...Playing Sports Keeps High School Teens Out of Trouble There are a lot of benefits that a teen may experience from playing sports. When teens participate in sports, it is a fact that their chances of being involved in trouble are minimized. Teens who participate in sports acquire a lot of life skills overtime that help them become better people. One skill that a teen may learn from playing a sport can be as simple as how to become a better team player. Also playing sports help teens build self esteem while also taking up the majority of their free time outside of school. There are also things that cause trouble for teens when it comes to playing sports. These would be that teens may sometimes resolve to doing something negative for the sake of being a part of the team, not know how to handle the fame that may come from being a star athlete, and also it could cause a teen to have depression if he or she faces a losing season in a particular sport. Although some of these aspects are negative, most of the things that are experienced from playing sports ultimately lead to sports keeping teens out of trouble. In today’s society, technology has become a very popular thing. As more and more things like the TV, movies, computers, and video games are becoming the popular things, it has led teens to being much more isolated. This leads teens to becoming bored, which then leads them to be more likely to involve themselves in dangerous behavior. It used to be that these teens would go out with...
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...participates in physical activity daily, the chances are, their going to live a longer, healthier life than one who is not physical fit and does not participate in physical activity on a daily basis. Another big reason is physical education and athletics help define a person and shape them and people can learn a lot about themselves by participating in activities, such as how well they handle situations, anger problems, and maturity. These reasons, among several other reasons which will be covered is why physical education is important and should be essential to everyone’s life. First of all, physical education is an educational process that uses physical activity as a means to help people acquire skills, fitness, knowledge and attitudes that contribute to their optimal development and well-being. Physical education should be introduced to children from the time their communication skills with the parents develops, although most children don’t experience what physical education is until they enter school, with which physical education is being taught in school. It’s important for parents to communicate to their children before they enter school on why physical activity is important because America is on the incline with obesity rates and children should know that being well fit, promotes a healthy lifestyle, and that participating in sports helps socially incline the child, among helping with motor skills, coordination, flexibility, etc. If physical education is taught correctly...
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...Saving Schools by Saving Sports The United States has been known to be the country that lives, eats, and breathes sports, however, there is a controversy over whether spending money on sports is worth the while for high schools and colleges. In the article, “The Case Against High-School Sports”, by journalist Amanda Ripley, she argues that school sports should be cut in order for students to receive a higher level of education. Despite what she may argue, sports are beneficial to students in ways that people might not think, including their education. Although some people may think that sports are not valuable to schools, they in fact are highly beneficial to students. For example, while talking to Ripley a soccer player named Jenny says, “Like most other Americans, I can rattle off the many benefits of high-school sports: exercise, lessons in sportsmanship and perseverance, school spirit, and just...
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...2012 Sports Funding for Schools Each and every year student athletes are forced to fundraise more money for their sports programs than years prior. Instead of spending time practicing or even getting school work done at home, student’s frantically search for ways to come up with the money to nurture struggling sports programs. Without sports kids are losing out on opportunities for higher and better education. Health problems and academic declines are at stake due to lack of exercise and motivation to play sports. Money needs to be given to sports programs to insure that student athletes stay motivated in school and stay active for health purposes. Athletes stay motivated in school by getting good grades, which enable them to play there sports. In the article, “Not Buying It” written by Steven Kurutz, he explains how people are setting up dumpster diving gatherings in order to find supplies that would help out the people around their house. They set up diving expedition outside of colleges after the college kids start throwing supplies away when school ends. Since the start of the recession school funding in the K-12 have been cut enormously. Thirty five states are getting less money then they did five years ago. California has cut 20% of there spending on kids since the start of the recession (Phil Oliff). With these cuts sports are obviously secondary to education, but in some instances, sports are being cut indefinitely. Families are struggling to put their kids through...
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...improvement or some other sort of extracurricular activities. After school programs can help students improve their social skills, self-confidence, school attitude, and academic achievement (“Afterschool”). An after school program can be anything from a sport to a place where they can meet with other people to get work done or simply have fun. It simply needs to be something that occupies their afternoon in a positive manner. The problem is that many children in the United States are left to themselves since there are few programs available to them. Certain areas of the country, especially cities with high crime rates such as New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and many other, lack right support for children’s education in the three to six o’clock time zone. These areas happen to be some of the roughest in the country because of crime related issues, but more importantly there are not enough aftercare programs to help the children escape the dangerous streets (“Creating”). In areas such as these the kids are fending for themselves against heavy street crimes, which give them no choice but to join the violence. There is no escape for the kids except to pick a side and fend for them. Over the course of the semester tutoring the kids at the Easley center, I have learned a lot about...
