The Arab League. The Arab League is a regional organization that was founded on March 22‚ 1945. The league’s function is to promote political cooperation among it’s member states‚ and to deal with disputes or any breaches of peace in the region. The league’s official name is the League of Arab States. The founding members of the league are: Egypt‚ Syria‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Iraq‚ Jordan‚ and Yemen. Membership in the League was later extended to Algeria‚ Bahrain‚ Djibouti‚ Kuwait‚ Libya‚
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McNamara English 100-007 14 April 2013 Soccer & Baseball Soccer and Baseball are two great sports I greatly admire and respect. Having been born in a country where Soccer is unavoidable‚ naturally I took a passion for it. When I arrived in the United States it took me a while to get accustomed to the environment‚ but one thing I was fascinated was with Baseball. Throughout my life I have had the opportunity to play Soccer and Baseball and have realized that they have significant contrasts
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles A Player Based Approach to Baseball Simulation A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics by Adam Philip Sugano 2008 © Copyright by Adam Philip Sugano 2008 The dissertation of Adam Philip Sugano is approved. _______________________________________ Jan de Leeuw _______________________________________ Rick Paik Schoenberg _______________________________________
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"Baseball ’s a simple game. You hit the ball. You throw the ball. You catch the ball‚" said a well-respected baseball manager by the name of Casey Stengel. Mr. Stengel was a baseball man‚ not a mathematician nor a physicist. Physics and mathematics can be applied to the game of baseball on every pitch‚ and on every swing of the bat. To understand the physics of the game‚ it is first necessary to look at the center of the game‚ the ball. Section 1.09 of the Official Baseball Rules states that
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Medical Rights of Minors “In 2013‚ there were 26.5 births for every 1‚000 adolescent females ages 15-19‚ or 273‚105 babies born to females in this age group.” Some of these unplanned pregnancies may have been prevented if those minors had access to their own health records and medical decisions. “Adolescents’ brains are not adequately developed to make these kinds of decisions‚ that they are heavily influenced by social and emotional reactions‚ including the wishes of friends and family.” This
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game of baseball is that it is practically dead. A lot of people in America will assume this because of the downward trend in TV ratings or because kids aren’t being hooked to the game as they once were. One of the things that these people don’t understand is that TV has changed drastically from what it once was. Nowadays every single baseball game can be seen on TV because of the variety of channels available and because of the different streaming options available to fans. When baseball was first
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Baseball/Softball Baseball is a very commonly played sport. There was once a story that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 but that story was never really proved. The first published rules were written in 1845 for a New York baseball club by Alexander Cartwright. He is known as a commonly “father of baseball”. On June 3‚ 1953 congress officially gave Alexander Cartwright credit for inventing the current game of baseball. Alexander is a member of the baseball hall of fame. Baseball is
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PASSOVER vs. EASTER Today‚ millions of people celebrate Easter as an important religious holiday‚ while Passover is almost universally ignored. Many people will be surprised to find that the day God commanded us as believers to observe in the Bible is the Day being ignored. In this essay‚ I will compare this observance (holiday) with the instructions about worship found in the Bible regarding His “Holy Day” of Passover. The word Easter is the English word for “Ishtar” it is found
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invented the game of baseball. How he became a Civil War hero while baseball was growing in America. But sadly‚ this is not true at all. Doubleday was still involved in the war in West Point‚ and claimed he had nothing to do with the invention of baseball. The story was told around by a former major league player Aj Spalding claiming he got the story from Abner Graves‚ a mining engineer. Later on major league officials talk and rely on the myth and then put it in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The actual
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number 42 is a revered number in Major League Baseball. It has been worn by many legends of the game including Jackie Robinson and Mariano Rivera. While both Mariano and Jackie played during totally different time periods in baseball‚ both left an eternal mark on the sport. There will never be another player who wears 42 because the MLB has retired the number across the league. Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player in the Major Leagues. Many other black legends came before
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