HISTORY OF TABLE TENNIS Ping Pong Anyone? The sport got its start in England towards the end of the 19th century when‚ after dinner‚ some upper-middle class Victorians decided to turn their dining room tables into miniature versions of the traditional lawn tennis playing field. Several different every-day objects were employed in constructing the sport. They used a line of books as the net. Rackets were lids from empty cigar boxes‚ and a little later‚ parchment paper stretched around a frame. The
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The Green Table The Green Table is a ballet choreographed by Kurt Jooss. Jooss lived in Germany from 1901 to 1979 and choreographed the Green Table in 1932. He called this piece the ‘dance of death’ because of its focus on war. The Green Table is separated into nine scenes‚ each of them showing the different aspects of war and death. The first scene is titled ‘Gentlemen in Black’ and is a group of high-class men in suits and gloves arguing through dance over a large green table. Their flowy
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Ethical Systems Table PHL/323 June 20‚ 2012 Ethical Theory or System | Brief Definition | Other Names for Theory | Real-world Example | Workplace Example | Duty-based Ethics | Regardless of consequences‚ certain moral principles are binding‚ focusing on duty rather than results or moral obligation over what the individual would prefer to do (Treviño & Nelson‚ 2007‚ Ch. 4).In ethics‚ deontological ethics‚ or deontology (Greek: deon meaning obligation or duty)‚ is a theory holding that
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the Lockness Swimming Chair Monster has been waiting centuries for humans would be held captive by its natural habitat. As dusk began to set it‚ the Lockness Swimming Chair monster‚ or LSCM for short‚ began its hunt. Its first victim‚ a 7 year old girl‚ desperetly tried to swim away but would never make it back home. It was tragic to witness. Its first taste of blood and now it craved more. As the city saw no hope‚ the mortality rate continued to rise. Who was to save them? Well.. That would be me
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A CCOUN TlNG FUNDAMENTALS FOR CONS TRUC TlON DANIEL W. HALPIN‚ BOLIVAR A. SENIOR Copyright 02009 by John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. All rights reserved APPENDIX C COMPOUND INTEREST TABLES 275 P1: OTA/XYZ P2: ABC JWBT106-APP-C 276 JWBT106-Halpin June 26‚ 2009 8:56 Printer: Sheridan Books COMPOUND INTEREST TABLES TABLE C.1 0.25% Compound Interest Factors Single Payment 0.25% Uniform Payment Series Compound Amount Factor Present Worth Factor Sinking Fund Factor Capital Recovery Factor
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Disadvantages: 1. Less showmanship 2. Reduced personalized attention English Service This type of service is also known as "family style" service. In this service‚ the soup tureen is placed before the host alongside with preheated soup plates and hands them to the waiter‚ indicating the person to be served. The same procedure is followed with the main entree. If so desired‚ the partly filled dinner plate is presented to the hostess who serves the vegetables from large serving dishes placed before
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The theme in the Welcome Table by Clara Walker is a story that tells how after a lifetime of working as a slave she was alone no longer had a purpose or use. No one appreciated or respected the old lady in the story. The blacks did nothing to help her‚ and the whites would not even tolerate her in their church. This story took place shortly after slavery ended and during segregated America. I know this because the pastor of the church implied that she was in the white church and needed to go to
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Periodic Table Elements such as gold and silver have been known since the earliest times. In 1649‚ a German alchemist‚ Hennig Brand made the first scientific discovery of an element‚ phosphorous. In the next 200 years‚ knowledge about the properties of elements and their compounds was gained. By 1869‚ 63 elements had been discovered in total. Scientists began to categorise those elements according to the similarities of their physical and chemical properties‚ which become the modern Period table we
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The Development of the Periodic Table Although Dmitri Mendeleev is often considered the ‘father’ of the periodic table‚ the work of many scientists contributed to its present form. Between 1817-1829‚ Johann Dobereiner began to group elements with similar properties in to groups of three or triads. This began when he noticed that the atomic weights of strontium (Sr) were halfway between Calcium (Ca) and Barium (Ba). He stated that nature contained triads of elements in which the middle element
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our tables would be empty and quiet‚ our meals sparse and unpalatable‚ our concepts of wonder and amazement dimmed by the reality around us. A general tenet which guides my faith is the reality that being a person of faith means I am called to do difficult work. As human beings we engage imperfectly in this world and as a result experience conflict; as a person of faith I am called to do the often difficult work of forgiveness‚ when possible and appropriate
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