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- 411: Tennis 2
- As we all know, America is a nation of sports enthusiasts. Most Americans participate is some kind of sporting event, either as a spectator or as a competitor. In the pantheon of great American sports, there is one that stands out. It has been called the great American pastime. Yes, that great sport known as tennis. Tennis requires a mastery of many skills to be able to play competitively, but ...
- 412: The Use Of Propaganda In The N
- ... to encourage good health and child birth among women. There were two things that constituted this: having women take on a nursing, house-wife role and for them to make time for activity, such as sports. However, it would not be easy to entice women to compromise on giving up what they considered to be a trim figure. Hitler needed to replace the traditional fit look for women with a more ... even granted an award to any German woman who gave birth to six or more children. SS troops were given instructions to marry blond-haired, blue-eyed women who had not yet received the Reich sports award. The family life campaign soon branched off to another important issue, education. For if Germany were to be flooded with Aryan children they had to get the "right" education and to be taught by ...
- 413: The 1920s: An Era of Transition and Tension
- The 1920s: An Era of Transition and Tension The 1920's was definitely an era of transition and tension. This era brings about images of fun and liberation, of sports heroes and flapper girls dancing the Charleston. In the Video, Professor Roderick Nash characterizes the 1920's as being a charismatic decade which were labeled as the "Lost Generation, Jazz Age, and the Roaring 20 ... society seemed to be changing rapidly, especially socially. Entertainment was just new and spectacular. People were flocking to the threatres, to see movie stars like, Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino were among the few. Sports industries were sky rocketing selling out during there events. To name a few events, baseball, boxing, and even our world record breakers were all new heights that the environment had grown into to. The era ...
- 414: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... been one of the hottest areas of improvement too. The rise in girls' and women's participation in athletics has been unimaginable, twenty-five years ago only one in every twenty-seven girls participated in sports, today one in every three girls participates. The whole world saw how much American women athletes could achieve during the last few Olympic Games, measured in their astonishing numbers of gold, silver, and bronze medals ... new trend that is some what different. Some issues that were thought to be scandalous and unthinkable were allowing women to go to college, women working outside the home, women voting, and women participating in sports. People just do not and probably never will understand that acceptance is the key. If you just accepted people for who they were and not what color, race, or sex they were but for who ...
- 415: Teen Drinking
- ... films. Jon McClain (Bruce Willis) is an alcoholic in the movie Die Hard and many teens idolize his macho status. Another pressure that adds to the chance of teens drinking is pressure to perform in sports. Many teens feel they have to be on top of their game whatever that game might be. Not everybody can be on top. When a teen loses or does not perform to meet his or ...
- 416: Discrimination Against Women
- ... schools often reinforce traditional, unequal stereotypes, particularly as these apply to employment and domestic and parenting responsibilities. Teachers may promote this type of gender-role stereotyping by discouraging female students from engaging in mathematics, sciences, sports and other so-called "male" areas of study or activity. They may believe that female students are better to study art subject. In the office, instead of being treated as equal co-workers, women are ...
- 417: Three Ways to End Racial Discrimination
- ... continued exposure to different minority groups they will grow accustom to them. Sam Houston High School has students from all walks of life. These students are in the same clubs and organizations, play the same sports, and are all equally competitive in the same classes. This proves that different races can co-exist in an environment with out one group feeling out of place or inferior. Let the Caucasian, African American ...
- 418: What Are Teens Supposed To Do?
- ... local schools to sponsor events during the weekends that the can go to get out of their homes and out of the malls. For example a high school gym could be used for an intermural sports facility on the weekends for competition between the teens. Last but not least would be for parents make sure that their teenagers feel they are welcome have friends over hang out and watch movies, play ...
- 419: The Different Ways of Raising Children
- ... in the United States have much more freedom. In Hong Kong, most of the parents do not allow their children to have too many outside activities. Even though these are some healthy activities like playing sports, camping and joining the school clubs, the parents do not want their children to spend too much time outside. In contrast, the children who raised in the United States can go outside more freely. In ...
- 420: The Battle of the Sexes
- ... strong points as do women but they are in different areas. Men tend to belong in the workforce as heavy laborers and women behind the desks, women can have children and men cannot, and mens sports tend to be more popular then womens. Most men are Physically built stronger then women. They have the ability to do more physically demanding jobs such as construction, movers, bouncers at bars,and many of ...
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