...The Total Package Shulanda Sullivan COM/170 Elements of University Composition and Communication February 12, 2015 Dawn Muhammad During the 1980’s, two of the most prominent players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) was Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Michael “MJ” Jordan. They were both exciting to watch while on and off of the basketball court. Because of their business savvy, humanitarian efforts, and outstanding athletic ability, both are very interesting. The Athlete Magic Johnson was an exciting athlete. He helped orchestrate the plays that where known as “Showtime” by sports commentators. During his time with the Los Angeles Lakers, Magic Johnson had his share of challenges (Larry Byrd and The Boston Celtics), however, he and his teammates won five NBA Championships. During his career Magic received three NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, three NBA MVP Awards, an Olympic gold medal, was named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and is a two time inductee in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Then there was Michael “MJ” Jordan, he began his NBA career with the Chicago Bulls. He swiftly began making his presence known to the NBA and the world. According to Biogrophy.com, Michael is the most decorated player of all time. Through his unbelievable slam dunks, outstanding scoring ability and his unmatchable acrobatic drives Michael became a cultural icon. Even though Michael was as great scorer, a NBA Championship eluded...
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...to their families whom they missed so much. The soldiers would talk to each other and they would say, “If I don’t make it send this letter to my family so they would know how much I love them.” “I Thank God that I came home and had a chance to see my children grow up, get married and that they did not have to enter into the military like I did.” George George is my roommate and best friend. He was in grade school to high school in the Vietnam era. When I asked him if his view of the Cold War varied from what’s taught, he said, “I don’t know, why don’t we look it up.” We went to the Oxford Reference website and this as their thumbnail definition: “The antagonism between the USA and USSR lasting from the late 1940s until the late 1980s, ‘cold’ because it was waged through diplomatic and...
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...Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ,[1] is an American former professional basketball player, entrepreneur, and majority owner and chairman of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time."[2] Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.[3] After a three-season career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball.[4] In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins...
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...Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ,[1] is an American former professional basketball player, entrepreneur, and majority owner and chairman of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time."[2] Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.[3] After a three-season career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball.[4] In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins...
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...International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, Vol. 2, No. 4, August 2011 An Improved Method to Generate Electricity and Precipitated Silica from Rice Husk: Perspective Bangladesh Arif Md. Waliullah Bhuiyan, Md. Rejwanur Rashid Mojumdar and A K M Kamrul Hasan Abstract— Electricity supply for rural areas, so long, has been a far cry in context of Bangladesh. Realizing this, many organizations along with Bangladesh government are trying to bring renewable energy in a competitive package to meet deficiency. But solar energy, mainly for its inefficiency and high cost, is not having much success in a broader aspect. SHSs are capable to maintain only household demand for 4-6 hours. But for the emergence of small enterprises and to boost the rural economy, energy security at countryside has indispensible role. This paper explores rice husk based biomass plant as an alternate energy source to meet the electricity demand of local enterprises, irrigation and rural households. Since the availability of rice husk is at stake, a mixture of biomass (rice husk & saw dust or rice husk & bamboo dust) instead of using only rice husk as fuel is also proposed for electricity generation. Ash generated from the husk is processed to produce silica and calcium carbonate through silica precipitation method. Demand and market analysis is also done to examine sales potential of products (electricity, silica and calcium carbonate). Index Terms—Biomass gasification, Electricity generation...
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...Lin (3889481). Interest Rates Bank profit is influenced by the changes in interest rates When interest rate rises, bank portfolio managers can expect changes on both asset and liability sides of their balance sheets (Flannery 1980). Bank revenues and costs will adjust to reflect the new level of interest rates at different speeds, depending on each bank’s collection of assets and liabilities (Flannery 1980). The asset side, an increase in interest rates may increase the amount of income a bank may earn on new assts it acquires (Flannery 1980). Assets were liquidated and mature over time with the proceeds of gradually being reinvested at the new higher interest rates (Flannery 1980). Many bank loans were carrying an interest rate that can change before the loan mature such as business loans (Flannery 1980). Whereas in the liability side, the impact of the interest rate changes on bank costs depends on the average maturity and composition of the liability portfolio (Flannery 1980). The Regulation Q was limits the maximum rate payable on time and these rates have been below their competitive level for few years (Flannery 1980). When market rate rose, bankers will heat up their implicit interest competition for this regulated account (Flannery 1980). Suppose that the...
