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Baseball
... from each other and the "striker's," or batter's position away from the home base. "Scouts," or fielders, put men out by fielding a batted ball on the fly or on the first bounce, or by hitting a runner with a thrown ball. But this lively version of the game was overshadowed in the late 1840s by the "New York game," a popular version of which was devised by the members of the New York Knickerbocker Club. Organized in 1845 by a band of aspiring gentlemen and enthusiasts, the Knickerbocker version was devised by one of their members, Alexander J. Cartwright. Cartwright prescribed a diamond-shaped infield with b ...
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Cigars
... cigars and cigarettes are constructed of tobacco, but the care
used in raising fine cigar tobacco is second to none. Only the finest
leaves of the plant are selected. The drying and fermenting process is
long (nine months for filler leaves and up to two years for wrapper
leaves) and closely watched. Cigarette tobacco is grown for quantity;
not necessarily for quality. No regard is given to the aroma and smoke of
the different types of tobacco. The only type of tobacco grown is fast-
maturing strains they can get to the market quickly. Careful and
attentive raising is non existent. The leaves are quickly dr ...
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Swahili
... monsoon winds, between
November and April, and sailed back up to south-west on the reverse monsoon
winds, between June and October, already in pre-Islamic times.
The coast, the land of Zenj to the Arabs, was inhabited by peoples of
undetermined origin-perhaps by Bushmanoid groups, by Bantu speakers, perhaps by
Cushitic-speakers, perhaps even by people of Indonesian ancestry(who had settled
in Madagascar as early as the first millennium A.D. and conceivably could have
settled further north as well). Initially Arab immigration was scarce,
settlement was sparse and it was limited to the islands. But it did occur, ...
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Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order
... government there is a system of checks and balances where nothing can get
accomplished without the authorization of a higher ranked official. Once these
ideas are passed they are then imposed on the individuals of society by other
organizations . Whether it be the police, the IRA, or a neighborhood watch
group. The Panopticon can serve the public in many ways. It can defend a
country, reform prisoners, treat the ill, and educate the public. It does
this by creating channels of power and distributing them to the individuals. In
the Panopticon, no one individual shall be granted too much power so as to
pl ...
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The Human Development Index
... trying to maintain peace and order around the world, the United Nations also gives an annual report of each country's economic and social status in the world in order to find the problems that a country might be facing. The United Nations uses to measure the quality of life in different places in the world. is made up of indicators, which are elements of the standard of living that are used to measure contrasts between societies. Each indicator in measures and compares a specific element of standard of living in a country. In this essay, we will compare the old human development index to the new and improved ...
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Hobbes Philosophy
... apply to Pojman’s five purposes for morality.
Hobbes purpose to his state of nature philosophy was to describe human nature. He argues that, in the absence of social condition, every action we perform, no matter how charitable or benevolent, is done for reasons which are ultimately self-serving (p.43-47). For example, if I were to donate to charity, I am actually taking delight in demonstrating my power. Hobbes believes that any account of human action, including morality, must be consistent with the fact that we are all self-serving. His theory notes that humans are essentially equal, both mentally and physic ...
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Submarines
... “The Turtle.” It was a one-man submarine that was powered by a crank that you had to turn by hand. When you turned the crank that would make the propeller spin so you would move. They tested out, “The Turtle” in the New York harbor, but it failed. That was the first time that a submarine was used to attack another submarine.
The third submarine was built is by a man named Robert Fulton; he was an American inventor. He designed a submarine named the, “U.S.S. Nautilus.” It was a copper-covered submarine that was 21 feet long. He tried to sell his ship to both France and England. I ...
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The Vampire Genre By V Sthe Va
... the vampire, his book Dracula
is probably the model on which the vampire genre is based. The myth of the vampire being an un-dead creature that roamed the night drinking the blood of the living goes back to ancient Greek times. However Stoker introduced a number of more particular conventions that are usually followed in the vampire genre even today.
First published in 1897, the story is told through the diaries of a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, his fiancee Mina, her friend Lucy Westenra and Dr John Seward, the superintendent
of a large mental asylum at Purfleet in Essex. It begins with Harker's journey to Co ...
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Dell Computer
... than 140 countries and territories to customers extending from major corporations, government agencies and medical and educational institutions to small businesses and individuals. The company employs approximately 11,000 people. Headquarters are located in Round Rock, Texas, with manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas; Limerick, Ireland; and Penang, Malaysia.
's business strategy is centered around its direct business model and customer-focused initiative aimed at delivering the best customer experience through direct, customer relationships, cooperative research and development with technology partners, custom ...
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Concentration Camps
... at the end of the 19th century. The Spaniards used them in Cuba during the Spanish-American War (1898), and the British established them for thousands of women and children during the Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa. In the West camps have been created several times during periods of war and national emergency. In France the government committed Spanish Republican refugees to reception centers in 1938 and added Jewish and other anti-Nazi refugees the following year. In Great Britain the government used Defense Regulation 18B in 1939 to send potentially disloyal citizens and refugees from enemy countries to ...
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