Final assignment: 2010/2011 | Persons with disability & Sport | Globalization of World politics | | | 07/06/2011 | | History of the minority group: persons with disability “Disability is any physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements‚ senses or activities. The term disability is conventionally used to refer to attributes that are severe enough to interfere with‚ or prevent‚ normal day-to-day activities.” There are over 600 million people in the world
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stroke. 1896-In 1896 the Olympic Games were held in Greece in the city of Athens. Swimming was included and there were four swimming contests held. They were: 100 m‚ 100 m for sailors‚ the 500 m and the 1200 m competitions. Hungary’s Alfred Hajos won the first gold medal in the history of swimming in the 100 m freestyle and the 1200 m race. Paul Neumann from Austria won the 500 m event. A Greek sailor named Ioannis Malokinis won the 100 m for sailors. 1900-In 1900 the Olympic Games were held in Paris
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war broke Hitler was in Munich at that time‚ which make him sign up and fight throughout the war. He entered politics in Munich in 1919. Hitler views were: Anti-Semitism and racial supremacy Lebensraum and Versailles Anti-democracy Führrprinzip –Nazi party and Germany to be dominated by the one powerful leader‚ the führer. Hermann Göring First world war fighter pilot hero. He became a close ally of Hitler in 1922. He played an important part in the Munich putsch in 1923 and became
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The company constructed a plant in Munich and built engines for military aircraft there until 1918. BMW established plants over Germany that eventually underwent rapid expansion for the volume production of aircraft engines. In 1939‚ the BMW company took over Brandenburgische Motorenwerke‚ based in Berlin‚ Germany. After WWII‚ the Munich plant had many serious damages from the air raids. In 1945‚ the US military government issued orders that the plant in Munich had to be dismantled. This caused
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“To what extent did PLO action from 1968 represent a shift in terrorist activity?” Modern day‚ international terrorism origins arguably dates back to the events on July 22nd 1968 in which the terrorist group the PLO changed the foundations of terrorism and caused a considerable shift in a modern terrorist’s approach. The year 1968 marked a radical shift in how terrorists operated and their objectives as a group‚ when a commercial air flight was hijacked by the PLO from Rome to Tel Aviv. This
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Commonwealth Games since badminton was introduced in 1966‚ with a Gold Medal for Mixed Doubles in 1982 to Mike Scandolera and Audrey Tuckey and more recently the 1994 Ladies Singles Gold Medal to Lisa Campbell. * Badminton was included at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. * Organized badminton caters for players from juniors under 10 years to active veterans of 70-plus and at varying
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Such a presentation of violence is very much different to what viewers are used to when watching Hollywood blockbusters. It is very realistic and naturalistic. A good point of comparison is the film Munich directed by Steven Spielberg‚ which was inspired by the events at the Munich Olympics in 1972 when the Israeli sportsmen were kidnapped and assassinated by terrorists. In that film viewers do not see the assassinations but are informed about them. This difference can be explained by the wish of
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In the after effects of the Black September’s annihilation of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich games‚ Prime Minister Golda Meir sanctions a black box operation to hunt down and kill all those thought and known to be involved. A team of five men was chosen. These five men gather in Switzerland and are led by Avner‚ former bodyguard to the Prime Minister‚ who’s father was a war hero and who’s wife is pregnant. The team was considered expendable‚ but relying on paid informants‚ they track down and
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BADMINTON Origins of the Game The sport of badminton has its origins in ancient civilizations in Europe and Asia. The ancient game known as battledore (bat or paddle) and shuttlecock probably originated more than 2000 years ago. In the 1600s Battledore and Shuttlecock was an upper class pastime in England and many European countries. Battledore and Shuttlecock was simply two people hitting a shuttlecock backwards and forwards with a simple bat as many times as they could without allowing it to
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Marie-Elena John (born 1963) is a Caribbean writer whose first novel‚ Unburnable‚ was published in 2006. She was born and raised in Antigua and is a former development specialist of the African Development Foundation‚ the World Council of Churches’ Program to Combat Racism‚ and Global Rights (formerly the International Human Rights Law Group)‚ where she worked in support of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is known especially for her work in the United
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