THE GAME OF VOLLEYBALL Volleyball is the second most popular sport in the world today‚ exceeded only by soccer. It was invented by William G. Morgan in 1895 at a YMCA in Holyoke for middle aged men who needed something less strenuous than basketball. The sport has changed much over the years and Mr. Morgan would probably not recognize the game today. The sport involves two teams separated by a net who contact a volleyball a maximum of three times before it crosses the net to the other team
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The Hunger Games trilogy Author: Suzanne Collins Book names: The Hunger Games‚ Catching Fire‚ Mockingjay Main characters: Katniss Everdeen‚ Peeta Mellark‚ Gale Hawthorne‚ Haymitch Abernathy etc. Facts: 1. The ‘Hunger Games’ set had 100-degree heat and bears. 2. The lead characters are contracted for the entire franchise. 3. The movie cost $90 milion to make‚ reduced to $78 million after subsidies. 4. Elizabeth Banks‚ who played District 12 escort Effie Trinket‚ said the worst part
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A Game of Chess | Artist: Marcel Duchamp Written By: Chad Jordan | A simple yet complex description from the eyes of a college student newly educated on the arts. | | Marcel Duchamp is most renown for his work‚ Fountain (1917) was displayed and photographed at Alfred Stieglitz’s studio and Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) In the Duchamp’s painting A Game of Chess (1910)‚ he uses a variety of colors. He uses shades and tints of those colors vividly and with balance of the brightness and
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Periods 1-2 Book Talk: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins What the book was about: The Hunger Games is a book taking place in the nation of Panem‚ the cruel‚ superficial capitol surrounded by twelve districts. To keep the districts in order‚ and to remind them how powerful they really are‚ the Capitol makes each district send a boy and girl to take part in the Hunger Games‚ a brutal‚ gory fight to the death live on television‚ made so each person in
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What makes someone “crazy”? Is it being outlandish and flamboyant? Does the person have to have a mental disorder? Can it come from a person’s strict adherence to “norms”? In the short story “Game‚” Donald Barthelme considers all of these questions. The story depicts two men‚ an unnamed narrator and Shotwell‚ who are trapped in some type of bunker‚ and they have been there for 133 days due to an “oversight.” After such a long time confined in a single space‚ the men start to act “strangely‚” but
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Rohinton Mistry’s short story “Of White Hairs and Cricket” and in Anita Desai’s short story “Games at Twilight‚” the protagonists both experience childhood differently‚ but they arrive at the same conclusion about their insignificance. Both narrators talk about how making independent choices can be both harmful and protective‚ but maintaining strong family relationships is crucial. Though the narrator in “Games at Twilight” is younger than the narrator in “Of White Hairs and Cricket”‚ they both face
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-Collecting stamps 2. Games Hobbies -Video games -Card games -Board games 3. Sports & Healthy hobbies -Fishing -Soccer -Basket 2ball -Badminton 4. Performing arts hobbies -Singing -Dancing -Magic 5. Reading Hobbies -Newspapers -Books -Comics *Are hobbies important? Why? From the time we are little children we decided what amuses us and what does not. Also from an early age some of us start doing certain things more than others. Some of us like to play games‚ others like to
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War Is Not a Game Etgar Keret’s “Not Human Beings” is the story of Schmulik Stein‚ a soldier who is young and jaded by the realities of death and violence. As an officer during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict‚ he is forced to recognize the serious nature of conflict he is involved in when he is recruited to go with Israeli border patrol officers. He is then put to the greatest test of all‚ to dehumanize‚ stand his ground and witness things he may never be able to forget. At the end of the story
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Walmart Group Supply Chain Game Conclusion This time‚ the game was more complicated. We need to plan and control production capacity‚ shipment method and further distribution to different areas. Our performance was not as good as last time. The distribution network of the company consists of a single factory and a single warehouse‚ both in Calopeia. We can build extra factories and warehouses in other places. Actually at first‚ our goal was increasing the manufacturing capability
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For the Littlefield Technologies Game 1‚ we have got $1269200 in cash and rank number three at the end. My teammates Ruoxing Zhao‚ YiLin Luo‚ and Dong yang can help with each other and solve difficult situations together. We totally bought six machines‚ three for station 1‚ two for station 2‚ and one for station 3. When we decided to purchase machine for three stations on day 66‚ we calculated the capacity rate for each station. We knew that we late for other groups for purchasing machine already
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