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team sports and 31 from individual sports. All the respondents are residents of Mumbai city. The tool used was a questionnaire consisting of 20 close ended statements wherein 4 statements were borrowed from the Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT; Martens, 1990) and the remaining were self-constructed. The questionnaire also consists of one self-constructed open ended question. The rating scale is a 5-point likert scale (1-Very often, 2-Often, 3-Sometimes, 4-Rarely, 5-Very rarely). The 20 item…

Clearly, the article Red Squirrels Rising by Erik Stokstad is about how the gray squirrel which was first introduced in North America, is completely annihilating their cousin, the red squirrel. The red squirrel is already endangered and might even go extinct if the gray squirrels keep invading and destroying their habitat. Aside from the gray squirrels surmounting the red squirrels for resources and shelter, they “also carry a deadly virus called squirrelpox. Gray squirrels are immune, but when…

“SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS THAT AFFECT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND CHOICE OF LIVELIHOOD IN RURAL AREAS” There are many commonalities among rural areas which can be seen in the socioeconomic factors that influence their agricultural sectors. Traditionally, rural areas are seen as regions of low population densities. However, with urbanization transpiring everywhere, it has become difficult to distinguish rural areas. Rural areas are marked by proximity to nature, small community size, low population…

three sporting levels, 10-11 year old children, U20s local club team and NZ Olympic athletes. The command style is strongly focused on coaches who like to “make all the decisions” and the “role of the athlete is to respond to the coach’s commands” (Martens, 2004, p. 30). With this coaching style it is portrayed to be one sided, the coach tells the athlete what to do, where to be, and how to do it so there’s no confusion and the athlete responds because athletes learning from the coach’s…

the "trial of manhood", and become the last gunslinger, unknown to him at the time, at the young age of fourteen (King). Before the "Trial of Manhood" has begun Roland requests his revolvers from Cort, his instructor, to take revenge on a man named Marten. The reason Roland wants to take…

If the goal of the trend is “true agricultural sustainability”, as Barber says, we can follow the microbrewing trend’s pattern. Valuing barley has helped Martens, as selling it for beer earns him 30% more than selling barley for animal feed (Barber 4). Martens utilizes cover crops to send nutrients into the soil. These cover crops can also be great for food, as Barber discovers. Trying sweet pea shoots grown for soil quality, Barber begins to think of the…

mental and physical health using opposing methods. The first article by Chang, Chiou and Chen (2010) investigated the psychological and physical health of family members by measuring caregiver burden. Conversely, the second experiment conducted by Martens and Addington (2001) explored the mental health of family caregivers of schizophrenic patients using a variety of different…

An individual’s role is somewhat pre-determined by their society. The division of society’s benchmark for an individual can be categorize by the following: class, gender and race. In Dana Chamblee Carpenter’s Bohemian Gospel, unusual class and gender roles are explored. Throughout the course of history, men and women have their respective roles they are expected to play in society. Men are regarded as superior to women and in the Bohemian Gospel, the main heroine, Mouse, is a testimony of how…

In 2003, the United States launched a full-scale invasion on Iraq, only two years after the attack on 9/11. This lead to war almost immediately between Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan against both the United States and the United Kingdom. For eight years, the American government tried to subdue Iraq, ruled by Saddam Hussein at the time, because of an assumption that the Iraqi government was in possession of nuclear weapons and to stop Saddam Hussein’s aggression against his own people, thus attempting…

Throughout history, humans have been clearing land and hunting animals heavily. This has pushed some animals passed their point of coming back, leading to extinction. Some have been pushed very close to the point of extinction, leaving it endangered. In today’s world, there are 16,306 living organisms who are endangered due to numerous reasons, examples being excessively hunted to because their habitat is being destroyed because humans need the lumbar or resources found there…