Dangerous Game Research Articles

Identification of Conflict in Short Story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

The title taken in this study is Identification of Conflict in Short Story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. The purpose of this study is to identify the types of conflict experienced by the main character in the short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. In this research, the writer started by collecting data by noting things related to the title of this research. The results of the research in the short story The Most Dangerous Game show that conflict plays an important role in human life as a means of changing humans for the better. In this study, there are two conflicts experienced by the main character, namely internal conflict and external conflict, external conflict is divided into two, namely physical conflict and social conflict. The approach used in this study is an objective approach with the research method used is a descriptive qualitative research method which is carried out by describing or giving an overview of the object being studied through the data collected as it is. Keywords: External conflict, Internal conflict, The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell

"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"

"The First Three Shots": A Subtle Warning in Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game"

Violent video gaming among French adolescents: Impact on mental health by gender

BackgroundNowadays, video games are very popular among teenagers. This popularity generates concerns, whether in the media, among families or among the scientific community, who wonder about their potential harmful effects. The aim of this study was to assess the association between different types of use of video games (absence of use, use of violent video games, use of non-violent video games) and mental health and aggression. MethodsData was drawn from a French cross-sectional study entitled “Portrait d’Adolescents” which included 15,235 adolescents using anonymous self-administered questionnaires. We defined three groups of use of video games (absence of use, use of violent video games, use of non-violent video games) and explored the association with mental health indicators among boys and girls. ResultsThe group categorized as “non-gamers” consisted of 1288 adolescents (8.5%), while the “non-violent video gamers” group comprised 8380 adolescents (55.5%) and the “violent video gamers” group included 5430 participants (36%). Among adolescent boys, there was no observed association between responses to mental health-related questions and the type of video game playing. However, in the “violent video gamers” group, a higher percentage of boys (6.8%) reported engaging in self-harm behaviors (p=0.001). In contrast, in the “non-violent video gamers” group, a lower proportion of boys (9.4%) reported participating in dangerous games (p<0.0001). For girls, the “violent video gamers” group exhibited a higher proportion of responses indicating poorer mental health across all explored items: 22.8% reported a history of suicide attempts (p<0.0001), 22.3% reported depression (p<0.0001), 17.8% reported self harm (p<0.0001), and 11.2% reported participating in dangerous game (p<0.0001). ConclusionViolent video games appear to be associated with varying behaviors depending on the gender of adolescents, and notably contribute to much poorer mental health among adolescent girls.

Reply: Halting antiviral therapy in patients with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B: A dangerous game?

Reply: Halting antiviral therapy in patients with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B: A dangerous game?

Letter to the Editor: Halting antiviral therapy in patients with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B: A dangerous game?

Letter to the Editor: Halting antiviral therapy in patients with cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B: A dangerous game?

Board Games as Social Media: Toward an Enchanted Inquiry of Digital Capitalism

Can board games be part of challenging the dangerous tide of reactionary cultural politics presently washing over the United States and many other countries? The authors frame this threat to progressive social movements and democracy as entangled with a cultural politics of reenchantment. Thanks in part to the rise of ubiquitous digital media, capitalism is gamified as never before, yet most people feel trapped in an unwinnable game. Here, a gamified reactionary cultural politics easily takes hold, and the authors turn to the example of the QAnon conspiracy fantasy as a “dangerous game” of creative collective fabulation. They explore how critical scholars and activists might develop forms of “enchanted inquiry” that seek to take seriously the power of games and enchantment. And they share their experience designing Clue-Anon, a board game for three to four players that aims to let players explore why conspiracy theories are so much fun . . . and so dangerous.

Self-Publishing, Vanity Publishing and Indie Publishing: A Shortcut to Fame or A Dangerous Game?

Self-Publishing, Vanity Publishing and Indie Publishing: A Shortcut to Fame or A Dangerous Game?

