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Value of sports participation on youth development
Value of sports participation on youth development
Value of sports participation on youth development
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The current debate in this article is that “throwing like a girl” is not a valid argument as to why someone is not as athletically inclined as others. The article “Throw like a girl? No, he or she just hasn't been taught,” makes a good point in discussing why “throwing like a girl” is a common reaction when skilled people watch those who are not so skilled throw a baseball, football, etc. However, “throwing like a girl” is not something that is the throwers fault. To support this, Leah Robinson, associate professor at the U-M School of Kinesiology, developed a research group that began a movement to increase physical activity and motor skill competence among children. CHAMP, Children's Health Activity Motor Program, is what researchers used
At the Roundhouse theatre La boite in 2012 the play boy girl wall was performed by one man, Lucas Stibbard. The play is essentially a love story unlike what Stibbard says at the very beginning. The story is about a star-gazing boy, Thom, and a matchmaking wall, as well as Alethea the girl with the magpie after her. Along with a range of other characters, those three make up the title. This play’s didactic purpose to the audience is to make the audience overcome their fear. Stibbard effectively transmits this to the audience through conventions Brecht Theatre, such as V-effekt, Spass, Gest and multimedia.
While reading the story, “I Ain’t No Good Girl” by Sharon Flake, I felt like the characters did not really develop the plot as I would have anticipated. The story “I Aint No Good Girl” is primarily about a girl who is madly in love with a guy named Raheem that she is completely blind sighted about the fact that he is abusing, threatening, and gets cheated on. But what aggravates me the most is that even after all that she constantly takes him back.
Do you ever wonder why most girls are insecure? In “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” by Sharon Flake it perfectly explains why girls are insecure at a young age. This short story is about a teenage girl who gets abused by her boyfriend Raheem. Her story begins with her wanting to ride to school with Raheem. He tells her to “go to school without him cause he’s got things to do.” In reply she snaps at him and he slaps her. She reluctantly agrees to go to school without him. As the school bus is driving away, she sees Raheem kissing another girl. Flake shows how teenage girls are taught to be insecure by using realistic problems to show her character’s struggle.
There has always been this conception that boys are stronger than girls, boys are better at sports, and boys are overall better at achieving certain physical tasks. Can these statements in fact be true? From the very start of a young girl’s life, they are taught to behave differently from men, and to not compare their abilities to those of a man. In her essay, “Throwing Like a Girl”, Iris Marion Young argues that women are trained into fragility and self-consciousness because they are objectified. “The fact that the woman lives her body as object as well as subject. The source of this is that patriarchal society defines woman as object, as a mere body, and that in sexist society women are in fact frequently regarded by others as objects and
Eric Fischl’s Tumbling Woman created quite a stir when it was put on display at the Rockefeller Center, just one year after the events of September 11, 2001. After being displayed, it was quickly removed. Many thought the sculpture was too graphic to be displayed. Even though the statue brought back painful memories for many, the Tumbling Woman should not have caused controversy because it recreated an important event in every Americans’ life and captured the emotions of the individuals trying to escape from the Twin Towers. The sculpture allows us to rethink and re-experience the events of 9/11, as well as remember the event as not just a tragic event that killed over 3,000 people, but also as an event of human tragedy. Why did the Tumbling
On April 12, 2014 at 7:30 pm, I gratefully attended the musical Guys and Dolls at Ouachita Baptist University's auditorium. Directed by Daniel Inouye, this wonderful play is based on the story and characters of Damon Runyan. These stories which were written in the 1920s and 1930s, involved gangsters, gamblers, and other characters from the New York underworld. The premiere of Guys and Dolls on Broadway was in 1950 where it ran 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical had many Broadway revivals and was even turned into a film in 1955.
