Why Shepherdstown?

Do you enjoy the art only a quaint little town can produce? Then visit the many shops in Shepherdstown!

Is eating fresh organic food your style? Shepherdstown has many restaurants that are organic and buy from local farms. If you want to feel good about what you put into your body then visit Shepherdstown for their organic restaurant!

If you want the best tacos in the tristate region visit Maria's Tacoria today!

Fill in the story (Razer Inc.)

As Jenny entered the Best Buy to purchase a new gaming mouse, headset, and gaming computer for her boyfriend. She wants him to have the best interface experience with his video games, but is unsure of which products to purchase for him. The friendly Best Buy employee greeted the troubled looking woman and asked if she needed assistance. Jenny, who was flustered, quickly told the nice man what she was looking for. "Follow me", said the man "I'll take you too our Razer gaming equipment." Once they entered the aisle Jenny was astonished by the vast amount of technology before her. "This brand here has the latest technology and highest performance quality for gaming equipment." Said the man. "This 14-inch Razer blade embodies the continuing drive to design the worlds best gaming laptops for those gamers who need increasingly powerful performance to play the newest games. Your boyfriend will surely not be left behind and have to deal with out dated equipment."

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1) Top 10 Best Headphones.

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Their Feet Off the Ground

The first flight

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (Dec. 17, 1903)- Two American inventors took to the skies on Dec. 17, 1903 as the first men to sustain human flight. The two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, built the world’s first successful airplane with the use of their breakthrough invention of three-axis control. This enabled the pioneers to control the aircraft through the harsh winds that threatened or decimated all other air flight attempts.

The brothers original take off was expected on Dec. 14, but due to a pre-flight attempt the aircraft stalled after take off causing minor damage. 

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Jiggle Physics and Feminism

In many of today's video games, television shows, graphic novels, and other sources of media we find almost all female characters subjected to men's fantasies of fetishism. With the common theme of reduced clothes and overly buxom features, compared to their male counterpart, women are objectified in the most sexualform. Some of the prime examples would be Soul Caliber, Bayonetta, and the women of League of Legends.

Soul Caliber is one of the most racie game to date. With each level progression reducing the amount of coverage on the character, the women of Soul Caliber are nearly naked once they reach their full potential. And lets not forget the jiggle physics. In almost every video game today (especially fighting games) the Jiggle Physics , also known as Soft-Body Physics, or sometimes Cloth Physics, is the art and science of simulating the behavior of non-rigid objects and materials in a computer. In this respect, it's a sister trope to Ragdoll Physics, which deals with more rigid structures. This means that when a character attacks another character or makes any movement jiggling will occur, especially to the breasts and butt. 

Bayonetta is another prime example of a Japanese video game exposing women to a nearly uncomfortable manor. In the game the main character Bayonetta is adorned in a sexy catsuit created from her own hair. Every time Bayonetta is hit by an attack she briefly loses parts of her clothing, exposing her naked body to the player. By exposing the characters body she is being objectified and the woman is dehumanized. 

So these are video game characters. Who cares if they are dehumanized? They are not real and its not like this would affect us in the real world, right? Wrong!

We dehumanize countless people every day. Every person you walk past, who you do not know personally, is seen as a husk. We do not think of the affects we have on one another because we do not see their lives, and if we do not see their lives we subconsciously do not realize they have one. For example: When you go to a restaurant and have a server wait on you, you do not think about their life outside of their work. We just assume that at the end of the night the server goes to the back of the restaurant and gets in their box until it is time for them to work again. Same goes for students with teachers. This is why it is such a shock to us when we see someone outside of their profession. 

As for the effect of the reduction or removal of clothing in video games, that also causes us to dehumanize

and devalue women. Women are automatically tied to their physicality. For some if the woman does not meet their ideal (and usually unrealistic) standards then they will give no second thought to her. This means if her waist is not thin enough, her butt is not big enough, or her boobs are not gigantic and jiggling then that woman means nothing and does not deserve attention. They are not regarded socially or sometimes if they do meet the the standard they are considered to have lesser intelligence. Women are placed in a lose lose situation because women's treatment in media cause their physicality to be tied to both their psychology and sociology. 

In the American video game League of Legends, a newer version of DOTA, nearly every woman has excessive breast size, most of which are overly exposed. Here are three examples of the most exposed girls in League of Legends: (from left to right) Sona, Akali, and Elise.



As you can see the three women from this game have highly exposed breasts. The one on the left, Sona, holds record with the largest chest in the game. She can barely contain herself with the small piece of fabric used to hammock her large breasts. 

The lady in the center, Akali, also has large breasts which are only held in with the fabric down the center of her chest, exposing a large amount of side boob. Her costume is the most unrealistic of all, especially when you consider the fact that she is a ninja who jumps and spins when attacking. 

The last woman, Elise, has one of the most revealing costumes out of all the ladies of League. Her breasts are open nearly exposing her whole chest except the sides and right where the nipples would be. 

These are three examples of how video games expose women's bodies and how the reduction of clothes on a female character affects how we think today. With all this said I am not against how women are portrayed in video games, I would like to visually the enjoy the character I will spend the next few hours staring at. I am against the dehumanization we have been conditioned to subconsciously do. I as much as anyone am guilty of not considering the lives of others. But if we keep in mind that the beautiful yet overly sexualized and exposed women are not ideally what we should strive to be or look for, then we can learn not to objectify or subjectivity women.

Too Powerful to Be Held

The internet is too powerful to be held in the hands of a few internet providers. Back in the day companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast "declared war" on the internets founding principle: networks should be neutral and users don't need anyone's permission to create, broadcast, communicate, invent, or share online. This has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves online (whether that be good or bad.) With this permissionless innovation we are allowed to innovate our online world, which in turn has recreated our world today; both in technology and in culture.

But today our freedom is in danger. If the federal court strikes down the nation's net neutrality law we can kiss our WorldWideWeb freedom goodbye.

Originally AT&T introduced the idea of Google and Yahoo paying companies like AT&T for reliably reaching users on their networks. Which is just another money grubby way to increase their profit. Users already pay their fees for internet access, as do search engines like Google and Yahoo, who pay to other telecom companies.

The internet is a luxury and a right that should not be withheld from the american public. Else wise we could fear of having our internet censored just like China.

How can we expect our nation to continue to grow if we don't allow the users to have freedom of their internet? Even for what would seem like simple uses, Nexus Mods (an online free Skyrim mod website) has allowed users to create extensive mods, some adding hours 35 hours of gameplay, to skyrim. One user created a mod larger than both of Bethesda's original two DLC's combined and held 35+ hours of gameplay for PC users. The free internet has allowed that user to use his mod as a resume for his application to Bethesda.

Without our right to freedom of the internet how can we expect our great nation to stack up to other
countries who allow this freedom to their users? If the federal court chooses to rule in favor of the large companies plotting to monopolize against the users our nation will be reduced to a non reticulate nation.