BASKETBALL Basketball Court Dimensions Length of a basketball court 94 feet (1128 inches) Note: Many high school and college courts are 84 feet. Width of a basketball court 50 feet (600 inches) Size of a basketball backboard Width: 6 feet (72 inches) Height: 3.5 feet (42 inches) Size of a basketball rim The diameter of the rim is 18 inches The top of the rim should be exactly 10 feet (120 inches) off the ground Distance from the backboard to the back of the rim 6 inches Note:
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addressing the relationship between culture and consumption is exponential. Thus‚ culture’s influence on consumption and marketing had drawn increasing attention in recent years. Hofstede’s framework is the most widely used national cultural framework in psychology‚ sociology‚ marketing and management studies. His dimensions were all constructed in such a way that they addressed basic problems that all societies have to deal with. Thus‚ these dimensions of national culture were constructed at the national
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rank is 3‚ so there will be two dimensionless groups or two isolated variables. The drag force is taken to be one of the isolated variable. The other will simply be the pipe diameter‚ D. This is due to the fact that D and d are having the same dimension‚ so they can not be both taken as core variables. For the 3 core variables‚ check to ensure rank is 3. π1 = da ρb vc D = Mb La-3b+c+1 t-c = M0 L0 t0 Upon solving the above‚ we have a = -1‚ b = 0‚ c = 0. So we have Similarly‚ we can find the
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(Arabic Spain) The Muslims continued to expand territory relentlessly‚ throughout the sixth and the seventh century‚ the century of the prophet Muhammad’s death. In 711 the Islamic armies led by Berber (north African Muslim tribesmen) Tariq ibn-Ziyad crossed the straight of (Gibraltar) from Maghreb (Morocco) and rapidly advanced north conquering Visigoth Spain (Germanic Christian rulers) within seven years. In establishing an Islamic state throughout the Iberian peninsula‚(todays Spain and Portugal
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As a child‚ I was outgoing and talkative‚ but in 4th grade‚ I became more self-conscious and shy. That summer‚ I signed up for The Oak Ridge Otters Summer Swim Team. I was nervous to join because I knew no one. It felt like everyone was judging me for being the new member. A group of teens‚ maybe in middle school at the time‚ noticed that I looked lonely and called me over. They talked to me and introduced kids my age. They made me feel less nervous and excited to continue to swim. This was the
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In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “The Weary Blues”‚ the speaker describes an evening spent listening to a blues musician in Lenox Avenue‚ Harlem. With the help of certain poetic and acoustic techniques‚ the poem manages to evoke the same lamenting and woeful tone and mood of blues music. This essay will be a critical appreciation of this poem in which I will discuss it in the context of the Harlem Renaissance as well as examine how the Blues music functions as a means of articulating personal and
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1. How strong are the competitive forces confronting Blue Nile and other online retail jewelers? Which one of the five competitive forces is the strongest? Do a five-forces analysis to support your answer. The companies that are competing in this industry are Blue Nile‚ Zales‚ Tiffany ’s‚ Online Jewelry Stores (Diamonds.com‚ etc…)‚ and Local Jewelers. The Rivalry among the competing sellers is strong because there are many competitors and they are basically offering the same product. Also‚ the
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In medieval Spain the Umayyad’s existed with faiths that sprung from Jewish‚ Christian and Arabic backgrounds as well as many smaller faiths and focused on religion as a life path. In ancient Rome‚ the empire was focused on religion as knowledge and only had a religion that would contribute to the overall knowledge that Rome required. If a religion worked against this principle then the Romans would eradicate it from the empire. This was the way the Umayyad Empire in medieval Spain thought of religion
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Louisa Muniain April 13‚ 2008 World Cultures CAS Mr. Isaac The Expulsion of Jews from Spain The Jewish Expulsion put an end to one of the most notable and largest settlements in Europe. The main leader behind this dreadful era was Tomas de Torquemada. The King and Queen of Spain‚ Ferdinand and Isabella appointed Torquemada Inquisitor General in 1483. I believe that if Torquemada hadn’t become such good friends with the King and Queen and was not as influencing‚ as he became to be during
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Escaping the Blues Reservation Blues begins with the tortured soul of a musician‚ and his guitar. The blues musician‚ a reanimated form of the late Robert Johnson‚ hands his enchanted instrument to Thomas Builds the Fire. This guitar possesses skill‚ precision and soul‚ no matter who its owner is. Johnson had given his soul to the Devil in order to acquire these powers. When Thomas was given this guitar‚ he too felt the music radiating with its strings. This power‚ compelled Thomas to create
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