...them the, “Lady Jags,’ discard and eliminate the, “Lady,” and call them the, “Jags,’ which is equal to the boy’s basketball team. The only action necessary would be to inform Dr. Potts or an athletic director, and officially change the team nickname. This way, the girl’s teams will be portrayed as a tough and resilient jaguar, and not have a word in front of it that diminishes the psychological strength and reputation of the team. This solution will definitely succeed, because many girl’s players will lose the opinions that they are inferior to boy’s teams, which is most likely affecting them at the present moment. Also, it will cause the student and teacher bodies to have a altered, enhanced view, giving the girl’s more confidence. The next problem, a smaller amount of support for the girl’s teams, even when having a better season than the boy’s, is not as easily solved but still feasible. In order to create a greater amount of support for girl’s events, students and teacher can make clubs, activities, and announcements that will enlarge the enthusiasm and urge to go to the girl’s games. These occurrences can include but are not limited to half time shows, food events, clubs that go to all girl’s games of one sport, and prize drawings. Although these activities may increase the show of people that turn up,...
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...girls Gonzalo Melendez University of Texas in El Paso Abstract This paper will take a look at the different dynamics of the rising the issue of the continued decrease in self-esteem in young girls. This paper will inform you of the age that self-esteem becomes a factor in a young girl’s life. It will also address the multiple causes that affect self-esteem in young girls. It will explain the long-term effects that come with low self-esteem and low self-image. Finally it will highlight ways to help mitigate and prevent low self-esteem in young girls in our society. Intro 12 year old Lana wakes up one morning looks in the mirror and thinks “Ewe why are not pretty.” “I really hate the way my jeans look on me.” “I wish I was smart.” The thought process behind a young girls mind today is a scary one. “Today we define self-esteem as ‘positive or negative attitude toward one’s self’’ and can be viewed as a key indicator of a healthy psychological well-being.” (Daniel Clay, 2005). Self-esteem can be fragile and can be easy shattered. Body image is central to adolescent girls’ self- definition, because others have socialized them to believe that appearance is an important basis for self-evaluation and for evaluation. (Daniel Clay, 2005) Poor self-image is a growing issue among most young girls in today’s society. When you think of poor self-image, most people think immediately of looks, but the truth is poor self-image is also how someone views their mental capacity and physical...
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...what? The girl’s sport program. 2. What was the sport? Field Hockey. What season is this sport played? in the Fall 3. Who found the equipment? The coach found the equipment. List the equipment they had. They had wooden sticks made from table legs, wooden balls as the hockey puck. In what condition was the equipment? It was old about 2-5 years, but can still be used. 4. The sign, glossed as Have, means what? B) There is equipment available 5. Why did Cinnie join the new team? They needed volunteers and she love sports and had never played field hockey before. 6. How many girls signed up for the team? 12 girls signed up 7. How did Cinnie describe the coach’s language or communication skills? The coach was inept, a weak signer, signed lousy, poorly, she tried to teach the players to sign and communicate the rules. She tried to sign and explain the meaning. 8. What was the one important rule the coach emphasized? To never put hockey stick above the waist. 9. What did Cinnie think of the rule? She thought it was fine and an okay rule and that it made sense. And if you raise/lift the stick above the waist it can be dangerous and you can lose control. 10. How long did Cinnie’s team practice before their first game? A) They practiced one or two weeks. 11. Compare Cinnie’s team and the opposing team in terms of uniform and equipment( Cinnie’s team = (2) details, opposing team = (5) details. The opposing team had fancy equipment and look like prof...
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...responsible for what? The girl’s sport program. 2. What was the sport? Field Hockey. What season is this sport played? in the Fall 3. Who found the equipment? The coach found the equipment. List the equipment they had. They had wooden sticks made from table legs, wooden balls as the hockey puck. In what condition was the equipment? It was old about 2-5 years, but can still be used. 4. The sign, glossed as Have, means what? B) There is equipment available 5. Why did Cinnie join the new team? They needed volunteers and she love sports and had never played field hockey before. 6. How many girls signed up for the team? 12 girls signed up 7. How did Cinnie describe the coach’s language or communication skills? The coach was inept, a weak signer, signed lousy, poorly, she tried to teach the players to sign and communicate the rules. She tried to sign and explain the meaning. 8. What was the one important rule the coach emphasized? To never put hockey stick above the waist. 9. What did Cinnie think of the rule? She thought it was fine and an okay rule and that it made sense. And if you raise/lift the stick above the waist it can be dangerous and you can lose control. 10. How long did Cinnie’s team practice before their first game? A) They practiced one or two weeks. 11. Compare Cinnie’s team and the opposing team in terms of uniform and equipment( Cinnie’s team = (2) details, opposing team = (5) details. The opposing team had fancy equipment and look like prof uniforms, very...