A Dangerous Game: The Forbidden Relationships between French POWs and German Women During World War II

The term ‘forbidden relationships’ refers to contact between German civilians and prisoners of war present on the Reich’s territory during World War II. Any unnecessary contact was banned, both for military security reasons and in the name of the National Socialist racial ideology. Drawing on a substantial body of court files related to these ‘crimes’, this article analyses the romantic and sexual relationships between German women and French prisoners of war. It sheds a light on the gap between prescribed behaviours and the social reality during this period. At the intersection of gender and law during World War II, this article reflects the difficulties of controlling the civilian population during times of conflict and the agency of these actors.

The Jim Croce Question

The Jim Croce Question

The Ranger Rifle: An Alternative Firearm for Conservation Law Enforcement

Conservation Law Enforcement is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, with more than a thousand Rangers killed over the last decade. Of these casualties, 58 per cent have been caused by either dangerous game or armed criminals. Despite this, it appears that only 29 per cent of Rangers worldwide carry out their duties while armed. In many instances, this is due to tight restrictions on the availability and issue of semi-automatic rifles. In countries where firearms laws restrict ready access to semi-automatic rifles, conservation agencies have often purchased and equipped their Rangers with shotguns. This article argues that, in the context of conservation law enforcement, shotguns have a range of limitations when compared to a bolt-action centrefire rifle, and that a civilian-legal ‘Ranger Rifle’—designed around law enforcement needs—is the best alternative where semi-automatic rifles are unavailable.

The Language of Migration

Words are a dangerous game. They don’t just describe a reality; they also create it. At the same time, words are one of the most powerful tools we have at our disposal to change dominant, dehumanising, migratory narratives. This piece was inspired by a conversation between MIDEQ colleagues in the early stages of thinking and writing for this volume. During the conversation it became clear that whilst we appeared to be talking about the same thing, in reality, we weren’t. For each of us, the language of migration reflects our own experiences and engagement with the concept of “migration.” It reflects our understanding of what it means to “migrate” and who is viewed, understood, or represented as “a migrant.” These understandings, individual and collective, are shaped by our personal experiences and those of our family and friends, our engagement with the “scholarly literature” on migration from a range of disciplinary perspectives, our work and play as writers, artists, linguists, advocates and campaigners, doers and thinkers. These understandings are formed at the intersection of our complex and interwoven identities. Our conversation revealed the many ways in which the core ideas of “migration” and “migrants” are conceptualised in the various languages spoken, known or used by those working in or otherwise associated with, the MIDEQ Hub. Several contributors mentioned that in the contexts where they live and work, the word “migration” has a very different meaning – or no meaning at all. And that even within countries, different groups use the term “migrant” or “traveller” or “foreigner” to mean many different things, both positive and negative. The significance of this and the potential implications for the work are both exciting and challenging. When we write for a particular journal or audience, we often default to the dominant ways of representing migration linguistically without stopping to consider whether these meanings are the same for others. This piece is the product of that original conversation and our subsequent engagements, woven together in ways that we hope provide a meaningful starting point for better understanding of the multiple meanings and significances of “migration,” as used in this volume.

Decolonizing Knowledge Upstream: New Ways to Deconstruct and Fight Disinformation in an Era of COVID-19, Extreme Digital Transformation, and Climate Emergency.

