...I wanted to discuss the history of the table tennis paddle. When given this assignment, I instantly wanted to do some research on what the table tennis paddle used to look like, the material that it was made out of and etc. To begin with, I read that the table tennis paddle originally was developed in the late 1800’s and did not change until the early 1900’s. The first table tennis paddle was called the “banjo racket” because of its looks and it also was constructed like a small drum, and made a drum like sound when you hit the ball with it. The first paddle was also around 19 inches long, which is unheard of nowadays. As we neared the start of the 20th century, the paddles then started to become made of wood covered in sandpaper, followed by a “cork-faced” racket, which players liked because they thought it, improved their overall performance. As we neared the middle of the 20th century, the changes in the racket increased significantly due to a first time impact from Japanese technology. They tried adapting the racket so it would help a player either on the offensive or defensive side. For example, it says that they made a racket that was wide and had a “pimpled rubber” surface that was preferred by players on defense. Next, they developed a sponge type racket. When the sponge racket was implemented with rubber and was 1mm, it was said that it was more difficult to create spin on the ball. I found it interesting that they finally stuck with this type of material and instead...
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...ended. Either we score or no one scores we don’t give opportunities to the other team. Also, if the player has an open lane and decides a three pointer I am going to let them know to not shoot that shot again. Always take the easier shot. I do believe this is a good strategy to start the 4th quarter with but I would change it up a tad bit. By playing 3/4 court man to man defense you are pressuring the offense but also speeding up their play. I would like the offense to take the ball up the court and the defense play man to man once the team crossed half court. The defense can still apply pressure playing man to man from beyond half court Putting pressure on the offense requires a combination of both attitude and aggressiveness by the defenders. I want the team to stay aggressive. An effective pressuring defense will not allow offensive movement to take place easily. At the same time I want them to be aggressive but also smart. Not go for steals that will allow easy baskets. Every point must be earned and not allowed. On offense I would want a lot of passes to run time but when the shot is there take it. Take open smart shots and keep pressuring the other team. I would try to motivate my players and ensure the game is far from over. The second half is a whole new game. I would have the team come out and play full court man to man defense. Also I would have the team try and trap the offense to create turnovers and easy baskets. Trapping the ball is a defensive tactic where two...
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...A piece of art that caught my attention was the South’s Defenders Confederate Monument located on the Courthouse lawn in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The bronze statue, which is 6 foot tall and weighs 200 pounds, was made by the W.H. Mullins Co., Salem, Ohio, John Segesman, chief sculptor (Jones, 2010). The first Confederate descendants’ organization in Lake Charles was Robert E. Lee Chapter 305, United Daughters of the Confederacy, which was founded in 1899. It raised the funds for the monument. The South's Defender's Confederate Monument was dedicated on 3 June 1915 on the grounds of the Calcasieu Parish Courthouse in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Today, 3 June, is the official Confederate Memorial Day in Louisiana. It is important we continue to remember thecourage and sacrifice of our gallant heroes in gray, who gave their all to defend their homes and families. They gave all for us so that we might inherit a land where the principles of 1776 were still alive and well. The six-foot, 200-pound bronzed copper statue of a Confederate color-bearer rests on an ornate marble pedestal and five-tiered marble base adorned with decorative cannon balls. This piece of art is considered classicism, the style of a specific era in the history of humanities (Janaro & Altshuler, 2009). The front of the monument is embossed with the words "The South's Defenders. Lower down are the war years, 1861-1865 and "Our Heroes." On the back of the monument are the words "Unveiled June 3, 1915." Under this...
