Emily Chuang Mechanics of Swimming The crawl‚ also known as freestyle‚ is often regarded as the fastest swimming style. The legs perform a fluttering movement called the flutter kick to propel the body from behind while the elbows take turns moving in a semicircle movement in the swimming direction. One arm relaxes while the other is driven forward. The head is to be kept down in the water when not breathing. To breathe‚ the head turns sideways out of the water and air is to be taken in by the mouth
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Iliad and Odyssey- stories were written by ancient Greeks to tell stories of heroism; to inspire their people. stories of morality and character. By having Odysseus punished repeatedly in the Odyssey‚ it was thought by the Greeks to provoke a sense of humility and shame instead of pride based on Greek heroes‚ to have Greek citizens harbor a sense of humility and humbleness instead of pride and nobility and power. For all intensive purposes‚ they were told for entertainment; and to possibly pass on
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Immortality Views among Different Cultures and Religions The concept of life after death has been around practically as long as life itself. Our beliefs about life after death can have a profound effect on our attitudes toward life. Most individual’s beliefs about life after death are directly related to their cultural or religious affiliations. According to Montagu‚ "Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on
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& Smith‚ 1997; Baumol & Oates‚ 1988; Kahn‚ 1995; all cited in ThØgersen‚ 2003)‚ household surveys (Singer‚ 2002) and education policy (Fryer‚ 2011). On the other side‚ penalties have been used to reduce free-riding (Feldman‚ Papadimitriou‚ Chuang‚ & Stoica‚ 2006)‚ and crimes (Akerlof & Dickens‚ 1982). There is much evidence that supports the basic premise of economics that incentives are effective (Gibbons‚ 1997; Prendergast‚ 1999; Lazear‚ 2000; all cited in Bénabou & Tirole‚ 2004)
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Thomas Warren Research and discuss the family photograph album. How and why is the family album used to construct notions of identity? Introduction Family photo albums have existed in many different forms. Not only as a personal flick book documentation containing “the chronicles of a family’s private story” (Fong‚ 2004‚ p.86) capturing special moments and events of the past; but the idea of documenting one’s past through images has been in existence since humans roamed the earth. Through
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The Disease of Drug Addiction Joanne Frye HSER 340 Abstract Addiction is a chronic‚ often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive seeking and use of addictive substances despite harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him or her. Introduction Dramatic advances in science over the past 20 years have shown that drug addiction is a chronic relapsing disease that results from the prolonged effects of drugs on the brain. (Leshner‚ 1997) It is considered a
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The Platform Sutra August 29‚ 2012 The Platform Sutra When considering the Platform Sutra‚ the idea of the Middle Way in understanding the interplay between understanding and insight‚ meditation and wisdom‚ is key. “If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus‚ although they have two names‚ in substance there are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.” (Yampolsky‚ 1967
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0263-5577.htm IMDS 111‚5 Warehouse contextual factors affecting the impact of RFID Angeliki Karagiannaki‚ Dimitris Papakiriakopoulos and Cleopatra Bardaki Department of Management Science and Technology‚ ELTRUN Research Center‚ Athens University of Economics and Business‚ Athens‚ Greece Abstract Purpose – Empowered by the possibility to automatically identify unique instances‚ radio frequency
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The Taoist Tradition; Monday‚ Wednesday 10:00 a.m. Professor Lee 12/14/2012 Daodejing of Laozi‚ Chapter 38 (First chapter‚ due to a Chinese man’s inability to arrange bamboo sticks) Much of this text is contradictions‚ e.g. the virtuous thing to do is not to strive for virtue Confucians are the intended audience (scholars who read certain preconfucian classics); very few people are even literate Written by somewhat-countercultural beatnik equivalents A dao which can be daoed is not a real
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1458 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING‚ VOL. 20‚ NO. 5‚ MAY 2011 IMAGE Resolution Enhancement by Using Discrete and Stationary Wavelet Decomposition Hasan Demirel and Gholamreza Anbarjafari Abstract—In this correspondence‚ the authors propose an image resolution enhancement technique based on interpolation of the high frequency subband images obtained by discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the input image. The edges are enhanced by introducing an intermediate stage by using stationary
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