Career planning

Career planning, athlete identity, and student role identity of intercollegiate student athletes

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• Students who participate in higher profiled athletic organizations while in college scored significantly lower than non-athlete groups on the Career Maturity Inventory and Career Development Inventory
• Athletes invest too much of themselves into their athletic potential than into other necessary roles as a student
• Focusing and emphasizing an athlete's athletic role distracted the students in making responsible decisions relating to the development of a career
• Not all student athletes have a definite mindset of focusing on their athletic identities
• Early Career Paths - Identifying certain desires or goals during undergraduate studies in order to pursue a certain career path. 
• Late Career Path - Those who are no longer interested in pursuing an amateur or professional athletic career, although in later years may apply previous knowledge from sports to find a suitable future career. 
• At what point can an individual be a successful student athlete?
• What is require of a student to have an equal balance of both sports and academic?

TV will not turn your children into couch potatoes, say researchers

Database: Global Issues In Context
Title: TV will not turn your children into couch potatoes, say researchers
Interesting Facts:

1. Television doesn't affect "fit" activity.
2. Those who watch television more than average are just as active as other teens.
3. Teens that watch TV, obviously, still have time for being active as well.
4. Computer Games doesn't affect "fit" activity, either.
5. Researchers got students to keep track of what they were doing every 15 minutes and were told to write it down.
6. from 3 to 6:30 pm, are the most common times for activities other than TV and computer games.
7. The most shocking fact is that on average, a student spends 40 minutes a day in motorized transport.
8. They found that boys usually have 25 minutes of activity per day, but girls only do 16.

Questions:

1. Does access to TV affect amount of activity per day?
2. Does having a strict schedule reduce time watching TV?
3. What, in TV, makes watching it so much more fun than doing another activity, for most people?

How and Where to Play Tennis

-Anyone can play the game of tennis.
-The game requires a minimum of 2 people and a maximum of 4.
-To be good at the sport tennis you need to be physical, and you need to be good at developing strategy.
-To play tennis you need to have a tennis racquet and a tennis ball.
-You can play tennis inside or outside.
-Traditionaly tennis players had to wear all white clothing to be allowed to play the sport.
-Many schools and communities have tennis courts to make it public to the citizens.


 How did people get to be so good at tennis?
Did anyone help people get better at tennis?
- From what I know I think that the more people practice and focus on what they need to work on, I think thats how tennis players get to be so good.


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Does family influence

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• With both of her parents being olypians that already set the bar for accomplishments
• the article talks about how Nastia has a board of inspiration for herself filled with messages and reminders
• it explains how her father was more of a coach than a dad which i can relate to in some sports but years after he finally turns back into a fatherly figure
• What does this mean? the U.S. had never gone 1-2 before
• background shows a difference because it says how her family moved from russia when she was 2 1/2 yrs old. Which leads to how they may train differently which led to her dads training style to help his daughters victory
•  prods -to poke or jab
• it talks about how she came back from injuries and doughters which i know is hard to do because the swing is against you but with hard work you can achieve your goals  i (Nick Jung) know

Back ground on music

http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-9110117?query=music&ct=null
-has the ability to reflect and influence human emotion
-used in psychotherapy, geriatrics, and advertising to affect human behaviour
-the teaching of music in primary and secondary schools has now attained virtually worldwide acceptance
-many components of music. tone, rhythm, timbre, and texture
-electronic machinery enabled some composers to record sounds that were formerly beyond human ability to produce
-from historical accounts, it is clear that the power to move people has always been attributed to music.
-in india, music was put into the servace of religion from earliest times
-Confucius, a chinaman assigned an important place to music in the servace of a well-ordered moral universe. he saw music and government as reflecting one another and believed that only the superior man who can understand music is equipped to govern.

--what is the difference in styles of music compaired to the locations on earth?

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• Video Games are run by things called microprocessors.
• Schools use video games to help kids learn how to use computer.
• Video games are used to help patients with ADHD stay on task.
• The first arcade game was Computer Space.
• The first video game system was the Atari.
•  Sega and Nintendo came out in the second half of the 80's, they were both Japenese companies.
• The Nintendo Gameboy came out in 1989, it was the first handheld system.
• The first online multiplayer game was called DOOM.

