Speed

In the Olympics, it is understood that Jamaica is known for producing the world’s fastest sprinters. This leaves people wondering what Jamaica does differently to generate these sprinters. After reading the article “A Need for Speed: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory” and learning about systems perspective and biopsychosocial-spiritual influences on behavior, it is evident that there are multiple possible factors that could have contributed to the success of Jamaican sprinters. Biologically,…

In his book Deliberate Speed (1990) W.T. Lhamon, Jr. argues that “culture tilted towards the youth” (8) but the staying power of it was not recognised by the mass media and other business outlets, though they later capitalized on it. Society gradually saw that changes in manner, values and style among teenagers of the 50s was not a passing fad but was here to stay as a growing expression of youth rebellion against the conservative ideals. In the 1950s, parents blamed rock ‘n’ roll for causing…

North America is about 328,000 km (CIA.gov, n.d.). Amtrak is able to operate at a top speed of 241 km/h, while CSX and other freight haulers in North America rarely go beyond 80 km/h (Amtrak.com,…

Basketball is the speed up game which established in 19th century from there to till now the game is modify technically because whole game is based on technical skills. Shooting is the principal method used to score points in basketball and for this reason it is the most frequently used technical action (Hay, 1994). Basketball is a sport that scores determines its results, and shooting skill determines score percentage which means shooting skill determines the result of a basketball game to…

Bill Gates is known to the world as the richest man alive. The reasons why I think he exceeds in business are found in his book, Business @ the Speed of Thought. The book was released around 1999 where all businesses began to grow exponentially. This book was also on the New York Times bestseller list in 1999. Bill Gates discusses many ways that implementing technologies in business will the future of businesses. The very first chapter, Bill Gates starts right on the backbone of what businesses…

Everyone has had settle down his or her own goals in their lives. In the book No Speed Limit by Steven Shaviro addresses how the accelerationism will collapse the capitalism and how it is helpful in the society. In the past, people are living without scientific technologies; their world is really silence and peaceful. They do not have any great invention to improve their lives. Also, they are living under control of capitalist. The capitalism has separated the civilians into three different…

Japan first introduced high speed rail in the early 1960’s, modernizing the world’s understanding of travel. Other countries such as Belgium, China, France, and Spain all have hopped aboard with the idea of bullet trains being a safer and more efficient way to travel. The construction of bullet trains in the United States has been mentioned in the past, with President Barack Obama giving a speech back in 2009 supporting the development of bullet trains in America (Whitehouse). Texas Central, a…

not begin to democratize. Democracy is defined as a type of government that is run by the people, for the people. Through the writing of Sikkink and Pion-Berlin, I am going to explain the importance of human rights and their positive effects on the speed of democratization. I believe that a state’s rate of democratization is influenced by many outside factors. Sikkink identifies these as transnational and international actors. The difference being that transnational is an interaction across…

Tennis is a sport where either two or four players hit a ball over a net using racquets. During play, tennis balls can reach speeds up to 263 km/h, but how do they do this (Nichols, 2016)? There are multiple factors to the speed of a tennis ball during play, including the strength of the hit, the racquet, the type and tension of the racquet strings and the location of the ball’s collision with the racquet (Allen, 2010). One of the most important factors, the location of the ball’s collision…

As a body which was set to oversee development of the railway system, the Railway Investigation Office had the main function of carrying out studies, applying the results gotten from the studies and testing out the materials. In 1913, it became known as the Research Institute before it was restructured in 1942 as the Railway Technical Research Institute. The standards of the railway in Japan had fallen behind those of other railways around the world by 1945 (Seojima 5). This realization prompted…