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Team Place Seventh U S Women Foil Team Iris
759 wordsFelicia Zimmermann and younger sister Iris will represented two-thirds of the U. S. women's foil team at the Sydney Games. Iris, six years Felicia's junior, won bronze in the individual foil at the 1999 World Championships. Felicia hasn't achieved on that scale, but she is far more experienced. At 16, she was an alternate to the America squad that competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics; at the Atlanta Games, she placed 21 st in the individual competition and 10 th with the U. S. team. Felicia w...
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Phil Knight Asia Pacific
2,343 words... nd recreate the very best performance product. The company that we know today as Nike (received this name in 1972) was formally known as Blue Ribbon Sports. Between 1957 - 1960, Bill Bowerman, a coach at the University of Oregon was handcrafting shoes for his runners, when he met Phil Knight an athlete at Stanford Business school. Knight, interested in breaking the domination of Germany over the United States athletic shoe industry, thought it would be logical to do so with high-tech exports...
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Hit The Ball Physical Conditioning
1,396 wordsTable of Contents Introduction History of the Activity Nature of the Activity Playing Area Physical Conditioning Practice Drills Conclusion Introduction Soccer is the worlds most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is one of the most famous international sport. Soccer is known world wide and is played in the Olympi...
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Harry Potter Medieval Era
758 wordsHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, written by J. K. Rowling, is an excellent example of a modern novel that uses medieval influences extensively. Many of the novels characters are based on medieval ideas and superstitions. The settings in the book resemble old medieval towns as well as castles. The book is also full of medieval imagery such as knights in armour, carriages etc. Whilst there is no time travel involved in the novel, the medieval period is used to such an effect that the reader is...
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Gross Domestic Product Korean Culture
1,583 wordsKorean Wave Korean culture is unique and has the features peculiar to its own. It contains the features peculiar to Korean nation through religion, customs, traditions, and art. Korean culture has such a great impact on cultures of other world nations, that the world community becomes aware of the phenomenon called Hallyu or Korean wave. The paper dwells on the Korean wave phenomenon and explores it within the frameworks of globalization. The Korean wave is often associated with the sign of some...
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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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Women In Sports Gender Equality
2,237 wordsHow is it fair that a men? s college basketball team is able to be transported on planes and dine on steak, while a women? s team from the same college, travels in a van and eats fast food? It? s not, but this occurs often nowadays even with laws passed preventing this type of discrimination. In 1972, Congress passed Title IX, which prohibits discrimination against girls and women in federally funded education, including athletic programs (Kiernan 3). Many schools and colleges have not been able...
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Story Takes Place Harry Potter
1,021 wordsHarry Potter The Time The Story Takes Place and Setting This story takes place at the present time. It takes place over the course of one year. It all starts at a small town outside London, then moves to an enchanted castle, located in a the middle of Britain. The castle is very large and would take hours to describe in detail. It has secret passages, doors that can move, and suits of armour that can get up and walk around. It has four large towers, and a dungeon in which Potions class is held f...
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Hit The Ball Physical Conditioning
1,366 wordsIntroduction Soccer is the Soccer Soccer Introduction Soccer is the worlds most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is one of the most famous international sport. Soccer is known world wide and is played in the Olympics: In a soccer game there are two teams of 11 players who try to score a point by kicking a ball i...
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Summer Olympics Title Ix
612 wordsPlaying Games with Womens Sports Over two decades have passed since the enactment of Title IX, a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education, including athletics. As a result of Title IX, women and girls have benefited from more athletic participation opportunities and more equitable facilities. Because of Title IX, more women have received athletic scholarships and thus opportunities for higher education that some may not have been able to afford otherwise. In addit...
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