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Many countries competed for the first time. Japan competed, becoming the first Asian country to compete in the olympics. Alongside Japan, Egypt, Serbia, and Iceland also competed for the first time. Significant Sporting Events As They Relate To Culture: Many things happened in the sports world in the 1910s. Baseball was very popular around this time. The attendance rate at the games was really high throughout…

With any incidents and confrontations involving firearms and the police, the question is always raised as to whether officers in New Zealand should be armed lethally. Different policies and reforms regarding law enforcement are ever changing but one constant here in New Zealand is our approach to arming our front line officers. In my opinion, our current regulations and practice of arming our officers, using specially armed squads to deal with situations involving guns, is the most effective…

limited to face-to-face verbal and non-verbal interactions. Then we developed written modes of communication, which we have since digitalized to the point that someone in Beijing, China have have an instantaneous conversation with someone in Reykjavik, Iceland. However, technological advances push farther and farther towards recreating the experience of face-to-face communication over digital means—proving that in-person, verbal communication, underscored by tone of voice and body language, is…

While reading novels and books, the reader's emotions will be set on a rollercoaster. If you had to illustrate the feelings you get while reading “On the Lake” by Olaf Olafsson, you would probably be illustrating a frozen ice pond, with you walking on the slippery surface. Suddenly you notice that the surface is cracking with every single step you take. Step after step the cracks become more and more pronounced, and you can only think of two things. First thing being reaching safety, while the…

Advancements in technology over the past few decades have distressed the Earth’s environment globally. Due to the increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released into the atmosphere, mostly due to human activities, there has been a large concern over the dangers of global warming. Between 1990 and 2008, global GHG emissions have increased by approximately 1.5 times, causing an international concern (Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data, 2015). Although GHGs are naturally formed, human activity…

selling drugs on the site was a way of ending the war on drugs, by taking drugs off the streets all together. The site was eventually brought down by the FBI, and one person was prosecuted by the government when they illegally accessed a web server in Iceland. The NSA appears to be the ones that accessed that server without a warrant. Usually all of this would be considered illegal and of course the case would have been thrown out of court, but there is no way to know. Because the federal…

+Adam Molani IQ is not affected by education or environment. "Negroid" is the official scientific namo of the black sub-saharan race who have an average IQ of 68. Stop pretending you know about this subject. For over a century the IQ of people in every country has been intensively studied and thousands of international IQ surveys have been averaged out by hundreds of Universities to give reliable average IQ figures for each country. The racial correlation with IQ has been confirmed by EVERY…

but has recovered well. Norway is a nation with a significant history that has shaped Norway into what it is today. The Vikings settled and founded settlements in the areas known as Norway. The Vikings were fisherman and sea rovers who discovered Iceland, Greenland, and the coast North America before anyone else. They lived in the area of Scandinavia and invented the government form of a representative democracy. In a representative democracy government, the Vikings met annually to vote on…

Today, a lot of graduating seniors face the grueling task of applying for college. Many students struggle with this process because they are unsure on where to even begin. They think to themselves, “am I even good enough to get accepted? Do I have what it takes?” Studies have shown that every year, college becomes more challenging for students to get accept, and that if you applied with the same SAT scores and grade point average as your mom would a decade ago, you most likely wouldn’t get in.…

This campaign is dedicated to ending police brutality. Though I am not victim, I have witnessed my friends and fellow citizens be abused and victimized, and I am tired of seeing this abuse take place. I will begin by admitting that I have no ability to make a cool videos or fancy images, all I have is an idea and the will to make it real. The issues: I will begin by stating the common crimes committed by the police and other officials. These crimes are listed below. • False Arrest • False…