shoot. For example many NBA players don’t jump to shoot free throws and have no knee movement what so ever. In this case however‚ Ray Allen is using majority of the joints in his body if not all‚ due to his very "unique" and "effective" 3 Point Shot which makes him one of the best 3 point shooters to ever live. Major Joints Involved To start off‚ the first joint used by Ray Allen in his famous jump shot is the talocrural region or what is most commonly known as the ankle joint. It consists of three
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The Martian Chronicles: A Look into Colonization on Mars Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles‚ a science fiction novel explores the lives of the people who are migrating and colonizing Mars in order to escape an atomically devastated Earth. The book is a collection of short stories that are inter-related‚ and they describe the lives and assimilation processes of a number of settlers that came from earth to the planet Mars. It narrates the difficulties that the settlers face in getting accustomed
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Soft Rains Will Come In Soft Rains‚ Ray Bradbury creates a story about life after people. Times in 2026 are described as a time where technology continues to operate after humanity has passed away. The author uses imagery and personification to develop his idea that technology had become excessive to the point it no longer requires human presence to operate. "In the living room the voice clock sang‚ tick-tock‚ seven o’ clock" (284). Ray Bradbury uses personification in this quote to suggest
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We have been reading a story by Ray Bradbury from the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun called A Sound of Thunder‚ it is a futuristic story about the consequences of time travel and how changing a small thing can result in a huge change somewhere down the timeline‚ the best way of describing this change is to imagine a single mouse‚ you kill the mouse then you stop the families of that mouse from being produced and so the families of those families‚ maybe millions of mice and for want of a
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Dream In American Literature‚ each story has a particular idea in which it is trying to portray. In literature‚ the theme in a story is what is trying to be expressed done through the actions of a particular character or story. Written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury‚ the short story known as “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains‚” depicts the idea that the house is more than just a “home” that a family lives in. The story goes through every detail in that goes into making a house a home whether it being
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Use of Taylorism in contemporary organistions Taylorism contributed in many areas of management in nowadays organisations. Four aspects are selected to present. Dividion labour. Taylor reduced the number of people shoveling at the Bethlehem steel works from 500 to 140. This work‚ and his studies on the handing of big iron‚ greatly contributed to the analysis of work design and gave rise to method study. Mass production methods in modern day factories This method could product the
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` Holt v. Hobbs Summarization: The case between petitioner Gregory Holt and responder Ray Hobbs who was the director of the Arkansas Department of Corrections circles around the idea of freedom of religion. Now‚ having the freedom to practice whatever religion that you would like does bring its advantages and its disadvantages as a citizen of the United States. In this case‚ Supreme Court Judges had to make a decision over the whole controversial topic
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She was a frail girl‚ who looked lost in the rain and the rain seemed to wash the blue color out of her eyes‚ her red lips and her yellow hair. Margot was her name. Margot the girl in “All Summer In A Day‚” by Ray Bradbury‚ wants to be excepted but does not know how. First she is different‚ second she does not know how to socialize. Margot is different‚ First because she looks different. The rain washed the happiness and color out of her. It stated that people think she is “an old
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The name Blu-ray is a combination of “Blue” for the color of laser that is used‚ and “ray” for “Optical ray”. The thrust for an advanced format of data storage on optical disc led to revolutionary introduction of BLU-RAY DISC. This advances in the race against its competitors DVD (Digital Video Disc) & AOD (Advanced Optical Disc) in that it has high storage capacity‚ advanced security and privacy features and the A/V high quality O/P (generally video) of the media files stored on it make’s
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Dynamic Character In the novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ qualifies as a dynamic character. A dynamic character is‚ by definition‚ a character that undergoes important changes throughout the course of the novel. Because he goes through a metamorphosis as he struggles through internal conflict during the novel‚ Guy Montag is a dynamic character. In the beginning‚ Montag is a very normal man relative to his society. He is a city fireman and burns books and houses without regret
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