Richard Nixon’s foreign policy in China was nicknamed the “ping-pong” diplomacy for two reasons. The literal sense of the term ping-pong diplomacy – the visit by the US table tennis team – served as just one cog in the wheel that eventually led to the normalization between the United States and China. But from a figurative perspective‚ just like the political situation at hand‚ the sport of ping-pong focused on delicate skill. Its onomatopoeic name implied an interplay of initiative
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Title: Beer (Water) Pong Purpose: To inform the audience on the proper procedures to be taken while playing beer (water) pong. Thesis: I’m going to talk about the proper materials and set-up of the game‚ the rules‚ and the best beers to use for the game. Introduction 1. Attention Getter: Looking to lighten up a party? Break out the Pong Table. 2. Audience: Fun for everyone‚ people looking for a competitive party game or for people looking for a drunken stupor. 50 to 62 percent of college
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The game of beer pong in front of me heated up as I stared into the white lining of my plastic cup. I was never that big into drinking. Perhaps when I was older‚ I thought‚ I would like it better. But no matter what I tried‚ it just made me sick. I didn’t know how the frat guys could chug all the beer on the table and not puke (well most of them‚ anyway). I was talking with my friend Amber‚ if you could really call it a conversation. She interrupted me most times I spoke with rhetorical questions
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Nutting Associates 1971: this was the first ever commercial arcade video game which was released by the Nutting Associates in 1971. This game comprised of a simple design which had a 13" GE television built inside a fibre glass cabinet. 2) Pong‚ Atari Inc‚ 1972: This was the first ever commercially successful arcade game. This was built by the same person who built the previous arcade game but this time he formed a new company naming it ATARI. The game was very simple and the users could
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was taken from a hobby to something serious and exciting. Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games; it is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it‚ Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat the opponent in a simulated table tennis game by earning a higher score. Pong quickly became a success and is the first commercially successful
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But games didn’t really become popular until Atari created pong in arcade machines that they strategically placed around the world. Then they made the Atari 2600 that allowed you to play more than pong at your house using cartridges. “Scientist William Higginbotham created a game where a ball bounced from side to side‚ and the goal is to hit the ball with the paddle so it doesn’t
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that high-profile American citizens such as Senator Eugene McCarthy expressed interest in visiting China after the 1968 presidential election‚ but even he could not have a trip arranged for him despite his office. Ping-pong diplomacy refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States and People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s. The event marked a thaw in U.S.–China relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon. How does
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undergraduate studies to help pay for tuition. The Atari created a new way to play arcade games such as ping pong (or simply “Pong”)‚ space wars‚ and Pac-man. He started a company with his friend and hired another engineer to develop games for the system. He installed the first version of the system in a small tavern‚ and public showed great interest in the video game “Pong”. Many said he stole the idea of Pong from another well known video game artist‚ Ralph Baer‚ who had patents on his system (the Magnavox
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Video Games Made Me Burn My House Down It’s finally the Thursday night. You’ve seen the advertisements on television and have been waiting for this night for months. You have heard all of your friends talking about it. Tonight‚ your favorite video game is being released at midnight. You’re getting fidgety just thinking about it. You started counting down the clock as it ticks its way to midnight. Though the clock just past eight‚ you can’t stand the anticipation. You get in your car‚ start the
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levers and get rewarded by food pellets Led to one-armed bandits and video game consoles! Also anti-social for kids Nolan Bushnell Nolan Bushnell Began by “paying homage” to DEC mainframe’s SpaceWar Then moved on to MagnaVox and Pong Settled out of court‚ but the race was on Along the way‚ he employed… Wozniak & Jobs Wozniak & Jobs They weren’t the founders of the home computer revolution‚ but they’ve become the poster boys TI 99 4A actually had a 35% market
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