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Author: Steven S Skiena Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 038722081X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 376
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There are many distinct pleasures associated with computer programming. Craftsmanship has its quiet rewards, the satisfaction that comes from building a useful object and making it work. Excitement arrives with the flash of insight that cracks a previously intractable problem. The spiritual quest for elegance can turn the hacker into an artist. There are pleasures in parsimony, in squeezing the last drop of performance out of clever algorithms and tight coding. The games, puzzles, and challenges of problems from international programming competitions are a great way to experience these pleasures while improving your algorithmic and coding skills. This book contains over 100 problems that have appeared in previous programming contests, along with discussions of the theory and ideas necessary to attack them. Instant online grading for all of these problems is available from two WWW robot judging sites. Combining this book with a judge gives an exciting new way to challenge and improve your programming skills. This book can be used for self-study, for teaching innovative courses in algorithms and programming, and in training for international competition. The problems in this book have been selected from over 1,000 programming problems at the Universidad de Valladolid online judge. The judge has ruled on well over one million submissions from 27,000 registered users around the world to date. We have taken only the best of the best, the most fun, exciting, and interesting problems available.
Author: Mukarram Khan Publisher: ISBN: 9781086781601 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
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A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BEAUTY PAGEANT will ultimately equip you with all the skills needed to be a pageant. A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BEAUTY PAGEANT will show you the proven, step-by-step system to mastering your performance and achieving everything you've ever wanted. Here is a Preview of What You Will Learn. · 1.How to master each area of competition· 2.Learn how to get in the right mindset to win· 3.Performance techniques that give you an edge· 4. How to create a first impression no one will forget· 5. How to choose the right attire for each competition· 6.Proper poise and how to carry yourself on stage· 7. The tough questions and how to answer them with ease.· 8. How to improve your public speaking skills· 9. The essential tool kit that every pageant must-have.· And much, much more! Pageantry can be learned, coached, practised, perfected, and WON.
Author: Steven S Skiena Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 038722081X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 376
Book Description
There are many distinct pleasures associated with computer programming. Craftsmanship has its quiet rewards, the satisfaction that comes from building a useful object and making it work. Excitement arrives with the flash of insight that cracks a previously intractable problem. The spiritual quest for elegance can turn the hacker into an artist. There are pleasures in parsimony, in squeezing the last drop of performance out of clever algorithms and tight coding. The games, puzzles, and challenges of problems from international programming competitions are a great way to experience these pleasures while improving your algorithmic and coding skills. This book contains over 100 problems that have appeared in previous programming contests, along with discussions of the theory and ideas necessary to attack them. Instant online grading for all of these problems is available from two WWW robot judging sites. Combining this book with a judge gives an exciting new way to challenge and improve your programming skills. This book can be used for self-study, for teaching innovative courses in algorithms and programming, and in training for international competition. The problems in this book have been selected from over 1,000 programming problems at the Universidad de Valladolid online judge. The judge has ruled on well over one million submissions from 27,000 registered users around the world to date. We have taken only the best of the best, the most fun, exciting, and interesting problems available.
Author: Hilary Levey Friedman Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 080708364X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.
Author: Anna Stanley Publisher: ISBN: 9780962197239 Category : Languages : en Pages : 442
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Anna Stanley, a pageant director (since 1983) and the author of The Crowning Touch: Preparing for Beauty Pageant Competition (1989), also wrote the first edition of Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide (1989). In the '90s, this first edition was used in the production of The Secret World of... series for The Learning Channel. Twenty-five years later, Anna has written Producing Beauty Pageants: A Director's Guide, 2nd Edition. Nine years in the making, not only does it feature entirely NEW pageant trade information, Producing Beauty Pageants has also been expanded into a series. The Producing Beauty Pageants series includes: A Director's Guide, 2nd Ed. Creating a Synergized National Pageant System Brokering a Pageant through Barter Contestant Handbook Sponsorship Fee Optionals Open Call Directing a Fundraiser Pageant A Guide to Pageant Terminology (FREE e-book) If you want the convenience of interactive hyperlinks to the references in this book, you will need to purchase the e-book version of the same title.
Author: Maryanne Fisher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199376379 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 857
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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition is one of the first scholarly volumes to focus specifically on competition and the competitive forces between women. Chapters provide readers with a definitive view of the current state of research, and collectively address the adaptive and socio-cultural foundations of women's competitive behavior, motivations, and cognitions.
Author: X. J. Kennedy Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 031260159X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 1058
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With its process-oriented rhetoric, provocative thematic reader, up-to-date research manual, and comprehensive handbook, The Bedford Guide for College Writers gives your students the tools they need to succeed as writers -- all in one book. Each of the book's four main components has been carefully developed to provide an engaging, well-coordinated guide for student writers. This edition's new, more open design and sharper focus on active learning do even more to help students develop transferable skills. The Bedford Guide for College Writers prepares students to be the confident, resourceful, and independent writers they will need to be.
Author: Sarah Banet-Weiser Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520922603 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual. She focuses on the Miss America pageant in particular, considering its claim to be an accurate representation of the diversity of contemporary American women. Exploring the cultural constructions and legitimations that go on during the long process of the pageant, Banet-Weiser depicts the beauty pageant stage as a place where concerns about national identity, cultural hopes and desires, and anxieties about race and gender are crystallized and condensed. The beauty pageant, she convincingly demonstrates, is a profoundly political arena deserving of serious study. Drawing on cultural criticism, ethnographic research, and interviews with pageant participants and officials, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World illustrates how contestants invent and reinvent themselves while articulating the female body as a national body. Banet-Weiser finds that most pageants are characterized by the ambivalence of contemporary "liberal" feminism, which encourages individual achievement, self-determination, and civic responsibility, while simultaneously promoting very conventional notions of beauty. The book explores the many different aspects of the Miss America pageant, including the swimsuit, the interview, and the talent competitions. It also takes a closer look at some extraordinary Miss Americas, such as Bess Myerson, the first Jewish Miss America; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America; and Heather Whitestone, the first Miss America with a disability.
Author: Renee Ruby Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557097193 Category : Languages : en Pages : 50
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Successful pageant director and entrepreneur shares her experience from local, state and national level productions to help new pageant directors succeed. Lots of tips and tricks and plenty of space to take notes as you go along and lots of sample documents.
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