« The Perfect Mile Neal Bascomb's The Perfect Mile is a great book about three runners who all have the desire to accomplish the unthinkable; a mile in under ...» Document abstract
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sports
school essay
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SummaryNeal Bascomb’s The Perfect Mile is a great book about three runners who all have the desire to accomplish the unthinkable; a mile in under four minutes. Wes Santee, John Landy, and Roger Bannister were all after this difficult task, each representing a different country. Bascomb follows the journey of each runner through all their difficult trials and thrilling victories.
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- There was a time when running the four minute mile was believed to be impossible.
- Throughout the book, it covers how each runner progressively got closer and closer with each race.
- Come 1954, all three athletes were pushing the four minute mile as all three of them were within two seconds of breaking the record, but it was two seconds that seemed like eternity to them.
- Bannister took off with his pacers, Brasher and Chataway just ahead of him.
- The world now knew that in a head to head battle that Bannister was the best.
« Paul Low, runner up at this year's strenuous 7.6 mile Mount Washington Road Race said, "I hit the hills as much as Jonathan Wyatt is the perfect example of this ...» Document abstract
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journalism
presentation
date published
09/10/2007
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SummaryWhen Ana Pichrtova talks about mountain running her eyes light up; she can’t disguise the pure joy that these trail treks bring her. “I just love it! I love the trails, I love running- that’s it!” Pichrtova exudes. Most elites, like Pichrtova, know the benefits of training on arduous mountains. They increase the cardiovascular system’s capabilities, they improve a runner’s strength and when it comes to running faster 5K’s, training in the mountains can help you slice seconds off your current PR. But when it comes to common road warriors most don’t understand (or choose to neglect!) just how beneficial mountain running can be. No one said that climbing a mountain was easy, in fact it can be quite the difficult task, but when it comes to overcoming an existing plateau there may not be anything better than hitting the hills hard.
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- What is mountain running?
- The cardiovascular solution
- Cross-training- can it get you higher faster?
- Taking it beyond just training?
- Can it get any better than that?
« of the untimely collision of multiple weather systems; the new moon; the perfect alignment of 0 F. or lower, and visibility of under a quarter of a mile for at ...» Document abstract
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history 1789 to present
term papers
date published
22/04/2008
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SummaryThe Blizzard of 1978 was the result of the untimely collision of multiple weather systems; the new moon; the perfect alignment of the sun, the moon and the earth; and the occurrence of the storm during weekday commuter hours. These components caused this storm to reach “awesome” proportions. The most severe damage of the storm occurred along the coast. The positioning of earth in relation to the sun and the moon, and the phase of the moon itself, are responsible for the tides, these specific conditions caused the tide to be unnaturally high, enabling the storm surge to be immense. The storm surge was so intense that houses were knocked off their foundations, people fled to their attics for safety and a man drowned in his basement while fixing his furnace. The Boston Globe reported in their Tuesday February 6, 1978 morning edition, an edition which for the first time ever, was never distributed due to the ferocity of the storm; that the explanation of the storm is similar to Ted Williams’s explanation of hitting a baseball “everything was in the right place at the right time.”
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- The Blizzard of 1978 was the result of the untimely collision of multiple weather systems.
- The Making of a Blizzard.
- A satellite image of the blizzard, the hurricane like eye can be seen.
- The Typical Forecast.
- The Coast: The Blizzard of 1978.
- Case Study: Revere.
- The Commuters: Stay or Abandon Vehicle?
- The Official Response.
- Societal Response.
- The Blizzard of 1978's Societal Impact..
- Life on February 6, 1978.
- Conclusion.
« Virginia and Maryland, who wagered extensive sums on contests run over quarter-mile dirt tracks. is an inbuilt desire of Man to be strong and hve a perfect look ...» Document abstract
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Language : english
sports
presentation
date published
12/01/2006
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SummaryAmerican sports have evolved from the simple folk games and premodern pastimes of the colonial era to the highly complex, commercial spectacles of the early twenty-first century. (For the purposes of this essay sports are defined as competitive athletic games that demand a significant degree of physical activity.) Many factors shaped the development of sports in colonial British America and in the United States. Among the most significant were industrialization, urbanization, and ideological and cultural trends, especially those involving religion, social class, ethnicity, race, and gender.
During the Colonial Era the English, Dutch, and other European settlers who established the thirteen colonies that became the United States brought with them premoder pastimes and folk games that had been popular amusements in the Old World for centuries. These included early version of cricket, baseball, golf, football, and bowling, and also foot racing and pitching quoits (similar to tossing horseshoes). Combat sports such as wrestling, boxing, and cudgeling (fighting with sticks), and animal and blood sports – especially bull baiting and cockfighting – also enjoyed great favor.
