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“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.”                                                                               Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided” speech, 1858   The excerpt was written in response to the

Which of the following types of plyometric drills is generally considered to be the MOST intense?

Testosterone is a steroid hormone.

Which of the following should be evaluated FIRST when designing a training program for a 68-year-old competitive female tennis player?

Which of the following is a possible result of stride frequency increasing?

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Suppose you have 48 cards which is obtained from a deck of 52 by removing all the aces. So you have a new deck with no aces, which has 12 ranks with 4 suites for each rank, which is a total of 48 cards. Suppose now that you draw 5 cards out of this 48-card deck. What is the probability of drawing 2 cards of the same rank, and 3 other arbitrary cards which are of a different rank from each other and a different rank from the two cards. 

“Much of the national harmony had rested upon the existence of a kind of balance between the northern and southern parts of the United States. The decision to fight the [Mexican-American War] had disturbed this balance, and the acquisition of a new empire which each section desired to dominate endangered the balance further. Thus, the events which marked the culmination of six decades of exhilarating national growth at the same time marked the beginning of sectional strife which for a quarter century would subject American nationalism to its severest testing.” -David M. Potter, historian, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, published in 1976   The “acquisition of a new empire” referenced in the excerpt most directly fostered sectional division through the:

How soon would you expect to first see significant improvements in vertical jump height from a plyometric program?

The predominant energy system used during a training session depends primarily on the