Akash Singh Per. 4 11/27/12 The History of Basketball Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay Township‚ near Almonte‚ Ontario‚ Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith’s school days in the area where he played a simple child’s game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. James Naismith devised
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The blame game is a common game children take place in. Instead of taking responsibility for their actions‚ they choose to try and accuse someone else‚ just to avoid meanile punishment. Despite their claims of being “mature”‚ adults exhibit this behavior as well‚ but call it scapegoating. But why do people do such childish things‚ despite being sensible? Blame shifting is done as a result of people being unable to handle negative repercussions of a situation. A old but well analyzed example is the
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able to achieve things that physically you couldn’t accomplish before. For instance your body will change according to your workouts. If they are more cardio based you will lose weight and lean out. That is why track runners are leaner than the disc throwers‚ and the baseball players are thinner than the bowlers. Depending on your workout that you or your coach puts you through depends on your outcome of your physical appearance. By exercising on a regular basis your body will be healthier‚ which means
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Sasha Thrower Mr. Gillet AP Literature Period 2 October 13‚ 2014 “Human Condition” Response Reading this poem at first was a challenge. The only thing I got of the poem was‚ a man walking around at night in thick fog attempting to find his way to some place important in which he did not know where that place was. The second time reading was much more insightful and made me realize how a simple idea of a man walking to an unknown place relates to me in many ways. In the first part of the poem‚
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George Maxwell is an African American; he started his business 20 years ago. Maxwell’s plumbing supplies has hard working employees and George treats his employees equally. Unfortunately‚ the supervisor needs to retire and now George has to replace his supervisor‚ but it is very difficult to find another. That’s one of George’s problems he does not want to face‚ because hiring someone from the outside field will bring more difficulties to his business. George believes Hector Miranda is the right
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The Connection of Art and Survival Man has studied survival as far back as humans can be recorded‚ although some not left by records‚ we can go back thousands of years with survival represented through art pieces of art all over the world. Paleolithic and Neolithic man showed their means of survival through their art as their way of recording things‚ whether or not they left it purposely for people to discover and excavate to learn this is questionable. It may have just been a meer coincidence
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When WWII first began in 1939‚ the United States was hesitant to get involved. During this time‚ many Americans were Isolationists‚ believing the United States should refrain from intervening with international conflicts. Isolationism led to the passing of the Neutrality Acts‚ which outlawed the sale or loan of arms to nations at war. However‚ when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941‚ it was clear the American Isolationist debate was over. Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the
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Into Eurasia From Africa middle east west into Europe (southern france‚ northern spain) or east into asia Ice age pushed people southwawrd into warmer areas. Altered their hunting habits and hunted reindeer and horses Technologies: spear thrower‚ bow and arrow‚ mainly stone tools Cave paintings were considered having a history/record of their world more east: bone needles‚ multilayerd clothing‚ weaving‚ nets‚ storage pits‚ baskets‚ and pottery—to combat the ice age cold Into Australia
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In this section of the novel Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain satirizes the idea of romanticism. “She was very deep and I see in a minute there warn’t much chance for anybody being alive in her.” (pg. 91) When Huck see the boat sinking in the in the river. Twain satirizes the romanticism by showing his death. He claims that when people get on this boat their dreams or fantasies die on with it. Taking them from reality which is a major idea in this book. This compares to the end as well because it was
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Metallurgy: The Bronze Age Metallurgy was first practiced in Asia Minor a little after 4000 B.C.E‚ afforded individuals greater control over nature by providing harder‚ more efficient tools and weapons. At first copper ore was taken from the surface‚ but metalsmiths mined and smelted various ores to produce bronze. The technology of bronze-casting spread from Mesopotamia throughout the ancient world. In India‚ advanced metalwork techniques were used to produce jewelry‚ musical instruments‚ horse
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