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- 5111: The Game of Soccer
- The Game of Soccer The game of soccer, or association football as it is properly called, is the world's most popular team sport. Virtually every country on Earth plays the game in some form or another. It is both physically and intellectually demanding, requiring athletic skill and quick thinking. Brazil's Pele, perhaps ... first international game was played between England and Scotland. And it was in England that soccer professionalism was legalized in 1885. From there the game spread throughout the Empire and to the rest of the world. By 1904 an international governing body was established to control the sport the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Today, FIFA, which is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, has more than 140 member nations and oversees ... game, which is divided into two 45-minute halves. The team scoring the most goals wins. Soccer has been played in every Summer Olympics since 1900, except the 1932 games in Los Angeles. The true world championship, however, is known as the World Cup. It is played every four years and is the most-watched sporting event in the world, attracting an estimated television audience of more than 1 billion ...
- 5112: The Watergate Scandal
- ... started when the White House staff made up a list called "enemies list". Nixon had enemies which include 200 liberal politicians, journalists and actors. Most of these people made a public speech against the Vietnam war. Nixon's aides formed a conducts tax audits on these people that he thought were enemies. He also had agents find out secret information that would harm them. Nixon was always worried about govt. Employees ... was so worried that during the Cambodia bombing he had to wiretap his own staff members. On June in 1971, The New York Times formed work that was published about the history of the Vietnam War, these were known as the Pentagon Papers. They got the information from secret government papers. The papers blamed the policies that were formed and caused the beginning of the war in Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg, a former employee , gave the documents to the paper. Nixon became very angry by their publishes. Nixon tied to make Ellsberg's actions a form of treason, but he was ...
- 5113: The Missouri Compromise
- ... best possible solution to a conflict however it does not always work. One needs only to look at situations such as the Bosnia-Herzegovina to see that. During the events prior to the American Civil War, many different compromises were made in an attempt to impede the growing disagreements. However this merely prolonged the inevitable. The differences between North and South were far to great and compromise did not stand a ... 36o latitude, where slavery was allowed below it but prevented above it. However they limited themselves by only applying the Compromise to lands gained in the Louisiana purchase. This led to conflict after the Mexican war in which America gained new territories in the West. This doomed the Missouri Compromise, which was probably the most promising of the three. Had the Compromise been applied to all American lands then perhaps it ... crossing the border on voting day to vote in favour of slavery. This just resulted in distrust between Northerners and Southerners and led to Northerners establishing their own illegal government. Violence erupted and a civil war broke out in 'bleeding Kansas' much earlier than the rest of the country. It was clear at this point that the two sides were far beyond Compromise as shown by their actions. This compromise ...
- 5114: The Nature of Art
- ... individual became a painter or a sculptor, or a shoemaker, by learning the rules of the trade.” The Greeks applied rules as a means of bringing order to the perceived chaos of nature and the world around them. They consciously sought order, clarity, balance, and harmony in their works. Rules provided a measure of control, and through control a form of comprehension. In this situation, painters and sculptors differed merely in ... Greece, painting and sculpture were distinguished from Poetry and Music, which were the products of divine inspiration and stood outside the rules governing mundane activity. “Poetry and Music were both highly respected in the Ancient World. It is indicative of their relative status that Poetry and Music are assigned Muses, but not painting and sculpture” . The Greek word for a painter of a sculptor was banausos, meaning literally a mechanic. The ... politics, and their everyday lives. Ancient Greece was the most important time for art. The Ancient Greeks created many beautiful pieces that were, in a sense, the basis for many well-known art pieces today. “World-wide, the Greeks are recognised for their accomplishments in art. The early Greeks, who settled on the Greek mainland and the western coast of Asia Minor, thought of themselves as humble successors to their ...
- 5115: Santiago Ramon Y Cajal {Famous
- ... make it so great. Cajal tells his life story in a way that holds the reader's attention through all of his accomplishments. Cajal's early life, before he left his mark in the scientific world, is so personal and so interesting that it is what makes this book so truly great to read. Cajal was not always interested in science. He underwent many changes in his early life that led ... list of incomprehensible facts. Cajal's first original scientific work was with nerve cells, and with the structure of the brain. He investigated a problem which had been puzzling scientists from all countries of the world for years, and solved it by using ingenious tactics. It was known at that time that nerve cells had to connect to each other in some way, but scientists were yet to figure out how ... adult years. In this book, Cajal talks fondly; he admires and even idolizes the other scientists of his time. As his work becomes more respected, and he grows as an important figure in the scientific world, Cajal meets more and more of the world's most brilliant scientific minds. His descriptions of these men remind the reader of his boyhood days where he was so in awe of new things. ...