Lies and disinformation have always existed throughout human history. However, disinformation has become a "pandemic within a pandemic" with convergence of COVID-19 and digital transformation of health care, climate emergency, and pervasive human-computer interaction in all facets of life. We are living through an era of post-truth. New approaches to fight disinformation are urgently needed and of paramount importance for systems science and planetary health. In this study, we discuss the ways in which extractive and entrenched epistemologies such as technocracy and neoliberalism co-produce disinformation. We draw from the works of David Collingridge in technology entrenchment and the literature on digital health, international affairs, climate emergency, degrowth, and decolonializing methodologies. We expand the vocabulary on and interventions against disinformation, and propose the following: (1) rapid epistemic disobedience as a critical governance tool to resist the cultural hegemony of neoliberalism and its master narrative infinite growth that is damaging the planetary ecosystems, while creating echo chambers overflowing with disinformation, and (2) a two-tiered taxonomy of reflexivity, a state of self-cognizance by knowledge actors, for example, scientists, engineers, and physicians (type 1 reflexivity), as well as by chroniclers of former actors, for example, civil society organizations, journalists, social sciences, and humanities scholars (type 2 reflexivity). This article takes seriously the role of master narratives in quotidian life in production of disinformation and ecological breakdown. The infinite growth narrative does not ask critical questions such as "growth in what, at what costs to society and environment?," and is a dangerous game of brinkmanship that has been testing the planetary ecological boundaries and putting at risk the veracity of knowledge. There is a need for scholars and systems scientists who break ranks with entrenched narratives that pose existential threats to planetary sustainability and are harmful to knowledge veracity. Scholars who resist the obvious recklessness and juggernaut of the pursuit of neoliberal infinite growth would be rooting for living responsibly and in solidarity on a planet with finite resources. The interventions proposed in this study, rapid epistemic disobedience and the expanded reflexivity taxonomy, can advance progressive policies for a good life for all within planetary boundaries, and decolonize knowledge from disinformation in ways that are necessarily upstream, radical, rapid, and emancipatory.

The Most Dangerous Game: A Review of Head and Neck Injuries in American Football and Rugby.

The investigators designed and implemented a 20-year cross-sectional study using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database. The purpose of this study is to estimate and compare hospital admission (danger) rates between rugby and football of those who presented to the emergency department with head and neck injuries after playing these sports. The primary predictor variable was sport played. The primary outcome variable was danger, measured by hospital admission rates. Over the past 20years, there has been a trend of decreasing incidence of injuries presenting to the emergency department in both sports. There was no difference in the rate of hospital admission when comparing football and rugby (OR, 1.2; P = .1). Male gender was associated with an increased risk of admission. Other variables associated with hospital admission included white racial group, injury taking place in the fall, being either young (15-24years old) or senior (65years of age and over), and being injured at school or at a sport/recreational facility. There is no difference in danger as measured by admission rates between American football and rugby. There exists, however, several variables that are associated with admission when sustaining injury to the head and neck, when playing these two sports.

Justicia: notas al margen de la obra de Friedrich Dürrenmatt (con especial referencia a la novela “Die Panne”)

Considering the capacity of literature in relation to the projection of legal meaning to feed the involuntary memory of law, the present work proposes a reflection around the idea of justice as brought by Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s narrative, with the intention of demonstrating how his works offer an image of real justice alien to the legal canon, but no less true for that. In this sense, the paper analyzes the main works by Dürrenmat that approach the theme of justice, paying special attention A Dangerous Game, a story in which, through the allegory of a dinner, the organic trace and the ancient logic of sacrifice that characterize the modern judicial system.

Self-Derived Happiness, Defamiliarized: Ambiguity and Agency in Nella Larsen’s Passing

In Nella Larsen’s Passing, Clare Kendry plays a dangerous game. Only a little over half a century removed from the end of the American Civil War, in a time when white supremacy still defined the nation’s social, economic, and political life, Clare Kendry has agency. Though free from the confines of slavery, American white supremacy maintained that Black independence and narratives of Black happiness be dictated and authored solely by whites. Passing as a white woman, Clare derives her own happiness and builds her identity, marriage and livelihood on the basis of her deception. When her trickery is uncovered, Clare suffers an ambiguous fate and an untimely death. In writing an ambiguous end for Kendry, Larsen provides Clare an even greater sense of agency by forbidding traditions of white-authored narratives of a self-derived Black happiness from determining her fate. Critical condemnations of Passing’s conclusion establish that Larsen successfully defamiliarizes the Black psychological fiction novel and rejects southern antebellum models of white supremacy and Black self-determination.

