But, ever since Emma's closest friend from kindergarten, Garret, moved to Arizona last summer, Emma felt empty. She was lost in her loneliness. When she met Gabby in homework club, Emma finally felt like she had a guide. Gabby had a rebellious nature. She spent her spare hours causing trouble in stores, homes and school. If a rule was made, Gabby had to break it. Emma soon began to fall into Gabby's path, earning herself more and more…

The Match Killer The world was infected with a disease called Solarx. It was a disease that made every pregnant woman with a baby have a second child created by a toxic the sun was giving off. The two babies would be born as twins. There were some women who were immune to the Solarx, but the world was at a stage where they needed more immune women than not. Every nine out of ten people had a twin. The population of the Earth doubled almost everyday. The leaders of the World Chargers Center…

Countless numbers of twins are known for their parallel mannerisms, such as being able to know one’s “thoughts and emotion” and communication with others, that they display to the public due to the relationship they share which sets them distinctly apart from the rest of society. Chris Fraley and Caroline Tancredy write that “although non-twins siblings experience differences with respect to particular activities and interests, their long history of shared experience promotes similarities in…

Thomas Bouchard, a former American psychologist of the University of Minnesota, is considered to be one of the most influential researchers of the century due to his numerous experiments involving identical twins separated at birth, as well as his striking discoveries regarding adoptees and biological parents. Some of his surprising discoveries have sparked debate and controversy among a number of different psychologists, but, nonetheless, have proven the personality traits among twins to be…

not do well in school. As said by Kovas and Haworth, (2007), scholastic achievement to some degree is passed down genetically. The twin study done by Hanscombe, Haworth, Davis, Jaffee, and Plomin (2011) was to examine the genetic and environmental factors that link disorderly and chaotic homes and how well a child does in school. Identical twins share one hundred percent of their DNA, while non-identical twins only share fifty percent of their DNA. Hanscombe, Haworth, Davis, Jaffee, and Plomin…