A Look At Wildlife Through The Eyes Of Tom Ulrich
.... but, more interestingly, of less common birds like the very unsociable Toucan, and the wonderfully colored Macaw. Birds may be his passion, but Tom Ulrich captured many other great animals on film. There were huge cats such as the Cheetah, Lion, and the Leopard lying in the sun. He photographed Elephants, Elk, and a female Grizzly Bear playing with her two cubs. There were also remarkable shots of male Bighorn Sheep trying to prove themselves to the females by fighting each other. Every tim .....
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Loki
.... mediaeval conceptions of the biblical origins of evil. Loki as the father of great supernatural beings corresponds to Cain as the origin of monsters and giants.
Loki´s bestial children are strongly connected with the escathology of the eddas. Fenris and Jormungandr as well as their father both play crucial roles in the last battle between the Aesir and their enemies. His daughter Hel falls into a somewhat different category. She is the queen of Helheim, and gathers there her army of the evil dead.
Of .....
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Conversation Of The Huron’s
.... that the pure Christian creed could sacrifice a meager
portion and the Jesuits could continue to only add onto the Huron’s beliefs.
One obstacle had been overcome but many more were to follow. Perhaps the
biggest being the language barrier between the two. The Jesuits were still
persistent to learn the very hard language. Many times they would
encounter Christian beliefs that not even a word could be developed for in
Huron.
More and more the Jesuits worked along side the Indians. Each day they .....
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The Retiring Of Jordan, Gretzky, And Elway In 1999
.... loved watching him play, and now watching basketball just
isn't the same.
In nineteen seasons in the NHL Wayne Gretzky amassed a total of
894 goals, and 1963 assits, which add up to 2857 career points. He has won
the Hart Trophy, which is the leauge's most valuable player award, the
Art Ross Trophy, which is given to the leauge's highest scorer, the Lady
Byng award, which is given to the most gentlemanly player, and the Lester
Pearson award which is given to the league's most outstanding player. He
won f .....
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Snowboards
.... and his wife in the next ten years sold one hundred thousand of these
contraptions for 15 dollars a piece. with new improvements such as a string
at the tip for balance and a more stable base, it was dubbed the "Snurfer",
a mix with snow and surfer, because of its no-binding surf style of riding.
Another pioneer was Dimitrije Milovich, a surfer from the east coast. He
made his invention because of the lack of warm water in the winter. This
board also had no bindings, to stick with the surf philosophy, but .....
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Being A Dancer
.... amongst fellow dancers, but with coaches and
teachers as well. Each and every practice we worked collaboratively,
dedicated and devoted to our ambition. Our teacher would help us develop
our abilities with elite leadership. Likewise, leadership is necessary to
ensure that a team's accomplishments are not misguided, inadequate, or
fruitless. I believe a dancer is someone who is generally admired. They
are looked upon as people who strive for perfection. Anyone devoted to an
athletic ambition works in .....
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Cigarettes: The History
.... A top executive from Liggett & Myers
(F.R. Darkis) Who had seemed excited about the project, wanted to perform
tests on mice to see whether or not the cigarette’s from Liggett & Myers
Also known as the Chester Company would cause cancer in mice. All of the
studies that had taken place were kept as a secret and did not go outside
of company walls, although if the studies had proven to be negative
Liggett & Myers would have launched a massive advertising campaign
revealing the results of the test. And sta .....
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The Safety Training Program
.... be changed?
The companies current program should be changed. The program is inadequate
and useless because the current program consist of reading the safety
information with a minimum amount of on-the-job training. The first line
supervisor shows the employee how to do a job once, watches while the
employee does the job once and then leaves. The employee should be shown
more than once how to perform a job and an experienced worker should be
assigned to new employees for a few days. The experienced work .....
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The Curse On The Tomb Of King Tutankhamen
.... entry ways or they
would have false entry ways , and hidden rooms. But finally in a few cases
a curse would be placed over the entrances of the tombs.
In 1891 A man named Howard Carter arrived in Egypt searching for
King Tuts Tomb. But he knew that he could not do it alone. So he found a
wealthy man named Carnarvon. For five years they dug searching for the
young Pharaoh’s Tomb. On November 4th, 1922 Carter’s work men discovered a
step carved into a rock. They found fifteen more leading to an anci .....
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Three Types Of Approaches That Players Have Toward Practice
.... player does
everything half way. If at a practice each player is supposed to do 20
sprints, then he or she will only do 10; and if he or she does do all 20,
then they do them half speed. This type of player does care enough about
their reputation to try his or her best, but only in the games. Practice
is just a place to be after school. When a coach is talking he or she will
only hear what they want to. A half-ass player may be good enough to make
a considerable difference in a game, but does not beli .....
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The History Of Basketball
.... Then Dr. Naismith devises a set of rules to keep order
throughout his game. The sport was an instant success. The game of
basketball has changed from a rough sport into a game anyone can play due
to the alterations of the rules and new team and player styles that give
athletes of all shapes and sizes an equal opportunity to play and excel.
There were many early changes in the sport of basketball to keep
the game safe. A quickly abolished rule was the use of a cage encircling
the court to keep the ball .....
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What Is Color?
.... of the visible spectrum. When the light sources
are combined they appear as different colors. Adding primary light sources
in the right proportions, can produce the sensation of other colors in our
eyes, such as aqua and purple. (Challoner,40)
Why do we see the grass as green in color? Why do we not see the
grass as blue or any other color? Actually, when the visible light hits a
pigment only some colors are reflected back to the eye. (Encarta) Which
colors are reflected and absorbed vary with t .....
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The Lottery
.... are one
in five million. The same article also points out the odds of getting
struck by lighting are one in six hundred thousand. That means you are
eight times more likely to be struck by lighting than to win the
lottery.(Issues of Gambling) The odds always sound better on television.
That’s because state lotteries are exempt from Federal Trade Commission
truth-in-advertising standards.(Reno 1) This means that state lotteries
are allowed to advertise whatever they want without fear of prosecution. S .....
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The Arena Football League
.... off the ground and soar. Granted, Kurt Warner’s excellent
play this past season and the fact that he came from the AFL helped to
boost the AFL’s publicity. The CEO’s and owners of the AFL need to put
their heads together and find what they need to get their league above
water. If they get more publicity and a consequently larger fan base they
will be able to expand. Again bluntly, expansion leads to money.
The game-play format of the AFL is at the completely opposite end
of the sporting spectrum of .....
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Bias In The WNBA
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attention to women's sports has led to rapid development of talented female
athletes. (Widenhaus, Kevin. 1995) But biases are still prevalent in
women's sports today such as women's basketball. One of the major areas
of such biases are in the salaries of the women in the WNBA and the men in
the NBA. There is not the turnout of fans for the women's basketball
games as there are for the men's games which has a lot to do with it but
the differences are staggering and unbelievable. For instance a rook .....
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