greatest” degradations that has occurred in our country during the second half of the twentieth century‚ has been in the field of sports and games. The” only major performance of note has been the gold medal in hockey won at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and the triumph at the 1983 & 2011 world cup in cricket‚plus a few individual medals in Olympics and few success in Tennis. But these occasional triumphs do not augur well for the future of Indian sports. A nation of 1.2 billion has not been able to produce
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those loves. For example‚ Gatsby has built his entire life to impress Daisy. During Nick’s first visit to one of Gatsby’s parties‚ he met Owl Eyes in Gatsby’s massive library. Owl Eyes was intrigued by the library and described the books as “absolutely real - have pages and everything. I thought they’d be
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It is true that in many regards‚ modern liberalism has indeed rejected certain aspects of the classical liberalist approach‚ within such topics as individualism‚ freedom and justice. However‚ it would foolish to argue that they had abandoned it completely‚ as some elements have survived. Classical liberals believe in negative freedom. This is the simple belief in an absence of external constraints on the individual and that they should be left alone to make their own choices. In this way classical
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Computers and Sports Jose Vejar Row # 3 2/23/2015 Professor Swan ITCS 3688 Section #092 What makes sports special? Is it the pride in rooting for a favorite team‚ the intensity of hearing the thunderous chants of a packed stadium? Or what about the various in-game technologies used for entertainment? It would be an abomination to think of going through an entire game without seeing an instant replay. Instant replays have played a positive role in sports technology as referees
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000 dead however in the final result the British did win. The main plan of action was to kill all the German soldiers and destroy the German trenches. Many people give General Haig the reputation as “The Butcher of the Somme” but many people would disagree with this. I think that he shouldn’t get the reputation as “The Butcher of the Somme” but he did do a lot of things not as well as he should have done. There are many reasons why people blame General Haig for the failure of the battle. Throughout
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When the typical person thinks of sports they think of football‚ baseball‚ or basketball. While those are all great sports‚ what about those sports that aren’t classified as sports‚ but should be? Marching band should be considered a sport for many reasons. Marching band teaches many of the same lessons that can be learned through sports‚ such as: dedication‚ academic responsibility and the importance of physical health. I have gained knowledge of these things through marching band. With that being
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“The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him‚ sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.”(French proverb) Reputation is actions that follow you to whom you’re known to be. Reputation can be viewed as the way you dress‚the people you are associated with and sometimes people are given a reputation by the acts of the people in their family. In The crucible‚ reputation is an important theme because it determines one’s ability to follow
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When I was younger I was an unemotional kid who for whatever reason people were intimidated by me. This has managed to follow me throughout my life although I have been slowly losing the reputation as a cold fish as I move to different schools. When I went from Elementary school to Junior High a lot of that reputation was lost because I was no longer a part of the popular kids‚ but no matter if I wasn’t trying to put out that vibe‚ it always resurfaced and is apparently just a part of my personality
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1 Chapter 3: Taking Notes The good student takes down notes when listening to a teacher’s lecture. In the same way‚ the good researcher takes down notes whenever he comes across a source relevant to his research. Research note taking saves the researcher a lot of time and effort. It allows him to refer to his sources without having to “re-search” for the source from which they were originally taken. In the beginning‚ it might seem that the rigid rules of note taking are stifling‚ rather than
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Although taking on a different perspective may prove to be effective in the short-term‚ it does not offer a way to resolve the source of the problem‚ as Dr. Enns mentioned in lecture. To illustrate‚ Epictetus makes repeated mentions of reputation and how one is unable to control the view of others. However‚ could one’s meager reputation be a result of one’s poor temperament or general unpleasantness? By thinking that one
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