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Though for most of history prior, China had been the main producer of swords (and pretty much everything else) Japan had managed to make a name for itself by innovating on Chinese designs. Several swordsmith guilds appeared throughout the Heian period and were very wealthy and influential. One of those guilds was started by a man named Sanjo Kokaji Munechika whose swords stood out above all others at the time. His sword, the Mikatsuki Munechika (or Crescent Moon Munechika) named because it…

Athletes don’t technically have to play to get paid, yet they earn so much money. Do athletes get overpaid? Many professional athletes get paid millions of dollars. Some people think that these athletes are paid too much. Others think that future issues are one reason they should get paid a lot of money. People who think they get paid too much thought others, for example, firefighters, soldiers, etc. don’t get paid enough for saving lives and risking theirs. Compared to those jobs athletes have…

The BCS football championship and the NCAA(national collegiate athletic association) men’s basketball championship had a 41.7 million viewers making tv networks millions. At the same time the student athletes playing suffer from poverty and can’t provide for themselves. Forcing many to have to take money from under the table or illegally.According to Shabazz Napier one of the nations leading basketball player says"I don 't feel student-athletes should get hundreds of thousands of dollars, but…

for and a lot of stress with it. Kids need a break and be able to take a breath. Kids shouldn’t have tests every day. Then they just stress way too much because the teachers give them a test every week. Kids need to be able to focus in school and not just worry about every test that is coming up. We should be able to focus in school and not have so much stress. Also we need to be able to have fun out of school not always stressing about tests. Kids need to be able…

Change. It can be both good and bad. During the new year people tend to make new year's resolutions and try to accomplish them. Most fall short and end up forgetting all about their resolutions. But with a little hard work and effort you can accomplish anything. Even if you don't have time in your day, at least take five minutes to do something. That is what I am going to do. Not for other people but for myself. Get all classwork done. One of my resolutions is to get all my classwork done, and…

Rodriguez played for a team that you either hate or love or hate— the Yankees. In 2009 he helped led them to his first and only World Series Championship. While Alex Rodriguez is not the leader of career home runs, he is close, as he is in forth all time, and still is playing. Most likely he will not catch him as the career leader with an asterisk next to it. Even though his achievements are not quite as amazing his case is a bigger than Barry Bonds because of the era he is living in. Camera are…

college, have a good high paying job that one most enjoys doing, and having a bit of self/family leisure time to get away from the hard work at the job to lower stress. Everyone in the United States needs to have an education to do just about anything: drive, read, payments, etc. To live the American Dream, it is very crucial to have some kind of education that would lead to having a job to make money and to save that money to do whatever someone wants to do with the money. But before any of…

a great learning experience. It taught all members of the class how to actually make trades, and it identified the risk and rewards that correlate with these trades. Throughout this simulation each member of the class was given $1,000,000 to invest in whatever stocks they wanted to. The Stock Track simulation stretched from September 1st through November 13th to see how much money each member of the class could make in the stock market. Each member also used various strategies to try to gain an…

on top of that, they get payed a lot too. From NBA superstars like Lebron James to NFL superstars like Peyton Manning, they are idolized by many. People pay lots of money to watch them and spend lots of their time watching them as well. The question is -- are they paid and idolized too much? The answer is no, they are not. They are important to American culture, they worked extremely hard to get where they are, and they are role models for today's youth. People live stressful lives, and…

Canadian health care system. We came to know the various crisis that prevail in health care and the key areas we need to focus on to improve the health sector to make Canadian health care system best among the other nations. One of the main challenges Canadian nation faces is the aging population. Canadian health care system is not that much efficient to take care of this population and most of them are affected with one or more chronic illness. The diversity of caregiver’s lags behind the…