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    Theme/Region Specific Evidence from the Article That summarizes KEY FACTS and supports my analysis of theme Analysis of why the event is important and the possible outcome Social Inequalities (Deals with the massive amount of the death penalty within China‚ and how it decreased in the former years.) East Asia China is known as the World’s Chief Executioner. Last year alone‚ 3‚000 people we executed in China‚ quadruple the amount of the world executions together. Xiao Yang‚ President of

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    orders (Scranton‚ 2010). Most of what we know about Greek architecture comes from the decrepit shell of temples and buildings from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The Doric style (a more simple style) is sturdy and unadorned. Doric columns have no base and rise from the floor of the building. There’s a capital that forms at the top of the columns; and it consists of two sections the Echinus and the Abacus. This method was used mostly in mainland Greece and southern Italy (Wesley‚ 2010). Today you

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    The 2018 Winter Olympic Games are set to roll around in just a few more months‚ an encore of its 2016 Summer counterpart‚ highlighting the top athletes from across the globe vying for a spot to become one of three Olympic medalists. Sports fans alike crawl out every crack and crevice to tune into whichever channel that might be covering an Olympic event‚ and if they are lucky‚ they’ll catch Frank DeFord— a longtime sportswriter‚ commentator‚ and novelist— stirring up yet another controversial topic

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    [pic] 2010 Asian Games From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search |[pic] |This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering | | |support‚ you may see question marks‚ boxes‚ or other symbols | | |instead of Chinese characters. | |XVI Asian Games | |[pic]

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    of the professional athletes in the olympics were also using drugs‚ that is why drug testing was introduced at the olympics in 1968. A breakthrough took place in 1983‚ when newly developed technology for analyzing the blood for drugs was created. Of the 21‚849 drug test conducted at the summer olympics from 1968-2008 there was a 105 cases of drugs violations. There has been 22 positive results from 7‚783 test conducted at the winter olympics between 1969 and 2010. Most athletes that use drugs don’t

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    topic for conversations in Europe and in the United States of America. The curious political situation creates a censorship for almost all media sources except social networks and blogs. Journalists cannot write their negative opinion on upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi (3). They are forced to write only positive articles and comments

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    Jordyn Rolli Dr. Magee HNRS 103 5 May 2017 The History of the Olympic Games; Honoring Unity Although a great number people in the 21st century believe that the concept of ‘tradition’ merely prevents the progression and advancement of the present world‚ not all traditions perpetuate ignorance. At the heart of most long-standing established practices lies an idea that at least one person did not want the rest of the world to forget. The different types of traditions range from lighthearted

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    In 1980‚ The United States ice hockey team had a dream. A dream to finally do the unthinkable at the Olympic Winter Games. To accomplish this‚ the United States had to come together as one unit and flee to victory. In fact‚ their victory against the Soviet Union was so incredible‚ that directors and filmmakers created a movie about this marvelous win. The movie is called “Miracle.” One person that was mentioned quite a bit in the movie is head coach Herb Brooks. In the movie‚ there are many famous

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    Irving "Irv" Blitzer was an American bobsled two time Gold Medalist at the 1968 Winter Olympics who finished first in two events again during the 1972 Winter Olympics but was disqualified from the latter for cheating and retired in disgrace to Jamaica‚ where he leads an impoverished life as a bookie. Irving is approached by two Jamaican athletes: top 100m runner Derice Bannock‚ who failed to qualify for the 1988 Summer Olympics when another opponent tripped him at the trials‚ and Sanka Coffie‚ a champion

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