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Research Paper On Pokemon Go

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Nguyen Nguyen
Professor Patrick D. Murphy
English 1302.91446
November 14, 2016
Pokemon Go or Pokemon “No”
Nowadays, playing a game on the mobile phone is not strange with adults as well as children. The games were designed with eye-catching form and diverse gameplay. Especially, they are becoming more realistic. Pokemon Go, a game has become popular a few months ago, is imitated following the cartoon Pokemon. Players who play Pokemon Go will try to catch Pokemons by using an app on mobile phone. Pokemon Go is said that it will help people connecting together; moreover, it inspires people going outside to exercise. However, others said that Pokemon Go is very dangerous because it takes all of the attention of people when they are playing it …show more content…

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