Drazen Petrovic was born in Sibenik on October 22‚ 1964‚ as the second child of Biserka‚ a librarian and and Jovan "Jole"‚ a police officer. He and his older brother Aleksandar „Aco“ grew up in a typical Croatian small town family and had a happy childhood. They enjoyed in many activities in their hometown of Sibenik. Following the footsteps of his brother‚ Dražen began to play basketball. However‚ his passion grew into a fanatical devotion. He liked to play basketball with his friends on the local
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Watergate: The affair began on June 17‚ 1972‚ when the local police arrested five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. The police found on the burglars a slush fund used by the committee for the re-election of the President Richard Nixon and listening devices. They look secrets agents more than burglars. As Washington is a federal district‚ the affair was charged to the F.B.I. Within hours after that‚ the F.B.I discovered a
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Let’s look at the difference between television broadcast and print news and the strength and weaknesses of each. Generally‚ television broadcast is the most public material that people of all ages can watch whenever they are available. That is why it is very effective material when you want to send a message to unspecified individuals. When television broadcast want to deliver something to someone‚ communicative skill and immersion is high because television broadcast can use audiovisual system
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The article “Mass Over Mass Media” is written by Steven Pinker. Pinker is a professor at Harvard University who teaches in the Psychology department and focuses on visual cognition which is the information interpreted visually by the brain‚ and psychology in language. Visual Cognition is the study of the brain that explains the way the brain interprets and understands foreign language and objects in a visual way. When the brain obtains information visually‚ it processes this information by translating
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A. Soldiers Bodies Sarah Wagner‚ “The Making and Unmaking of an Unknown Soldier‚” Social Studies of Science‚ 43(5): 631-656‚ 2013. The article describes the military identification technology in the 1990s and the decision to remove the remains from the Vietnam crypt of the Tomb of Unknowns and the subsequent work on the previously unidentified remains in previous wars. It argues that naming the dead soldiers and returning their remains personalize the ideals of sacrifice and honor embodied in the
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Inaccuracies of the Consumer Price Index(CPI) Aman Aggarwal Sept. 28‚ 1996 The Consumer Price Index is a measure of the prices of a fixed market basket of some 300 consumer goods and services purchased by a "typical" urban consumer. The 1982-1984 period serves as the base period so analysts can compare other year’s changes with this base period. The composition of the market basket is fixed in the base period and is assumed not to change from one period to another. The reason for the assumption
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Dictonary.com defines a female as: “Female [fee-mayl]- (n.): a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina‚ a uterus and ovaries‚ and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.” Mass media generates the picture perfect image of a woman. The “perfect” woman is a generalized fantasy derived from media and how society shaped the media. But what aspects exactly make a female a woman? The fashion
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Introduction There are distinct non-sequential file structure models in the computer system‚ generally‚ the file structure can be subdivided into two major types which are the random (hashed) file and the index file. This will compare the both types of file structure models and its advantages and disadvantages. The random (hashed) file It is quite useful of this type structuring system while the files are non-sequential that can be depicted as data storage spaces and which are subdivided into
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A sound body is the most splendid treasure a man can cherish. A sound body means that you are so splendidly strong and well that you can bear the roughest experiences without becoming ill. The body is a living thing to be put out in the air and the sunshine. The more roughly you treat your body‚ the stronger will it be. Physical harmony is an index and expression of a harmonious mind. If one wants to build up one’s mind‚ one must build up first the body. Man has a body as well as a mind. So intimate
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MIND MAP/BODY IMAGE It is part of human nature to have feelings about how we look. However‚ how we view our bodies whether negative or positive‚ is all influenced by society and the culture that surrounds us. As well‚ interpersonal relationships and the physical changes that can occur over a lifetime both positive and negative‚ influences body image. Body Image can significantly influence a person’s mental health (Medscape Psychiatry‚ 2010). According to the article by (Davison & McCabe
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