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...Pee-wee sports leagues are very popular in our society. Growing up, I have noticed that it has always been popular for parents to sign their kids up to participate in sports like soccer, dance, tee ball, and gymnastics at a very young age. Children appear to enjoy their participation since they get to make new friends and learn how to play a new game. However, around the time a kid exits the childhood phase of life and enters the early adolescence phase (at approximately 11 years) participation in sport decreases dramatically, especially in female adolescents. In a statistical overview of sport and recreation participation by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2012), it was found that female participation rates dropped by 9.7% between...
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...bonds with the team, and overall having fun. I'm so proud of our first year, and I can't wait for next year. I know we have the ability to win the championship, and bring more pride to Central's name,” said Amber Dilks. These deep bonds Dilks speaks of are precisely what keeps the team together and persevering, even in times of loss. “I've been playing lacrosse for 6 years, and this first ever Girl's Varsity Lacrosse Team at Central only gave me more goosebumps with each game. Better seasons will come, but nothing will beat next year's team when we win the chip. If I could go back and restart the season, I would. But we [can] only look forward and get better from here,” quoted Adela Qalliaj. The team’s work ethic and determination made the team not only an environment ready for improvement, but also of fun. “Every day I looked forward to lacrosse practice and to be able to enjoy an invigorating sport with amazing people. I've created some memories that I'll carry with me forever and I've learned things throughout the whole season, this year and last year, that allowed me to appreciate the sport more. The season was such a great one, and together, as a team, we defied the odds and were able to prove ourselves. I wish [the season] didn't end, but it only makes me more excited for the future!” Serena Schwartz added hopefully to the interview with the three...
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...have played sports. Whether children are engaging in a game of pickup basketball or playing baseball on an organized team complete with look-alike major league uniforms, chalk lines, and a fresh cut field, children love to play sports because they are having fun. Children that play sports have fun, but they are also learning important qualities that they will take away and use for the rest of their lives. Parents should encourage children to participate in sports because children learn sportsmanship, communication skills, and help build self-esteem. One reason that sports are important for children is that children learn great sportsmanship qualities. According to a Canadian editorial, when children play sports they learn how to play fair, respecting the referees’ rulings, following the rules, and being respectful (Sportsmanship is an important lesson, 2014). For example, while observing a softball game a few months back, I witnessed one of the players become physically upset because she had struck out. An opponent from the other team came over to the player and told her that she tried, and that was what mattered. This is precisely the kind of sportsmanship that team sports can teach children. In fact, according to Brandpoint (2014), parents and coaches believe that learning teamwork and sportsmanship are the two most important aspects of participating in sports. In fact, children that learn these essential qualities will be able to apply them to not just sports, but to their...
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...Evan's gaze lingered on Julia's face after he mentioned the deadline, as his mind processed all that gone before, the girl's facial expressions and her body language, to predict what her answer might be. The girl's erect nipples had been a sign that the idea had excited her more than she'd verbally let on, as was the way her her breathing heightened when he cupped her chin. He also didn't miss the way she's pressed her thighs together at his confirmation all four men intended to fuck her, she'd pressed her thighs together. Had that made her wet? He couldn't be sure, of course, but Evan believed that he may very well have, and that concept caused his rising cock to strain further against the fabric of his pants. When she silenced, he nodded in encouragement, ever...
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...1. The new P.E. teacher is also responsible for what? - The new P.E. teacher was also responsible for the girl’s sports program. 2. What was the sport? What season is the sport played? – Field Hockey, just for girls was not Coed. & the season hockey was played was in the fall. 3. ****Who found the equipment? List the equipment they had. In what condition was the equipment? The couch found the equipment. They had long wooden sticks, think it was table legs for the hockey sticks. Wooden balls. Something on their arms. The equipment was old and kind of lousy but it still worked. Still in enough good condition to work. 4. The sign, glossed as HAVE, means what? – It was the equipment available. 5. Why did Cinnie join the new team? They need volunteers and Cinnie loves sports. She wanted something to do and had never played field hockey before. She wanted something different. 6. How many girls signed up for the new team? – 12 girls 7. How did Cinnie describe the coach’s language or communication skills? Weak signer, signed lousy and it was awkward. Pretty poorly, she tried to sign to teach the players and to communicate the rules and the players didn’t always get it. She would try to sign and explain the meaning and Cinnie and the other girls would try to understand and go along. Kept moving forward even though the teacher’s signing was lousy. 8. What was the one important rule the coach emphasized? – Never put the hockey stick above your waist...
