On your mark, get set, jump! Splash! Over the course of hundreds of years all over the world, indoor pools have been perfected by and for humans for ultimate efficiency of use, enjoyment, and economical potential. On this note, an indoor swimming pool should be built instead of the current outdoor swimming pool for students and staff on Eastfield Community College’s main campus (EFC) located in Mesquite, Texas. Let’s face it: people want private, temperature-controlled, clean and efficient indoor pools over unsanitary and the uncontrolled weather of the outdoor pools environment. The advantages of swimming indoors as opposed to outdoors for students and staff, the favorable working conditions for workers, and the economical benefits for EFC to own an indoor pool, are why an indoor pool should be built and enjoyed instead of the current outdoor swimming pool at the main campus of EFC.
The advantages of swimming indoors are numerous compared to swimming outdoors for students who currently are enrolled at EFC or staff who are employed by EFC. Swimming in an indoor pool will help to avoid hazardous weather and for students/staff to avoid potential allergies as well. Throughout Earth’s atmosphere, the weather can change abruptly and without warning. When a student or staff member of EFC needs to swim in a pool for exercise and/or leisure, the only option available to them at EFC is the outdoor pool. This pool is susceptible to many types of weather conditions such as rain, snow, sleet, hail, and freezing winds and temperatures which can freeze or render an outdoor pool unusable. If a small building with an indoor pool inside was built instead of the outdoor pool, anyone attending or employed at EFC could swim all year long whenever t...
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... a majority of their pools indoors rather than outdoors. There is good reason to. If an indoor pool is built in the place of the current outdoor pool at Eastfield Community College’s main campus located in Mesquite, Texas, it would benefit both the students and staff alike by providing the advantageous of indoor pools over outdoor pools, less hampered workers within indoor facilities to help repair pool issues in a cinch, and help to generate income for the needs of the Physical education department.
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Not all colleges’ focus on ensuring that their athletes succeed both their respective sport and in their education. The University of Oklahoma (referred to as “OU”) demonstrates its commitment to success in the classroom and on the field, by providing students with the Sooner Housing Center. The Sooner Housing Center provides a family-like environment, which ensures OU athletes maintain a strong balance between academics and athletics by emphasizing the athlete’s educational achievements in addition to their sports accomplishments. Living in a focused community guides athletes in the right direction since performativity plays a large role in their lives.
In conclusion, the decrease in participation towards swimming runs deep within Wavell State High and society due to the different upbringing of most cultures within the school, and with the low self confidence of most students and their self image, it only adds on to the increase of the decrease in participation rates. However if, as stated, a culture was created within the school and society through the establishment of an excellence program for swimming and the addition of a small portion of fixer uppers there would be, in my belief, an increase in participation rate for swimming in between different cultures and both HPE classes and Swimming Carnival.
Customer Information: Our consumer information was gathered through various basketball tournament venues, the ages ranging from 18 – 30 years of age both men and women. The survey consisted of: equipment use, officiating, team accomdations, how tournmanets are ran, what they would like to see added or kept, and what award that was preferred for the wining team (i.e. cash pool, t-shirts, etc). This meant out our survey populated the age range from that of young adult to that of adult within in the residence of East Central University.
The opening scene of the movie in which Ben?s face is visible through the glass of his aquarium tank demonstrates his role as an adolescent upon arriving home from college. This is, however, only recognizable in a later scene taking place at the party his parents throw for him that evening. As Ben weaves through his parents friends, all questioning his future plans and giving un-solicited advice, he finds sanctuary in his childhood bedroom--finding an escape from the questions he can not answer. Looking down from his bedroom window, Ben stares at the lit-up swimming pool in his backyard. This scene introduces the pool as a significant element as well as a contrast to the aquarium, which is protected under the roof of his parents? home. In addition to the location of the pool outside as opposed to the aquarium in his room, the swimming pool is significantly larger and more exposed to external forces. This parallels Ben?s view of adulthood as frightening and un-controllable. Seeking the safety and fa...
First positive externality I face on campus is staying inside because everything that I need for studying is near: faculty, library, pavilion. It does not take a lot of time to get from my college to faculty or library.
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Abstract: The Stadium construction boom continues, and taxpayers are being forced to pay for new high tech stadiums they don’t want. These new stadiums create only part-time jobs. Stadiums bring money in exclusively for professional leagues and not the communities. The teams are turning public money into private profit. Professional leagues are becoming extremely wealthy at the taxpayers expense. The publicly-funded stadium obsession must be put to a stop before athletes and coaches become even greedier. New stadiums being built hurt public schools, and send a message to children that leisure activities are more important than basic education. Public money needs to be used to for more important services that would benefit the local economy. Stadiums do not help the economy or save struggling towns. There are no net benefits from single purpose stadiums, and therefore the stadium obsessions must be put to a stop.
To achieve this great tan one must sign up for the three-week course that the YMCA offers for $100. During the three-week course, you learn how to spot potential victims and accidents. You will also learn how to communicate with pool patrons who have lost their children and those who are breaking the rules. Not, only do they teach you how to watch the pool, but they teach you about skin safety. You learn about which hours are the worst times to be out in the sun and how much SPF to use during those times and how to inform patrons about sun skin safety. Its not all by the book; you will have to get into the water to show your swimming ability and practice techniques, such as how to enter the pool when someone has a spinal injury. Also you need to learn how to deal with victims who are in shock and ways to approach victims who are delusional. You will learn to be assertive with the rules, and when it is necessary to use your whistle. They teach you when to close the pool in emergencies and how it is appropriate to close the pool during thunderstorms. You will also learn to work as a team with your fellow guards, how to use the tube, and the correct ways to clean out the pool with the vacuum.
When is the public school system going to improve their fields and weight rooms to that of the private schools? The private schools have set the bar at a level where we should be at. Why are we telling our students everyday to work hard and you will get the rewards. We don’t ask our student athletes to lower their standards, so why should we. The number one goal of any high school athletic department is to assist the student athletes. (Austin, 2012-13)
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“I’ve often wondered what it would be like if we taught young people swimming the same way we teach sexuality. If we told them that swimming was an important adult activity one they will all have to be skilled at when they grow up, but we never talked with them about it. We never showed them the pool . . . but when they asked a question about how swimming felt or what it was about, they would be greeted with blank or embarrassed looks . . . Miraculously, some might learn to tread water, but many would drown” (11).
One balmy summer morning my friends convinced me to come swim in Grapevine Lake, which would be very enticing if I was a strong swimmer or had any swimming experience whatsoever. However, I’m not going to ruin a good, scorching summer day staying home wasting my time playing video
One of the methods of retention and enhancing the student population is to invest and establish world class intramural sports complexes. In a report done by the National Intramural Recreation Sports Association of America in 2011 predicted that US universities had projected to invest $3bn (£2bn) in sports facility upgrades. Seeing that there are approximately 2,680 accredited university and colleges that spreads out to be $1,119,403 (£738,806) of investment per school. In the US, university intramural complexes are one of the more frequent and busiest spots on the campus. Normally exercising and gyms turn most people away, but with finding ways of using different colour schemes, layouts and other designs, what normally is looked upon as a gym is not seen as an entertainment ce...
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