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Deciding whether or not to go out for high school sports? Well there are so many benefits for playing. High school students should participate in sports because the benefits can improve the quality of life and sports give you extra skills that are useful later in life. A high school student athlete’s personality can be shaped by their involvement in school sports. In most sports you play as a team and you make important friendships. Even the sports where you compete solo, you still practice with

The decline in youth sports is affecting many people around the world today and it isn't just the kids themselves, or parents with children, it includes the average person. If the participation in youth sports continues to decline everyone will be affected in a negative way. As a society we need to get our kids back into sports so they can receive the benefits and the life lessons that they will hold onto for the rest of their lives. Sports can be a very important thing in many children’s lives and

Youth Sports: Are They Good or Bad? Each year in the United States, more than 36 million school-aged children participate in an “organized sport” (“Youth Sports Statistics”). Especially over the past few years, many studies have proved or disproved the idea that sports are beneficial for young kids. Those studies have found that youth sports have both positive and negative effects on young children, and research shows parents and coaches have the greatest effect on a child’s experience. Pros of

Sports have been more commercialised today. The media promote the commercialisation of sports. They provide needed publicity and create and maintain spectator interest among large numbers of people. There are many forms of media to show sports such as social media, radio, TV and newspapers. Radio was the first form to show sports and now TV is the most powerful form for spectator to access for sports and events all over the world. The Internet has also provided an advanced way of communicating

nearly 45 million youth between the ages of 6 and 18 will take part in organized sports in America. On one side of the field you have those that support it and want to see this increased and even more opportunities for the youth. On the other side there are those that are looking to have it limited or removed. Why is this important to our country and is it really more than just kids out there having fun? The benefits of sports are far-reaching and offer life changing lessons and habits that will help our

The origin of Rome’s gladiatorial games is unknown. However, there are some clues as to what group of people may have started this ancient form of entertainment. According to Athenaeus (a Greek writer), the Etruscans were to credit as beginning the games. In spite of what Athenaeus documented, art from the Etruscans does not show any combat scenes. Although it is believed that the Roman gladiator games started out being hand-to-hand combat between two people, most likely slaves. The earliest

within sports. It would be extremely boring if individuals in a particular sport had the same style of playing. The games would suffer due to a lack of excitement and possible funding that are generated from sold tickets and merchandise. Because of its raw nature and physical violence, I think sports such as Mixed martial arts are a great example of how deviance and violence fall into sports. Numerous individuals including myself find these sports interesting as the athletes withhold a sport ethic

“New Beijing, New Olympics” was the motto for the 2008 Beijing Olympic, this was the first Olympic that China was hosting in Olympics history. Andrew Morris, the author of Marrow of the Nation, succeeds in tracing the ways China had incorporated sports in their nation by using both Western idea and those thought to be from Chinese “traditions,” into visions of a new China. Morris surrounds the book around the sporting culture in playing a crucial role in the making of the modern nation-state in Republican

Dictionary.com defines a sport as “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature” (Dictionary.com n.d.). Competitive cheerleading contains all of these items; therefore, making it a sport. But, do all cheerleaders compete on a competitive level? No, they do not, but the ones that do should be considered as being in a sport. Although the majority of sports have looked down upon cheerleading, competitive cheerleaders work out and practice the same amount

BODILY/KINAESTHETIC EXPERIMENTS Using Sports Metaphors Because those with this intelligence type are often strong in the sports or dance areas of their life, we will often explore what metaphors they can create for themselves from their experience on the playing field. An example we often use a Buzzer Beater metaphor. For those in the Maintenance stage, we may encourage them by saying that “even though triggers or cravings may emerge and even cause us to experience a slip, just remember that the