HISTORY OF TABLE TENNIS The origin of table tennis has never been exactly pinpointed‚ even though it’s a relatively young sport‚ younger than lawn tennis and not much older than basketball. The earliest known form of the sport‚ called indoor tennis‚ was played in the early 1880s by British army officers in India and South Africa‚ using lids from cigar boxes as paddles and rounded corks from wine bottles as balls‚ with a row of books set up across the middle of a table to form the net. Other versions
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4). Explain how subsidies are used by governments and give an example. Subsidies are used by governments for many different things. A subsidy is when the government gives a person or business money to help them. For example‚ the WIC program is a subsidy used by the government. The WIC program provides mothers with formula and other essentials for their babies. They will help provide for the children up until the age of five. This is a great help to low income mothers. Since formula is very expensive
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Assignment 1 Product Assessment The landline telephone is the service that I chose because it’s a service that is still on the market but is has declined to consumer appeal. Alexander Graham Bell invented and patented the first long distance landline telephone in 1876. It took 90 years after the first landline was installed to reach 100 million users worldwide. Although the landline has been around for a long time technology has improved over the years as well leaving the landline in the dust
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1. Prestige Data Services apparently has not lived up to its parent company’s expectation. However‚ based on the numbers‚ the Prestige Data Services appears to be rather potential after just two years of performance. Its revenue hours sold to outside firms have being growing‚ and the majority of Prestige Data Services’ costs are fixed costs‚ e.g.‚ rent‚ custodial services‚ computer lease‚ maintenance‚ etc. In order to determine whether or not the subsidiary is indeed “too good to give up
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December 1‚ 2014 Two Party System DBQ Despite the fact the founding fathers advised contrary to the establishment of political factions as the Constitution withstood the ratification process‚ a rift amongst men in President George Washington’s cabinet instituted the move toward the conception of political party. During the time period between 1791 and 1833‚ a two-party system had begun that demonstrated the philosophy of the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. Although these two political
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Summary Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ designed to perform data processing for the telephone company and also to sell computer services to other companies and organizations. The subsidiary started operations in 1995 and has yet to experience a profitable month and by the end of 1996 its income was low enough to necessitate a report to shareholders. Mrs. Bradley thinks the company just needs more time while Mr. Rowe feels it is time to reassess Prestige
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Task 2 C Media The animals used within media are only being used for people entertainment are will be used in things such as TV shows and films. The welfare of the animals will be effected as there is a lot of intense training involved in order to get animals to perform certain tricks or do certain actions at the correct time in the filming just as the directors would like because the training is so intense the animal could become stressed with the training as it would just being do the same things
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An economic system is the result of individuals (consumers and producers)‚ groups (firms‚ trade unions‚ political parties‚ families etc) and the government coming together and interacting in a legal and social society. The function of an economic system is to resolve the basic economic problem - scarcity which means that the resources are limited but wants are infinite. This distribution has three dimensions: * What is to be produced * How is it to be produced * For whom is it to be produced.
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P1 - describe how marketing techniques are used to market products in two organisations’ Marketing is the activity and process for creating‚ communicating‚ delivering‚ and exchange a product or service; which has values for the customers/clients. Overall it is an integrated process which builds customer relationship and creates an identity for their customers and themselves. However‚ marketing can be separated into submarkets – Business to Consumer marketing and Business to Business marketing
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Job Description Title: A Front Receptionist Pay Range: XX Date:April 29‚ 2010 Report to: Office Manager Job Summary: Reception and Registration for Guests‚ Solutions Consulting‚ Check and Check-out ‚ Reservation and cancellation etc. Duties and Responsibilities 1.look at the daily activity report; 2.To see whether VIP or the hotel reception or in the living room reservations; 3.Information about the meeting‚ check the number of meeting room; 4.Read shift this‚ to understand the group of items
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