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- 221: Dance Education
- ... keep up with, and expensive. In my search for the ultimate exercise experience I have done weight lifting, stair stepping, bicycling, running, swimming, step aerobics, high and low impact aerobics, water aerobics, yoga and team sports. To meet people and make friends I've tried night clubs, gyms and self-help books. Then I found dance. The experience of dancing with a woman at the end of my arm is like ... so wonderful, why am I still single. New York. Viking. 1988. Paulson, Pamela. "New work in dance education." Arts Education Policy Review. September- October 1993: v95 n1 p30(6). Swift, E.M. "Calling Arthur Murry." Sports Illustrated. April 24, 1995: v82 n16 p72(1). Stinson, Mary W. "Voices from schools." Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. May-June 1993: p52-56. Terry. Dance in America. op. cit. p236 Walsh, Catherine. "Perspectives. (need to teach manners and social skills to children)(column)." America. May 11, 1996: v174 n16 p5(1). Welch, Pamela D., and Harold A. Lerch. History of American physical education and sports. Illinois: Thomas. 1981. Updike, John. "It takes two." Vouge. September 1995: v185 n9 p192(2). Yoder, Linda J. "Cooperative learning and dance education." Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. May-June 1993: p47- ...
- 222: Black Female Bodybuilders
- ... old wounds in the collective body regarding skin color. "Bodybuilders are perhaps the most unprejudiced people I know," Wood-Hoyte remarked. "They're really more interested in judging you on your achievements." According to veteran sports writer and photographer Reg Bradford, the judging in the major competitions has been, for the most part, color-blind.29 The same is not true, however, of the media coverage of the sport. On the ... never been featured by herself on a cover of the top bodybuilding magazines.30 VI. Black women are more naturally inclined to be muscular, one of the black Olympia contestants would later reiterate. I remember sports commentator and oddsmaker Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder catching hell for some similar comments years ago31 and while I contemplate the thin line between a compliment and a racist remark, I nod in polite agreement, for ... her first competition. Like these and many of the other black female competitors, Heather Foster also entered her first competition on a lark, with no specific training (although she was a competitive athlete in other sports), and won. "You are an artist creating a sculpture," says Foster. "You put on muscle like clay. You never get it right - there's always something you want to improve or erase. I never ...
- 223: Gender Role Socialization
- ... unacceptable, but at the time, I felt strongly about being a part of the team. I endured a tremendous amount of stress over this issue because I was the only girl on an all boys sports league. I was made made fun of, ridiculed, and generally harassed for the entire season. My conscious decision to play sports and not stay home and play with dolls cost me a great deal of stress. Those were some simple but significant examples of gender socialization that I can recall from when I was young. Still ... to this day you see moms and dads treating their kids differently because of their gender, but I don’t think it is as bad as it use to be. You see more girls playing sports, dressing like the other sex and educating themselves to be as successful as the men seem to be. As for boys, you see them having dolls, sharing more, joining in on the house cleaning, ...
- 224: Anxiety
- ... common ways people deal with anxiety. Doctors say these habits are fine, as long as they don’t effect anyone else. There are certain ways to enjoy anxiety as well. There are a lot of sports out there that deal directly with fear and anxiety, such as bull fighting, race car driving, and mountaineering. In fact, most sports, whether hockey or ping-pong, do deal with anxiety. Whether actively participating, or watching, sports can be a good outlet for your fears and emotions. One of the largest sources of anxiety in America comes from sexual worries. Some people wonder whether the opposite sex will like them at ...
- 225: Home School
- ... the home school family every two weeks (Dahm, 1996). The most recent issue being dealt with by local school boards and state governments are the extent to which home schooled students can participate in school sports and other activities. The issues in how far public schools can open their doors to home schoolers include science labs, music classes, and extracurricular activities, but athletics get the most attention according to the Home School Legal Defense Fund (Brockett, 1995). That is because competitive sports are the one activity families can not easily duplicate as their children reach high school age. The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, after three state judges ruled against home schoolers being barred from playing on public ... year open door trial program (Brockett, 1995). A Pennsylvania federal court ruled the constitutional rights ofa 14 year old taught at home were not violated, when the Frazier school district refused to let him play sports because the district could not verify his grades and attendance. In a related situation the Governor of Florida vetoed legislation that would have opened extracurricular activities to home schoolers. He explained that no state ...
