English 1B September 29‚ 2013 The Evolution of Basketball Basketball has been played over 100 years and it is one of the most widely played sports in the world. James A. Naismith started basketball in December 1891. He tried to make a sport that would be played between football and baseball
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arbitrary boundary. With the rise of chiefdoms and states‚ this tendency became institutionalized‚ war was adopted as an instrument of policy of some of the new societies‚ and those that employed it best became - tragically - the most successful. The evolution of warfare was an autocatalytic reaction that could not be halted by any people‚ because to attempt to reverse the process unilaterally was to fall victim. -E.O. Wilson‚ On Human Nature As every day passes we are become more and more a globalized
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The evolution that has taken place in the music industry over the last 15 years is quite staggering. The entrance of the internet onto the world stage has revolutionized the way music is bought‚ marketed and shared. It is not only the depth of the changes that are occurring‚ but also the increasing rate at which these changes are taking place. New technologies and processes are becoming outdated almost as soon as they are adopted. Love it or hate it‚ the World Wide Web is here to stay‚ and it has
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Evolution Lab The finches on Darwin and Wallace Islands feed on seeds produced by plants growing on these islands. There are three categories of seeds: soft seeds‚ produced by plants that do well under wet conditions; seeds that are intermediate in hardness‚ produced by plants that do best under moderate precipitation; and hard seeds‚ produced by plants that dominate in drought conditions. Evolution Lab is based on a model for the evolution of quantitative traits–characteristics of an individual
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The Evolution of Architecture due to several analyzed themes (Gothic architecture and Modern architecture) Abstract This paper contains a comparative analysis of the evolution of architecture in relation to Gothic revival and Modern Architecture. In this comparative analysis the similarities and differences of each style are highlighted and discussed. It further discusses and illustrates the elements which are unique to each style. The buildings which are the subject of this analysis includes:
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Animal Protection Decision-Making Based on Aesthetic Value is Undermined by Subjectivity In “Why Do Species Matter?”‚ Lilly-Marlene Russow argues that humans have a moral obligation to protect and to ensure the continued existence of things of aesthetic value which includes some but not necessarily all animals. In this paper‚ I will argue that the subjectivity involved in determining aesthetic value makes it an insufficient element for determining moral obligation to the protection and preservation
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computer available at home‚ it’s guaranteed that the youth will come into contact with a computer somewhere else‚ such as school. This may have not been the case a couple decades ago and with that said‚ computers have been evolving (and still are). The evolution of computers is all possible due to computer science. Computer science is defined to be “the study of ideas of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems.”[1] Computer science
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for themselves. Iqbal explained evolution on the basis of his religious knowledge as well as his experiences in the western society. One of the facets of Iqbal’s genius is the fluidity with which he displays his in-depth knowledge and critical analysis of both Islamic and Western philosophies‚ theories and concepts. He compared the Quranic concepts of evolution with the western ones. Then‚ he gave his own concept of evolution. Allama Iqbal’s Concepts of Evolution: Allama Iqbal is against the concept
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Evolution of the Xbox Supply Chain Microsoft made several adjustments to their supply chain between the introduction of the Xbox and the Xbox 360. One of the first changes was adding a third EMS supplier‚ Celestica‚ in addition to Flextronics and Wistron. Celestica was added to increase capacity and meet predicted demand which was expected to be much higher for the Xbox 360 than it had been for the original Xbox. Also‚ in addition to Microsoft’s current engineering team‚ they attempted to further
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Chris Dey 1st Period AP US History November 18th‚ 2014 The Evolution of Slavery After the development of the cotton gin in 1793‚ the South produced over half of the world’s supply of cotton and accounted for half of all American exports after 1840. Cotton quickly became a vital economic factor in the United States as well as on an international level. Britain‚ the leading industrial power at the time‚ depended on southern cotton to manufacture cotton cloth which was Britain’s most important single
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