enough. Frankly‚ I was not particularly good or at any of them. In fact‚ I always used to wish there was a game I could play without having to compete with anyone‚ but enjoy myself simply by virtue of playing it. My interest and participation in extreme sport started one Saturday afternoon after me‚ and a few of my friends watched a van Disel video. We thought‚ why not try some bike stunts‚ by then I had a dirt bike‚ and we played truth and dare. None of us could do any real stunt‚ but we practiced
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The United States v. Lopez case was the first United States Supreme Court case since the early 1930’s to create laws that limit Congress’s power. On March 10th of 1992‚ Lopez brought a handgun into school. When the police asked him if he did bring it ‚ he didn’t lie‚ he said the " yes I did carry the gun".Not a few days later Lopez was charged with violating federal laws which banned guns on all school properties in the United States. Because of what he did ‚ the federal law came with an act called
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and ensure the safety and welfare of the people being governed. There is no doubt that the government must provide citizens with a social safety net. Due to the debt and amount of government spending‚ some may disagree but the government can find other safer ways of making sure the right people in need and deserving of the help provided by social safety nets. Social security‚ Medicare‚ Medicaid‚ unemployment benefits‚ free clinics‚ public education‚ free or reduced breakfast or lunch‚ etc.‚ are all
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need serious computing capability to run simulations and crunch data. Often that meant working for a large company who could provide the significant investment in information systems infrastructure. But cloud computing changed all that. Consider the case of biologist Dr. Eric Schadt‚ a researcher who claims that approaches to studying the complexity of living systems have failed. Studying one gene at a time doesn’t explain what causes diseases‚ making it impossible to find the cures sought by the
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Extreme Sports About 6‚000 people die from extreme sports every year. Dying from extreme sports isn’t as uncommon nowadays‚ but people who love nature and have passion about the sport are willing to do it even if it means risking their own death. Rabindranath Tagore quoted‚ “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”. What he meant here is that we can’t achieve our goals in life if we don’t commit to something and just hide ourselves in our own
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Extreme Parenting There is a child who is never allowed to attend a sleep over or have a playdate. A child that must constantly practice the violin‚ do homework‚ and is never allowed any free time to do as she pleases. This is the child of an extreme parent. Parenting methods have long been a subject of controversy‚ but a new trend in parenting called “Tiger” parenting may be the most controversial of today. The method of extreme parenting or parents that go to extreme lengths to give their children
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Discussion Questions: 1. Look at the examples of extreme behaviors described in the article‚ then go online and find one more example of extreme consumers. Describe it in detail and discuss how you would deal with these consumers if you were a marketer for the company whose product(s) these extreme consumers are infatuated with. 2. Why do you think so many managers actively avoid or are wary of extreme consumers? Another example of an extreme consumer is the shopper who radically values savings
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Extreme sports risky but worth it? Imagine the feeling of accomplishment‚ the adrenaline rush‚ and the overall thrill of participating in an extreme sport for the first time. Whether it be skydiving or successfully landing a jump on your snowboard or skis for the first time. Extreme sports are all about big risk‚ and big reward. To me there are four categories of extreme sports the ones performed in the air‚ water‚ on the ground‚ or on the snow. They can vary from mountain biking or jumping out
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took more of a physical and offensive position in the tricky game of slavery against the South. At the time‚ violent acts of abolition probably seemed to be doing more harm than good‚ but having a hindsight view today allows us to see that these extreme abolitionists did more good than harm by taking one
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Hobsbawm‚ Eric. The Age of Extremes: The short twentieth Century 1914-1991: 1995: Abacus‚ London. The Age of Extremes: The short twentieth Century 1914-1991 provides a succinct review of the middle three quarters of the 20th century. The book trails world history from the outbreak of World War I to the collapse of the Soviet Union & explicitly witnesses author’s profound interest for the world history. The Author Eric Hobsbawm‚ (1917 – 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial
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