What was the second multiplayer game?
What other video game companies came out?
Why are people addicted to video games?
What kind of games do people play in different countries?

Show Jumping #3-Article

While researching, I found this website with some interesting facts:

http://www.localriding.com/showjumping.html

Some cool things I learned:

• Jumping horses resulted from the Enclosures Acts in England in the 18th century. Fields were required to be closed, and riders had to jump the fences in order to move from place to place on horseback.
• In France, jumping became a popular sport, but the fences were scattered in a field so it was hard for spectators to view the entire competition. 
• In result, "Lepping" was created. This was a jumping competition inside an arena.
• By 1900, most important shows had lepping classes.
• The first big "lepping" or show-jumping competition was held at the Horse of the Year show in Olympia, England in 1907.
• To form rules for the newly popular sport, officials formed the BSJA in 1925 to put some rules into action.
• Similarly, in the United States, national competition rules were formed through the creation of the American Horse Show Association in 1917 (which later became the USEF).
• A fun fact: before 1907, there were no penalties for refusals, so competitors were asked to stop at a fence or go around it to arouse the spectators. 
• Show Jumping became widely more popular with it addition to the Olympics in 1912.

Gas MPG and gas prices

-The car that gets the best miles per gallon ran by petrol is the Chevrolet Volt with a combined 60 MPG. 58 city, 62 highway
-The car with the highest mpg however is a Mitsubishi i-MiEV with 112 MPG.
-Lamborghini Murcielago gets the worst MPG for cars with only 8 city 13 highway. So the cost to own the chevy and mitsu is a lot cheaper. Especially with the cars being 1/20th the price with 10x the MPG.
-f the average person does 10,800 miles yearly in a chevy volt. They would buy a total of about 180 gallons of gas. In a lamborghini? 1,250 gallons of gas.The average price right now per gallon is $3.60 so with the volt you would save $3,852 on gas yearly.

My new article gave me some new info about my question.
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• I learned that Nike has dropped significantly from 30.2 percent to 19.4
• While Adidas jumped to the top to beat out Nike 
•  Adidas is the 2010 top online brand
• a quater of online buzz was focused on adidas

Future questions:

• What has adidas done to be the best
• Why has Nike not been trying to be the best
• How has Adidas and Nike changed soccer

Basketball History #2

Blog post #2-Basketball article

This article gave me info on the history of the game and answered some of my questions. http://www.school.eb.com/elementary/article?articleId=352831

• The game was first played with peach baskets
• first olympic competition 1936
• olympiclly started for women in 1956
• womens leagues started in 1970
• NBA popular in  the 1980's

Why did they use peach baskets?

Why did the game not catch on in europe until the 1930's?

How The Car Began.

The early automobile industry started around the 1900s. In 1893 J. Frank and Charles E. Duryea produced the first successful gasoline-powered automobile in the United States.They began commercial production of the Duryea car in 1896—the same year in which Henry Ford operated his first successful automobile in Detroit. The first automobile salesroom was opened in New York City in 1899 by Percy Owen.  Henry M. Leland and Henry Ford further developed mass production methods during the early 1900s. 

How do automobiles differ when they are produced in different countries?

How the Car began? How has the car devolved since the beginning?
What Are the different styles and how are they chosen?
How is the technology different from car to car?
How do different countries make their cars?

Post #3: How has the car revolutionized over time?

http://www.motorwayamerica.com/content/mercedes-benz-marks-50-years-crash-testing-first-car

-Mercedes-Benz was one of the first car companies to really look into safety as an important factor to driving.
-In the 1920s, they invented safety door locks on cars
-On September 10, 1959, they conducted one of the first head-on collision crash test that was really the beginning of crash testing.
-Without crash test research in the 1950s, many people would still be dying in accidents today.
-Around the late 1930s, Mercedes-Benz engineers were mainly inventing and putting patents on over 2,500 inventions
-The first Mercedes-Benz cars in crash tests were compelled into objects with hot water rockets.
-After many crash tests, the materials in cars became softer to further absorb the energy involved in crashes.
-The first crash test dummies were not very advanced and did not simulate a real person very well.  Some companies used inflatables and dolls to simulate people.

