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1. The ball is thrown so that the other player can catch it with one hand. If the throw is good and the other player drops or misses the ball, an ornament or a piece of silver or a belt from his or her costume is

also a sport enjoyed by many people all over the world. To get involved in

     The sport of volleyball was created by a man named William G. Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895. Morgan was a physical education teacher at the YMCA and called it "mintonette". It was an indoor or outdoor pastime that had characteristics of both handball and tennis. The first rules were written down by Morgan himself. He wrote that the game called for a 6 foot 6 inch net and a court of 25x50 feet. A match composed of 9 innings and 3 serves for each team in each inning. In case of a serving error they got a second chance just like in tennis. If the ball it the net

The ball game was played “for many reasons, including entertainment and competition. Because the losers were frequently sacrificed, ball games also served as a way to reenact wars with enemy peoples” (Foster, 2002, p.195). To play, the ball is kept in the air by hitting it with the hips, thighs or upper arms and bouncing it of the side walls. The use of the hands or feet was forbidden. The solid rubber ball was extremely hard and causes serious injuries. The ball game “participants wore padding on their forearms and knees as protection against the hard ball and even harder masonry surfaces of the ball courts” (Foster, 2002, p.195). To protect ribs and the torso players would wear a U-shaped belt or yoke. They were made out of leather or wicker. Hachas “were axlike stone implements shaped like animal, bird, or human heads and worn inserted in the belt” (Foster, 2002, p.195). It’s also said that “the motions of the ball were thought to parallel the motions of the sun, moon, and Venus as they rose through the sky and sank in the Underworld” (Foster, 2002, p.195). There’s a spiritual story associated with the ball game about the Hero Twins from the Popol

More than 270 million people play soccer around the world soccer is one of the most popular sports in Europe and America it is said that the early growth in England. It is a sport that has two teams and eleven people on each team kicking a sphere ball. The goal keeper is the only player to touch the ball with his hand or arm in the penalty area if a player touch's it with his hand in the penalty area it’s a indirect free kick but if it is a tackle inside the box it’s a penalty and if you tackle outside the box it is a normal free kick which lots of people score. Soccer has been played for many years now.

Sports, especially ones that involve a ball, are modern America’s favorite pastimes. Well, this was also true for the Mesoamerican people of the ninth century. While the event does not have a specific name, it is referred to as the Mesoamerican ballgame. Like basketball, this game was played on a long, rectangular court (Stokstad 405). The ball itself is said to be pretty heavy and rubber. Unlike basketball, the players wore protective gear because the actual sport of the game was to use everything but your hands to hit the ball. The object was to make it into the protruding stone goal, in which the ball would enter horizontally and not longitudinally. Some scholars suggest that perhaps the Mesoamerican ballgame was used in times of warfare,

While the current popularity of the sport is hardly denied, very few people know of its origins. According to a 2009 New Frontier documentary, soccer is believed to have originated about 2,500 years ago in China during the Han Dynasty. It was called “cuju” (zu-joo). In the documentary, Mr. Ma Guoqing, curator at Linzi Football Museum in China, states that the original rules were based on nature. For instance, a ball was used because the sky was circular and a square court because the earth was believed to be square. Just as there were twelve months in a year, twelve players would be in the game of cuju, six players for each team. The game was extremely violent, allowing players to collide aggressively with each other without any penalties. Not surprisingly, in the beginning, the sport was practiced by soldiers only, not by the common people or by nobility, as it would later be the case. The objective was to put the ball into a

Lawn Bowling, also known as Bowls, influenced today’s modern sport called Bocce Ball. Bowls originated from the Romans and “Descended from the universal pastime of throwing rocks or pebbles at targets on the ground” (Leibs 73). By the beginning of the Renaissance, this sport was popular among all classes of society. Some popular equipment that was used in the game was weighted balls, the jack, and the Trigg. Each player had four wooden balls, with a

Balls back then were not like the tennis balls we know today. The balls were made of wood and the players would hit the ball into the wall with their bare hands until eventually it got so painful that they eventually incorporated leather gloves to take some of the pain away.

The ball was made of sticks and fur wrapped in deer skin. The shaft and head were made of sticks, and the netting was made of deer hide. To prepare for the

Furthermore, 1855 marked the event in the development in the soccer ball. The first round soccer ball was, by a man named Charles Goodyear. Prior to that soccer balls were not totally round. Until 1908, soccer balls were made from the inflated stomach tissue of executed Irish prisoners, and pig bladders. In China Soccer balls were made from sewn clothing that was filled with rubber. Today most of the balls are made from layers of synthetic leather while the bladders inside the balls are made from latex or butyl. Soccer balls weigh about 14lbs and

Lacrosse has origins dating back to the 17th century. It has links to the eastern woodlands and plain indian tribes which are now located in parts of Canada. It was originally called stickball. In the past it was played with a woodstick. It was later re-invented by the european immigrants in north america, which has since become the current game we know today. It is now played with metal shafts with a plastic head that has mesh on it and a solid rubber ball.

Seph Koutsioukis is a 14 year old boy with autism. When he was in second grade he had so much trouble coping up and dealing with pressure of school. He was in a classroom at an elementary school in Simpsonville (Shah, 2011). For Seph, on-the-spot questions from teachers were a source of embarrassment. It was hard to concentrate and was easily distracted by sights and sounds in the colorful, occasionally loud room (Shah, 2011). Due to his problems his mother Kelly koutsioukis pulled him out of regular school and enrolled him in a virtual school (Hester, 2011). Seph who was 10-year-old then, had taken online classes through the South Carolina Connections Academy, a virtual school based in Columbia, (Shah, 2011).

The film Trobriand Cricket: an Ingenious Response to Colonialism was an interesting film to watch. It was interesting to see the ways the people incorporated dance in the sport cricket. The way the people altered the game to reflect warfare was a creative idea to end actual warfare between groups. The people learned cricket from colonizers and they since then attributed dance and symbolic warfare to the game.

Betye Saar is a recycler as she calls herself. She recycles objects and her feelings and emotions as well. She creates pieces that entice us to have a closer look at her art. She likes to catch the attention of people to her art work so that they can examine the pieces to find the deeper meaning behind her pieces. She has some very creative pieces from “Crossroads” where the piece of wood shaped as a tombstone is the pallet to her colorful piece called “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima”. They both represent a different time of hardship that African-Americans had to deal from oppression to revolting the way African-American women were perceived as. Betye brings her emotions out in her artwork creating timeless pieces from recycled objects to create