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...The Breakfast Club is about a group of teenagers who have detention on a Saturday for almost nine hours. All the kids in detention come from different backgrounds and hang out with different groups. First, we have Andrew who is a jock and wants continually seeks his father’s approval by being good excelling in sports and beating up kids at school. There is Brian, who is a nerd that’s in the math and physics club and brought a flare gun to school. Claire is considered a princess and is the popular girl in school; she got detention for skipping school. Allison is the basket case and doesn’t have any friends; she is only there because she had nothing better to do. Next, is a student named John, he is the bad boy. He has a drunken abusive dad, and is the kind of kid who always gets detention. The final character, is the Principle who tries to be tough and firm with the students. I noticed in this film there was a lot of tension between the characters. There was primary tension which means anxiety arising early in a group formation, as members work out their relationships and role. I saw this in Brian when he sounded really nervous while he was talking during the beginning of the movie. I also saw this tension in Allison because she hardly made a sound in the beginning of the movie, with the exception of a couple weird sounds. There was also secondary tension; meaning there is a task related tension that stems from different opinions, about the substantive work of the group. An...
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............................................................................................................................8 The Foundation for Athletes Helping Kids, Inc. I. Introduction With concern for the well-being of our country's youth and the problems that affect them, there was a need to develop a program that emphasized the importance of education, staying in school, as well as abstinence of drugs, alcohol and gang violence. The Foundation for Athletes Helping Kids, Inc. was formed by Don Edwards along with 15 NFL alumni in 1986. It is through their successful implementation of free football clinics for high school youths, charitable contributions and substantial fundraising efforts that their goal for becoming National is not just a dream but reality. II. Effectiveness of Website The Foundation for Athletes Helping Kids, Inc. website is http://athleteshelpingkids.org. This website is an attribute to their mission, accomplishments and marketing strategy in that it is very informative. It draws a picture of what they are doing and how it affects the young adults they are helping. It shows the importance of giving back and putting forward in our future generations. A. Over the past 15 years, professional football players, active and retired, have worked with over 250,000 kids. They have given their time, talent, energy and resources. In Hawaii alone they have contributed over $400,000 to charities such as D.A.R.E., the Hawaiian Police...
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...what services the programs provide to youths and lastly this paper will identify which program of the two is more effective at reducing juvenile crime and why. The two juvenile diversion programs that will be compared in this paper are, Challenge KADS Sports Diversion in Las Vegas, Nevada and the Truancy Diversion Project which is offered in Clark County, Nevada and other participating schools in various counties. Both of these programs target juveniles in hopes of reducing recidivism in the juvenile justice system while providing support and positivity. Challenge KADS which stands for Kids Art of Defense was established in Southern Nevada by the Police Athletic League in October of 1996. This program brings locals and professional athletes together working with at risk youth ranging in ages from 5-17 to promote sportsmanship, fitness, education and training in the Art of Defense through sports of Martial Arts, Boxing, and Wrestling. The PAL, Police Athletic League developed this program to provide youth in Southern Nevada with positive alternatives through community service, athletics and education. This program offers kids not only a positive encounter with law enforcement but also gives them a diversion through sports. This program offers not only the...
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...beneficial, and if it helps prevent drug abuse or not. Parents argue that if it will help, and other argue that it’s nothing but a violation of students rights. Side A of the argument states that random drug testing can help prevent drug abuse. A columbia University did a survey on teens and they found out that 62 percent of high schoolers and 28 percent of middle schoolers knew of drugs being sold and used at their schools. The students that go to a school that has drugs are more likely to start using them, than the kids that are at a drug free school. Califano states “ I think when parents feel...
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...Greed is reaching new levels in college athletics. Universities make huge profits from their athletics and now many people want players getting paid as well. The idea that college athletes should be paid during their years in college is something that has been suggested for years, but paying athletes will only lead to further decline in collegiate sports. College athletes in most sports, both major and minor, receive a full scholarship that provides them with a top-notch college education. This scholarship provides the athlete with everything they need to have a successful four to five years in college. There is no reason for them to receive more. Giving college athletes additional spending money can also lead to other problems. Colleges profit millions of dollars from TV deals, merchandise and ticket sales and appearances in important games like the Bowl Championship Series or the Final Four and the athletes don't see a penny of it. Even though it all may seem unfair, as long as one remembers that an education is being received for free while all this money is going around, it is easier to see how terming these athletes as exploited may seem harsh. By paying college athletes, learning in the classroom would take a back seat to learning the ways of the team plays. It’s likely that more collegiate athletes would stay in school and develop their game a little further rather than making a premature leap into the professional ranks, yet therein lies the problem. College athletics...
