Bowling

Proposal for Scottish about rejuvenation programme for Bowling Basin I would like to propose a site-specific performance piece as part of the Bowling Basin rejuvenation programme. The performance would aim to attract the local community, passers by as well as anyone interested in the history of the harbour. The Bowling Harbour was first opened in 1851. It was a pioneer within the UK shipbuilding industry and provided the country with a large quantity of quality ships, before and during the war…

B is for Bowling Alley I was 6 or 7 living in Pekin, Illinois. I met my two best friends, Tyler and Matthew, at my school, Willow. They always stood up for me when someone tried to tease me or bully me. Tyler’s birthday party was coming up, we were all very excited. Tyler was planning to have the birthday party at the bowling alley. Do you know the green building you see as you come off the Pekin Bridge? Well that is the bowling alley called Roxy’s I used to love to go bowling when I was…

Bowling for Columbine The controversial documentary “Bowling for Columbine” by Michael Moore, showcases Moore’s hostility towards the American gun culture and his desire for more gun regulations. Throughout the documentary, Moore utilizes music, and interviews with authoritative members of the American gun culture to answer questions regarding America’s gun problem (Gun violence) and biasly influences the audience against pro-gun by creating a satire tone ridiculing and attacking America’s gun…

Social capital has become one of the most active areas of analysis and debate in the social sciences over time. Robert D. Putnam had released his highly influential book, Bowling Alone: The collapse and Revival of American Community. Putnam interests the readers by informing them the ways that the United States has withdrawn from civic engagement over a period of time. And this decline has crippled the civil society. Furthermore, He promotes that citizens take an interest in securing and…

country as a whole has mitigated its communication in not only the day-to-day situations, but also in things as serious as our government. We as a country have confused differentiating race with racism. With all the different races and ethnicities in Bowling Green alone it…

working. Two colleges I really want to go to are Bowling Green State University or Ohio University. The colleges I’m looking at both have the majors I would like to go for, which is business or accounting. Many students who attend either college have great success. Bowling Green State University and Ohio University are both great colleges and either one I choose I will enjoy going to, but when it comes down to it I think I am going to chose Bowling Green State University because it is closer to…

In Robert Putnam’s “Bowling Alone”, the topic of social capital is discussed. Putnam explains how important is it to have a social network. Like other forms of capital, Putnam says that there is value in it for those who possess it. He says that social networking is important to success in most jobs and careers. Social capital proves to provide useful security as well as resources. While there has been a rapid influx of community involvement and strong community associations since the late…

Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, making the argument that global warming is real and humans are the cause for it, but we can also do something about it. On the other hand you have Michael Moore film, Bowling for Columbine, who is trying to make the argument that the gun violence in America is in large part due to the fear that is present in our daily lives in America and that is why we have more gun violence than other countries. Although they both did a job in presenting their arguments,…

Bowling alone by Robert Putnam is primarily summarized as our disengagement from the involvement in our communities. Putnam describes to the reader a decline in the civic engagement initially through our politics, particularly in the decline in “turnout [of] national elections over the last three decades,” “attendance [of] a public meeting on town or school affairs,” and “attending a political rally or speech, serving on a committee of some local organization, and working for a political party.”…

In the article entitled “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” of Robert D. Putnam, the United States has a strong and active civil society; however, it has been weakening over the past several decades. The civic engagement in the U.S. has witnessed significant drop on many factors, such as number of voters, number of public meetings, number of people who trust the government in Washington, and so on. However, new types of organization are growing rapidly including tertiary…