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2. What is the purpose of fitness testing in a highschool setting physical education/fitness class? (provide at least 4 examples) The purpose of fitness testing in a highschool setting is to allow you to gauge your current level of fitness and assess what you need to get better at and plan out a course of action to approaching these goals. An example of this could be that all of your scores for the different exercises are high except for the 500 meter row. This could mean that your weakness is…

In this reflective piece, my intention is to compare and contrast the current soccer coaches of Wodonga Heart’s Under 16’s team to the main leaders in Animal Farm, Snowball and Napoleon. By using my reading and interpretation of the text, I have decided to compare Snowball and Napoleon’s leadership traits and explore how both of the coaches compare and contrast from both of the characters. The piece is written as a formal, descriptive comparison to show how even normal everyday people can be…

Age and danger. No matter where you go in life these words will cling to you like weights slowly dragging you down. “You’re too old to do this, it’s dangerous”, “You’re too young to believe in that, it’s unsafe”. The message behind The-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson and the movie Guardians of the Galaxy by James Gunn is to break these weights called age and danger, Live life to the fullest and do not let such things hold you back.…

the day. The speaker of the poem announces that he hears "America singing," and then describes that each worker sings, "what belongs to him or her,” such as the mechanics whose songs are “blithe and strong”, the carpenters as they “measure their plank or beam”, the masons as they “make ready for work”, the boatmen singing about “what belongs to them in their boat”, the deckhands “singing on the steamboat decks”,…

Romanticism lived as an artistic movement in literature and music the late 18th century. It showed a lot of sensibility and passion within the body of its literature. Romanticism put an effort on putting emotional and imagination over logical and reasonable stories. The writers of this period replaced the boring static universal types of literature with more complex and unique characters. The authors that represented this movement the most including Emily Dickinson, Washington Irving, and Walt…

Edgar Allan Poe, the author of “The Tell-Tale Heart” was born on 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his detective and dark stories. Most of Poe’s short stories uses a first person narration. The story, “the Tell-Tale Heart” was published on 1850. Poe uses an unreliable first person narrator, with an unknown name and unclear identity, who constantly tries to convince readers of his sanity. The narrator has an unknown relation to the old man, who he murdered in the story. By depicting…

especially in the scene when they sing the song called, “Song of the Roustabouts.” When Dumbo, the other elephants, and the men pull up to the camp grounds they get off of the trucks and start to work. They put the circus tents together by hammering planks into the ground, pulling ropes, rolling out a mat, and many other tasks. While this is all going on the men start to sing a song. The music starts with the lyrics, “we work all day, we work all night.” These lyrics allow the viewers to learn…

“Ragged Old Flag” is a patriotic song that proves that you should not judge a book by its cover. It tells of an old man who shows the narrator that there is more than what meets the eye about the ragged old flag. The old man begins to account different events that the flag participated in throughout history. The ragged old flag managed to stay in good shape even after it “got cut with a sword in Chancellorsville” and it “turned blood red in World War II”. The theme of “Ragged Old Flag” is that…

Norway rats - Their effects Invasive, Non-native, and native species are all organisms that exist on our planet. They each come from different backgrounds, and influence each other directly, whether it be positive or negative. Native species are organisms which normally live and thrive in a particular community, while a non-native species are organisms which live outside their native distributional range. Non-native species are not necessarily invasive. Invasive species differ from regular…

During the Revolutionary War on December 1775, a great battle was fought. One that changed the world as everyone knew it. The Battle of Great Bridge did not last long, but it was the first Patriot win and many British soldiers were lost. The Great Bridge Battle was fought in December 1775, at a small bridge which crossed the southern Branch of the Elizabeth River (History). The first major Revolutionary War armed conflict in Virginia led into the most critical battle for American independence…