Name 11-5 Class Date Puzzle: Can We Set a Data? Analyzing Data The table below shows results from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing‚ China. Use the data to answer the questions below the table‚ and determine the host countries for the 2012 Summer and 2014 Winter Olympics. Summer 2012 Finalists 1. Country with the closest score to the archery mean: 2. Country with the median time in sailing: 3. Country with 3 more points than the median of upper part in handball: 4. Country with 1.5 fewer
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Adidas is a global leader in the athletic apparel and footwear industry. Their commitment to sustainability has been one of increasing visibility and participation. Adidas is a self declared rating through the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in 2007. They have taken the approach of being engaged and transparent in their efforts to be recognized as a sustainability leader in the athletic footwear industry. Adidas has taken the initiative of having a working sustainability website that serves as
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In Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift‚ Gulliver’s adventures and experiences satirize many aspects of human nature. Pride and arrogance are reoccurring themes that make up the most of Swift’s satire. While pride and arrogance is currently demonstrated by athletes such as Usain Bolt‚ it is also show by the characters in Gulliver’s Travels. Politics earn Swift’s greatest critical disapprobation. Through his supposed character’s observations‚ Swift levels an indifferent screed against the pettiness
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Our Lady of Lourdes Alysia Turnbull 3/25/15 Ms. Marino W.W. Usain Bolt Usain St. Leo Bolt is an Olympic Track and Field athlete. Usain was born on August 21‚ 1986‚ in Sherwood Content‚ Jamaica. Wellesley Bolt and Jennifer Bolt are his parents. Bolt is a 28 year old sprinter. In Usain’s early life he was a cricket player‚ he was an outstanding player. While playing cricket‚ his coach realized a tremendous amount of speed Usain had. The reason Usain started doing track and field
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as a river‚ stream‚ or pond‚ swimming is available to anyone willing to try (Clearly 52). Swimming has existed since the dawn of time for exercise and pleasure. Swimming has evolved into a popular fitness activity as well as a major competitive Olympic Sport‚ but what is some of the history behind this legendary sport? Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings. Written references date from 2000 BCE. Some of the earliest
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integrating IBM Corporation’s PC division. The differences between two national cultures were the reason why that Lenovo failed in implementing strategies for Chinese market into US market. While the sales of private computers in greater China region in 2008 increased 12 percent in comparison to 2007‚ the sales in United States reported a 4-percent-decrease at the same period. This negative result led to doubts about the wisdom of Lenovo’s acquisition. In addition‚ after market was opened to competition
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In its mission statement‚ Li-Ning vision is to be ¡§a world’s leading brand in the sports goods industry.¡¨ While it is obvious that Li-Ning has been hugely successful in maintaining its brand image and sales growth in China‚ I believe that Li-Ning can further improve its market share by positioning themselves differently from the top 2 player in the industry: Nike and Adidas‚ by exploiting its comparative advantage over these multinational companies. The primary target customers for Li-Ning
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Introduction The issue of Olympic Games Legacies is immense and greatly articulated in details in published material. Olympic Games as mega-events are widely accepted to cost host cities enormous investments and founding. Although International Olympic Committee (IOC) is nowadays controlling the financing of the Games (since examples of previous Olympics Games proved that host cities are in need of extensive expertise and knowledge) financing the infrastructure still becomes problematic. Games
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Lukas Vessels Miss Hoy English 11 14 November 2012 Michael Phelps loses his Image Michael Phelps is one of the most decorated Olympic athletes. He is very well appreciated by people all around the world for his swimming abilities. Everybody always looked up to the superstar Michael Phelps for being one of the best Olympians. When Michael was caught online in the picture smoking‚ his image went downhill even though he was the same superstar swimmer. Phelps didn’t let this scandal bring
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------------------------------------------------- 2012 Summer Olympics medal table The 2012 Summer Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) ranked by the number of gold medals won during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London‚ United Kingdom‚ from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Approximately 10‚800 athletes participated in 302 events in 26 sports.[1] Of the 204 NOCs participating‚ 85 received at least one medal; 54 won at least one gold medal. Bahrain‚[2] Botswana‚[3] Cyprus
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