first basketball tournament in the history of the Olympic games during the 1936 Berlin edition where basketball was played outdoors on lawn tennis courts (which was terribly hampered by a bad rainy weather) and there were still no seats for spectators. Dr. James Naismith‚ acknowledged as the inventor of the beautiful game of basketball‚ was present at the Berlin Olympic basketball competitions and handed out the medals to the winning basketball teams. The 1936 Philippine Olympic basketball team‚
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BIOMECHANICAL PRINCIPLES BASKETBALL Colten McDermott HPED 315 2-May-12 Biomechanical Principles In Basketball Basketball is a very competitive and popular sport in our society today. The NBA playoffs are going on right now and it has proved to be a very physical and intense post season. This sport takes an extreme amount of talent‚ coordination‚ and athletic ability to become a champion. There are a few biomechanical principles that are present during the game of basketball that help these athletes
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Basketball Basketball was created a simple game. The primary objective was to place a ball‚ without dribbling‚ into a peach basket. However‚ like Darwin’s theory of man‚ basketball has evolved into the most exciting exhibition of athletic ability. Basketball has seen many rule changes‚ because of the increasing ability of the players. Basketball is a melting pot‚ where black‚ white‚ and European people excel. This is a sport that is color-blind. This sport
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A beauty contest or beauty pageant is a competition which become popular all around the world. It is mostly based on the physical beauty of all contestants‚ although such contests often incorporate personality‚ talent‚ and answers to judges’ questions as judged criteria. This parade of female bodies is not entertaining at all‚ because it has nothing to do with aesthetics but in fact reflecting the inequality between the sexes. These beauty contest are misleading and harmful‚ not only to plain looking
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rhetorical strategies that can be found are alliteration‚ assonance‚ and cacophony. The major rhetorical strategy that Scheffing used was alliteration. The use of alliteration by Scheffing serves to be quite effective in email because it allows her to point out the use of rhetorical strategies by Wilson in his essay. An example of alliteration used by Scheffing is‚ "A number of examples are obvious through the first few paragraphs of the essay" (1). The alliteration can be seen in the words "first" and
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society could live without. Beauty contests are an unnecessary element in society simply because they set unrealistic beauty standards for an audience of easily influenced young girls‚ they encourage judging on appearance‚ rather than on a person’s character‚ and mainly because they objectify women. Beauty contests are well promoted by the media‚ with television and images‚ which influence young women’s opinions on appearance. The participants of these contests are poor role models for these girls
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Introduction Basketball is a team sport‚ the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules. Two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end. A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins‚ but additional time (overtime) may be issued when the game ends with a draw. The ball can
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The Positives of Beauty Contest on Modern Society Who would not want to be beautiful‚ talented‚ hard-working‚ and community-service oriented? Who would not want to go to college on scholarships? A beauty contest is a competition in which the entrants are judged as to physical beauty and sometimes personality and talent‚ with the winners being awarded titles or prizes. There are many types of beauty contest. The two main types are natural and glitz. Natural pageants focus on the contestant’s natural
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humanism A new concept of human individuality‚ originating in the citystates of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy‚ that was based on desire for excellence in scholarship‚ creative work‚ and education. The humanist movement spread to northern Europe‚ France‚ England‚ and elsewhere‚ and continued to flourish until the mid-seventeenth century. Among its more familiar literary figures are‚ in Italy‚ Dante Alighieri‚ Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch)‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ Baldassare
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Football and baseball are two sports that have been played in america for along time. Some people say that baseball is what America use to be and football is what america is now. These sports have many differences and similarities that I would like to share with you. There are some that are obvious but there will be some that you may not know about. Football and baseball are different in many ways. They are played at different times of the year. First I will start with the ball. A baseball is spherical
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