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...and magazines all work together to sway the opinions of people and help them form the way they see the world. One of the problems with media influencing personal opinions includes stereotyping, especially regarding gender. How media depicts genders controls the way society evolves. The way women are portrayed in media today is not helping their advancement. Media, specifically advertising, photoshops women and bends the reality of their real appearance, causing girls to form self-esteem issues. When women and young girls are shopping they see models in photos or advertisements that have “perfect bodies,” and aspire to look like them because...
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...STUDENTS’ CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Kinesiology by Laura Azzarito B.S., Universita’ di Scienze Motorie di Torino, Italy, 1994 M.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2000 December 2004 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I’m very grateful to all the students and teachers who are the subjects of this work. I greatly appreciate their willingness to participate in this research and the time they dedicated to all of the interviews and member checks. I also thank the principals who gave me permission to conduct this study. I especially acknowledge and thank physical education teachers Celeste Alfred, for welcoming me to her school, and Vickie Braud for her great help in making contacts necessary to complete my data collection. Both Vickie and Celeste were wonderful throughout my research process, helping me to observe classes and arrange student interviews at the schools. I greatly appreciate all the suggestions, insights and comments of my committee members. Thank you to all of them: Dr. Kuttruff, my external committee member, for her interest in following the steps of my dissertation; Dr. Magill, for bringing a very challenging and valuable perspective to my research; Dr. Lee, for her deep knowledge and expertise in the field of physical education;...
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...financial assistance” (Primer). These thirty-seven words make up the civil rights law Title IX, which is widely known for reforming athletics, although it is never directly mentioned. First, the detailed history shows how many people worked rigorously to get the law passed. Furthermore, Title IX’s numerous tests show how verify schools complying with the law. Lastly, Title IX has increased the participation of women in athletics significantly over the past forty years. Title IX, the controversial federal civil rights act, has shaped athletics to how they are today by creating equal opportunities for female athletes. Flashback forty-one years to before Title IX changed the lives girls and women forever. Girls were not encouraged to play sports at a young and scholarships were not available for women to play athletics in college. People like Pat Summitt, arguably one of the best women’s basketball coaches ever, was not receiving fair treatment while playing collegiate basketball. In 1972, before Title IX was signed, Summitt played basketball for the University of Tennessee-Martin. The team was given uniforms that were used in the Physical Education classes and placed numbers on the back with tape. Also, when the team traveled to away games, they stayed the night in their opponent’s gym and slept on sleeping bags (Soup). Little did the athletes know, their lives would drastically change for the better the following year. Assuredly, Title IX was not drafted in one night. It took...
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...Seid elaborates on how society has now become competitive in achieving these aesthetic standards, “[Women] strive to meet this unreasonable standard because it has become a moral imperative in our society, the quest for physical beauty remains deeply powerful” (173). Seid claims that becoming thin and having this idea body type has now become a competition between who looks the best because society has pushed teenage girls to this point. The competition relates to who looks the best and what extremes they’ll go through in order to be thin to impress society. These extremes may include developing an eating disorder, and spending hours in the gym to look muscular. She also implies that striving for this body type has now become so ingrained into teenage girls’ mindset to even where it’s a necessity for them to be thin. This necessity has come from a new study in 2016 found that ninety four percent of girls in America have been body shamed and sixty six percent of respondents are body negative about themselves (Gush). This connects back to Seid’s point of society expecting teenage girls to look a certain way, and if they don’t they will be degraded according to what Charlotte Gush, a feminist,...
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...without the other partners consent. One question that is brought up when talking about rape is, “Can sexual consent be taken back?” I believe that people have the option to change their mind, and yes consent can be taken back. I believe that it is the man’s job to respect the girl’s choice. Even if the girl agreed to having sex earlier, NO means NO! The media is also another reason why rape is high. The media portrays women as sex symbols. For example, when a Victoria’s Secret commercial comes on; most of the commercial is half naked women trying to market a product, and they aren’t trying to persuade women to go out and buy that product, they are trying to persuade men to going out and buying these products. Even in movies, the media portrays girls as sex symbols. In the movie “Tomb Raider” the main character “Lora Croft” is a strong independent woman, but she is barely dressed, which is always appealing to male audiences. There are even magazines such as “Sports Illustrated” that use images of half-naked women to increase their sales. I believe the way the media portrays women as sex symbols has given men a mixed message about rape. I believe that some men think that rape is ok because almost everywhere they look, they can see a women that is half naked, from watching TV to even going to the stores. Now on the other hand there are men that still see rape as a serious crime. Another big question that is raised when talking about rape is that should girls/women be held accountable...
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...and expectations. To get boys to pick up a book, assure them that guys can read to, and try offering them non fiction, history, or a sports novel. Studies have displayed that on average, women read more than men. Alter acknowledges, “Girls also tend to read more than boys, as 18% of boys say they read daily, while 30% of girls do” (1). There are a few reasons boys lack in the literature department;...
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