During the Colonial Era the English, Dutch, and other European settlers who established the thirteen colonies that became the United States brought with them premoder pastimes and folk games that had been popular amusements in the Old World for centuries. These included early version of cricket, baseball, golf, football, and bowling, and also foot racing and pitching quoits (similar to tossing horseshoes). Combat sports such as wrestling, boxing, and cudgeling (fighting with sticks), and animal and blood sports – especially bull baiting and cockfighting – also enjoyed great favor.
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- Bodybuilding within the American Sport
- The Notion of Bodybuilding
- Brief History of Bodybuilding and Its First Big Contest
- Bodybuilding Organizations
- Competitions
- Bodybuilding as the Basis to Fundamental Kind of Sport
- Tennis
- Basketball
- Baseball
- Bodybuilding as a Creator of New Kind of Sport
- Armwrestling
- Figure
- Fitness
« how are they different from the 24 other flower shops within a five-mile radius? promote yourself and the one and only shop to come to for the perfect party or ...» Document abstract
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business strategy
case study
date published
25/04/2008
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SummaryWhen you initially open a shop one of the hardest tasks is building a customer base and keeping those customers. If you are lucky enough to open in an exclusive area with heavy walk-in traffic, then you don’t have to rush to build up your customers. However, if you off the beaten path and need business, you are going to have to create a plan to draw customers to your store, your website or at least to call in orders. Hopefully, you already planned your marketing strategy when you laid out your business plan. If not, here is an idea to help you along the way.
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- Creating a Customer Base.
- Marketing to the Younger Generation.
- Differentiating to Attract More Customers.
- Don't forget the over 50 customers.
- Create a Marketing Kit to Promote Party and Wedding Business.
- Creating a Large Party and Wedding Marketing Plan.
- Bridal Shows.
- Marketing Your Shop as the Hospital Shop.
- Familiarize yourself with local Florists and Supermarkets.
- Event Marketing for Corporations.
- How do you sell to Large Companies in Your Area?
- Advertising that Targets Corporate Clients.
- Partnering with Local Area Businesses to Promote Business.
- Offer 24 hour Service to all area Funeral Homes.
- The Better Business Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce.
« The Balkan Wars presented itself as a perfect opportunity for Greece to conquer lands with a story was unique in the sense that he made a 3,000 mile voyage by ...» Document abstract
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arts and art history
research papers
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SummaryBy the eve of the Greco-Turkish War of 1922, every Greek in the world understood and felt what the ‘Megali Idea’ meant. Under the leadership of Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece was on the verge of fulfilling Megali Idea in recreating a modern Byzantine Empire. But what exactly does Megali Idea mean? Megali Idea translates literally as the ‘Great Idea.’(Glenny, 45). It is a term that scholars use to encompass all Greek irridentist claims to expand in order to incorporate all ethnic Greeks within her boundaries. It is a vision of an expanded Greek state with Greek Orthodoxy as its official religion, “which aspired to the unification of all areas of Greek settlement in the Near East within the bounds of a single state, with its capital in Constantinople, dominated the independent state during the first century of its existence.”(Gerolymatos, 59). This irridentist claim was so influential in the late 19th century-early 20th century contemporary Greek society, that when ethnic Greeks immigrated to the United States in search of work, they kept this sentiment with them. Because of the Greek Orthodox Church of America, they were able to preserve the ideals of Megali Idea even in the United States. The preservation of Megali Idea among Greek immigrants felt was illustrated by the fact that many Greek-Americans returned to their homeland to fight for Greece in 1912. The main focus of this paper will be on George Dilboy, the main character of the biography Georgie! My Georgie!. Dilboy was a Greek-American who felt the calling of Megali Idea and returned to Greece to fight in the Balkan Wars. After describing the rise and fall of the concept of Megali Idea, we will thus conclude that Megali Idea not only stayed with Greeks when they immigrated to the United States, but is still echoed in conversations today.
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- The Rise of the ‘Megali Idea?.
- The new kingdom's citizenry viewed the peace settlement as bittersweet.
- The Ottoman Empire was still a very large territory.
- The new Greek identity that was formed by Megali Idea became a composite of both Hellenic and Byzantine elements.
- Greece looked for more opportunities to gain more land in the Balkan peninsula.
- Greece's initial intention was to unite Crete with Greece and within nine months.
- Up until the Civil War, there was minimal migration from Greece to America.
- The heart of the Greek community was shifted from New Orleans to Chicago.
