Recreation

Segregation and integration in recreation played a critical role in the development of recreational programming that we see in today’s society. During the 1960s and 1970s, the public recreation movement was not equal and did not benefit all Americans. The United States had separate recreation facilities for African and Caucasian Americans. Public education and recreational facilities were similar in the separation of the two races. It wasn’t until the late 1950s and early 1960s following the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. the Board of Education decision that there was an attempt to bring both races together. Racial tensions were high in most cities that the federal government had to come up with a plan to bring financial resources to…

Therapeutic recreation is being integrated more in today’s society than ever before. Therapeutic recreation is the use of tools incorporated into recreation activities to help enhance the patient’s learning ability and to improve their cognitive, and physical state. Easier said as learning through play. Therapeutic recreation has and continues to be used in several different patient populations including; clients with mental health issues, cognitive deficits such as brain injuries and dimension,…

The important social factors that lead to the growth of recreation and leisure are the following: An increase in gross national product and household income plays an important role in recreational growth. According to Kraus, over $500 billion was spent on recreation in late 1990’s. Since there is an increase in earnings, it is expected to see an increase in spending by a family that is earning more due economic growth of the nation. There’s more disposable income which a family can spend on…

Parks and Recreation is a comedy show created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and distributed by NBC Universal Television Distribution. The show is categorized as a documentary and political satire. It was first released on April 9, 2009 and final episode released on February 24, 2015. Parks and Recreation, also known as Parks and Rec is an American political comedy television starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Pawnee, Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford, Rashia Jones as Ann Perkins and Paul Schneider as…

In the genre of political television programs, most shows are noted for their serious and dramatic acting and plot. Many of those shows have a male as the main character while the women are noted to be minor, yet important characters to the plot. That is not the case for the popular series Parks and Recreation (2009 - 2015). Based in small town Pawnee, Indiana the show centers around the life of government workers in the parks department. The series presents issues of feminism, and patriarchy.…

Reflection One of the coolest, yet most frustrating parts about the English language is that there are multiple words that have very similar, yet different, meanings. Leisure, play, recreation, and sport and tourism can all be related to each other and used to describe each other. Often time’s people consider sport tourism, recreation, and play as a leisure activity. On the other hand, recreation does not necessarily always refer to a leisure activity. The definition and classification of each…

In the reading assignment, “Reclaiming Community”, there were two different stories that were very, personally fulfilling to read about. My goal as an aspiring Recreation Professional is to do exactly what Lillie Lucket and Lucy Troisi did. They recognized a broken community and created a foundation for those community members to rebuild from and grow as a collective group. I think the main point of this paper is to show people that reclaiming community is like putting a puzzle together, you…

According to the American Therapeutic Recreation Association "recreational therapy, also known as therapeutic recreation, is a systematic process that utilizes recreation and other activity-based interventions to address the assessed needs of individuals with illnesses and/or disabling condition, as a means to psychological and physical health, recovery and well-being." (ATRA, 2009). This service helps restore and rehabilitate the functional ability and reduce the limitations one may have due…

for Tourism and Recreation. I have always been fascinated by beauty and aesthetics in my immediate environment since childhood. I could remember vividly when I used to build caves and mountains with molded clays and cut woods and then have them decorated with flowers leaving my fellow teenagers and even adults perplexed by the beauty and aesthetic view of my works. As a teenager, I had several times, competed in a local aesthetics competition in which I always took the first position. The…

Every single day inmates received treatment. The treatments would be consistent, and simple, nothing too difficult. The physical recreation activity were also a part of rehabilitating us inmates. From time to time, the psychologist and try some new practice on us to see if there was any significant results. The first therapy I went thorough was called “work and recreation therapies.” It consisted of three divisions: occupational, vocational, and recreation. For occupational therapy, I would…