Broer was the first to call attention to the similarity of movement patterns used in seemingly dissimilar activities such as the baseball pitch, the badminton clear, and the tennis serve. Objective evidence of such similarities between throwing and striking activities within each of the three major upper-extremity patterns; overarm, sidearm and underarm. The representative activities from these categories across throwing patterns also showed great similarity in the muscular action of the lower extremity. Atwater distinguished between the overarm and sidearm throwing patterns in terms of the direction in which the trunk laterally flexed. When lateral flexion occurred away from the throwing arm, and overarm pattern was used; lateral flexion toward the throwing arm indicated a sidearm pattern. The underarm patter is distinguished by motion predominantly in a sagittal plane with the hand below the waist. Each pattern involves a preparatory movement referred to as a backswing, or windup, followed by the establishment of a base of support prior to the initiation of the force phase and ending in the follow-through. The base of support in the direction of the force application; forward and backward is a distinguishing feature of skill level. It has been well documented that more highly skilled individuals have longer strides. Once the base has been established, the more proximal segments begin the force application phase while the more distal segments complete the backswing.
In 1970 only 1 in 27 girls participated in high school sports, today that ratio is 1 in 3. Sports are a very important part of the American society. Within sports heroes are made, goals are set and dreams are lived. The media makes all these things possible by creating publicity for the rising stars of today. Within society today, the media has downplayed the role of the woman within sports. When the American people think of women in sports, they think of ice skating, field hockey and diving. People don’t recognize that women have the potential to play any sport that a Man can play, with equal skill, if not better.
Jeanne Wakatuski is a young girl who had to endure a rough childhood. She thought herself American, with a Japanese descent. However, with WWII and the internment camps, Jeanne struggled to in understanding who she really was. It started with Manzanar, at first she knew herself as a Japanese American. Living in Manzanar gave her a new perspective, “It (Manzanar) gradually filled me with shame for being a person, guilty of something enormous enough to deserve that kind of treatment” (Houston and Houston 161). Jeanne faced the problem of being someone who was not wanted or liked in the American society. A good section that shows the discrimination at the time was when Jeanne tried to join the Girl Scouts, which is on page 144. She was turned
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Nevertheless, parents still think that their daughters are “fragile” and must be treated with care. The article quotes the Journal of Pediatric Psychology that “Girls may be less likely than boys to try challenging physical activities which are important for developing new skills.” Due to this psychological maldevelopment of having a bold component, they become more meek and submissive, left only to depend on the more brave male, who has been taught to always be brave and never have apprehension of
One of the assumptions Statsky makes is that, “One readily understandable danger of overly competitive sports is that they entice children into physical actions that are bad for growing bodies” (627). This statement rests on the assumption that children would not perform any “physical actions that are bad for growing bodies” (Statsky 627) without organized competitive sports. This is simply untrue. Children jump from swings, climb trees, skateboard, “pop wheelies” and otherwise put themselves in physical peril with alarming regularity. Children’s free and unorganized play often results in broken bones and stitches, even for the most timid children.
The world knows Leighton Meester mostly as the rich, love-crazed and often manipulative Blair from the CW’s hit show, Gossip Girl. It looks like the world has to add songstress to her identity. Her debut album Heartstrings proves that acting is not her only talent. In fact, acting is not her best talent by a long shot. It may be a surprise to find that she’s not all that new to music. Leighton has featured on many pop favorites, most notably, “Good Girls Go Bad” by Cobra Starship. She has also sung on many of the soundtracks for her various television and film features. But with her new album, Leighton shows that she is a feature artist no more.
I chose to write my report on the Always brand 2015 commercial ad. This ad was released for the 2015 Super Bowl. The intended audience for this commercial is young girls and women of all ages. Lauren Greenfield is well known photographer and artist. She wrote the script for this ad. She aimed to put the phrase “like a girl” to and end. This ad is intended to inspire girls and young woman to help their self esteem and, self-confidence throughout puberty.
“Physical activity is vital to the holistic development of young people, fostering their physical, social and emotional health” (Levesque). Sports affect a child's development in beneficial ways to encourage young athletes. Although starting sports at a young age can be harmful, it teaches children morals including responsibility, leadership, and determination. One third of the highest excelling students in high school participate in some type of sport. Of the children who are born into poverty, those who participate in sports have a higher chance of making it out and being successful in life. In America, one difficult problem is childhood obesity, playing sports can help alleviate obesity. Sports have an enormous impact on the youth of America, those who participate are going to be more developed and hard working individuals