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...Idolizing athletes: Should kids do it “Parents should be role models. Just because I can dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids,” (Donna). This quote was made famous by former NBA player Charles Barkley in a commercial he had produced for Nike. Most people don’t take into account that athletes do not choose to go into their professional field expecting to be every little kids role model. They expect that just because they are professionals, they shouldn’t be doing anything wrong and they should be the ideal person. Most athletes however, manage to keep everything they do under wraps and stay out of trouble entailing the media or authorities. The question that has become very prevalent in the day and age where athletes are caught cheating or being arrested remains in the publics’ eye, whether or not their kids should be looking up to these athletes as role models. Baseball is really starting to crack down on their players using Performance Enhancing Drugs or PEDs. “Long before the innocence of the game was permanently stained by the filthy deception of steroids,” (Posnanski 554). That sums up how most baseball fans feel about where the sport has gone, at least the older ones. Parents who watched baseball in their time and now see baseball players as cheaters who don’t deserve all that they are getting because of how they go about it. The baseball they loved didn’t have steroids or sixty home runs in a season. Now what the sport has become is people who...
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...a friend would play a game. They would pose as gang members to be cool. Then police arrested him and other gang members for stealing cars. G-Ball never wanted to be a gang member he wanted to act and dress like one. Gang violence is a major issue in the world today. It emerged in 2006 as a key factor in homicide resurgence. In Florida, statewide homicides jumped 27% in the first six months of 2006. Gangs are more prone in the major cities of the United States, like Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Chicago and there are many more. There are certain types of juveniles who are most likely to engage in this kind of violence, and they are, those who have behavior problems as young children, those who come from homes where their parents do not keep a close enough eye on them, and those who are being raised into gangs. Some current programs that are currently and effectively addressing gang problems are, neighborhood groups and life coaching through some schools. Another program that is trying to reduce gang violence is the California Department of the Youth Authority (CYA). In the mid 1970’s the CYA began to explore new and unorthodox methods of delinquency prevention. In 1976, these efforts resulted in the formation of a specialized unit, The Gang Violence Reduction Project...
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...finish everything they wanted. People may stress about simple things like flying and animals, but many people experience stress from the fear of failing, being humiliated, or experiencing a death of a family member. Stress centers around two important times for teenagers, when they are home or at school. “In a survey of sixty young people the primary sources of tension for teens were: relationships with friends and family, the pressure of expectations from self and others, pressure at school from teachers, coaches, grades and homework, financial pressures, and tragedy in the lives of family and friends.” (Walker, 7) More causes of stress for teenagers include breaking up with their significant other, arguments with parents, trouble with siblings, and trouble with classmates. Most teens respond to stress by relaxing, positive problem solving, or seeking friendship where they will gain support from others. Listening to music and being close to the people they care about are two examples of how teens cope with stress. Most teenagers go through stress and move on, however some cannot and their stress starts to build. These teens are at a high risk of developing some...
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...consisting of animated children’s films, there’s no wonder as to why those types of movies do the best. Even though children’s films are aimed at kids, anyone can watch them. You can be a kid, a teenager, or an adult, the movie would be entertaining and appropriate to all ages. Unlike movies aimed for a more mature audience, a kid couldn’t watch all parts of it as it would be inappropriate for them, or the movie would not be entertaining enough for a kid. This is why DreamWorks’ best selling movies are ones that are animated and aimed towards a young audience, with popular titles like How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek, and of course, Madagascar. The...
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...its potential opportunities and threats. The method of SWOT analysis is to take the information from an environmental analysis and separate it into internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external issues (opportunities and threats). Once this is completed, SWOT analysis determines what may assist the firm in accomplishing its objectives, and what obstacles must be overcome or minimized to achieve desired results. According to Investopedia, when using SWOT analysis, be realistic about the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. Distinguish between where your organization is today, and where it could be in the future. Also remember to be specific by avoiding gray areas and always analyze whether the company is better or worse than competition. Finally, keep your SWOT analysis short and simple, and avoid complexity and over-analysis since much of the information is subjective. Thus, use it as a guide and not a prescription. This paper seeks to evaluate the strategic implications of the SWOT analysis model of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA). The paper will give a brief background of the organisation, then proceed to talk about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and finally its Threats. BACKGROUND The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) of Ghana is the government agency responsible for the licensing and evaluation of drivers and cars. DVLA was established in 1999 by Act 569 of Ghana's parliament....
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