Review of Literature
Within the United States of America, football is emerging as one of the nation’s favorite pastimes. There are many facets of football that make football so exciting; which includes the remarkable speed and size of the athletes. In an article titled “In a Rose Bowl, a Chance to Study Size vs. Speed,” by Pete Thamel, Thamel (2010) describes football as a fascinating matchup of physics. With the ratios of speed to size, each football team can be made of up of a certain amount of both, resulting in the uniqueness of each team. Along the years, many metaphors have even been used to describe such occurrences; one being, comparing the Wisconsin Badgers’ size and the T.C.U. Horned Frogs’ speed to a dump truck and a Ferrari. Focusing on speed, there are many factors that are taken account, such as the evolving sport, types of cleat combined with the running biomechanics, impact absorption, and frictional properties. Each of these factors can be very influential in the enhancing of speed, resulting in a superior game play.
When examining concussions in regards to football, the impact of speed was greatly inspected by the N.F.L., national football league; especially in a study titled Does Football Have A Future? The N.F.L and Concussion Crisis (McGrath, 2011). The league utilized Newton’s second law of motion: force equals to mass times acceleration to generate the force of impact to the athletes in game situations. However, they wanted to know how the once slow-paced, “run a few yards at a time” style of football had evolved into this spectacular demonstration of speed. The change resulted from the impact of our twenty-sixth president, Teddy Roosevelt. Back when it was the crisis surrounding the brutality of the sport...
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...t(40) =81.739, p=0, two-tailed. The mean of the molded cleats group (M=4.926, s=.38117) was .0287 lower than the mean of the detachable cleat group (M=4.9550, s=.38809). The effect size, as indexed by Cohen’s d, was .0373 which is not a large effect. This study suggests that detachable cleats will make a runner go .0287 seconds faster than the same runner wearing molded cleats. The results show that our null hypothesis is correct in that neither molded cleats nor detachable cleats will make you run faster than the other.
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He also infused humor into his work. Williams dissected the traditional American family, and he penned many stories about dysfunctional and volatile families. In the journalist Bruce Smith's memoir on Tennessee Williams entitled Costly Performances, Tennessee is quoted reminding his readers, "I have had a life of required endurance, a life of clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers to every inch of rock higher than the one caught hold of before.
Use of Light and Dark in Antigone The "Golden Age" of Greece is noted for its many contributions to the creative world, especially in its development of the play. These performances strived to emphasize Greek morals, and were produced principally for this purpose. Antigone, by Sophocles, is typical. The moral focused on in Antigone is the conflict between physis (nature) and nomos (law), with physis ultimately presiding over nomos. Throughout Antigone, King Creon is a symbol for nomos, while
Teacher Comment: As a part of the requirement for this course, each student must attend two live performances and submit a concert report on each. The reports should demonstrate “Active Listening” and not be merely reviews or critiques. I am interested in the student’s experience at this particular performance. There is no obligation to use fancy terminology. Just tell me what happened, how it affected you, how this experience will influence your plans for future concert attendance? I am particularly
Stanhope from Journey's End Stanhope provides the most obvious candidate for the accolade of “hero” in Journey’s End: R.C.Sherriff has included many themes in Journey’s End; a play portraying the reality of trench warfare. Some of these include Comradeship, The horrors of war, Heroism and Relationships. My essay will be focusing mainly on the theme of heroism. The audience relate the word “hero” with mainly one character in the play. But the word hero has many positive connotations
Streetcar Named Desire: Visual, Aural and Spatial The sound for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is effective but this could be built upon to improve it and create a more intense atmosphere. The stage directions do state when sound should be used, they usually state the piece of music and the way in which it should be played, for example “Blue piano and the hot trumpet sound louder”. I think that if an amalgamation of types of music such as; instrumental music, recorded sounds and vocal pieces
Our Day Out by Willy Russell For our second module, we looked at the study of the play ‘Our Day Out’ by Willy Russell. The play is about a special needs class from Liverpool going on a day out to Wales, and the different dilemmas they put their teachers Mr. Briggs and Mrs. Kay through (like stealing animals from a zoo). We had to choose three key moments that we thought were the most important sections from the play and where we thought drama was built around. For us, the key characters
Evaluation of a live Production Blood Brothers Blood Brothers was written by Willy Russell, It was first performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983. It is a musical / comedy drama set in Liverpool in the 1980’s. We went to see it at the Phoenix Theatre. When we were on our way to see the production I was quite excited and was looking forward to it very much as I had been told by some pupils at my school it was very good. When we arrived at the theatre and sat down in our seats
Use of Language in A View from the Bridge Examine Miller’s use of language and dramatic devices in helping the audience to understand the themes of A View From The Bridge Arthur Miller is regarded as a great dramatist and he explores the life struggles of an ordinary man against authority and insurmountable odds and in ‘A View From The Bridge’ he uses many dramatic devices and enigmatic themes to help the audience understand the play. Some of the main themes are jealousy, love, law, justice
Two Key Scenes Between Eddie and Marco in A View from the Bridge Examine the dramatic effectiveness of two key scenes between Eddie and Marco. In the play, the lead character, Eddie Carbone is an “A View from the Bridge”: Examine the dramatic effectiveness of two key scenes between Eddie and Marco. “In the play, the lead character, Eddie Carbone is an Italian longshoreman working on the New York docks. When his wife’s cousins, Marco and Rodolfo, seek refuge as illegal immigrants from
The Opening Scene of A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller 'A View from the Bridge' is a dramatic play about two illegal immigrants, who travel from Italy to the Red Hook slum in New York and stay with their relatives-The Carbones. The play ends tragically with the death of Eddie Carbone and the play shows how the family are split up by jealousy, betrayal and mistrust. It is set during the aftermath of The Great Depression in the 1930s. The play was written in 1955 by the playwright Arthur
A Comparison of the Performance of Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn We performed Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn on 28th November 2002. Since it is divided into five short plays which all relate to each other, separate groups performed different plays, or scenes. My group used the scene "A Talk in the Park" as our performance piece. I will be comparing this scene to "A View from the Bridge", written by Arthur Miller, and the television soap "Eastenders". "A Talk in the Park" illustrates the comedy
Analysis of Performance - Netball Activity to be analysed: Netball Game (WA) Skills and Techniques Required: To play a sound game of Netball, you need a range of both attacking and defensive skills. There are many other aspects, which are required to ensure a good Netball player. For example agility. This is a very important component, as agility is needed in a variety of circumstances. A Netball player needs to be able to get free and receive a pass from their team member. To do
Miami Vice In Miami Vice and the Politics of Image and Identity (Kellner, D. 1992), Kellner bases his own research in the micro-social corner of global media, suggesting that the structural power of Miami Vice influences cultural norms and values (identities). It also draws upon the individual agency of audience members to construct their own identities from the global television programme Miami Vice (1984-1989). “Miami Vice is the critics’ favourite example of post-modern television
Bharata Natyam These are some of various dance forms throughout the world today. Most individuals are familiar with these forms of dancing, since they are the most prominent and most widely used forms of dances in modern society. Throughout history, dance has been a main source of entertainment, from early tribes to modern day theaters. Interestingly though, somewhere between the transition from tribes to theater, dance has played a role from temple to theater as well. The one form of dance
The Dramatic Role Played by Alfieri in the Play A View from the Bridge Alfieri is far from removed from the happenings of the play; he takes an active part in the play as well as providing the ‘chorus’ character. He is part of the modern American culture, but also part of the Italian culture, he also knew the Carbone family beforehand; “I had represented his father in an accident case some years before, and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way.” This is why he is able to give