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Learning how to write a good academic essay is a vital skill for many students but it’s not always easy to learn how to achieve such great results. Enter an app by the name of High School Writing which hopes to help students learn exactly what they need to know to approach essay writing, right down to addressing college application essays.
The app, recently updated, includes ten major essays that students should learn. These consist of: Argumentative (Persuasive), Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Descriptive, Expository (Informative), Five-Paragraph, Narrative (First Person), Narrative (Third Person), Opinion and Reaction (Response) Paper. Each essay type is vital for numerous different purposes so this app should cover all eventualities. It even goes onto teach students how to write the best college application essays to ensure that they know how to sell themselves appropriately.
Currently priced at $14.99 (regularly $19.99), High School Writing is one of the more expensive apps out there – however, its ability to teach critical thinking in such a simple way is priceless for those desperate to improve their grades.
High School Writing is available now. It’s an universal app with the iPad offering some great dual-viewing fields allowing for side by side comparison of websites for research purposes.
High School Writing + College Prep
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: $14.99
Released: 2011-05-03 :: Category: Education
Apps mentioned in this post: High School Writing + College Prep
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:: OUT OF THIS WORLD
I was a young lad of but nine or so when Chahi’s mind-blowing (for the time) masterwork was released. Of course I didn’t have an Amiga, so I was a young lad of but ten or so when I finally had the chance to play it on my Super Nintendo. I may have been too young to appreciate its finer points, but it captured my imagination something fierce.
One of Another World‘s largest shortcomings, which is really a product of its original design, is that it’s more of an exercise in repetition than actual skill. It’s not uncommon for new players (or even rusty veterans) to travel a couple of screen over, die, restart, make it a screen or two farther, die again, etc… Checkpoints help, but they don’t fix the issue. It’s also a pretty short game. A start-to-finish play-through could take less than an hour if done by a practiced devotee, although rookies will probably take a bit longer. What with all the gruesome death and all.
At first I thought it was the storyline. Focusing on fixing up cars is quite a departure from the usual more feminine time management titles and it didn’t seem to immediately work. Unlike other titles, Fix-it-up: Kate’s Adventure isn’t colorful or cute to look at, instead it’s pretty plain and unexciting. It turns out the graphical style isn’t the only thing that’s this uninspired.
The specific goal system offers some variety as at least players have the freedom of choosing to achieve such goals however they feel most appropriate. That, at least, makes a change from the conventional time management way. There’s a fair amount of hours of gameplay here too with plenty of levels to complete. It’s just unfortunate that Fix-it-up: Kate’s Adventure doesn’t feel compelling by any means.
Capcom continues their series of classic games released on iOS with Final Fight. This is one of the games that defined the beat ‘em up genre that was popular in the early 1990′s. The game has players control Guy, Cody, or wrestler-turned-mayor Mike Haggar in a quest to take down the Mad Gear crime syndicate and rescue Haggar’s daughter. A wrestler-turned-politican? How unrealistic. This is a beat ‘em up in the classic tradition, meaning the screen scrolls left to right, and there’s a timer ticking away that never actually becomes a threat unless the player needlessly meanders or dawdles about. Fans of the Street Fighter series, especially the Alpha incarnations, will notice several enemies in the game who appear as fighters in later Street Fighter games.
Of course, beat ‘em ups tend to have a point where the experience starts to go sour and the game becomes repetitive, and Final Fight reaches the point about halfway through the singleplayer mode. There’s unlimited continues, so there’s just no threat of failure, no matter how challenging the game gets. The worst part is that the game doesn’t actually save progress when returning to it later; progress resuming is done through iOS multitasking, so if the app gets closed, then all progress is lost. This means that seeing the end of the game may be quite difficult for most people.
Throughout the 30 levels available, players navigate around the arena by physically moving their iOS device around in the relevant direction. A button on the top right of the screen ensures that users can always re-focus back onto the center of the screen while tapping on the screen fires a missile at the enemies that pop up. The enemies are cutesy zombies rather than the sinister kind with boss battles also on offer to entertain. 