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While surfing the net the other day, we came across an article about jai-alai in China, written by Juan Pablos Sánchez Beltrán in the Spanish edition of the journal of the Confucius Institute, which is to be found at the University of Valencia. As the Confucius Institute website explains, this body is a network of public, non-profit centers promoting the knowledge of the culture and language of China throughout the world, with 26 headquarters in Spain and Latin America.  This institution was founded by hanban

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The game of jal alai has developed and became popular over time. Jal alia is rougher than football and faster than hockey. It was named for the festivals at which people played the game, and it is a very spirited game. The game started in Greece and moved to the Basque country in Spain. The Basques made many changes to the game. At first, players hit a hard ball with their hands. Then they developed a court. The court has three walls and a wall of mesh. The mesh protects people watching the game. The players experienced pain when they played with hard balls, so they made baskets so they could catch the balls with the baskets instead of their hands. Before the basket, catching the ball was like catching a baseball without a glove. It hurt! The game is played as singles or doubles and there are three ways to earn points: the opponent misses the ball or returns it after more than one bounce, the opponent does not return the ball to the front wall, or the opponent fails to catch the ball and throw it in one continuous motion. Jal alai has become popular in many countries, including France, Cuba, and Mexico. The Basques probably didn't think their game would produce world records someday. Jose Ramon Areito returned a ball at 188 miles per hour, and that made jal alai the fastest game in the world.

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the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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