Polo

Water polo, barriers? Water polo is a game played in the pool where the team tries to score by throwing the ball to their goal. It is a team sport that requires a minimum of 7 players in total. Figueroa’s Framework will be used to determine barriers that prevents a player from playing water polo. A variety of reasons can prevent me from playing water polo. In Figueroa’s framework, barriers can be categorised in to 5 levels: individual, interpersonal, institutional, structural and cultural. I…

Separating Neat Breath: Autoethnography Water-Polo The strongest feeling any water-polo player feels about their love and passion for the game is sportsmanship and the closeness of the team. Through the smell of chlorine. The echoing chants. Cheers and splashing making the player feel and fully realize that they are in a water-polo game. Coaches distantly yelling from both sides of the pool “It’s not over yet, keep pushing.”. The strong humid air surrounding you heating you up until near…

Religion greatly influenced the way that Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta viewed the local people and their ruler. Kublai Khan incorporated Christianity and other religions, and Mansá Músá assimilated Islam into Malian culture. It is important to look at the way each religion altered certain societies. There are differences between the people’s reactions to the religion, and how Polo and Battuta’s own culture and personality affected their perceptions of different societies. As a result, it becomes…

After comparing the descriptions between the “allmylife” items and the eBay items there was a noticeable difference between how each was described. After I reviewed a few items on the “All My Life” sales list and selected the “Fine Green Shirt” item to compare to eBay sale items. The descriptions that I found on eBay were a combination of both subjective and objective due to the fact that the author of the auction provided facts about the material the shirt was made out of, which was stated as…

History making is in the air and the game is getting closer to the end, you only have one chance to make one shot, to cash your check in the bank and the buzzer sounds. Your team wins because of you! You did it! But how? Basketball is amazing. Everyone says, “ball is life” but I personally believe I bring life to basketball. My natural athleticism and electrifying excitement I bring to the court is primarily why I believe what I do. I get fans riled up, I get the crowd jumping out their seats, I…

The following writing represents a review and criticism of Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." This short story is one of Twain's earliest literary successes and most accomplished early sketches, this 2,600-word narrative was written following a three-month stay at Jackass Hill and Angel's Camp in California's Calaveras County in late 1864 and early 1865. The tale is told using the structure of a traditional Southwestern frame story, wherein a gentle, educated…

Millions of players watch basketball and tend to try and jump right into all the moves these NBA allstars do, yet it doesn’t work like that they all started with these simple issue and took the positive concepts from it and became the player they are. Key points will be discussed on how to fix and form an average player into an elite ball handler just like all the NBA players you watch on tv year-round. Ball handling skills are very important to the game of basketball, there are some critical…

NURTURING SKILLS AND BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN THE WATER For more than 160 years, the YMCA has nurtured potential and united communities across America to create lasting, meaningful change. Everything the Y does is in service of building a better us. One of the most effective ways to accomplish this is to teach youth, teens, and adults to swim, so they can stay safe around water and learn the skills they need to make swimming a lifelong pursuit for staying healthy. Y swim instructors are…

We all have that one person that motivates us to be successful. Me personally, throughout all of high school, one of my teammates, Kayla, constantly spoke about me behind my back. Continuously, Kayla rambled “she’s not good” and “she sucks at basketball”, as much as she could. Consequently, I lost confidence and became intimidated and anxious, along with fearing the years I had left with her. However, I overcame this adversity by remembering the greater adversity that a high school basketball…

Doug Swieteck is a boy who is abused by his father in the novel Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt. The abuse of Doug is shown very well in Audubon's picture, the Brasilian Caracara Eagle. In the picture, there are two birds. One of the birds is on the branch getting attacked by the bird that is above it. The bird that is the attacker is like Doug's father, Mr. Swieteck and the defenseless bird that is below is like Doug. The similarity between the birds and Doug can be seen in the opening scene of…