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Ryun ’ s 1500-meter world record, run in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the US vs. British Commonwealth meet in July 1967, was one of Ryun ’ s greatest running performances.
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In 1966, at age nineteen, Ryun set world records in the mile and the half-mile runs, and received Sports Illustrated magazine's " Sportsman of the Year " award, as well as the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete, the ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year, and was voted Track & Field News ' Athlete of the Year as the world ’ s best track & field athlete.
With a last 440 yards of 53. 9 and a last 880 yards of 1: 51. 3, Cordner Nelson of Track and Field News called it “ the mightiest finishing drive ever seen ,” and said of Ryun ’ s performance, “ This was most certainly his greatest race .”
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Bayi set a new world record of 3 min 32. 16 s, ratified by the IAAF as 3: 32. 2, and Walker went under the old world record set by Jim Ryun as well.
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Years prior to his political career, Ryun had an athletic career that saw him become a world-class runner and the last American to hold the world record in the mile run.
In 1967 Ryun ran a world record in the indoor half mile ( 1: 48. 3 ) and outdoors lowered his world-record time in the mile from 3: 51. 3 to 3: 51. 1, a record that stood for almost eight years.
* July 17 – American runner Jim Ryun sets a new world record for the mile at 3: 51. 3
Ryun and record
Track and Field News reported that “ after 220 yards of dawdling, a record seemed out of the question .” However, after 440 yards, which Ryun, in third, passed in 60. 9 seconds, Kip Keino took the lead and ran the next lap in 56 seconds ( the fastest second lap ever run at the time ).
Ryun pulled away to finish in 3: 33. 1, a record that stood for seven years.
In 1964, America's Jim Ryun became the first high school runner to break four minutes for the mile, running 3: 59. 0 as a junior and a then-American record 3: 55. 3 as a senior in 1965.
In 1965 at Balboa Stadium, high-schooler Jim Ryun from Kansas beat world-record holder and reigning Olympic champion Peter Snell from New Zealand in a mile race in 3: 55. 3, an American high school record that stood for 42 years.
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Ironically, Ryun did all of this before he was permitted to run for the school he attended, University of Kansas, since NCAA rules at the time did not allow freshmen to compete in NCAA competition.
♦ U. S. Congress: Republicans continued to hold all four Congressional seats: Jerry Moran won the 1st district after Pat Roberts vacated the seat to run for the U. S. Senate, Jim Ryun won the 2nd district, Vince Snowbarger won the 3rd district after Jan Meyers decided not to run for re-election, and Todd Tiahrt was re-elected in the 4th District.
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* 1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
The Los Angeles Times gave it a mixed review: " Ryun Yu plays Hirabayashi ... but even his fine-grained tour de force doesn't negate the suspicion that another structure, another style might make this material more exciting.
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James Ronald (" Jim ") Ryun ( born April 29, 1947 ) is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas.
In the 2006 election, Ryun was defeated by Democratic challenger Nancy Boyda.
* In 1964 Ryun became the first high school runner to break four minutes for the mile, running 3: 59. 0 as a junior at East High School in Wichita, Kansas.
In NCAA competition Ryun was the 1967 NCAA outdoor mile champion.
Today, over 40 years after he set them, Ryun still holds the American junior ( 19 and under ) records at 880 yd ( 1: 44. 9 ), 800 m ( 1: 44. 3 ), 1, 500 m ( 3: 36. 1 ), and two miles ( 8: 25. 1 ).
Ryun participated in the 1964, 1968, and 1972 Summer Olympics, but the gold medal eluded him.
( Before the race Ryun had thought that a time of 3: 39 would be good enough to win in the high altitude of Mexico City.
" Ryun was attacked by some writers who believed he had let his nation down.
Although the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) acknowledged that a foul had occurred and tapes from a German television station clearly demonstrated that Ryun was tripped, U. S. appeals to have Ryun reinstated in the competition were denied by the IOC.
Ryun and 1967
Liquori first rose to fame when he became the third American high schooler to break the four-minute mile by running a 3: 59. 8 in 1967, three years after Jim Ryun first did it.
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The Dream Mile was a match race between Jim Ryun and Marty Liquori on May 16, 1971.
Ryun, who was known for his kick, was the favorite.
( His only loss at an NCAA championship was to Jim Ryun in the 1968 indoor race.
Dawn's Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi was written by Jeanne Sakata, directed by Jessica Kubzansky, and starred actor Ryun Yu as Gordon Hirabayashi and multiple other roles.
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One of the young men, Hong Ryun ( 홍륜 ) had relations with one of Gongmin's concubines, which led to Gongmin's anger.
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In 1964 Jim Ryun became the first high school runner to break four minutes for the mile, running 3: 59. 0 as a junior at Wichita High School East.
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The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".
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