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Truth 10/23/07

What is truth? What is true about myths? Is there truth? Myths are based on truth. They are not completly ture.The main points show what the cultures like and how things in nature affect people. Myths help us understand the culture that wrote it. Cultures can be cruel, fuedile or even war like. This is usually illustarted in a myth. They also show things in nature. In some myths the whole culture can be affected by one geographical feature. These are exemplified in most myths. Myths are great for a culture, and they always have some truth.

Fear 1/27/08

Fear defined by dictionary.com is a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. IT says real or imagined. This shows that fear is sometimes a false fear. Like in movies when everyone screams that is a false fear. People get fear from something that intmidates them. If you never felt intimidated then we would never have fear. Fear is a state of mind, you get it, but you don't have to.

Dreams 4/9/08

The only truth in dreams is the truth we give it. We all have dreams in our life but, they are all different for each one of us. We all want these dreams to be truth but, in reality they can't always be. you have to work for dreams for them to go from a ddream to a reality. We are seeking the truth in life, we just don't know what it is. Living in our society anything can come true if you beleive in it enough. you have to work and work and work. No work = no life.

** Why do we play sports? **  ·   "The reason Americans have never got international sport is because they never play any. Or hardly any. The sporting focus of the nation has always been internal, self- enclosed, all-repelling. The high points are the Super Bowl, the National Basketball Association finals and the World Series, an event so exotic it sometimes includes Canada. They don't have Test matches. They don't have World Cup qualifying matches — well, they do, but nobody notices. They don't have the Six Nations rugby championship. They don't get beaten by New Zealand or Norway or Ireland. They don't get whitewashed or blackwashed, they don't get bamboozled by India or out-tigered by Pakistan.   Try watching the Olympic Games in the US. Or rather, don't, not if you want to watch the Olympics as we understand them, a sporting event involving around 200 nations. In the US there are two nations: America and America's opponents."    And you wonder if the country's entire conception of itself would be different if it hadn't invented its own games: if Americans had carried on playing cricket, if they had adopted proper football as a national pastime, if they beat and got beaten by teams from other nations on a regular basis, if the notion of international sport, of regular dealings with people who talked different and played different and lived different, were part of national life, if sport were a celebration of diversity; above all, if sport were a revelation of national weaknesses as well as of national strengths.   You can't help but wonder that if this were the case, not only would American sporting life be vastly different, but American social and political life as well.   ·  Band wagon Effect-that people want to be on the winning side and therefore switch their votes to the candidates whom the polls show to be ahead. They complain that surveys undermine representative democracy, since issues should be decided by elected representatives on the basis of the best judgment and expert...   ·   Endorphins are released when you exercise, which makes you feel better.  ·  People go through physical and mental struggles in sports. People like to challenge themselves.  ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'">As a result, people stay healthy and live longer. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-font-width: 0%"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'"> They were to show how one man was better than another at something <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-font-width: 0%"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'"> Rules were set to prevent cheating <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-font-width: 0%"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'"> The early history of soccer reveals at least half a dozen different games, varying to different degrees and to which the historical development is related and has actually been traced back. The fact remains that playing a ball with the feet has been going on for thousands of years and there is absolutely no reason to believe that it is an aberration of the more "natural" form of playing a ball with the hands. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'"> It was no doubt recognized right at the outset, that the art of controlling the ball with the feet was extremely difficult and, as such, it required special technique and talent. The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise of precisely this skilful technique dating back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in China. A military manual dating from the period of the Han Dynasty includes among the physical education exercises, the "Tsu'Chu". This consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30 - 40 cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes - a feat which obviously demanded great skill and excellent technique. A variation of this exercise also existed, whereby the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders while trying to withstand the attacks of his opponents. Use of the hands was not permitted. The ball artistry of today's top players is therefore not quite as new as some people may assume. Another form of the game, also originating from the Far East, was the Japanese Kemari, which dates from about 500 to 600 years later and is still played today. This is a type of circular football game, far less spectacular, but, for that reason, a 'more dignified and ceremonious experience, requiring certain skills, but not competitive ' in the way the Chinese game was, nor is there the slightest sign of struggle for possession of the ball. The players had to pass the ball to each other, in a relatively small space, trying not to let it touch the ground, seemingly related to the modern day game of hackey-sack which grew in popularity during the 1970's. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'"> The Greek game "episkyros", relatively little of which has been handed down, was much livelier, as was the Roman game "Harpastum". The latter was played with a smaller ball with two teams contesting the game on a rectangular field marked by boundary lines and a center-line. The object was to get the ball over the opponents' boundary lines. The ball was passed between players and trickery was the order of the day. Each team member had his own specific tactical assignment and the spectators took a vociferous interest in the proceedings and the score. The role of the feet in this game was so small as scarcely to be of consequence. This game remained popular for 700 or 800 years, but, although the Romans took it to England with them, it is doubtful whether it can be considered as a forerunner of contemporary football. The same applies for hurling, a popular game with the Celtic population, which is played to this very day in Cornwall and Ireland. It is possible that influences were asserted, but it is certain that the decisive development of the game of football with which we are now familiar took place in England and Scotland. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-font-width: 0%">   <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'">The game that flourished in the <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'">British Isles <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Lucida Grande'"> from the 8th to the 19th centuries had a considerable variety of local and regional versions - which were subsequently smoothed down and smartened up to form the present day sports of association football and rugby football. They were substantially different from all the previously known forms - more disorganised, more violent, more spontaneous and usually played by an indefinite number of players. Frequently, the games took the form of a heated contest between whole village communities or townships - through streets, village squares, across fields, hedges, fences and streams. Kicking was allowed, as in fact was almost everything else. However, in some of these games kicking was out of the question due to the size and weight of the ball being used. In such cases, kicking was instead employed to fell opponents. Incidentally, it was not until nine years after the football rules had been established for the first time in 1863 and the creation of the Football Association, that the size and weight of the ball were finally standardised. Up to that time, agreement on this point had usually been reached by the parties concerned when they were arranging the match, as was the case for the game between London and Sheffield in 1866. This match was also the first where the duration of the game was prearranged for one and a half hours. 1. I have discovered that sports were used as training in the beggining, but now have evolved into how one man is better than another man at something. Also, I have discovered why some sports are more popular than others. 2. I will use a powerpoint to show the class. This will allow me to be interactive with students and still give information. 3.I still need to find more information on how sports affect people mentally and physically. This can be how it changed there lives or how it helped them socially or all other aspects. You can make respons and give me information on my reponse page
 * 1. Culture- How does culture look upon sport? **
 * 2. Effects- How are people Affected by sports? **
 * 3. History- Why were sports invented by people? **