James Naismith, creator of basketball, used a soccer ball as the first basketball. The game of soccer was originally played with an inflated animal bladder that was surrounded with leather (Leibs 67). Just as in every sport, as time evolves, so do the materials being played with. The materials begin becoming more durable, controllable, and affordable. During the Renaissance period, many sports were evolved and took a turn for the better. Although many sports were introduced during the Renaissance
1. Invasion games offer a prime opportunity for educators to insure SHAPE National PE Standard 5 is addressed in their curriculum. These goal-oriented games combine invading another team’s territory and protecting one’s own territory with offensive and defensive maneuvers while using a plethora of manipulative skills. Invasion play provides health, enjoyment, challenge, and self-expression during social interaction. These games clearly support health through a myriad of approaches. Movements, characteristic
lady to waste one of her inevitable last words to scold me? I don’t think so. Some of my shirts have the enormous power to label me with messages that have no credibility to the actual person I am! No, I’m not actually a NASA worker. I don’t play bocce competitively. I actually do not have any affiliation with volunteering in last year’s goat cheese taste test. And no I did not actually win a goldfish at last year’s town
In “Only Daughter” Cisneros Sandra states somehow I could feel myself being erased. Some citizens feel this way because they feel it isn’t enough activities in America to make them feel more at home with their cultural. However, the United States provides sufficient opportunities for individuals to exercise freedoms of their home cultural. Since 1979, the Caribbean festival has held month-long programs about Caribbean cultural, which includes different acts going on throughout the concerts
Games for Understanding is a concept that teaches kids by playing games. Teaching games for understanding, has four categories that can help students learn by variety of game play. These four categories are known as, Target Games, Net/Wall games, Striking/Fielding Games, and Territory Games. These categories each have their own different ways of teaching games for understanding. Games for understanding is used to have students gain the proper knowledge of skills and tactics used in different sports
When Victor Gruen, the man credited with designing the first shopping mall in the early 1950s, designed plans for new shopping malls to be created, he typically specified land that was to be included and used for community and civic purposes. That may come to a surprise to many people; as the majority of shopping malls today rarely include such luxuries. Land adjacent to shopping malls is usually prime real estate, and to increase their revenue malls often sell off the farthest areas of their parking
Edinburgh. The player swings a fingerless ball between his legs and heaves it at the pins. In doing so, he "flops" onto the lane on his stomach. There were and still are many variations of ninepins in Western Europe. Likely related are the Italian bocce, the French petanque, and British lawn bowling. Undoubtedly, the English, Dutch and German settlers all imported their own variations of bowling to America. The earliest mention of it in serious American literature is by Washington Irving, when
After the dynamic warm up/ballistic stretching, the athletes played a few games: Rock, paper, scissors, knock the pin, and Bocce. To end the workout, the athletes did static stretching. Perkiomen Valley High School Field Hockey Team (7-8:30 p.m.): The class started out with agility ladder drills and then progressed to a dynamic warm up to ballistic stretching. After the
Product-Market Analysis Starting out as a small hotdog stand in Manhattan, NY in the summer of 2001, Shake Shack is now one of the world’s fastest growing burger joints in the country. This burger joint started out as a hotdog stand ran by Union Square Hospitality Group, a company of well-known restaurateur Danny Meyer. Originally, the hotdog stand occupied a small space in the park and was setup in front of a piece of art that was on display. At that time the stand only served hotdogs, but it did
The persons that make up the Italian Community are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, grandparents, uncles, aunties, and cousins. Priests of the communities Catholic Churches, and other significant religious figures within the Church, also make up the community too. The environment in which the Italian Community resides in is widespread across Adelaide, Australia. These cities include Newton, Norwood, Hectorvile, Campbelltown, Salisbury, and Golden Grove. However, from the consequences of the Second
and Carthaginians were also believed to have played the game in some fashion, but there is no proof available. However, historians know that in Julius Caesar’s time period, around 50 B.C., people in the Alpine regions of Italy played a game called “bocce,” which is considered the Italian form of bowling and is still played today. (Pezzano 13) The word bowl could be derived from the Saxon bolla and the Danish bolle, which translated to a spherical object. Another theory is that the word originated from
How Technology is Represented in Star Wars When watching the film, Star Wars, it is impossible not to be aware of the technology that is represented in the film, partly because it is so much more advanced than our own is now, but also because we can imagine how we might someday acquire such technology. The central theme in Star Wars is good versus evil, clearly demonstrated by the technology in the film. While the Rebels (the good guys) use technology primarily to fight for freedom and quality