Deflating Fascism in Max Steiner’s Score for The Most Dangerous Game

This article examines Max Steiner’s original score for the 1932 RKO Production of The Most Dangerous Game. Steiner’s score quotes from a piece of piano music, “Russian Waltz,” which he composed for the film’s villain, Count Zaroff, to play within the film’s diegesis. His vast orchestral underscore liberally quotes the main motif of his piano work. Using a hermeneutic approach, the article argues that Steiner’s orchestral underscore reinforces the film’s anti-fascist narrative potentials by linking Count Zaroff’s motif to his enterprise of hunting human beings and specifically to the sexual satisfaction the Count draws from his gruesome fetish. The motif itself undergoes a myriad of expansions and contractions, intensifications and relaxations, charting the ups and downs of Zaroff’s fortunes. Based on archival research, hermeneutic analysis, and a close reading of both the film and its source material, the article concludes that Steiner participated in crafting an anti-fascist film at a signal moment in history.

Gambling with Justice: A Juridical Approach to the Game of Dice in the Dyūtaparvan of the Mahābhārata

Abstract This article draws on Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmaśāstra) and on Nīlakaṇṭhacaturdhara’s (seventeenth century) Bhāratabhāvadīpa to uncover the motivations behind various characters’ actions before and during the infamous game of dice in the Dyūtaparvan of the Mahābhārata. The Pāṇḍavas and the Kauravas employ diverging lines of subtle Dharmaśāstric reasoning in mutual attempts to entrap one another. This dangerous game of juridical brinksmanship, with Dharma as the stake, results in a decisive moral and legal victory for Yudhiṣṭhira—despite his losing the formal game of dice. Consequently, recent literary analyses of this scene emphasizing Dharma’s fundamental opacity are problematized by encouraging a scholarly focus on legal subtlety and strategy.

Les jeux dangereux au collège, une approche spatiale

L’objet de cet article est de questionner l’aménagement des espaces scolaires dans une quête de prévention des conduites à risque tels que les jeux dangereux. Sur les 10080 collégiens interrogés, nous avons analysé les réponses des 2850 élèves ayant déclaré avoir pratiqué au moins une fois un jeu dangereux. Les résultats révèlent en premier lieu que la cour de récréation, malgré la présence des adultes, fait figure de terrain idéal à la pratique des jeux dangereux. En second lieu, les espaces interstitiels se distinguent par une surreprésentation des jeux à valence agressive. Cette étude confirme alors que le type d’architecture valorisé dans les collèges français conjugué à des aménagements succincts favorisent certains types de jeu.

Understanding the Economic and Political Effects of Trump's China Tariffs

Although President Trump has persistently claimed that China is paying billions of dollars in tariffs imposed on Chinese imports to the United States, empirical evidence indicates that U.S. consumers are bearing the cost of the tariffs: $51 billion in increased prices and a net loss of $7.3 billion to the U.S. economy. The unilateral power-based approach to trade used by the Trump Administration has also resulted in unexpected economic and political costs in key Midwestern states that helped propel Trump to the U.S. presidency in 2016. These costs have led to reverses for the Trump Administration in the mid-term elections of 2018 and could ensue in further electoral losses. As both political parties currently hold little affection for China, the United States could continue to use tariffs against China and other countries as trade policy no matter which party controls the U.S. presidency. For these reasons, a study of how to most effectively use a power-based approach to trade is both useful and timely. This study indicates that a power-based approach can be used most effectively against countries that lack either the economic power or the political will to engage the United States in a prolonged trade standoff. While most nations appear to fall into one or both of these categories, China is not one of them. China has the economic power to fight a trade war and China believes that it must stand up to the United States. When used against China, the power-based approach carries greater risks because its economic and political effects are difficult to predict and because this approach is inherently more uncertain than the cooperative approach of the World Trade Organization that the United States has rejected. Using a power-based approach against China could backfire because China has the economic power and political will to endure a prolonged battle and play a dangerous game of mutual pain and destruction with the United States.

