Springfield‚ Massachusetts. Dr. James Naismith is known worldwide for being the inventor of basketball and the first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals. James Naismith set 13 rules when inventing basketball then after that he looked into the game being played for the YMCA. He thought to himself that the game need to be fit for inside play and most importantly the game should be skil dependent instead of strength dependent. Dr. James Naismith was successful
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James Cameron’s film‚ Avatar‚ is a very moving story about freedom and choices. Jake Sully‚ an ex-marine‚ travels to Pandora to fulfil his brother’s dream of being in an avatar body and researching the environment on Pandora. Jake goes through a lot of hard times and ends up having to choose between being human and destroying Pandora‚ or being one of the Na’vi and saving the girl he loves and her people. James Cameron has highlighted choices that we have to make in our world by presenting them in
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Was James I a good king for England? James I was a very educated man‚ well read in theology and political theory. Having taken over the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months‚ one can think that when he started ruling England he was more than enough prepared for being a king. However‚ I should say that to me he was neither a good nor a bad king since he took some good and wrong decisions during his reign. On the one hand‚ James I was brought up as a Presbyterian‚ and as a Christian‚ he
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The presidency during James Monroe was known as Era of Good Feelings. Federalist party faded‚ and Democratic-Republican adopted their policies and dominated the politics. However‚ there were constant debates over tariffs‚ the national improvement‚ the national bank‚ internal improvements‚ and public land sales. Also sectionalism tension over slavery became more apparent‚ and soon Democratic-Republican split into two. During Monroe’s presidency‚ Congress raised tariffs (first protective tariff in
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Cited: Barnett‚ P. E. (n.d.). James Dickey ’s Deliverance: Southern‚ White‚ Suburban Male Nightmare or Dream Come True? Retrieved October 18‚ 2007‚ from Forum for Modern Language Studies: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/40/2/145 Calhoun‚ R. J. (1987). James Dickey (1923- ). In R. J. Calhoun‚ Fifty Southern Writers After 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (pp. 136-146). Westport‚
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James I Religion and Foreign policy RT revision notes. -Religious dissension was the basis of an event that confirmed and fueled James’ paranoia: the Gunpowder Plot of November 5‚ 1605. Guy Fawkes and four other Catholic dissenters were caught attempting to blow up the House of Lords on a day in which the king was to open the session. The conspirators were executed‚ but a fresh wave of anti-Catholic sentiments washed across England. James also disliked the Puritans who became excessive in their
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James Joyce‚ the author of the short story "Araby‚" emphasizes the symbolic blindness and ignorance of the faithful masses of fellow Irishmen and depicts his personal religious and adolescent epiphany through the usage of first person point of view‚ vivid imagery‚ and constant allusions to the Roman Catholic Church. The usage of a first person narration allows the reader to see things the way the narrator saw them when he was an unsuspecting youth. Made apparent through his adult observations
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“Is it justice to make evil‚ and then punish for it?” James Fenimore Cooper‚ the author of The Last of the Mohicans often writes and demonstrates in his stories his belief that evil has its consequences. James Fenimore Cooper (1764-1789) was sparked by the Revolutionary period. The war between the American colonies and Great Britain‚ leading to the formation of the independent United States. The Revolution and his romance for it has an impact in his stories. After his wife challenged him to
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The Life and Presidency of James K. Polk 1. Childhood and Family James Knox Polk was born near the Little Sugar Creek in Mecklenburg County‚ North Carolina in 1795. His childhood was tumultuous and unconventional‚ and several events and themes in his childhood undoubtedly helped shape the powerful personality of the future president. One thing is certain‚ however- his early life was highly influential in his political beliefs; they initially mirrored that of his family‚ but then matured into
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northern Canada has always been seen as this vast‚ quiet‚ and bountiful area. Unfortunately big companies; such as Hydro Quebec‚ decided that this was where the money was. The James Bay Hydro Project was such a huge‚ expensive and destructive operation that it completely changed the landscape of northern Canada. The James Bay Hydro Project was a multi-phased project brought to the area by Hydro Quebec. The whole process started in 1971 when Hydro-Quebec and the Quebec government initiated the project
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