- 226: Vegetarianism
- ... they include, as well, in their education a thorough understanding of what their body will need to perform to it's full potential. There have been several world class athletes who have succeeded in their sports and done it on the vegetarian diet. Six time Ironman winner, Dave Scott, the baseball home run king, Hank Aaron, tennis star, Martina Navratilova and many other top performing athletes have all competed on a ... addition to high quality protein, vegetarian athletes must pay close attention to getting enough of two essential minerals, iron and zinc" (Winters, 1994 p.1) Some peak performance athletes suffer from a condition known as sports anemia. Although it is iron related, it is not a true deficiency. "Sports anemia is the body's inability to match the increased plasma volume that occurs at high levels of intense and prolonged training" (Thimian, 1997, p.3). This condition can be treated easily by taking ...
- 227: Oakland Community College
- ... times for offered courses. Some of these needs are addressed by OCC but need improvement or expansion and others need to be addressed. OCC can also improve marketing by continuous innovation. Few suggestions include encouraging sports activities for students, allowing students to review their teachers in timely manner, improving their courses to accommodate curricula which are pre-requisites for universities and advertising the same in local universities. Creating Customer Focus throughout ... campuses for a semester and observe the response of the market. Entrepreneurship Risk taking, innovation and proactive approach towards marketing is important to keep up with the needs of the market and increase profitability. Nowadays, sports has become part of life for majority of population, whether it is played at high school level or state level. Increasing sports activities and enabling students to compete amongst OCC branches will help lure students with such inclination. Ethics OCC can also attract students by increasing the mandated level of study for lecturers thereby proving the ...
- 228: Ordanance Specialists
- ... and include room and board supplements for ROTC scholarship recipients. The HOPE scholarship is not accepted at schools outside of the State of Georgia. Housing is provided on campus and there are a variety of sports including football and basketball. The Citadel is located in Charleston, South Carolina, an historic seaport town with about 80,414 people. Fees at the Citadel include many expenses such as lab fees, athletic fees, most ... Corps of Cadets. On rare occasions, exceptions may be made to these requirements. Financial aid is available and so are academic scholarships. The HOPE scholarship is not accepted. There is campus housing and a full sports program is available. Wentworth Academy and Junior College is located in Lexington, Missouri. Lexington is located along the banks of the Missouri River with a population of about 5,000. With many Antebellum homes scattered ... the GED. To be considered a full time student, all college students are required to carry a minimum of 12 semester hours. Housing is available on campus and the junior college offers a variety of sports and other activities. The HOPE scholarship is not accepted since Wentworth is not in Georgia. Works Cited Fine, Edith and MacVicar, Margaret. "Engineering," World Book Encyclopedia. 1993, Vol. 6, pp. 284-290. Lussier, Frances. " ...
- 229: The Motif Of War In A Separate
- ... He has to accept the guilt for Phineas' difficulties after his injury and must help him as a punishment for this deed he committed. In a way, Gene almost "becomes" Phineas when it comes to sports. "'I'm too busy for sports,' and he went into his incoherent groans and jumbles of words, and I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, 'Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me,' and I lost party of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: ...
- 230: A Separate Peace And A Real War
- ... reality. Finny sees his reality and Gene sees his own but together they are still very similar even though their ideas about reality are different. The chapter continues with Dr. Stanpole revealing to Gene that, "sports are finished" for Finny. This takes away Finny’s way to create his separate peace. Finny is not present for the beginning of the fall session at Devon and as a result Chapter Six begins ... Finny is not going to give up his reality without a fight. Finny finds out that Gene had signed up as an assistant to a team and informs Gene that "if I can’t play sports, you’re going to play them for me" (77). Gene doesn’t put up any argument to this idea because of his deep friendship with Finny. The fact that he has hurt Finny a lot ... s attempt to revitalize his separate peace takes place when he tells Gene, "You’re going to be the big star now." Gene is hesitant to take this on and goes on to explain that sports didn’t seem as important to him with the war on. Finny responds to this, "Have you swallowed all that war stuff. . . there isn’t any war." This is the point at which Gene ...
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