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the posture of their sculptures changed. The two best examples of these ideas and how the Greek artwork changed over time are Lacoon and his Sons and Discobolus. Discobolus is a sculpture of a nude discus thrower right at the end of the windup to throw the disc. If you look at the discus throwers face you see that it is blank. This is meant to demonstrate the idea of a person 's self-control of the mind over the body. Along with this ideal of self-control, the discus thrower shows the image of…

Basketball: The Greatest Sport Played Indoors Basketball is a very physically and mentally demanding sport, which is why michael Jordan once said this about basketball “ I’ve missed over 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games, have been trusted 26 times to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Because of its continuous action and frequent scoring, basketball is one of the most popular spectator as well as…

gym. The boys approach the locker room while the girls proceed to the stands. The cheerleaders remove their pom poms before they stow their duffels in the corner of the gymnasium. The basketball players take the court and commence shooting free throws. “5, 6, 7, 8,” the players look over to see the girls practicing their halftime routine. All at once, the buzzer on the clock sounds and the game will officially begin in two…

Joshua Levine, Sara Etchison, and Daniel Oppenheimer created a study amongst college athletes that showed the “pluralistic ignorance” among students who are involved in athletics, and why they shoot lower for their major, than they do on their free throws. This research is important because it shows how students are getting caught up and not managing their time as well as it needs to. The authors of the article did a good job explaining how students can be affected by multiple factors and they…

One nasty foggy misty morning I was head out to my deer stand I was grabbing everything to go hunt and I was running late when i hopped in my truck I didn't realize what I getting myself into that nasty foggy morning. It was that foggy morning and i was headed out to my stand and i was already seeing deer going to it so figured it was going to be a good morning so i'm almost there and were climbing up my stand and where there was dogs running everywhere they already came thur my stand and i…

There once was a charismatic boy named Sam Hustle who played basketball. He always dreamed of playing for Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. One day after school Sam opened the mail and noticed a letter addressed to him from Creighton. He ripped open the letter and as he read it he saw it was a full ride scholarship to play basketball and go to college. He was galvanized with this news. He rushed upstairs to tell his parents the good news. One year later Sam rolled up to college.…

defender so upset that he decided the best course of action for him was a begin to scream and yell at me then slap me square in the chest. The refs saw this foul and gave him a technical foul this got me team fired up because we made both of our free throws and had tied the game after this foul we never looked back and kept charging towards the…

Pool Pockets Problem Statement: In this POW you have to find the rebounds on a rectangular pool table (4 holes) with whole number distances.Every shot is shot at a 45 degree angle and always shot from the lower left corner and what pocket it lands in. Process: I started out by drawing many rectangles with each many different dimensions ( 2*3, 2*1, 4*10, 2*9, etc.) Then i did the actual problem /experiment and counted the rebounds on each rectangle, and each will be shot from the bottom left…

Basketball has been around for about 125 years and people continue to shoot the basketball the wrong way. Of course from the beginning no shot form was established. Any way you could get the ball to the basket and into the basket was acceptable. In the 50’s and 60’s we began to see the formation of a general form used to shoot the basketball. There are three very important things when correctly shooting a basketball balance, hand placement, and eye contact. First is hand placement, hand…

Pick and Role The pick and roll is one of the most well-known and basic plays in all of basketball. The pick and roll is executed between two players and these players are usually the point guard and the center. The point guard is the player that runs the team and is usually the smallest and quickest player on the team. The center is the player that lots of team run the plays through and is usually the largest and strongest player on the team. The most basic pick and roll is when the center…