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...Baseille Richardson 11/16/11 ` Gender defender Many stereotypes have developed over the years for males. The stereotypes help mold the image of how society views an ideal man. However, some stereotypes are outdated and in some cases, far from the truth, leading to inaccurate assumptions of how a male is suppose to act or think. Women also have old common stereotypes, but they are less prominent since it’s becoming common knowledge that those stereotypes don’t fit the majority anymore in today’s day and age. These male stereotypes only single out and amplify societal pressure on men. Not only pressure from other women but on fellow males. Male stereotypes portray males in the wrong light and can hinder the social development and acceptance for one who does not fit into the ideal view of a man. In Judy Brady’s, “I Want a Wife” Brady takes a satirical approach to showcasing how men think when evaluating a wife. She plays the role of a typical male and lists all the attributes this male would love to have for a wife. He wants his wife to cook, clean and take care of the kids. He also wants the wife to listen to him when he wants her to, but doesn’t want to feel obligated to listen to her when she needs to(361 Brady). However, this essay is a dated essay written around 1970, so these views are very old and should be seen as absurd in the present day. Surprisingly, some women still feel this is an accurate portrayal of men’s thoughts on a female partner. One female...
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...Defender of the Faith “Defender of the Faith” is a short story written by Philip Roth that depicts the tale of a young Jewish Sergeant in the US Army during World War II named Nathan Marx. Sergeant Marx is returned back state side after the fighting ends in Europe and is stationed at Camp Crowder. Camp Crowder is a basic training facility where Marx is in charge of training new soldiers and preparing them for war. The title “Defender of the Faith” comes from his role as a company leader full of young Jewish men and how he is tricked into protecting their faith. The young men in his company, especially one named Sheldon Grossbart, use their witty deceitful ways to trick Marx into giving them special treatment. This story is about a man discovering how to be himself again after developing what he refers to as “an infantryman’s heart” (Roth). Carol Gaffke refers to Philip Roth’s stories as the story of “unlikely heroes, who find themselves trapped within the social constraints of their immediate environment…” (Gaffke). This story fits that description perfectly because Marx was constrained by the idea of helping out his young Jewish trainees on a moral value even though he knew he was being lied to. Even with the heavy religious backing of this story Roth himself was actually an Atheist and is quoted saying, “When the whole world doesn’t believe in God, it’ll be a great place.” (Braver). Though Roth has does not believe in God he knows about Judaism because his parents were...
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...Defender of the Faith by Philip Roth is a tale of Army First Sergeant Nathan Marx and his experience at Camp Crowder, Missouri with Private Sheldon Grossbart. There is conflict between the two parties due to the fact that the Private is Jewish and his religion comes into conflict with the rules and regulations that the military has presented to them. Throughout the story Marx tries to understand Grossbart yet stay faithful to being a Sergeant to the Army’s military unit and this causes problems in the relationship that they have developed throughout the time spent with each other. This story begins with tension between Sergeant Marx and Private Grossbart due to the story’s main theme which is defending one’s belief in his own religion and the rules that the Privates have to follow when they are in training camp for the Army. This is such a problem because once signed up for military service, you are obligated to do as you are told with no exceptions in between. On the other hand, when one has a strong belief in his religion, “God” has the upper hand towards any proper Army authority figure and when it is time to serve Him, there should not be any exceptions in between. Grossbart uses this to his own advantage because that is the perfect reason to get out of doing military chores. He states that he would rather serve his “God” and that he is at all times willing to drop whatever he is doing to go to synagogue, but, he also dislikes the unwanted attention and accusations...
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...Performance Review To: Public Defender From: Assistant Public Defender Date: November 23, 2010 ------------------------------------------------- Re: Personal Performance Review, August 2009 to present Congratulations on your recent landslide election win. I enjoyed working for Mr. Job’s office and I look forward to serving you as the newly elected Public Defender. Since leaving the State Attorney’s Office to further my career as a defense attorney, I zealously advocated for every one of my clients at every stage of representation. As you move forward, you will need attorneys to fill key positions in your organization. I will discuss in detail my key accomplishments that make me a perfect candidate for one of these positions. Trials Since starting at the Public Defender’s office in August I have focused on trials. In a little over three months I conducted seven jury trials. As you know, this is well above average for the office. The average Assistant Public Defender in this circuit averages one trial per quarter. My trial performance is exceptional in another respect, each of these seven trials resulted in a not guilty jury verdict. I obtained diverse trial experience as the charges at each trial were different. I defended against resisting arrest, fraud and theft, driving crimes, as well as violent crimes. The defenses presented at trial were also varied, from an alibi defense, to an identification defense and to just pulling a rabbit out of the hat....
