General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience that they should join the Equestrian Team. Introduction Attention Getter: There are so many activities you can participate in that relieve stress. Imagine a cathartic stress relieving sport where sport equipment is over 1,000 pounds with a mind of its own and your goal is to work as a team to fly over several obstacles. Well that is horseback riding. Speaker Credibility: I, myself, have been riding horses most
Critical Review Equestrian Eventing: The Olympics Most Dangerous Sport? Cooke, Sonia. "Equestrian Eventing: The Olympics’ Most Dangerous Sport? | TIME.Com". TIME.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 4 May 2016. Topic Whilst most riders completely disregard the inherent dangers of Eventing, many others riders and people outside of the equine world are beginning to question whether Eventing truly is the most dangerous still being competed at the Olympics. Content This article is about Equine Eventing being classed as the
For the title of the thesis - Event, Eventing, Eventuality – I have borrowed terms coined by Gadamer and Heidegger. Event refers to Gadamer’s argument that “all encounters with the language of art are an encounter with an unfinished event.” Accordingly, a work of art can never exhaust its subject-matter. Here Event refers to the artworks and the issues it raises. Eventing is a term Heidegger gave to the process by which an artwork evokes in viewers layers of connotations and implications, which
Olympics Ancient Greeks have a long history of glorifying physical fitness and that is the assumption behind the creation of Olympic games. For ancient Greeks sports were not simply just for entertaiment but it actually played a vital role in declaring war and/or peace among one another. In the very begginingg there were very few sports that were included in the olympics. With time olympic games have now transformed into an international event with hundreds of sports that both men and women take
about and enjoying your horse. The cross country course provides a motivating factor for eventers like no other. The wheat fields have a meditation-like feel with the quiet rustling of the plants in the soft wind. The cross-country course at our eventing barn is the epicenter of adrenaline junkies and daredevils alike, but hacking in the deep wooded track can be a relaxing, motivating ride for both my horse and I. To access the course, we cross a large open field, dropping down into
Training horses is definitely a challenging job and requires a lot of time and patience to work at a horse’s pace and level. Some trainers are very good at what they do and build a partnership with the horse. They’re also trainers who use cruel Unnecessary methods to speed up the training for money, even if these methods could do long term damage mentally or physically to the horse. There are plenty of different effective ways of training without using any of these inhumane practices. Not only do
The Math Behind Horse Jumping Picture 1: Rider with horse going over a fence Source:https://www.an-eventful-life.com.au/eventing-news/other-international-events/2014-eventing-year -review-–-december Horse jumping is a competitive sport that requires mental and physical skill. If a rider or horse’s timing is off, the results can be dangerous. The math behind this sport requires knowledge of how a horse moves, as well as how the movement and momentum of the horse are affected by physics and math.
She has been involved with horses all her life and has experience in eventing, fox hunting, and polo. Appraising is not her full time job as she is also a trainer and breeder. One of the most interesting cases she has worked was a polo pony incident in 2009 where several of the ponies died on the field after receiving an overdose
There’s nothing that irritates me more than when someone tells me that riding horses is not a sport. I can’t express how heated I get when someone tells me that the horse does all the work, or that humans only influence horses to do things. Horses have minds of their own. You can’t just tell a horse to jump and expect it to do so, you have to sit in the saddle and lead it to complete the task. A sport is defined as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical strength, often of a competitive
competitions with riding involved include: Dressage, Show Jumping, Cross Country, Polo, Hunter Seat, Saddle Seat, and Equestrian Vaulting. Also, a three-day event that contains Dressage, Show Jumping, and Cross Country will commonly get referenced as Eventing. Some Western competitions include: Western Pleasure, Barrel Racing, Cutting, Reining, and Trail Class. Cowboys and cowgirls show their skills in different events called a rodeo. The riders that compete in both disciplines need good skill in order
depending on their mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas and diction but they are not simple poems. In the poem "Desert Places" the speaker is a man who is traveling through the countryside on a beautiful winter eventing. He is completely surrounded with feelings of loneliness. The speaker views a snow covered field as a deserted place. "A blanker whiteness of benighted snow/ With no expression, nothing to express". Whiteness and blankness are two key ideas in
working as a cavalry horse, to endurance, to general riding. Morgans have developed to become a well-muscled horse with thick necks, strong hooves, and a good work ethic. Today, most Morgans are used for endurance, showing, trail riding, dressage, eventing, and as an all-around riding horse. In conclusion, Morgans became a very versatile horse that descended from a capable stallion, Figure. Figure produced a breed that was small but mighty, and could be used for almost any
What makes a great manager? “Despite differences in their personal attributes, successful managers all excel in making, honoring, and remaking of commitments” (Sull, 2005). Commitments take many forms from capital investments to personal decisions to public statements. A mangers commitment defines what a business can and cannot do as well as the businesse’s strengths and weaknesses (Sull, 2005). However, while all good managers should be able to make, honor, and remake commitments the type of
How do equine-based sports affect equestrians with body image issues? Equine sports include but are not limited to the following disciplines: show jumping, dressage, mounted games, tent pegging, western, hunter, eventing, equitation, showing and racing. As with all athletes, body image and weight issues are problems that come with being a competing sportsman or sportswoman. This research is important in providing relevant information about equine sports and the competitors suffering from unhealthy
Horses are a majestic creature that have been used since the dawn of time developing from wild animals, to farm workers, to warriors on the battlefield, to carriage pullers, show horses, and pets. Horses have had many opportunities and the ability to work alongside people playing a vital role in many different tasks they have been assigned to. Horses are willing, courageous, and hardy workers as they allow humans to ride and work with them. Though, have you ever seen a horse do something unnatural
The effects of concentrated ownership in the Canadian newspaper industry Newspapers are rooted together with the public sphere, globalization, and mass media. The newspaper and the public sphere give citizens an opportunity to examine matters of public concern and global matters. Does this mean that those involved with the Canadian newspaper industry and ownership ultimately wield the power in Canadian society by exercising this influence to mold the Canadian opinion of readers (Wagenberg & Soderlund
Problem: Left-sided holodiastolic, murmur with point of maximal intensity over the left base. The murmur is decrescendo shaped. Differential diagnoses: The most likely diagnosis for the cardiac murmur in this horse is aortic insufficiency, as a result of degenerative changes to the aortic valve. In aortic insufficiency, the murmur heard is due to regurgitation through the defective aortic valve. Aortic insufficiency presents clinically with a holodiastolic decrescendo murmur, with maximal intensity
Question 1 1.1 (5 marks) Weddings are classified as personal or life cycle events. They celebrate the union of a couple in a ceremony mostly including family and close friends. According to dictionary.com (Anon., 2014) a wedding can be defined as the act or ceremony of marrying, marriage or nuptials. Weddings are usually black tie events and call for smart and formal dress code. Preparing a wedding will take a lot of research (Phase1 of the event management process). After communicating with the