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The Changing Face Of Basketball
Number of Words: 1473 / Number of Pages: 6
... time period (Minsky 12).
Basketball has developed in that players have become more flashy, facilities
have become bigger and more complex, and leagues have grown. The 50's marked a
period of fundamentals. Teams practiced shooting, dribbling, and passing. they
also emphasized execution; something lacking in today's game. Execution is the
running of plays to perfection. Basketball in the 50's was dominated by 6'10”
George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers (Minsky 14).Mikan was a disciplined team
leader who had a masterful soft shot. Big George led the Lakers to five National
Basketball Association (NBA) ...
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Interpreting The Actions Of Th
Number of Words: 1656 / Number of Pages: 7
... to be
interpreted as well as the various myths that surround the great Greek epic
poem The Iliad by Homer.
One instance when the gods were used to explain a strange and unusual thing
was towards the beginning of the book. When King Agamemnon didn't give up his
wife, a priestess of Apollo, the god became angry and did this to the Achaian
people "First he attacked the mules and dogs, then he shot his keen arrows at
the men and hit each mark. Pyres of the dead began to burn up everywhere and
never ceased" (p12) This to me sounds like a disease that suddenly infected
the Achaian army. Dise ...
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Employee Assistance Programs
Number of Words: 2577 / Number of Pages: 10
... of us have seen Gus – he’s the one who believes that in order to ease the hang over from last nights party, he has to have a drink the next morning. But it may not stop there. He needs a sip around 10am to take the edge off. Whatever he does on his lunch is his business so he may go home and have a couple of beers before returning to his job - at the factory. Gus probably has a problem with alcohol, as do 6 to 10 percent of the employee population (Myers 5). Of that number, 30 percent of them are manual workers (Myers 5). In any situation, this could become quite costly if there ...
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Preserving Flowers
Number of Words: 1945 / Number of Pages: 8
... in a dry, well-ventilated attic, closet
or garage. Ideally, the drying area should have a temperature between
60 and 80 F and a humidity rate less than 60%. Another method is
to place the flowers in a container and to cover them with clean, fine sand,
or a mixture of borax and cornmeal, or a nonchlorophyll kitty litter. These
inexpensive substances provide the flowers with support, enabling them to
maintain their shape while they dry naturally.
A more costly method is to use an airtight container and to cover
the flowers with silica gel, a desiccant, which not only provides support
to the ...
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Physics Of Fly Fishing (curren
Number of Words: 74 / Number of Pages: 1
... works (the frequency, the stiffness, the air resistance, the lengths, the materials) he and other scientists have yet to come up with an equation to make “the perfect rod”.
Rist, Curtis. “Angling for Momentum”. Discover. September, 1999 ...
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The Uncertainty Of Knowledge
Number of Words: 1728 / Number of Pages: 7
... observations.
These two arguments serve as the basis of the search for the certainty of knowledge. Though many of these theories represent justified claims, an absolute truth of knowledge has still not been resolved. Therefore in reality is in fact unknown and will continue to remain unknown as long as the question of faith still lingers. Not a single person is born with truth, but is rather authoritatively ordained with his knowledge whether it be through scientific or religious means. All is based upon a single thread of evidence or the recklessness of opinions or assumptions.
Philosophers have ...
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Architecture In 1975 Focused M
Number of Words: 1166 / Number of Pages: 5
... to just reusing old building materials, recycling was executed on a large scale by renovating old buildings instead of knocking them down and building from scratch. Besides recycling, steps were taken in the creative and high-tech arenas to permit the use of natural energy. As mentioned before, these two issues were not the only ones that were covered during the year, but they were by far given the most exposure.
There were of course different styles of housing employed that year. But what most people focused on were barns, and ingeniously designed vertical houses that provided large amounts of livi ...
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Battle Chess
Number of Words: 370 / Number of Pages: 2
... PC speaker. If
you have a piece taken in the game the two pieces in controversy will ‘
simulate a fight. The piece taken over the other will always win, but it
is still very interesting to watch. I think that this article helped me a
little. I am not really interested in chess games for the computer. I
feel that the article was written to the people who are interested in
computer games. The author of the article was from the publisher of the
company so he was trying to sell the game. I think that it sounds
interesting. If I had a friend that was interested in computer games I
would deffin ...
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The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
Number of Words: 1219 / Number of Pages: 5
... with a greater impact than most television series ever created. No wonder such a debate has arisen around the characters, their lives, and, most importantly, their attitudes.
Artist-cartoonist-writer Matt Groening's animated family began life as disruptive little drawings tucked in between the sketches of real actors on "The Tracey Ullman Show" in 1987. Groening says that he created these bright yellow, bulgy-eyed characters-Homer and Marge Simpson, along with their children, Bart, Lisa, and infant Maggie to "offer an alternative to the audience, and show them there's something else out there than ...
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Jump School
Number of Words: 664 / Number of Pages: 3
... the runs got
longer. The first tower was the Five Foot Tower. From this tower I jumped to the
ground and rolled away .The next tower was Fifty Foot Tower, a challenge just to
look over the edge. I was hooked to a parachute harness, that attached to a
cable. The cable ran down a slope to a hill about one hundred feet away.
Jumping out of the tower I raced along the ground till I came to the hill, where
someone stopped me. The final tower stood two hundred feet tall. Standing at
the bottom and looking up was enough to scare anyone. The instructor lowered
a parachute on a cable from the ...
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