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Ancient Greeks Considered Important As His Strength Races
585 wordsAncient boxing had fewer rules than the modern sport. Boxers fought without rounds until one man was knocked out, or admitted he had been beaten. Unlike the modern sport, there was no rule against hitting an opponent when he was down. There were no weight classes within the mens' and boys' divisions opponents for a match were chosen randomly. There were both 2 -horse chariot and 4 -horse chariot races, with separate races for chariots drawn by foals. Another race was between carts drawn by a tea...
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Akai Mpc Midi Production Center
1,028 wordsThe following is a summary of the advanced features of the AKAI MPC 2000, which include a built in sampler, sequencer and more. Here is a detailed general description of the AKAI MPC 2000. Large 248 x 60 dot LCD display with graphics. 6 functions keys under the LCD display provide various functions on each page. Built-in 1. 44 megabyte floppy disk drive to store both sequences and sound data. Built-in SCSI interface for storing data to external hard disk. Here is a detailed description of the AK...
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Files Our Group Creating The Table Tables
1,071 wordsAs the database team, it was our job to provide a storage facility for the other teams. We had to come up with a design that was flexible enough to handle the various types of data and yet robust enough to make searching and record lookup efficient. Since Oracle is available in the lab and is a very powerful database management system, we decided to leverage our assets and create the database on perhaps the best database server available. But before we could slap together some SQL commands we ha...
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Succeed In Life 000 A Year
732 wordsI arrived at my office neither late nor early, because in my world there is no concept of time. I stepped off of the teleport pad onto a moving hallway. The state of the art machine quickly whisked me away to my 112 th floor office atop one of the tallest buildings in the world. I did not know what day it was because again in this world there was nothing that kept track of the time, there wasnt even any sun or moon for that matter. The day and night cycle was nonexistent, there was a constant li...
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Issues With Teenagers And Alcohol Abuse
1,322 wordsPeople have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years, and attitudes about alcohol have fluctuated greatly over the centuries. It has gone from being an accepted form of relaxation to being a tool of the devil and recently it has risen to the number one drug of choice among North American teenagers. Alcohol is classified as a drug because of its effects on the body. It is not digested like a food; instead it is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and travels to the brain. Alcohol first act...
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Lack Of Communication Big Daddy
1,053 wordsWhen literature is transformed into film, it goes through a process known as cinematic mutation. This process could not be more noticeable in the production of Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This playwright and later blockbuster film is based on the inner conflicts of honesty, love, and greed. There is a great deal of narrative refraction in the screenplay by Richard Brooks and James Poe. Some major thematic modifications in the film include: Brick Pollitt's sexuality issue, a trans c...
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Horse Races Olympic Games
700 wordsIn 776 BC a foot race was run. The winner was the first Olympic hero ever. From that very first race to today, the Olympics have always been a way for nations to come together in friendly competition and international goodwill. The conditions of the first Olympics were not anything like they are today. The events were held in an open space in which a track had been paced off, areas for the javelin and discus had been laid out, etc. The spectators did not have stands to sit in; instead, they occu...
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17 Th Century Copernican System
757 wordsAstronomy has been a source for myriad ideas influencing every subject. The stars have existed since the dawn of man. People have looked to the universe to determine physical location, gain spiritual direction and to track time. Many early scientists used astronomy to make careers for themselves and print their names in all the history books of time. Since the beginning of time, the stars and all of the heavens have been used not only as a tool to aid in basic living but also to reveal new and u...
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Feet Tall Six Feet
1,305 wordsFrom the day that Equality 7 - 2521 were united as one they have been considered freaks, because they were all about six feet tall and looked down upon by the other groups within the society. After their schooling, Equality 7 - 2521 were sent to the 'Home of the Street Sweepers' and there they were assigned a certain sector of the city to keep clean. They were probably made street sweepers because they were abnormally tall which says a lot about the society's views about discrimination. There is...
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Project Team Project Management
1,189 wordsPROJECT MANAGEMENT project management, tools, process, plans and project planning tips Here are the rules of project management. Project management skills are essential for project managers, and any other managers who manage complex activities and tasks, because complex tasks are projects. Project management skills are essential for any complex task, where different outcomes are possible, requiring planning and assessing options, and organizing activities and resources to deliver a result. Proje...
