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- 6311: History of Basketball
- ... in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith ...
- 6312: Coaching Decisions
- ... are not about winning and losing, it is about getting the most out of your players. Sometimes the players lose their concentration during the game and need to be reassured during the halftime discussion. Verbal abuse does not help the players at all. Coaches also need to remember that they are teaching teenagers, not adults. Teenage girls look up to their coaches, and lean toward them for guidance. After the first ...
- 6313: Virtues of My Life: Order, Courage, Patience
- ... help me become more confident in the activities in which I participate. I can feel better about myself and not be so timid, but at the same time, courage is not something which I can abuse. If courage is abused it can easily generate into conceit or egotism. Egotism can easily be obtained by overworking courage. Courage levels out to be the happy medium between bashfulness and conceit. The third virtue ...
- 6314: The Soul
- ... if such actions were to partake and an unwanted pregnancy was to occur In cases of incest or rape, obviously the mother should not have to expose herself to further emotional trauma of carrying the child full term. However, we feel the view and use of abortion as a means of birth control is wrong-Earth Crisis I stand up for what I believe in, try to do my best and ...
- 6315: Betrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy
- ... prejudices people are familiar with, such as racism or sexism, and an equally important, but less obvious group of prejudices: those caused by peer pressure - e.g. if you move to Saudi Arabia as a child, there will be strong pressure on you to become a follower of Islam. It is clear to me that Russell was something of a cynic, at least where popular sentiment was concerned. He is advocating ...
- 6316: Antony Flew: The Existence and Belief of God
- ... killed by inches, the death of a thousand qualifications". A good example of this is when he said that "God loves us as a father loves his children". He states that when we see a child dying of cancer, his "earthy father" is there, to help him, nurture him, trying his best for his son. But his "Heavenly Father", God, is no where to be found, that he "reveals no obvious ...
- 6317: I Believe: A Code of Ethics
- ... a Tickle Me Elmo Doll this Christmas. And suppose I found myself at the door to Toys-R-Us, next to a wheelchair bound woman who was also trying to purchase an Elmo for her child. The two of us know that there is one Elmo left in the store. When the door opens, what do I do? To be perfectly honest I run as fast as I can and grab ...
- 6318: Originality of Philosophy
- ... and categories of existence. What is the difference really existing and only appearing to exist? Does the external world really exist? Do other people really exist? In what sense do numbers exist? To an inexperienced child these questions may never arise, but as one grows older questions similar to these arise. Some of the categories of existence are listed also. Realism is basically the theory that the other world exists independently ...
- 6319: Kanflict: How Humans Have Risen Above The Divine
- ... animalistic nature of inclination. This inclination is the desire, primarily, to be happy. To be moral means adhering to codes of goodness and selflessness. This might involve running into a burning building to rescue a child. This doesn't make one happy, because one doesn't say, "I could die or I could live. Ya know, I think I'll take the first option
Yippee." This seems ludicrous, that one would ...
- 6320: Does Science Explain All?
- ... with the push of a button. It is becoming more and more widespread in that people are putting their faith in science above that in the gods. What parent wouldn't rather bring their sick child to a doctor than have faith in the healing power of some mystical entity that may or may not exist. However strong and almost perfect the view of science is in today's society it ...
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