« there is no great story" regarding "closing the product loop", the last mile of the HM's goal is to create new products that have a perfect 100% score in this ...» Document abstract
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ecology & environment
term papers
date published
12/02/2007
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SummaryIn March 2005, the UN released its Millennium Ecosystem Assessment , the first comprehensive scientific audit of the state of the planet. Completed over four years by 2,000 experts, the survey demonstrates that economic activity has destroyed 60% of the Earth’s life-supporting ecosystems, threatening humanity’s ability to sustain its standards of living. Thus, even though the Industrial Revolution has brought about a tremendous rise in the standards of living of most in the Western World, and although globalization is spreading this wealth to an increasing number of people in the developing world, a growing number of worrisome environmental trends suggest that our current economic model is not sustainable in the medium- to short- run.
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- Why our current economic model is unsustainable
- Why eco-efficiency alone is not the solution
- How C2C draws on nature to fix our model
- How to apply C2C to product design
- C2C in action: Herman Miller and the Mirra' Chair
- C2C: the next industrial revolution?
- Exhibits
«Knowledge, growth without scale effects, and the product life cycle. ...» Document abstract
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economics
theses
date published
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SummaryFor several reasons, knowledge cannot be treated like any other commodity. One of these reasons is the nonrivalrous nature of knowledge, which means that one person’s use of certain knowledge does not diminish another person’s use of the same knowledge (at the same time). This important property of knowledge is used in several early models of R&D-based growth1,
e.g. Romer (1990), Grossman and Helpman (1991), and Aghion and Howitt (1992). In these models this property leads to a scale effect, which boils down to larger economies growing faster than smaller economies (with the measure of size suitably defined (cf. Backus, Kehoe and Kehoe 1992)).
In an influential paper, Jones (1995a) pointed out that growth with scale effects, as predicted
by the early models of R&D-based growth, is inconsistent with empirical facts. Over the last
40 years the OECD countries have experienced a tremendous rise in the number of people involved in R&D activities whereas the growth rates of per-capita income have shown no corresponding increase. This is a puzzling observation and has led to new models of R&D- based growth that did not incorporate scale effects e.g. Jones (1995b), Smulders and van de Klundert (1995), Young (1998), Li (2000), and Peretto and Smulders (2002).
Generally, however, these models suffer from the ‘Solow critique’; Solow (1994) criticizes
(some) growth theorists because they “… often just insert favorable assumptions in an unearned way; and then when they put in their thumb and pull out the vary plum they have inserted, there is a tendency to think that something has been proved.” (p. 53). In the models
of growth without scale effects the prediction of a scale effects in growth of the early models
of R&D-based growth is removed by limiting the extent of the spillovers associated with knowledge’s nonrivalrousness, but often the much-needed (micro-)economic foundation for
the crucial assumption in these models regarding the extent of knowledge spillovers - and the
mechanism limiting their extent - is lacking. Assuming that knowledge is rivalrous (not nonrivalrous) to limit spillovers and dispose of the scale effects prediction of the early models
of R&D-based growth simply does not shed much light on the issue of growth without scale effects however.
provide background information regarding, amongst others, work discussed in the main text, data used in figures, etc.
e.g. Romer (1990), Grossman and Helpman (1991), and Aghion and Howitt (1992). In these models this property leads to a scale effect, which boils down to larger economies growing faster than smaller economies (with the measure of size suitably defined (cf. Backus, Kehoe and Kehoe 1992)).
In an influential paper, Jones (1995a) pointed out that growth with scale effects, as predicted
by the early models of R&D-based growth, is inconsistent with empirical facts. Over the last
40 years the OECD countries have experienced a tremendous rise in the number of people involved in R&D activities whereas the growth rates of per-capita income have shown no corresponding increase. This is a puzzling observation and has led to new models of R&D- based growth that did not incorporate scale effects e.g. Jones (1995b), Smulders and van de Klundert (1995), Young (1998), Li (2000), and Peretto and Smulders (2002).
Generally, however, these models suffer from the ‘Solow critique’; Solow (1994) criticizes
(some) growth theorists because they “… often just insert favorable assumptions in an unearned way; and then when they put in their thumb and pull out the vary plum they have inserted, there is a tendency to think that something has been proved.” (p. 53). In the models
of growth without scale effects the prediction of a scale effects in growth of the early models
of R&D-based growth is removed by limiting the extent of the spillovers associated with knowledge’s nonrivalrousness, but often the much-needed (micro-)economic foundation for
the crucial assumption in these models regarding the extent of knowledge spillovers - and the
mechanism limiting their extent - is lacking. Assuming that knowledge is rivalrous (not nonrivalrous) to limit spillovers and dispose of the scale effects prediction of the early models
of R&D-based growth simply does not shed much light on the issue of growth without scale effects however.
provide background information regarding, amongst others, work discussed in the main text, data used in figures, etc.
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- Grouth and scale effects
- Knowledge, R&D and spilovers, at the firm
- Grouth without scale effects and structural
- Measurement issues in the study of R&D-based
- The product life cycle, demand
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