Backstroke

(“Benefits of Adapted Aquatics”). Adaptive aquatics teaches people with disabilities and special needs water safety and skills in recreational swimming. The strokes I’ve used the most are the breast stroke and butterfly stroke. I can’t really do backstrokes, can’t jump into the pool for obvious reasons. Some of the exercises I did involved using a foam noodle or a bar that students use for kicking. The swimming lessons in Adaptive Aquatics can bring relief from pain and muscle spasms for…

During the decade of the 1920s, American life experienced a tremendous change for women. The difference between men and women was becoming much narrower as the decade wore on due to the increase of popularity in the lifestyle of flappers. A flapper was a fashionable young female who focused on enjoying herself and her life and demonstrated a very strong and rebellious behavior. Men were always the ones to go to bars, clubs, sporting events, and smoking in general. They had all the freedom and…

Imagine being in a dirty, smelling, cold prison cell with water dripping down the walls from the ceiling and hardly ever seeing daylight. This is what the prisoners in prison experience on a daily bases. Alcatraz was federal prison that was built on a twelve acre, solid rock island exactly one mile from the mainland with no roads or bridges to escape. Alcatraz, a prison in the San Francisco Bay that many famous people went to and dunknown details. Wardens and guards who worked at the prison did…

Swimming through the Notes I can remember the day in fifth grade band sitting at the long, gray percussion tables listening to our band director teach “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Staring off into space because I already knew how to play it for a few months, I could vaguely hear Mrs. Tripi’s voice telling the flutes to watch for A flats and reminding the trumpets that B flat is first valve. As I waited patiently for the rest of the band to finally pick up on the well-known melody, I sat…

CONTENTS PAGE Sub-headings I. Introduction 2  Purpose  Thesis  Premise of the outcome II. Performance and psychological 2 1.1 Challenging performance 1.2 Mental energy 1.3 Coming of age III. Communication 3 2.1 Sports communication 2.2 Bridging the gap IV. Identity 4 3.1 Commodification of sports by the media 3.2 Integration of media in sports 3.3 Socialization of media-sport industry V. Media benefits 6 4.1 Effective ways of using social media for sports Summary 7 Reference…