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...It is evident today that the black man and woman alike have achieved what seemed an impossible feat; a pipe dream just about one hundred and fifty years ago during the Reconstruction Period. Today for example, the black man can speak on the national television, own his own business, attend a predominantly white school and even publicly voice his displeasure without getting persecuted. To sum it up, the kind of beastly racism that involved lynching, public vitriol, and aggression against blacks has drastically changed into a more covert one. The opening remarks in Brent Campney’s article in the magazine, Western Historical Quarterly, hint at the task that the black community still had in their quest for dignity even after the civil war. In the introductory remarks of the article, the author laments, “In the aftermath of the war, however, white Kansas made a mockery of the Union’s optimism. Unleashing a campaign of violence aimed at enforcing their supremacy over blacks in the young state’’ (Campney 172). We find that the black community was faced with an uphill task in their quest for equality to their white counterparts even after the civil war. Kansas making a mockery of thee Union means that as per the wish of the Union that blacks would be free and appreciated after they helped the Union crush the Confederacy, the white community in Kansas turned against them with racially instigated violence aimed at them. The Union had thus made an assumption when they...
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...Running head: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE - HEALTHCARE Special CCN [Name of writer] [Name of institution] Special CCN Introduction Ms Angie Taylor whose age is around 48years old had a car accident 15 years back. She is suffering from severe complications after an accident as she had never such a relevant past history. Her case study needs a thorough analysis which can be done through answering some important questions keeping in view the case study of Ms Angie Taylor. There are some important questions and queries in this case which needs to be resolve through proper analysis of the case study of Ms Taylor by looking at the literature. There are many complications seen in the case of Ms Angie Taylor, therefore it is very much essential to address all the questions regarding the case study of Ms Angie Taylor. Epidural infusion for pain relief in the post operative care of Ms Taylor Epidural infusion of pain relief in the post operative care can be define as the supervision in the epidural space of Opioid analgesics, mixture of opioid analgesics and local anesthetics, local anesthetics and it also supervise into many Alpha-2 agonists, for example, as an add-on to epidural clonidine might be seen in future. For pain relief in the post operative care of Ms Taylor, the use of epidural infusion can be very much effective. If it is taken as the pain reliever in the post operative care then it can be very much useful to reduce the pain. After the operation...
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...Department of Primary Industry, 1961-1964. Lecturer, Biometry Section, Department of Agriculture, University of Sydney, 1964-1966. Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Statistics, University of Sydney, 19661971. Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Statistics, University of Sydney, 1972-1982. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Statistics, University of Sydney, 1983-1991. Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, 1991Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, 1969-1970. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1975-1976. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-1980. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Rochester, NY, 1986, January-July. Administration: Head of Department of Mathematical Statistics, University of Sydney, Jan-June, 1979; Sept. 1983-Dec. 1985; January 1988-December 1989. Head of School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Jan, 2001-Dec, 2002 1 Research Interests Asymptotic methods in statistics, resampling methods, multivariate analysis, modelling in biology. Post-graduate supervision: Doctoral Theses: M.E. O’NEIL, (1975) ”Problems in...
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...polymer pellets 4.1.2 Starch polymer loose fills 4.1.3 Starch polymer films and bags 4.1.4 Starch nanoparticles as fillers in tyres 4.2 POLYHYDROXYALKANOATES (PHA) 4.3 POLYLACTIDES (PLA) 4.4 OTHER POLYMERS BASED ON RENEWABLE RESOURCES 4.5 NATURAL FIBRES 5. SUMMARISING COMPARISON 6. DISCUSSION 7. CONCLUSIONS 7.1 7.2 SUMMARY AND FURTHER ELABORATION OF FINDINGS OUTLOOK AND PERSPECTIVES 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 9. REFERENCES ANNEX 1: OVERVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE COMPARISONS FOR BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS INCLUDED IN THIS REVIEW ANNEX 2: CHECKLIST FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN LCA FOR BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS a ABS CH4 cm CO2 CR pallet d ECCP EPS eq. g GF pallet GHG GJ ha HDPE kg l LCA LDPE LLDPE MJ m3 MSWI N2O PCL PE PET PHA PHB PLA PVOH PWB PO4 PP PS PVOH PE R&D SO2 TPS year acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene methane centimetre carbon dioxide pallet made of chinareed as reinforcement...
