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This article, "Exploring game experiences and game leadership in massively multiplayer online role-playing games" written by YeiBeech Jang and SeoungHo Ryu discusses the leadership opportunities and exploration that MMORPGs provide to gamers through rich social experiences with the game community, team play, and others. Jang and Ryu explore this through nearly 800 only gamers with results showing that joining a game community and playing in teams may help players build their leadership experience, in game suggesting that there is a positive relationship between in-game and offline leadership. The importance of this article is to prove how MMORPGs offer a useful place where people can grow their leadership skills for both in-game and offline. This article was written with the intent for professionals to read, as suggested by the high comprehension level and well structured sentences that include citations and the like.

Precis on Scholarly Article Regarding Sea Slugs

This article, "Slugs' last meals: molecular identification of sequestered chloroplasts from different algal origins in Sacoglossa (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda)" by Handeler, Katharina (2010) explores how "Some sacoglossan sea slugs have become famous for their unique capability to extract and incorporate functional chloroplasts from algal food organisms (mainly Ulvophyceae) into their gut cells." Handeler discusses how "The functional incorporation of the so-called kleptoplasts allows the slugs to rely on photosynthetic products for weeks to months, enabling them to survive long periods of food shortage over most of their life-span." The purpose of this article is to emphasize the importance of slugs and their ability to last a long time. When examining the way this article was constructed, you can see that it is designed for professionals to read.

TED Video Summary

This video, given by a the speaker Brian Simmons, was about "The Power of Identity." This man, a lawyer, does a thorough job of explaining how feelings shape people's lives. He delves into the emotions of his listeners, saying that living poor and innocent is harder than living rich and guilty. He tells us how we, as Americans, have a hard time talking about our problems. His argument  mainly seeming to be about race, he logistically appeals to us, stating that a black man is 22 times more likely to get the death sentence  His argument was to move people to agree with his three, seemingly, main points: Wants to end death penalty, Wants to decrease prison population, and wants to have justice in the court system. He tells us that in order to be fully human, we must care about identity. To close the speech, he tells a story and to keep our eyes on the price.