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...of literature. Her parents were otherwise strict and Brooks was not allowed to play with the other children in her neighborhood. She spent the majority of her free time reading and writing in her room. Brooks, for this reason was incredibly shy even as an adult and lacked social skills, making few friends at school. Brooks attended several schools, including an all-white high school, (Hyde Park High School) before transferring to an all-black high school (Wendell Phillips). She eventually was transferred again to an integrated school (Englewood High School). In 1936 she graduated from Wilson Junior College. Her different schools gave her a view of the racial dynamic which she used in her writing. Her early works appeared in the Chicago Defender, a newspaper primarily for the black citizens of Chicago. In 1939 Brooks married Henry Blakely. The couple had two children, Henry Jr. and Nora. In 1945 Brooks published her first book, A Street in Bronze Ville and in 1949 she published Annie Allen, a book of loosely connected poetry about growing up African American in Chicago. She received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, becoming the first African American to receive such a prestigious award in poetry. Her first novel, Maud Martha, was published in 1953 and in 1963 Brooks took a teaching job at Chicago's Columbia College. In 1967 Brooks met the new black revolution at the Fisk University Writers Conference in Nashville, which she became actively involved in. In 1968 Brooks was...
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...of wisdom. Through the skillful use of literary devices such as informal language, symbolism, metaphors, repetition, as well as clever use of format, Hughes manages to assemble up the image of a mother lovingly, yet firmly, talking to her son about life. This poem is an advice from a mother to son about life that will be challenging and do not think about giving it up. Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He published his first poem in 1921. He attended Columbia University, but left after one year to travel. His poetry was later promoted by Vachel Lindsay, and Hughes published his first book in 1926. He went on to write countless works of poetry, prose and plays, as well as a popular column for the Chicago Defender. He died on May 22, 1967. The theme that this poet conveyed in the poem is determination to live without ever thinking giving up although the obstacles are harsh. Besides, it also emphasize regarding the struggle for life that the one will experience but still have the strength to face it day by day. It also shows about affection and as motivation of a mother to son that takes care of his son and gives advice so that the son will somehow be prepared to face the life. The poem consists of four stanzas. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his position. He has been out walking the woods and comes to two roads, and he stands looking as far down each one as he can see. He would like to try out both, but doubts he could to that, so...
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...Defender of the State, Not Enemy Smith & Wesson Smith & Wesson may be the most popular and is arguably the largest manufacturer of handguns in the United States. Established in 1852 and based out of Springfield, Massachusetts, Smith & Wesson’s firearms are standard issue to armed and police forces in the United States and Worldwide. The firearms manufacturer has been glamorized in movies such As Dirty Harry and their products have subsequently been utilized by sport shooters. As well as creating some of the most iconic names in firearms they are also responsible for developing many ammunition cartridges, many cartridges bear the company's name. Traded under SWHC on the NASDAQ, Smith and Wesson gained most of its notoriety and sales success with the invention of the .38 special, at one time used by most of the United Stats police forces (citation). Continuing into the 20th century, Smith and Wesson obtained success with the invention of the .357 magnum and the highly popular .44 magnum. In fact, Smith and Wesson’s accomplishments are so numerous that it would be difficult to study the history of the firearm without first studying the history of Smith and Wesson. With the inauguration of Democratic President Barack Obama and a current Democratic majority in the US Congress, Smith and Wesson is concerned over the inception of new laws and regulations governing their civilian consumer purchases. According to CBS news article...
