first basketball tournament in the history of the Olympic games during the 1936 Berlin edition where basketball was played outdoors on lawn tennis courts (which was terribly hampered by a bad rainy weather) and there were still no seats for spectators. Dr. James Naismith‚ acknowledged as the inventor of the beautiful game of basketball‚ was present at the Berlin Olympic basketball competitions and handed out the medals to the winning basketball teams. The 1936 Philippine Olympic basketball team‚
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For my first art lecture‚ I attended Dr. Katherine Fusco an English Professor talk on Images of Children in Black in White. In the lecture‚ she talks about W.E.B Du Bois and how he uses his magazine and the photographs of black children being aimed at the black community. Also‚ she talked about the popular black child actor Farina who premiered in a hundred films that are aimed at the white community. She discusses how they used Farina to remind them of their sorrows and how Farina is seen more of
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The Black Image in the White Mind argues that white Americans were conflicted in their attitudes about race. Both Entman and Rojecki attempt to analyze the portrayals of African-Americans by the mass media during the 1990s. The primary focus is the representation of African-Americans in television news. Dr. Robert M. Entman is a professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University‚ and Dr. Andrew Rojecki is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department
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Black Rhino * Smaller than white rhino * Weighs up to 1400kg * Small hooked jaw for feeding on trees and bushes * Keeps head level with body as it is easier to feed of trees * Its natural habitat is in dense vegetation * Female walks in front of calf * Short tempered and aggressive * Very solitary hardly ever joins up with other rhino’s * Grey skin White Rhino * Bigger than black rhino * Weighs up to 3630 kg * Square jaw * Keeps head lower
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Lost & Found “Vake up‚ vake up Bastian it your first day of school” yelped his mother in her German accent. “Ok‚ alright Mama I’m up”. “Make sure you have your breakfast it’s the most important meal of the day”. “Ok” “She always has to repeat stuff” he said under his breath. In a sluggish manner he went the bathroom‚ quickly washed his face ‚brushed his teeth‚ brushed his brown hair and put his school uniform on. He swiftly made his way to the kitchen where his cereal was waiting for him
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Gwins book‚ Black and White Women of the Old South‚ argues that history has problems with objectiveness. Her book brings to life interesting interpretations on the view of the women of the old south and chattel slavery in historical American fiction and autobiography. Gwin’s main arguments discussed how the white women of the south in no way wanted to display any kind of compassion for a fellow woman of African descent. Gwin described the "sisterhood" between black and white women as
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White Light/Black Rain OPR August 6-9‚ 1945: The first atomic bombs are dropped over the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ resulting in the greatest nuclear catastrophe ever in terms of human casualties. As time fades these horrific events into obscure moments in history‚ many people become ignorant of the damage caused by the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Steven Okazaki in White Light/Black Rain utilizes the rhetoric strategies ethos‚ pathos and logos to reveal the full destructive
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Life – The Truth on Animal Cosmetic Testing When applying that beautiful new lip color or dying your hair the perfect shade of brown‚ does the thought of an animal wincing and screaming in pain come to your mind? I am guessing your answer would be no as well as would be mine‚ until I did some research into cosmetic companies that do testing on animals. Cosmetic companies try to hide this ugly truth from their consumers to not lose credibility or buyers. There is an ongoing debate about the ethics
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Evaluating the Parallels between Black Skins‚ White Masks and The Souls of Black Folk The phenomenal books entitled Black Skins‚ White Masks‚ written by the notable Frantz Fanon and The Souls of Black Folk‚ by prominent author‚ historian‚ and activist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois‚ better known as W.E.B Du Bois‚ both express the trials and tribulations of Blacks in respect to their identity. Black Skins‚ White Masks‚ originally written in 1952‚ in French was translated into English by Richard
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The Truth about the first Thanksgiving Notes America’s origin myth about the first Thanksgiving tells us the Pilgrims were the first settlers. Landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620 “they went about the work of civilizing a hostile wilderness.” Hundreds of college students didn’t know the myth from the truth. The Spanish abandoned a settlement in 1526‚ leaving African slaves in South Carolina. Few Americans know that one third of the United States as we know it had been Spanish longer than it had
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