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...many artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna. With only playing videos music now couldn’t just sound good, it also had to look good if you were going to be a major star. What Jack Black and many people complain about with MTV is that they may have revolutionized music but with the promotion and the major profits these huge stars were receiving, it was simply building the power of the major record industries and gatekeepers who control popular music. Since the early 80’s, MTV has continued to shape what music is popular through the emergence of videos, ratings, and big business. In this paper, I will outline MTV’s quick rise to pop culture king, racism, influence by big record companies, and how they developed the ultimate pop star. In 1980 the United States along with politics, the economy, and music was in an awkward transition. After two wars, numerous Democratic Presidents, and the worst recession to hit America in nearly 40 years, Conservative Ronald Reagan was elected promising to end the recession. Along with politics there was a major transition in music. Disco and punk were falling off the table leaving a huge category of music that was considered“new music” that described everyone from Michael Jackson to Blondie. (Garofalo, 292) After the music industry had hit its biggest spike in revenue in the early 70's, the late 70's proved that even music wasn't...
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...Antonie van Leeuwenhoek81: 537–547, 2002. © 2002Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 537 Antibiotic production by bacterial biocontrol agents Jos M. Raaijmakers ∗ , Maria Vlami & Jorge T. de Souza Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PG Wageningen, The Netherlands (∗ Author for correspondence) Abstract Interest in biological control of plant pathogens has been stimulated in recent years by trends in agriculture to-wards greater sustainability and public concern about the use of hazardous pesticides. There is now unequivocal evidence that antibiotics play a key role in the suppression of various soilborne plant pathogens by antagonistic microorganisms. The significance of antibiotics in biocontrol, and more generally in microbial interactions, often has been questioned because of the indirect nature of the supporting evidence and the perceived constraints to an-tibiotic production in rhizosphere environments. Reporter gene systems and bio-analytical techniques have clearly demonstrated that antibiotics are produced in the spermosphere and rhizosphere of a variety of host plants. Several abiotic factors such as oxygen, temperature, specific carbon and nitrogen sources, and microelements have been identified to influence antibiotic production by bacteria biocontrol agents. Among the biotic factors that may play a determinative role in antibiotic production are the plant host, the...
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...reduction of 8·3 % for each weekly serving of nuts. The evidence for a causal relationship between nut consumption and reduced risk of coronary heart disease is outlined using Hill’s criteria for causality and is found to support a causal cardio-protective relationship. Nuts: Cardiovascular: Coronary heart disease: Diabetes: Cohort studies: Causality: Hill’s criteria Nuts have constituted a part of mankind’s diet since pre-agricultural times (Eaton & Konner, 1985), providing a complex food rich in macronutrients and micronutrients and fibre, as well as other bioactive phytonutrients yet to be discovered. While the amount of nuts in the human diet in the distant past is unknown, recent data indicates nut consumption was declining in the 1980s, although nut consumption in countries following a more Mediterranean diet is twice that of the American diet (Dreher et al. 1996). This...
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...all levels of government, and all sectors of society. In this paper there is a discussion of the aging population and the impact it has on demographics in healthcare. There is an upsurge in the population of older adults. As the population ages and medical care continues to elongate the average lifespan of the population, this results in a greater percentage of the population being composed of older adults and subject themselves to the medical consequence associated with increasing age and chronic disease. At birth, every cohort has a small excess of males but, leaving to the higher death rates for the mall population and the more rapid improvement in mortality for women, although there is a large excess of women at older ages. “In 1980, 12 percent of the white population was age 65 or older which was a much larger proportion than the 8 percent of the black population” (Siegel and Davidson, 1984). This attributes the difference to higher fertility of the black population and secondary to higher mortality at ages below 65. The black population of the future will continue to be a younger population than the whites, improvements in mortality rates for elderly blacks is expected. “The Census Bureau population projections show that sex ratio of the population age 65...
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...Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhaltsverzeichnis ............................................................................................................................ 1 I Abbildungsverzeichnis .................................................................................................................. 3 II Tabellenverzeichnis ...................................................................................................................... 4 III 1 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 6 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 7 7.1 Abkürzungsverzeichnis ........................................................................................................... 4 Einleitung .................................................................................................................................. 6 Mobilitätsbedarf für Personenverkehr .................................................................................... 8 Historische Betrachtung.................................................................................................................. 8 Aktuelle Situation ............................................................................................................................. 9 Zukunftsprognose.......................................................................................................................... 11 Umweltbelastungen und Endlichkeit der eingesetzten Energieträger im Individualverkehr ...........................
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