Aqui estão as minhas contas: antologia poética by Adília LopesSofia de Sousa Silva

Reviews 290 (pp. 22–24) and POSLAPSO [POSTLAPSE] (pp. 90–92). A pathway with entrance doors but with no foreseeable exit so far. ‘PORTA 2’ [DOOR 2] (pp. 13–16) describes the pathway to a time with no drama or urgent desire to escape; ‘PORTA GIRATÓRIA’ [REVOLVING DOOR] (pp. 17–21) describes a western eschatology that collects the interests accrued from our faith in money. The book’s end resumes the dialogue found at the beginning — ‘Periandro de Corinto, filho de Cypsélos, disse: “O descanso é uma coisa boa!” | Alberto do Porto, dito Mínimo, observou: “Estou de acordo contigo!”’ [Periander of Corinth, son of Cypselus, said, ‘Resting is a good thing!’ | Alberto of Porto, also known as Mininum, observed, ‘I agree with you!’]. But it is still not the end. After this, instead of an index, we can read ‘DISSE’ [I SAID]. We are again attracted by sounds. Even more: the book that announced itself through a verb in the first person, present tense — zombo [I mock] — now meets a first person from the past — I said. And this is still not the end. In the book’s colophon the fly persists; and on the back cover, lonely and wise, lies the large and venerable ear. The quest for the unexpected continues. ZOMBO is a book that succeeds in accomplishing what poetry does best: sewing together a singular time with a collective time; sewing together a time that was with a time that is — read, apropos, the ‘SONETO ERRÁTICO com duas caudas (ou codas para pessoas distintas)’ [ERRATIC SONNET with a double tail (or codas for distinguished people)] (p. 115).6 And, along the way, who knows, one may blow away or squash a few flies. Adília Lopes, Aqui estão as minhas contas: antologia poética, ed. with preface by Sofia de Sousa Silva (Rio de Janeiro: Bazar do tempo, 2019). 199 pages. Print. Reviewed by Jerónimo Pizarro (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) In 2019, in the Atlântica collection, which ‘seeks to present a panorama of the best Portuguese poetry in Brazil’, an anthology of poems by Adília Lopes was published. Adília Lopes is a poet who in Brazil has had a very positive reception and has been read by authors of several generations. The anthology, selected and prefaced by Sofia de Sousa Silva, appeared a year after another one made in Colombia and published by a publisher in Medellín: Tragaluz. Adília Lopes’s work is being increasingly read and studied outside Portugal, though it remains to be seen whether it will be also within her own country, where it collides with the poetics of other writers, although many defend her — and her ‘rather dangerous game’, to recall her first book of verses — and she has many devoted readers. In Brazil, where the 2019 anthology was published, ‘Adília Lopes was first published in May 2001, in the 10th issue of the poetry magazine Inimigo Rumor’, as Silva mentions in her preface. The anthologist adds that in 2002 the São Paulo 6 Translator’s note: once more, the author puns on the similarity between the word cauda meaning ‘tail’ and coda, ‘coda’. Reviews 291 publisher Cosac Naify, now defunct, published, in the collection Ás de Colete, a selection of her poetry, and that in 2018, the independent publishing house Moinhos published Um jogo bastante perigoso — and did so with remarkable enthusiasm: ‘Owner of a unique imagination, [her] poetry is able to trip up the reader spectacularly, mixing the language of quantum mechanics and encrypted quotes to/from classic authors, with the mental logic of neighbours, old aunts, porcelain dolls, mundane life in Lisbon, and geckos [lizards from Portugal], leaving us helpless — and in love’ (see foreword). The recently published carioca anthology contributes to getting to know Adília Lopes beyond 2002 and it is now the best book, for those who live in Brazil, or for those who do not want to begin with Dobra, to discover an anti-poet that only those who do not only write conventional poetry can read laughing and with passion. In Brazil, where ‘the strong colloquialism of Adília Lopes, as well...