|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 6421 - 6430 of 8618 matching essays
- 6421: Bungee Jumping
- ... and designed a safe form of the practice. Atop the Golden Gate Bridge, dressed in tuxedos and top hats, the first form of bungee jumping came to existence. In 1987, bungee jumping moved to the American commercial scene. Two brothers, John and Peter Kockelman, began jumping from bridges over river gorges in the Sierras. Recognizing the sport's commercial potential, they opened Bungee Adventures in 1988. Bungee jumping spread rapidly throughout ...
- 6422: Mind And Body
- ... The mind later can use its past experiences and knowledge to make decisions that are relevant for that time. A quick example of how the mind and body are dependent is in the new technological revolution. A.I. or artificial intelligence is a computer that learns on its own. It is a computer that is able to experience and learn. The computer learns from using its senses, may they be wheels ...
- 6423: Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-sabi
- ... season or purpose for display changes, the objects are stored and replaced by others more appropriate. Though Japanese rooms sometimes may appear too bare or simple for Western tastes, a Japanese visiting an a typical American home may feel surrounded and overwhelmed by visual clutter.
- 6424: Police Corruption
- ... week, in the same Manhattan hearing room where the Knapp Commission once sat, the new body heard Dowd and other officers add another lurid chapter to the old story of police corruption. And with many American cities wary that drug money will turn their departments bad, police brass around the country were lending an uneasy ear to the tales of officers sharing lines of coke from the dashboard of their squad ...
- 6425: Sport Psychology
- ... it may take ten minutes to work through instructions, with some practice, greater and greater relaxation should be achieved in less and less time. Progressive Relaxation Training (PRT) was originally pioneered by Edmund Jacobson, an American physician working in the 1920's and 1930's, but has been modi-fied over the years. "PRT is learning to feel tension in the muscles and then learning to let go of this tension ...
- 6426: Job Security
- ... REALITY OF JOB LOSS AND THE PERSEPTIONS OF THE COMMON WORKER As was the thinking many years ago, if a proverbial horse was too get sick, the farmer would simply get a new horse. Every American worker lives with the fear of being that horse. The fear that they can be easily replaced by another worker, or nowadays, replaced with what is referred to as capitol. As times change and technology ...
- 6427: Basketball's Greatest Players
- ... has won four NBA titles and is the most recognized player ever. Despite his pro career he was once cut from his H.S. team. Then two years later he was a H.S. all-american. Two years later at the University Of North Carolina Michael as a freshman hit the game winning shot to secure the legendary coach Dean Smith his first ever collegiate championship. As a pro playing for ...
- 6428: Professional Wrestling
- ... you must also have a gimmick or something special that makes your act unique. Each person has a unique identity or move or costume that makes them stand out. Professional wrestling is not just an American phenomenon, either. Professional wrestling, be it WCW or WWF, is broadcast all over the world in many different languages. The second most popular language besides English is spanish. In many Spanish speaking countries, where boxing ...
- 6429: Automobile Racing
- ... on track at the same time. As the popularity of automobile racing continues to rise, the quality of all people involved in racing will follow suit. Developments and competition in recent years have led to revolution in the racing world as competing leagues strive to become the world's racing authority. The technology in racing becomes updated and remodeled each year which will ultimately see its way into the consumer world ...
- 6430: Artificial Turf: A Dangerous Playing Surface
- ... Nagler and Dr. Debra Braverman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine examined more than two dozen scientific journals to compare ligamentous football injuries. Among them: Journal of Sports Medicine, Clinical Orthopedics, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and others. He was motivated, he said, "because there is a lot of anecdotal evidence, but no one's really searched the literature to see if it's true. There is definitely an ...
Search results 6421 - 6430 of 8618 matching essays
|