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...court would appoint you one? It is the law that you have to be represented by a lawyer during the time of your trial unless you sign a waiver to not have a lawyer at all. People are represented in court by two kinds of lawyers, court-appointed lawyers and public defenders, which mean "hired lawyers" (Green, 2001). People that have higher income can hire their own lawyers. The lower and middle-income people are mainly the ones who rely on court appointed lawyers. These people don't have the money to hire a lawyer. Court appointed lawyers are not working in your best interest for many reasons. Salary is one reason why court appointed lawyers don't go up and beyond their call of duty for their clients. Studies show on an average, people will be sentenced harder or longer if he/she is represented by a court-appointed lawyer rather than a public defender (Green, 2001). Court-appointed lawyers are paid by the state on a case-by-case basis. Court appointed counsel's paycheck varies by offense. The defense counsel will typically only be paid 112.00 to 326.00 for normal lower class cases. Felony punishment by more than twenty years in prison can give up to 1,196.00 for the court appointed lawyer (Green, 2001). Public defenders or "hired lawyers" are salaried state employees. If you hire a lawyer...
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...All of these schools made a huge impact on the writer she became. They helped widen her perspective on racial problems and influence a lot of the stories she wrote about growing up. When Brooks was 13 she published her first poem titled “Eventide” which appeared in American Childhood. By the time she was 17 she was frequently publishing poems in the Chicago Defender, which was a newspaper serving Chicago’s black population. (“Gwendolyn Brooks”.) Once Gwendolyn graduated from Wilson Junior College she worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and also worked as a secretary, while continuing to grow as a poet. In this time Brooks attended many poetry workshops and began writing the poems, that focused on urban blacks, that would eventually be published in her first collection titled, A Street in Bronzeville (“Gwendolyn...
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...What Works with Juvenile Offenders Juvenile Offenders are categorized differently than their adult counterparts for a variety of reasons. The primary reason is that as an offender who is not yet an adult, they are still considered a protected class due to their age and the concern of disrupting their rights to council and the rights of their parents to help dictate the events in their lives. Over the past few decades there have been several studies completed correlating the quantitative analysis in primary research studies with success rates of juvenile offender treatment. Because of the repeated success of certain treatments over others, these studies have lead to an agreement on what programs and intervention strategies work and which have little to no repeated success. By analyzing these treatment strategies as they have been portrayed in academic literature and through the primary research that has been completed, a summary analysis of what plans work when dealing with juvenile offenders will be devised and put forth as the best option for treatment. The first aspect to analyze when dealing with implementing a new strategy for juvenile offender reformation and treatment plans is the idea of quality of the plan versus quantity of sessions required with all individuals in correctional institutions across the United States. In the past two decades, the numbers of individuals within the correctional systems across the United States has skyrocketed. In 2004, the jump in population...
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...Money is Justice: The Effectiveness of Public Defenders vs Private Attorneys Intro section Public defenders are attorneys that work for the government and are assigned to clients who do not wish to hire or cannot afford to hire private attorneys. They are assigned by the courts from a list of public defenders (Atchuthan). The sixth amendment to the constitution and one of the Bill of Rights states, In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses...
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...Geronimo. The last great defender of Native American land. Fearless in battle. Fighting for what he believed in. He battled Americans and Mexicans so much, at one time, there were 5,000 U.S. troops hunting him down. But what made Geronimo the way he was? The answer is in his early life. A legend of the untamed American West, the Apache leader Geronimo was born in June 1829 in No-Doyohn Canyon, Mexico. Geronimo was a exceptional hunter, who, according to legend, as a boy swallowed the heart of his first kill in order to guarantee sucess on the hunt. Geronimo belonged to the small band known as the Bedonkohe Apache. Surrounded by enemies, such as the Mexicans, Navajo and Comanches, the Apaches were constantly raiding their neighbors. This led to tension between the Mexicans and the Apache, with the Mexican government putting a $25 bounty on an Apache scalp....
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