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Principles and fundamentals can be found with every sport, activity, or hobby a person does. It helps people understand the basics; essentially creating a foundation for them to easily follow so they can produce or evolve in their desired sport, activity, or hobby. Principles are important because it allows anyone to have success despite their prior experience. A good example are the basic principles of strength training and conditioning. Whether a person is a recreational weight trainer or…

stations and social media likes to blame others for problems instead of focusing on the ways the problem can be solved. Instead of focusing on the negatives in life, Marcus Aurelius says that people should accept what has happened, and move on with their lives. This is a Stoich viewpoint. Stoics are very matter-of-fact people. Stoicism, as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “indifference to pleasure or pain.” Instead on focusing why something is happening to himself, the Stoich takes what…

senses and the brain working; and how using your senses you learn more experience and knowledge about anything in the world. In putting these texts in conversation, we see that the brain affects the senses by trying to focus on one objective, and focusing on another. Mckibben…

Required Reading Balaam notes that the driving force of structuralism is the global economic system as, “it shapes society’s economic, political, and social institutions and imposes constraints on what is possible” (Balaam 79). Many of Marx’s ideas live on despite the collapse of the Soviet Union. His concerns on class exploitation and conflict as outlined in his Communist Manifesto are still relevant in our post-Cold War era. These concerns shape the core ideas behind the structural views and…

Chapters 13 & 14 Chapter 13 discusses the three kinds of dads that there are. First, is the absent dad the dad who is not there at all. This dad has nothing to do with his kids and is not there physically for his kids the amount of these dads continues to grow. Second, is the superficial relationship where the dad is physically there but not emotionally to handle the more challenging issues. Dads like this focus on investing in the easy things that ultimately don’t matter. When this dad passes…

With money manager as one of my jobs as a sports agent, it is my responsibility to make this concept explicitly clear to my clients. Failing to adhere to this philosophy results in many athletes becoming broke after spending their money continuously on expensive and unnecessary purchases. I will use this guideline when consulting a client on how to spend his money, reminding him not spend his money too fast by buying expensive cars or huge mansion. Instead, I will advise him on how to properly…

One of Megan McLaughlin 's main issue of concern is school start times. However, during this past year, she was successful in pushing back High School start times around an hour later. Ms. McLaughlin had been an advocate of later school start times for many years, seeing that she has 3 sons, who all attended Woodson. Later sleep times are important for many reasons. First, it has been proven that adolescent brains contain a hormone that makes it challenging for teens to fall asleep before 11 at…

book had ever touched me. I suddenly saw so much potential in life. The Law of Attraction resonated with me because I could see that it had been working throughout my entire life. All the crappy boyfriends that I had in life, I had attracted by focusing on the traits I didn't want in a boyfriend. All the…

with distractions that almost never stop. One of the most prevalent and detrimental distractions is technology. Technology is often misused in schools, by students. They are distracted by social media or internet games and often have a hard time focusing. Overall, technology affects students more harshly than positively. To start, the main reason that technology can be such a distraction is multi-tasking. When students are switching through tabs to avoid a teacher's eyes or pretending to be…

The concept of Nursing Beneficence allows nurses to implements patient-centered care by focusing on what type of benefits the patient needs and the risks or harm that could be at hand. Beneficence is one of the four key principles from The Beauchamp and Childress principle-based approach to bioethics. These principles are available to offer a guideline of certain actions to be taken. Nurses must always act in a method that respects the independence of others, nor does it put them in danger, or…