- 5116: Genetic Cloning
- ... crops that have been developed in America. From cows to potatoes almost all primary food markets have been affected by genetic engineering. America, endorsing such altered flora products does so in the name of conquesting world hunger. Although the evidence of genetically modified food crops, saving the world is scarce especially in third world countries. Ideally, the social potential for genetically modified food products is enormous as the problems of overpopulation can be addressed effectively if the access to such technology is truly made available to the people ...
- 5117: Automobile Racing
- ... The first race in North America was held in Chicago, Illinois, in the year 1895. The excitement generated by the possibility of driving at higher and higher speeds has made automobile racing one of the world's major spectator and participant sports. Early races were held in two forms; pure speed races and the others tested engine reliability, which later became known as rallies. In rallies, cars attempt to achieve and ... contestants must cover 500 mi (about 805 km); it has been held annually on Memorial Day weekend since 1911. With crowds averaging 400,000, it is the best-attended single-day sports event in the world. This year the Indy 500 will not involve most teams from Indycar\CART, Championship Auto Racing Teams, the regulatory body which is now being opposed by the IRL, Indycar Racing League, whose owner also owns ... are held at various international sites, such as São Paulo, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa, and through the streets of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Points scored by winners of these races are totaled to establish the world champion driver. The 24-hour race at Le Mans, France, is the most famous road endurance race. The annual stock car Daytona 500 in Florida and the U.S. Nationals for drag racing at ...
- 5118: Babe Ruth
- ... his face. Even so to the Red Sox Ruth was a savior, though none of his teammates looked at it that way. If it wasn’t for Babe, they probably never would have won the World Series three times in four years, (1915, 16, & 18). He also set a record when he pitched 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in the 1916 and 1918 World Series, a record which still stands today. And in 1919 Ruth shocked the baseball world by hitting 29 homers in a season, something that was never thought of in his days. Yes, sir the Red Sox really had it good when they got Ruth. He was someone that every ...
- 5119: Ben Franklins Religion
- ... s "virtue" stand apart from his religious beliefs. Franklin maintained a firm belief, however, in "a Being of infinite Wisdom, Goodness and Power" (165) [3], a God who by "providence" [4] acts frequently in the world, a power who could and would suspend deterministic natural laws at will. Deism, "tho' it might be true, was not very useful" to the young Franklin (1359). Specifically, a purely deterministic view of a God-created universe was absurd and useless precisely because it would require God to blind himself ("On the Providence of God in the Government of the World," 166). Franklin's God is useful first because he chooses "to help and favour us" via divine intervention (168). [5] Franklin's God is useful, second, because he inspires us to perform our own good ... the usefulness of virtue and virtuous deeds apart from any mention of theology. He elevates to the level of doctrine "That Virtuous Men ought to league together to strengthen the Interest of Virtue, in the World" (179), thus placing virtue in the context of a human community which both encourages it and exercises it. [10] Indeed Franklin's theology claims God's favor not for those with right beliefs, but ...
- 5120: Can Skepticism Be Defended, Perhaps In A Limited Form?
- ... person involved believes that they have knowledge (Plato, Cave Analogy, Book VII). In the brain in the vat example the brain believes that it is a fully functioning human being and there exists an external world around it. The reason for the brain believing that it knows this is that it has reasonable belief due to the fact that everything in it's environment coheres, this is obviously not so however ... environment. This brings us to the case of what is real if everything is a fake. What money would be considered the real thing if it was suddenly realised that all the money in the world was counterfeit ?. Surely a paradigm switch would then occur and the counterfeit would be considered real and the real counterfeit. Therefore while the brain in the vat may not have any real knowledge about the world that is external to it's vat it would still have knowledge of it's own ‘counterfeit' world. 6. Argument from Error This argument is based upon the errors made by a human's ...
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