Skateboarding

and seek(Williams). Children played with their friends and their little brother or sister could play with them in the field after they got out of school(O'Brian). People in the 60s enjoyed fishing,bike riding,and young adults and teens enjoyed skateboarding(Turner). Transition Secondly, Children played many games outside. Children were supposed to play outside. When they played they did not use a lot of equipment they used their imagination(Moore). Children were always moving they were…

MMA is fast becoming the biggest combat sport in the world and yet it still isn't an Olympic sport which is just bizarre to think about when there are sports like skateboarding and surfing that have just been added to the 220 Olympic games in Tokyo. Does the Olympic committee think that these are bigger and more popular sports than MMA? Or are they just scared of the criticism and backlash that they might receive? One of the main points that people who are against MMA as an Olympic sport say is…

Carr (2017), the author of “Skateboarding in Dude Space: The Roles of Space and Sport in Constructing Gender among Adult Skateboarders” conducted interviews with several women at skate parks to try and understand why there are predominately only cisgender, white, males who skate. His interviews…

One summer morning I was sitting watching T.V. when my phone lit up. It was my friend Nick he wanted to know if i wanted to hangout with him and my other friends Cam and Thomas downtown. “sure,” I texted back. that afternoon we met up at Nicks and started to pack up our longboards and skateboards then headed in to town. we reached down town and started to unpack our boards in the back of a Tim Hortons. We skated at different spots in town like in front of this restaurant but they told us to…

setting I may have been more hesitant, I always loved learning about other cultures, art, religions, and life experiences. I learned sign language, at a young age to communicate with the people my mom worked for. I then learned more when I began skateboarding, and I made friends with a couple guys who were deaf. I still tend to do this I will read a book on a subject, and I will need research more on the subject to make sure I can properly discuss it. Openness is defined by Costa and McRae as…

After describing a specific health behavior I’d like to change in part one, this essay will describe how successful I was in implementing a healthier lifestyle. My previous essay described how I wanted to change my exercising habits, and the effect of not exercising has on my physical and mental health. Now that I have had one week to adjust to a more rigorous exercise schedule, I will reports on my result. In the following, I will list the frequency of this behavior for week two, as in week one…

I walked to the Bell Tower, which is located on the campus of the University of California-Riverside (location). The weather was mostly sunny, with a temperature of 66 degrees (weather). The Bell Tower is surrounded by benches on all four sides, where there are four benches on each side. I sit on the east side of the tower (Location). There are four men setting on different benches, one on the north side, and three on the west side (Gender/Location). All men are between the ages of 18-24…

Why Do People Enjoy Roller Coasters Over the past several decades, roller coasters have become more popular and frightening. Most or all amusement parks have multiple rides, and these rides are what attract park goers. So why is it that people are attracted to roller coasters? The answer isn’t clear, but it could be that there is a certain amount of risk involved, the adrenaline rush is like no other, it brings families together and they are incredibly safe. When roller coasters were…

Television and other media can have positive effects, however most of the attention is focused on the negative effects (2011, p.251). Generally, media content influences the way we behave, the way we think and the way we react emotionally (2011, p.258). Researchers have shown that there are some commonalities in the ways we react to various mediated content (2011, p.258). We take behavioral cues from the media and apply them to our own lives that can influence our behavior negatively or…

Masculinity in Society Throughout history, masculinity has subjected many males to certain male-oriented expectations of what it means to be a man from socially constructed gender roles in society. Men in literature and life have been deemed as the more powerfully prominent gender in society as they are described as being rational, stoic, athletic, breadwinners, bellicose, and dominant. The excerpts J-Pod by Douglas Coupland describe masculinity through a males economic status in the workplace.…