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- 8611: Modern Japan Since 1945
- Modern Japan Since 1945 On September 2, 1945 the Japanese surrender. They had lost the war because United States drop two atomic bombs. The place where it drops the atomic bombs was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The total estimate of casualties in Nagasaki was 40,000 people dead and Hiroshima casualties were ... carry goods to foreign country. In 1995 the population of Japan reach to 120 million peoples. The famous train, which the Japan builds, was the bullet train. Bullet train is the fastest train in the world. Japan main food source of food is rice and fish because they have so less land irrigate. Also the country is surround by water so they have a lot of fish. Japan is the best ...
- 8612: Only Yesterday
- ... streets shouting, "the Kaiser is dead". Joyously America celebrated her triumphant defeat over the dreaded Kaiser. Soon the excitement of the signing died down and people began to face the realities that followed a post war nation. Troops were still marching into Germany and there was still a casualty list that added new names each day. America faced other problems. Workers began to form Unions in order to gain more wages ... of deliberation. This and other acts kept occurring until the American public realized that the Bolshevic threat was not that serious. America soon turned its attention to topics of leisure as opposed to those of war. The invention of the radio became the main topic of discussion. People were now able to hear music as well as preaching and sporting events via the airwaves. Baseball grew in popularity as Babe Ruth ... the carefree attitude that had accompanied that wealth. Frederick Lewis Allen's book Only Yesterday, illustrates the great changes that occurred in the United States in the 1920's. America came out of a major war to face great advancements in technology that made their lives much easier to live. America obtained great wealth and began to spend large amounts of time and money on entertainment. Movies, radio, and sporting ...
- 8613: Television 2 -
- Did you know there are more television sets in the world than there are telephones? Even the television professionals find it hard to believe. However the statistics prove it. According to official figures from the International Telecommunication Union there were 565 million telephones in 1983, and ... visual. The impact of the picture and its colors. It encourages in us a strive for the big spectacle. The effect can be seen in the way we react to one another and in the world of advertising. But television cannot yet be said to have enriched our civilization. For that to happen it must become interactive, so the viewers may cease to be just absorbers. In the flood of images ... the poet. How fortunate that there is other media for that. Television aims at our most immediate perception. Pictures.... to see almost to feel. It is a medium for multiple contacts. It sets the whole world before us. It offers us entertainment games, sports and more serious programs. Eurovision was created for that very purpose. Television offers something of everything, and each viewer can pick and chose whatever he or ...
- 8614: Telvesion
- ... carry, such reading, cooking, games, songs and other special rituals. The author claims television also destroys a human relationship. During free time instead working our difference with conversing each other, we are absorbed by imaginary world of television. Therefor we fail to interact through the real world leading to the distortion of real life relationship. Television gives an escape root for people who need to be spending time on relationships with their family as well as others. Because children have one way ... us fail to recognize how it has caused the decline of family rituals, the avoidance of relationships and the destruction of the family. Our addiction to this daily habit cause us to escape the real world. Although Marie Win had her point, I tend to disagree that television is a bad influence on our lives. Television does not destroy family value; it is us who destroy family value. For example ...
- 8615: Kruger National Park
- ... South Africa, adjacent to the Mozambique border. Established in 1926, Kruger National Park occupies an area of 19,485 sq km (7523 sq mi) and is one of the ten largest national parks in the world. The park averages 60 km (37 mi) in width, and it extends from the Limpopo River, on the border with Zimbabwe, south for 332 km (206 mi). The park has relatively flat terrain, with several ... visitors at a time. Kruger National Park was named after Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic (an Afrikaner state that existed in what is now northeastern South Africa) from 1883 through the Boer War (1899-1902). Kruger worked to preserve wildlife threatened by overhunting and the expansion of agriculture and mining. His government established Africa's first game reserve, the Sabie Game Reserve, in 1898. Shingwidzi and other adjacent ...
