Week Two Article Summary James Naismith Being a high school basketball coach‚ and with the vision of being a college coach one day‚ I thought that it would be interesting to write about the founder of basketball. In December 1891‚ Canadian-born James Naismith‚ a physical education teacher at the YMCA training school‚ took a soccer ball and a peach basket into the gym and invented basketball. In 1893‚ James Naismith replaced the peach basket with iron hoops and a hammock-style basket. Ten
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my thoughts away from the essay I should be writing. I could have been listening to music‚ or checking an email for school. But no‚ I was sitting in a boring classroom‚ waiting impatiently to be saved by the bell. All due to Screen Free Week. Screen Free Week is a movement that enforces a rule in May‚ that for a week you are not allowed to use computers‚ tablets‚ phones‚ etc. I am unsupportive of this‚ for many reasons. I am not in favor of screen free week because many studies
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is the bestselling memoir of James McBride‚ a biracial journalist‚ jazz saxophonist‚ and composer whose Jewish mother gave birth to twelve children‚ all of whom she raised in a housing project in Brooklyn. His mother witnessed the premature death of her first husband‚ a reverend‚ and through sheer force of will saw each of her children graduate from college. Her basic household tenets rested on the importance of academic success and the church‚ and many of her children moved on to earn graduate and
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the bottom-up approach. Database designers who deal with large‚ complex databases usually find that a primarily top-down design approach is more appropriate. In spite of the frequent arguments concerning the best design approach‚ perhaps the top-down vs. bottom-up distinction is quite artificial. 1D. What is the minimal data rule in conceptual design? Why is it important? The minimal data rule specifies that all the data defined in the data model are actually required to fit present
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James Dewey Watson is the man known for his great contribution to science. He and Francis Crick created the Double-Helix which later helped many other scientists. James Dewey Watson was born April 6‚ 1928 in Chicago‚ Illinois. He is still alive today. Watson’s childhood was spent in Chicago‚ Illinois. As a child‚ he lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was his parents’ empathy — they encouraged constant trips to the local store for chocolate milk shakes
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Why be Drug Free DRUG FREE I choose to be DRUG FREE for many reasons. In fact‚ I have several reasons why I am drug free. My first reason is because I can get diseases like emphysema‚ lung cancer‚ and liver disease. My second reason is because drugs affect the brain. My final reason is that drugs can cause a lot of harm to oneself and those around them. “Now join me as I explain my reasons”. My first reason is because you can get diseases like emphysema‚ lung cancer‚ and liver
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE AN INSIGHT OF IAN FLEMING’S JAMES BOND- WITH REFERENCE TO ‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’. From Russia‚ with Love is the fifth novel in Ian Fleming ’s James Bond series‚ first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957. As with the first four books‚ From Russia‚ with Love was generally well received by the critics. The story was written at Fleming ’s Golden eye estate in Jamaica in early 1956. By the time the book was published‚ he did not know whether he wanted
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Both‚ James Madison and Thomas Jefferson served very successful terms as president of the United States of America. Madison’s greatest accomplishment was the moral victory in the “War of 1812”‚ while Jefferson doubled the size of America with the “Louisiana Purchase”. Also‚ having an exceptional relationship allowed them to create the Democratic- Republican party. Despite sharing the same views on government‚ the aftereffects of their presidencies turned out to be far different. Because James Madison
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James A. Garfield was born in 1831 in a small place called Cuyahoga County‚ Ohio. He was born and raised fatherless‚ so he grew up strong-willed as the man of his house. When he became of age to start going of to college‚ Garfield chose the prestigious Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856. Garfield studied to become a politician and his hopes and dreams came true as he was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Northern Republican. Garfield was well known as a loyal Unionist and kept his ways
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James Baldwin’s 1953 novel‚ “Go Tell It on the Mountain‚” about a Harlem teenager’s search for meaning‚ quickly became a classic‚ along with his searing essays about race published a decade later in the book “The Fire Next Time.” But in recent years Baldwin’s presence has diminished in many high school classrooms. In a year that marks the 90th anniversary of his birth‚ educators offer different reasons for Baldwin’s faded presence there‚ from the concern that he is too controversial and complex
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