3 Questions: 
-Why did people take crash testing so seriously?
-How would cars be if safety wasn't in mind?
-What is being done to reduce accidents?

Maintaining Physical Ability

• Young athletes aren't always good when they get older
• Your body functions decrease by 10% after the age of twenty five if you stop working out
• The Vo2 Max decreases as you get older
• You are born with muscle fibers but people who lift regularly have bigger muscles that contract greater
• As you get older many athletes can rubn or swim as well as the young ones but can exceed in distance events
• Inactivity is the enemy of fitness and health
• Olympic sprinters maintain their physical ability but only to  a point

Why can't you maintain your health as you get older?
Are their ways to maintain your best physical condition as you age?

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How has basketball evolved over time

HOW HAS THE GAME OF BASKETBALL EVOLVED OVER TIME?

-How has the dress of the players changed over time?

-How has the type of play evolved over time?

- How has the amount of races playing basketball changes since the begining of the game?

-How has the popularity of the game expanded around the world?

I already know that the game was created in 1889 by James Naismith and was first played with baskets.This is how the game was named basketball. I also know that the games popularity expanded greatlly in the 90's.

Sports and academics

Sports and Academics

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• School sports are directed to contribute to the overall education of students

• Objective: citizenship, sportsmanship, fair play, teamwork, respect, and health of students

• Negative affects: trash talking, overtraining, injury, overemphasis on winning, violence during game play

• Participating in sports positively affects behaviors in physical activity such as diet, smoking, illegal drug use, and reduced sexual intercourse (females)

• Increase on travel programs which leads to long hours of travel away from studies

• On the other hand, many well developed programs have also underlined the fact that grades and education standpoints are also very important. 

Interscholastic- existing or conducted between many school

Intramural competition-  Existing or carried on within the bounds of an institution

Questions:  Can better health lead to a better education development?

                   

Background of tennis

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-29702
Encyclopedia Britannica
tennis

Tennis was invented in 1873
Tennis originated from badminton
The first name for it was lawn tennis
In the 1870s tennis spread to the United States
The first tennis championship was Wimbeldon
The Australian championships were played in 1905
In 1925 the French championships were played.

• Physical differences between races can be helpful in certain sports
• Ethnic differences are the pose and styles in each sport
• There is overrepresntation in some race in few sports and underrepresentation in others
• Ethnic minorities tend to be less invloved that greater groups
• Country's that have greater knowledge of a sport tend to do better
• Many stereotypes and scapegoats come from these differences
• Geneticists still research different ethnicitys to conclude race is meaningful in athletics

• Does DNA or the conditions of living affect why certain races exceed better in specific sports?
• http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article?tocId=253585

Post #2- How have cars revolutionized throughout the years

Database Article: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm

-The first true steam engine and internal combustion engine were made before the car itself.
-Steam cars were made before cars with internal combustion engines
-Steam-powered cars were extremely unreliable
-The first cars were only owned by wealthy individuals
-Around 1881, the Daimler Motor Company was making internal combustion engines (gas powered engines) for many different transportation methods
-Ford's first automobile would not be put up for sale until 1903
-In 1899, European designed cars were much more advanced that the American prototypes (and most can still say the same today)

3 Questions regarding future research:
-How safe was it to be in sn accident in older vehicles?
-What was the legal age to begin driving?
-Were there any driving lessons to figure out the complex controls of the car?

Blog Post 2- Show Jumping Article

This article gave me some information. Most of it I already knew, but some is new information that will help me with my study. http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9067526

Some new info i learned from this article and some others:

• Jumps in a competition course can't exceed 5'3 high
• A puissance competition judges a horse's jumping ability using progressively more difficult courses.
• The first time jumping was in the olympics was the 1900 Paris games.
• All international shows are run by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI)
• Jumping events became a lot more popular in the 1960s
• Show Jumping started in 1869 in London.
• First Show Juming competition was held at the Agricultural Hall Society in London

Future Questions: 

• Who was influential in the creation of Show Jumping?
• What are some important competitions in the US and when did they start?
• How did the popularity of Show Jumping spread?