[pic] 2010 Asian Games From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search |[pic] |This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering | | |support‚ you may see question marks‚ boxes‚ or other symbols | | |instead of Chinese characters. | |XVI Asian Games | |[pic]
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Olympic Games The Olympic Games started off as a series of athletic events to honor the gods. The games have begun in the early 700 BC in honor of the god Zeus. No women were allowed to watch the games and only Greek nationals could participate. The games were held every four years. In honor of the god Zeus a statue was built out of gold and ivory by a Greek sculptor. In the games 100 oxen were sacrificed and many athletes would make sacrifices themselves. In the games boxing was a brutal sport
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The Imitation Game This film is based on the biography of Alan Turing‚ a British mathematician. He is widely considered as the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. Turing is best known for breaking the Enigma machine. It was during World War II‚ when almost all the European countries were trying to find out what the rivals are up to. There was a need to keep the information secret from the competitors. Arthur Scherbius‚ a German engineer developed an ultimate machine
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Malia Morgan March 28‚ 2014 English 50 Cheryl Foster “Video Games Can Be Helpful to College Students” In the article‚ “Video Games Can Be Helpful to College Students‚” by Scott Carlson‚ he discusses a study that examined the effect of video games on college students. The report he says‚ “suggests that video games are a vital and positive part of college students social lives‚ even though games may be keeping them from their studies. I believe that this can be true because there seems
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In my last homework I want to talk about Game of Thrones. Game of thrones is my favorite TV series. This TV series is adapted from the book of George R.R. Martin. His books are a series of fantasy novels called “A song of ice and fire”. A game of thrones is the first book of the series. TV series is created for HBO by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. It Filmed in a Belfast studio and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland‚ Malta‚ Croatia‚ Iceland‚ and Morocco. it premiered on HBO in the United
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was scheduled to play in a championship game with her most formidable rival. At the last minute‚ she gave the excuse of not feeling well and refused to play. Her reputation was ruined. Until the day of her death‚ she was regarded as a ‘poor sport’ afraid of defeat. Why is such a high value put on good sportsmanship in the playing games? The games themselves are not so important. No‚ but the traits a person shows in playing a game‚ reveal his 3 | P a g e character
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highly debatable topic that has been used as main ideas for poetry many times. An idea that is important in Jessie Pope’s “who’s for the game” is that men should fight to defend their country in war. An idea that is important in Wilfred Owen’s “dulce et decorum est.” is that the reality of war is brutal and scary. The language techniques that were used to show these ideas are metaphor‚ similes and personification. An idea that is important in “Who’s for the game” by Jessie Pope is that men should
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1) |Games at Twilight |In this story we observe how does high society in India lives. | | |This family lived in a big house with a porch‚ a big garden in | | |which children could play and a garage with a driver. Summer in| | |India is so intense‚ that even high-society
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Facebook Games Facebook is a worldwide social network in which people all around the world socialize with one another. Not only do people log on to Facebook to tell all of their business they also log on to play the free online social games and playing games on Facebook can be addictive. In other words‚ people sit up all night playing these games and those that have no jobs sit up all day playing them. They somehow forget that there is a real world and that they are a part of the real world. One
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Nowadays‚ there are hundreds of games with different characters and plots. If I can be one of the game characters‚ I want a character in a game called‚ ‘In Modern World’. In this game‚ the character has many abilities‚ like teleportation and telekinesis. Using these abilities‚ the character destroys an alien battleship. Also‚ the main character is fifteen; therefore‚ it will be perfect for me to be the main character of this game. The characters in this game are I‚ and other superheroes. Using
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