...Background My organization is the Citadel Wrestling Association (CWA). This is a not-for-profit organization that is meant to boost the wrestling program and help raise funds for The Citadel Wrestling team. As head of the CWA I am working very closely with the Athletic Department and the Athletic Director to make sure I am following protocol in my quest to make the wrestling team a top 15 program in Division I wrestling. The number one goal of the CWA is to improve the wrestling team financially in the best way possible. In order to do this, it is important to know what the top financial goals of the Athletic Department are. Some of the major goals of the Athletic Department is to endow scholarships and subsides costs. Scholarships endowments are now essential to saving non-profit athletic programs at the college level. Endowments are interest-bearing accounts that have limits to how often you can withdraw from it. The original money that is invested is basically untouchable but the interest is what can be used. Most endowments yield a 5% interest rate. For such athletic programs like the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who has around $212,000,000 in endowment funds dedicated to athletics, the yearly interest can be rather large. The endowment interest is then used on specific things like coach’s salaries, team expenses and helping fully fund a team with their scholarship ceiling allotted by the NCAA. As this pertains to wrestling, 9.9 scholarships...
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...This second part of the ‘Sports Officiating’ class was very interesting. I learned about four other NCAA sports regulations. A few of the sports, I was not that familiar with, but was acquainted with the others. The first thing that I learned was how a basketball official needs to have a mental focus before and during a basketball game. The basketball official needs to anticipate difficult situations in order to maintain focus and keep his level of stress down. This will help with the official making correct calls. The referee should visualize the game. In order for the referee to have a good game, he or she must feel comfortable and not anxious. If a mistake or miscall happens, the official must accept it and move on. We are human and those things will happen. Talking about human error, the second thing that I learned was about one of the most controversial calls in Major League Baseball. In the summer of 2010, an unbelievable event took place when Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was denied a perfect game by a call of safe made by first base umpire Jim Joyce. After the replay, it was undoubtedly that he had it wrong. The uproar was startling! Jim Joyce and his family received death threats. He felt so bad about blowing that call. The next day Galarraga came out to meet with Joyce at home plate with the lineup card. It was like a peace making moment. Joyce was shedding tears and Galarraga was as if it was ok for making the mistake. The third thing that I learned was...
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...followed his usual missionary strategy of establishing himself in a major city with his coworkers fanning out into the countryside to establish churches in the wider region. The Lycus Valley churches were a product of Paul’s Ephesian ministry. Epaphras served as Paul’s coworker, establishing the churches there. Paul did consider them his churches, as they were the product of his apostolic ministry. When difficulties arose in them, Epapharas turned to Paul for guidance and assistance. Colossians is the product of that relationship. 2. Describe each of the three cities in the Lycus Valley. (Pohill pp. 331-332) Laodicea was a new fairly city, having been founded by the Seleucid king Antiochus II in 250 B.C. and then under direct Roman rule in 133 B.C. when the last of the kings of Pergamum bequeathed his kingdom in Rom. In Paul’s day, Laodicea was the most prominent city of the Lycus Valley; it was the tax-gathering and judicial center for the whole administrative area, which consisted of twenty-seven towns, including Hierapolis and Colosse. It was prosperous, boasting a thriving industry in black woolen goods and a famous medical center. It was the banking center for the entire southeastern region of Asia. Hierapolis was located on a terrace three hundred feet high on the northern side of Lycus, six miles north of Laodicea and ten miles west of Colosse. People often visited the city to bath in its hot springs, which were believed to be therapeutic and healing...
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...[b]Match Three: Adam Andrews vs. Alex Michaels[/b] [i]Singles[/i] As the bell rings, the amateur-based rookie Andrews paces around the returning/debuting Alex Michaels, who keeps a wary eye on the younger superstar. After several seconds of pondering his first move, Adam lunges from behind with a waistlock, gripping his arms around the submissionist. Andrews tries to pull Michaels off of his feet with a German Suplex, but the veteran is wily enough to keep himself on solid ground, throwing back a few stiff elbows to help his cause. Andrews manages to catch one elbow in his temple, stumbling back a step, taking a spinning back elbow from The Climax, who sends him against the ropes. Michaels fires off a quick boot to the grappler's midsection, attempting an Irish whip to the opposite ring ropes, but Andrews manages to reverse it. As Alex comes back toward the rookie, Andrews grabs his arm, but Michaels reverses it into a hammerlock, applying pressure to the rookie's shoulder. Adam reaches back with a 3/4 facelock, looking to reverse the hold with his free arm, causing Michaels to act quickly and launch himself onto Andrews' back, releasing the hammerlock in favor of a rear naked choke! The amateurist starts to flail a bit, feeling the pressure against his windpipe... but as Andrews feels himself unable to pry the veteran's grip off of his throat, the rookie makes a desperate move, backing up against the turnbuckle, slamming Alex Michaels against the corner! As the young athlete...
