I. Show us an activity you enjoy doing. Tell us how you think it contributes to your personal and professional development I began training and coaching beach volley last year. The idea came into my mind while I was watching the beach volley tournament of my girlfriend job and many participants were complaining about the different level of the teams. Once back home I explained my idea to my girlfriend which is a volley professional and introduced me to the sport and she bought it. The reason
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The history of volleyball began way back when the sport was invented in1895 by William G. Morgan‚ an instructor with the YMCA in Holyoke‚ Massachusetts. The history of volleyball reveals that on July 7th 1896‚ at Springfield College the first game of "volleyball" was played. In regards to comparing volleyball participation rates to every other sport in the school offered throughout the year‚ volleyball is the third least participated sport just in front of tennis and basketball. This fact means that
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Critical Evaluation of Merchants of Doubt Merchants of Doubt‚ is a documentary directed by Robert Kenner‚ that is inspired by the book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway . It The documentary uses a professional magician comparing the illusions done by the magicians to the public relations tactics used by industries. The documentary discusses about how industries have been using a myriad of public relations tactics to protect from government regulations in order to ensure their
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WR 98: Intro to College Reading & Writing Outline for “All the Disappearing Islands” A. Paragraph 1: Introduction Julia Whitty writes about the amazing beauty of Tuvalu Islands B. Paragraphs 2-3: General Idea The general idea is the environmental and cultural impact of melting ice caps on the nation of Tuvalu. Global Warming could cause the sea to expand and rise faster than the corals could fortify themselves against it and Tuvalu could disappear beneath the waves. This not only risks
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Climate Change and the Philippines Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions‚ or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions. Climate change is a “change in climate which is attributed directly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability
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Serpentine threw Steven‚ Erin‚ and Sapphire into three different cells. An electric field formed in front of Sapphire’s cell‚ while bars came down in front of Erin and Steven’s. Erin stood up and was about to grab the bars. “DON’T TOUCH THEM!” shouted a voice. He looked ahead at the cell in front of him. A girl about his age was sitting across from him. She had olive skin‚ sea green hair in a double bun‚ and wore a light green midriff jacket‚ office green blouse with yellow‚ white‚ and blue diamond
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Heidi Cullen’s article Personal Stories About Global Warming Change Minds argues against the stance that people should be taught about the effects of climate change solely through facts; instead‚ she argues that the way to raise awareness is through being told the facts and hearing people’s real-life stories who are facing these drastic climate changes. She acknowledges that informing people of the facts or the world’s predicament is vital‚ but the only true way to get through to people and make
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Hercules: Character Variation There was one hero in ancient Greece who stood out the most; he was the strongest‚ the bravest‚ and the most god-like. Hercules was a favorite hero among men because he suffered and was therefore relatable. Through multiple sources the story of Hercules has been told: in Mythology‚ by Edith Hamilton (the most accurate version); in the History Channel’s 2009 episode‚ “Hercules” from the series‚ Clash of the Gods; in the 2014 movie Hercules directed by Brett Ratner‚ starring
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1 Three Waves of Variation Study: The emergence of meaning in the study of variation Penelope Eckert Stanford University Abstract The treatment of social meaning in variation has come in three waves of analytic practice. The first wave of variation studies established broad correlations between linguistic variables and the macro-sociological categories of socioeconomic class‚ sex class‚ ethnicity and age. The second wave employed ethnographic methods to explore the local categories and configurations
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that genetic variation is caused by a variety of factors which may include natural selection and mating patterns. With the results from the Blanding’s Turtle experiment‚ who are listed as an endangered species‚ the topic of genetic diversity and genetic variation will further be discussed and researched. Genetic variation describes genetic differences among individuals of the same species. In a population‚ it is derived from a wide assortment of genes and alleles. This variation allows flexibility
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