Eleanor Metheny, whose full name is Rachel Elanor Metheny. According to the “Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance,” she was born on June 20, 1908, in Manhattan Illinois. Her passion for physical education benefited her to meet the social eye of college students. She was a professor of physical education at the University of California. She has written several books about physical activities and the body as well as the education itself, influencing and motivating others. She has won several awards in her career. She also taught the American sports history to students literally, “making history come alive.” According to certain journals mentioned about her, she seemed to be a strong, bold person demanding change and providing to …show more content…
This article directs the reader to focus on the “self” as an individual but with multiple aspects of the body, which are the mind, the body itself, and the emotions. The author captures the reader’s attention by incorporating concepts from playing games to dancing to how the body is like an orchestra. Metheny uses sub headings to break down her points and have the reader follow through on each of the problem introduced by the writer. Throughout the paragraphs she informs the reader on a type of solution, which is education. Modern education has advanced from just training of just the mind to something greater, which is the “interrelatedness of the mind-body-emotions.” She brings into account that in addition to our body physically moving and being active there’s a same amount of emotional component that goes in with each movement produced as a whole. Metheny makes a comparison of a totally educated person to a physically educated person and informs that they have developed the ability to move as well as interpret and explore the task given. Metheny states, that it is a way of “expression” It is what the individual shows off to the world. She says that each movement that one makes contains a distinctive and unique expression. “We utilize the emotional content of movement and at times we intensify it by providing challenges to his ego, his desire to …show more content…
The particular emotion is also impacted by the intensity it’s performed in (Walbott, 1980). Furthermore, Meijer used eighty-five adults to show ninety-six video tapes on body movement. The subjects were to use a rating scale to judge the movement with the twelve emotion categories. As a result it displayed that the emotional categories fluctuated according to the weights, type and amount of the “predicting movement.” (Meijer,