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...James Ronca Final Paper Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the world. No one is sure who invented the sport but it was first implemented as a real sport in the first Olympics in the year 776 B.C. The origins of wrestling can be traced back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France; Babylonian and Egyptian relief's show wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. More modern day wrestling has weight classes implemented so participants will wrestle people that weigh the same as them, thus starting a trend known in the wrestling world as cutting weight. Weight classes in wrestling were implemented in order to insure the optimal amount of fairness for each wrestler before they step out onto the mat. I believe that weight classes are positive to the sport but also negative. Positive in the fact that you don’t have a kid who weighs 103 wrestling someone who is 185, that just wouldn’t make sense. It makes it so everyone that goes out there are roughly the same weight so size doesn’t play a roll. But, this causes many issues as well. I know from experience the side effects of cutting weight. You feel weak, tired, and hungry; you get cotton mouth, and extremely aggravated over little things, everything pisses you off, it’s just an awful mood to be in. Cutting weight often is misconstrued and everyone believes that you just starve yourself to make weight. In some occasions this is true, but that is the wrong way to do it. There is a right way to cut...
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...Wrestling is sport of two people who compete against each other with a variety of holds and grappling style ground fighting. Wrestling dates back to over 15,000 years ago. The first organized wrestling tournament took place in New York City in 1888. Wrestling then started in the Olympic games in 1904 and has been in every Olympic games since. Why do wrestlers make better employees? Wrestling is both a team sport and an individual sport. You compete as a team, but each match is wrestled independently on match at a time. By wrestling independently this means it is up to the wrestler to win his/her match “yes girls wrestle too”, for every match that is won, each team earns points as well. Many wrestlers start at a young age, sometimes as young as four years old. Many have said that teaching your child to wrestle is like raising dogs to fight. This is so far from the truth. Wrestling teaches children and young adults about life. Wrestling will teach discipline, mental and physical strength, the will to achieve your goals, how to be a leader, intensity, and focus. Once a wrestler reaches their teenage years wrestling in junior high and high school the sport becomes much more demanding. You not only have the stress of the sport, but you also have more stress with school and the fact of being a teenager with life changing experiences. A wrestler who is truly dedicated to the sport is the first one in the gym two to three hours before school starts each day and is the...
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...a false wrestling, in which the participants unnecessarily go to great lengths to make a show of a fair fight;this is of no interest. True wrestling, wrongly called amateur wrestling, is performed in second rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of the contest.” For those who don’t know the difference between amatur wrestling and WWE; let me break it down for you. WWE stands for World of Wrestling Entertainment and was created about 30 years ago. It mostly consists of people playing actor roles. They have dramas before matches, and even the wrestling moves are faked. While amatuer wrestling was a sport developed in ancient Greece and was in the first olympics. There’s three types of wrestling, Greco, Freestyle, and the most common one Folkstyle, that is used in high schools and college wrestling. In WWE is just a scripted act. According to bleacher report, WWE is a real sport because “the risk, injuries and fatigue that come with being a professional wrestler are all 100 percent real and genuine.” Unlike WWE wrestling, amatuer wrestling the moves are logically pursued and might not go as anticipated. In one move, there could be several different tasks to be done before the move is completed. If the arm doesn’t bend the way it should, or the body doesn’t topple over like in practice. Then it could result in devastating injury. Roland Barthes said “wrestling presents man’s suffering with all the amplifications of tragic masks. The wrestler...
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...based on the past and the present. A countless number of these interpretations exist in society today whether they involve art, fashion or racial tension. These interpretations influence how society views both the present time and the historical past whether they be good or bad. One topic of interpretation that had been studied during class was the Chauvet cave paintings in southeastern France. These paintings...
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...Greco-Roman Architecture is still very strong among the modern world today. The architectural and design of the Union Station in Washington D.C. reflect very distinguishing influences from the Greco-Roman civilization. Embellishments of the Triumphal Arches, the Arch of Constantine Rome are two examples of designs in building that commemorate military triumphs and gave authentication to military power and Roman Emperors. The Union Station embodies imagery much like the Arch of Constantine, along with Ionic columns, chiseled inscriptions and allegorical sculptures. Considering many buildings such as the Union Station, The Smithsonian, The Eisenhower Executive Office, The Washington National Cathedral, and The Library of Congress, many monuments...
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...Our modern world is influence by ancient time The world that we are living in today was influenced mainly through ancient cultures. First of by the Greeks culture second of by the Roman cultures. Without the legacy of the Greeks and the Romans our modern world would have been different. Who would have thought that those legacies would have a big effect on today's modern world. Ancient Greece is the birth place of Western civilization. There are many ways in which western civilization is like the ancient Greek civilization. According to Greco roman Legacy reading "Our democracies and our dictatorships alike go back to Greek exemplars" Greeks were the first to think of the idea of democracy. The way citizens could...