- 8616: The Bell Jar
- ... teach her. She admired her mom’s history of speaking German and desired to learn it as well: "My mother spoke German during her childhood in America and was stoned for it during the First World War by the children at school" (30). At one point Esther even briefly decides to learn shorthand. This need to be like her mother while at the same time hating her is enough to disturb Esther ...
- 8617: Tennis A Sociological Perspect
- ... While a number of seniors find it hard to keep up the pace and eventually change to other less rigorous activities such as: jogging, swimming, golfing and bowling. 10-times grand slam champion and former world No.1, Ivan Lendl, at the age of 38, admitted to the Tennis Magazine "I have increased my interest in Golf over the past few years as I feel that my physical strength is diminishing ... the rising popularity of soccer among girls. Sport, to some degree, and to some people, is a trendy hobby in society. Now a days, tennis is so popular that people from different parts of the world engage in this exciting activity. Although each individual may have a special reason for engaging in tennis, people with the same cultural background are likely to have similar reasons. Significant variations tend to exist across ... single titles. Roy Emerson, arguably the best player of all time, holds the men's record of most single championship of grand slam at 12. Australian and Swedish kids grow up with the knowledge that world champions of tennis were born and raised in their home country and with the dream of continuing the legend. In addition, because the importance of tennis in Australia and Sweden, children are exposed to ...
- 8618: The Advantages Of Creatine For
- ... by 10% C. article publication in 1993 1. demonstrated Creatine increased body mass 2. improved performance in high-intensity workouts VI. more facts that Creatine A. Creatine has been proven to work in the real world B. goals of bodybuilders and most athletes 1. force muscle growth a. by increasing force of contraction b. by increasing time muscle is under tension c. by increasing frequency of exercise 2. Creatine helps in ... Olympics. (Bamberger 61) Shortly thereafter, U.S. champion athletes began using Creatine. Since then, scientists have elucidated more secrets on how to best utilize Creatine for optimal benefit. Now, champion athletes and bodybuilders around the world swear by Creatine's effects. Now in the 90's Creatine has major use in all sport categories, "At least one quarter of all major leaguers now use the substance. That number is at least ... body can supply ATP. Creatine was given credit for powering several of the British athletes who won gold medals. Shortly thereafter, U.S. champion athletes began using Creatine. Now champion athletes and bodybuilders around the world swear by Creatine's effects. WORK CITED Balsom, P. "Creatine Supplementation and Dynamic High-IntensitIntermittent Exercise." Scandinavian Journal of Medicine, Science and sports 3 (1993): 143-149. Bamberger, Michael. "The Magic Potion." Sports Illustrated ...
- 8619: The Harmful Effects Of Discrimination And Segregation
- ... in the case. When one is treated unfairly it is only natural to be angry and defensive. When the black children who had been treated unequally grew up they found a better understanding of the world around them and the issues relating to segregation and discrimination. These children who had been treated unfairly all of their lives were angry that they grew up with that. They realized that they were pushed too hard too early. Discrimination and segregation both have many negative effects on society. Our world is separated between the races and can never find unity until all discrimination and segregation is gone. In the Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka segregation was ruled unconstitutional because everything was not equal and because of the result of devaluation. This is a start for our world to become unified, but it isn t all gone yet.
- 8620: Agatha Christie
- ... 347). BIOGRAPHY Born in Torquay on September 15, 1990, Agatha Mary Clarrissa Miller was raised within a firm Victorian home (Gill, p. 1). From early childhood Christie sought hard to hide and protect her inner world from those around her. She was enormously shy and had great difficulty expressing her feelings. Christie considered herself the "slow one" of her family, the child who hated to talk about herself and refused to let anyone enter her beloved secret world (Gill, p.2). Frustrated by her extreme introverted ways, Christie attempted turning to music as a way of expressing herself. This strategy, however, proved to be an ineffective means as she would become stiff and feel inept while performing in front of even small audiences (Gill, p. 3). Christie, feeling like a failure with speech and music, turned to the world of writing. Christie would later say that: "Writing, unlike speaking and playing the piano, is an act of solitude and silence" (Gill, p. 2). Christie thus began to compose with pen. She began with ...
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