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J Edgar Hoover Crime Fighting
1,469 wordsJ. Edgar Hoover was a young 25 -year-old when he became the acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. His first federal job was as a clerk in the files division, and he quickly became one of the most respected and feared men in the free world. Even presidents knew better than to cross him. A consummate politician, Hoover was one of the first to ride the media train to power. He used the media as a tool and he knew that what people read and what they see and hear directly affect wh...
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Winter Olympics Role Model
1,069 wordsTommy Moe, the legendary downhill skier, had rough road to walk in the beginning ohio life and career but he found his way with no obstacle too big to stop him. He has been through a great deal to find his way up to the top and that is why he is great candidate for appositive role model for todays youth or anyone for that matter. He has had many tough decisions to make during his life and even though he may have chose a few wrong ones he was able take better of his life and impress the world. He...
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Mp 3 Audio Compression Format Music
720 wordsWhat is the hottest buzzword around the Internet today? What topic has replaced sex as the most searched for term on the web? The answer to both of these questions is MP 3 audio. MP 3 stands for MPEG 1 Layer 3 Audio, which is a digital audio compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. It takes a CD audio file and gets rid of all the frequencies on the song that can t be heard by the human ear, thus ridding the data file of much wasted space. With compression, the files turn...
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Mom Took Skippy Skippy Never Came Back Dog
473 wordsWhen I was little I loved animals. Although most children have pets, I could not convince my parents into allowing me to have one until my pre teens. I could not have been happier the day my family went to the pound and I picked out my dog Skippy. Skippy loved to run and he was loyal to me and I will never forget the day I lost him. My mom and I would take Skippy for a run after school some times. We drove down Parker Rd. to an undeveloped neighborhood with a street that resembled a quarter mile...
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Dad Job
711 wordsIt was a cold crisp fall afternoon, it was also late bow hunting season and I was up at our hunting shack with my father and two of his closest friends. We had just made the final preparations to hike to are respective stands, after wishing each other good luck we were off. Little did I realize that this day would prove to bring me closer to death than any other day of my life. Being that my stand is the closest to camp it was only a short walk for me, while the other hunters would travel severa...
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International Criminal Court War Criminals
770 wordsThe United Nations first recognized the need to establish an international criminal court over 50 years ago. An international criminal court would be just that. It would try criminals charged for international crimes such as genocide and other crimes of similar weight. The goal of the UN has always been to secure universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals throughout the world. The establishment of an international criminal court is seen as a major step in the acco...
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Chat Rooms One Thing
438 wordsWhen Serach Engines Web Portals When the term internet became a household saying, such did words like Excite, Yahoo, and Lycos. These were the so-called portals that directed Internet first-timers to their destinations and virtually walked them through the World Wide Web. They were and still are the fist place visitors go when they start to surf the web. Yet these portals are not just your average search engines, they have a lot more to offer like directories, chat rooms, mail, multimedia, onlin...
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Number Of Ways Employee Fraud Virus
883 wordsComputer Security Issues Facing Alsager Ltd. In upgrading the Alsager Ltd IT facilities, despite numerous advantages that the new systems brings one has to be made aware of the possible threats posing. Virus can effect the system. They are pieces of codes created by hacker to create a nuisances and to another extreme corrupt valuable data. Examples of these can be animated icons flying pass the computer screen and to another extreme can be programmes designed to delete the hard drive. The Comput...
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Electronic Monitoring Negative Effects
810 wordsQuit Watching Me! Attempts to monitor employees have always existed in one form or another, from mechanical keystroke counters in the early part of the century, to the latest innovations in electronic monitoring. As technology advances, so do the monitoring possibilities in the workplace. As result of the endless possibilities in surveillance, anxiety in employee s increase, which in most cases leads to illnesses. Studies have shown that individuals who are constantly being monitored at work suf...
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Didn T Doesn T
762 wordsMIKE Rinaldi Literature 4 - 11 - 01 People have many different traits that are alike and different. In the story, The Pigman John and Lorraine have traits that are similar and different. In the story it shows how they are the same, because they both over analyze a situation, and they are different because Lorraine is much more honest then John. In the story Lorraine and John both over analyze things, such as when Mr. Pignati is lying there dead John goes into great detail about different things ...
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