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...encompasses the head of a Buddhist being that easily attained Buddhahood, but forgoes his Nirvana with the aim of aiding those in the world to walk in the Buddhist path. This Head was created in the Gandhara Ancient kingdom located in South West Asia. This Head was created using the Gandhara or Greco-Buddhist art that was highly influenced by Hellenistic Art. The Head of Alexander the Great encompasses an art created during the Hellenistic Civilization that spread after the Conquests of Alexander the Great. The fact that both The Head of Alexander the Great and The Head of Bodhisattva were created under Hellenistic and Greco-Buddhist art, cultural, religious and artistic connections can be identified between them. Cultural Connections Both Heads were created during the Hellenistic civilization whose major characteristic was the Hellenistic culture. This culture was however influenced by the indigenous cultures of the conquests culminating into the Greco Buddhist culture. During the creation of both heads the main language utilized in Alexandria where The Head of Alexander the Great was discovered and Gandhara where The Head of Bodhisattva was discovered was Greek. Essentially in the Greco-Buddhist culture under which The Head of Bodhisattva was produced and Hellenistic culture under which The Head of Alexander the Great was produced, the main type of literature utilized was the Greek literature. The major institutions...
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...The Kushans of the first to third century CE embraced artistic, religious, and cultural practices of others graciously. They connected cultures together and were considered one of the most accepting cultures and honored diversity. From their coinage, to the early rise of Gandharan art with Hellenisitic traces, it was rarely truly developed from that area specifically. When is art or culture developed through a vacuum with no outside influences? Never. The Kushan empire hub was situated in a convenient location with access to the East and West and they used this location to their advantage and everyone else’s. Trades flourished and many cultures benefitted. “Archeological excavations, art historical evidence, coins, and inscriptions directly reflect connections between the establishment of the Kushan Empire, long-distance trade and cultural transmission between the northwestern Indian subcontinent and the silk routes.” (Neelis) When the Kushans established themselves, things started happening. Alexander of Macedon conquered lands reaching from the “Adriatic to the Black Sea and the Balkans to mainland Greece” (Wood) to build an expansive empire. His father, Phillip, built and army of 30,000 men and 5,000 cavalry in attempt to battle the Persians who were planning to add Greece to their empire. Philip was killed before this could happen so Alexander the Great carried his fathers out his father’s goals and went beyond. Ultimately, Alexander the Great influenced every land he...
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...Roman sports transformed the ritual nature of Greek sports into spectator entertainment. The sports the Romans participated in, boxing, chariot racing, ball games, gladiator battles, and pankration, were all male dominant boasting strength and athleticism. Wealthy Romans had large paying fields in the villas where they hosted the sporting events. The patronage of the empire for sports came apparent in the era of Emperor Nero, when the first gymnasium was built, and soon became one the symbols of Roman Strength. Emperor Nero was born in 37 A.D. and ruled Rome from 54 AD to 68 AD. He began his reign as a generous and reasonable leader but all changed after Agrippina’s murder. Emperor Nero descended into a hedonic lifestyle manifested by self-indulgences and tyranny. Even though Nero was not appreciated by all of Rome, there was good that came from his rule. It was during his reign that the state patronage of sports reached high numbers. He was the first to build a gymnasium in Rome. Due to this, large amphitheaters for various sports, in particular...
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...After researching methods including internet and passage, we were able to discover the humanities and the belongings and expansions that the humanities of the Early, High, and Late middle ages had on civilization. The studies of humanities allow us to see the sights in which the changing concepts of temperament and the entity fluctuate in each chronological period and help us differentiate the significant developments of each era. In the humanistic Tradition book, there was a distinctive chapter provided on the middle Ages. Evaluation of the precise mechanisms of the Middle Ages permits us to portray our observations of the modifications that occur and assists to give details how and why the perceptions developed the way they did. After examining several research methods we were able to discover some attention-grabbing results and come up with some stimulating conclusions. The Early Middle Ages In order to speak on Humanities, there must be a clear view on what the meaning of it is. Humanities are a clear investigation of human beings and how they act. This includes their self expression and their culture. The purpose of this paper is to explain how humanities replicate changing concepts of life and individuals in diverse historical periods. In today's civilization human beings are ignorant to the past history of our people. Our ancestors have contributed too many areas that we participate in frequently. The result of researching humanities provides us with a better understanding...
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...There were many differences in the way China and the Roman Empire contributed the use of religion on their societies. In Rome, the religions Christianity and Greco used not for their society but used more independently for worship. This is a beneficial for Roman society because it lead to more independent religions rather than a one main religion for the whole society. This was an important factor to cultural syncretism because with this freedom the Roman Empire had created new religions. Unlike the Roman Empire, China was under strict control limit with their religion, Confucianism. Although it did not give freedom, but the early society structure of China was base on this religion. The difference between the two societies was not only the religion worship but also the influence the religion made on improve the society. This was important because this showed the variation in how the society used and spread their religion. Religion played a leading role while contrasting the differences that were apart of cultural syncretism in both societies. In Han Dynasty, the well organized bureaucracy based upon Confucian ideas and education. Confucianism was used as an educational tool to prepare large numbers of people to become bureaucrats for the administration of the highly organized Han government. Potential workers had to pass difficult civil service exams that included extensive Confucian content. Thus, the Han bureaucracy was composed of well-educated people who were devotees...
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