...The definition of Ripple Effect according to our text is, “A chain reaction that begins in one part of a system and spreads across an entire system.” In the movie Hoosiers, one can see an example of the Ripple Effect take place within the townspeople. With the team’s star player not returning, there are many opinions and suggestions being made as to how the Hickory Huskers should be coached. When the new coach Norman Dale seems to brush the opinions of the townspeople away, they become hostile and agitated with him. George Walker, who is the obvious leader of the concerned townspeople, decides that he will step in and become the assistant coach. When George is denied the role of assistant coach, there is immediate hostility. George rallies fellow parents and townspeople to observe practices and gets them riled up about the new coaching techniques Coach Dale uses. When Coach Dale decides to recruit the town drunk as his assistant coach, George convinces the people to go as far as taking a vote to get Coach Dale removed from his position. The anger and frustration from one person ended up radiating throughout an entire town, and although some people may have never acted on their feelings, the actions of one man caused the Ripple Effect of actions through many. The Ripple Effect doesn’t always lead to a negative outcome. At the town meeting to have the coach voted out of his position, Myra Fleener, who is a fellow teacher at Hickory High, stands before the people and tells them that...
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...Hoosiers (1987) Poster Hoosiers, 1986 Hoosiers follows Norman Dale, the new high school basketball coach and teacher at the small Hickory High in Indiana. He arrives in the town with a spotted past and over a decade out of the game. In addition, the townspeople don't trust him, the teams best player is not playing, and his small team is overmatched. His players initially do not listen to his instruction, and two walk out on the first day leaving him with only five players, one of which was the equipment manager. This poor start causes the town to try to fire him. His job is saved when star player Jimmy Chitwood decides to play again on the condition that Dale stays. The team comes together to progress through the state tournament and win the 1952 Indiana State Championship. Along the way Dale develops a relationship with a fellow teacher and helps a former player, now an alcoholic, sober up and get back involved in the game and his sons life. Based on the true story of the 1954 Indiana State Champion Milan High School basketball team. Lessons Learned Hoosiers can illustrate the importance of perseverance and focusing on a goal. Norman Dale comes to Hickory with a troubled past, being banned by the NCAA and New York High School basketball for an altercation with a player. In addition the town is not very supportive of him and his coaching style. They in fact are so adamantly opposed to him that they try to fire him in a town hall meeting. Despite the initial...
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...Hoosiers Film Adaptation ????? MGT311 Professor Williams Hoosiers Film Adaptation The movie Hoosiers was a great story that dealt with many of the topics covered in our readings for this week. The story is about a small-town Indiana basketball team that overcomes many challenges to win the state championship. The main character of the movie is Norman Dale, a passionate basketball coach that faces many obstacles in his attempt to teach his players about the benefits of working together as a team. The movie dealt with many team oriented topics such as team development, interdependence, group cohesiveness, intergroup problems, and confrontation. The movie begins with Dale making his way to the small town where he receives a very apprehensive welcome from a school staff member, the townspeople, and the basketball team. The small town and its people are very set in their ways and are reluctant to change. Coach Dale stirs things up by altering the way things are done with the team by using his version of team development. He makes his players practice without a ball and tries to teach them the importance of communication, setting goals, and the functioning of the group as one. His methods are met with criticism from both the players who are not accustomed to change, and the townspeople that held regular meeting to discuss the coach’s approach to the team. One of Coach Dale’s biggest lessons to his team involves interdependence. According to Brown (2011), “interdependence...
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...I chose to further examine the film Hoosiers from week 13 of class. After reviewing the film I will compare it with chapter 13 of Major Problems. Hoosiers really caught my interest as a great underdog story and that is why I chose to further study the 1986 classic. I always had heard people talk about this movie but I had never seen it. In this paper I will discuss the historical period Hoosiers is set in, compare and contrast major themes from the week, and evaluate the film based on its effectiveness. Hoosiers is a fictional movie that is actually based on real events in a small town in Indiana. It is based on a true story but does change some of the truths, as evidenced by the ESPN article. The message I gathered from the film was that anything is possible if you can work hard and accept change. The little town of Hickory was very set in its ways and uncooperative of the new basketball coach. Once the town and players learned to accept something different, the team flourished. The argument the film presents is to never count someone out. No matter how small a school or town is, hard work can trump talent and compete with the big boys. The message of acceptance resonates with the viewer and is most likely why Hoosiers is so highly regarded as a sports movie. The historical period that Hoosiers is set in is 1952 rural Indiana. In this time period, people are more centralized around common goals and the entire town knows when someone moves in. There are no...
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...the Hall of Fame members are their lifetime statistics, their biographies, pictures of their plaques, and desktop wallpaper. For those interested in analyzing the history of baseball elections, the results of the past votes are available. An online catalog of the museum's holdings is accessible here. The baseball history here is good, if sometimes not overly evaluative. The exhibits at the museum are also portrayed, and among the current exhibits are one on Ichiro Suzuki and another on Sports Illustrated. Information about visits is here as well. Basketball Hall of Fame http://www.hoophall.com/ This hall of fame (located in Springfield, Massachusetts), unlike baseball and football's hall of fames, represents all of basketball in one hall. (The other halls have separate halls for college and professional). Among the items on the site are information about the Hall of Famers, running from James Naismith, who invented basketball, to Medowlark Lemon, to Phog Allen, to Lynette Woodward. Five whole teams are also honored as members, including the Harlem Globetrotters, the New York Rens and the Buffalo Germans. Three people, Lenny Wilkens, Bill Sharman and John Wooden, are honored both as players and as...
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...the Hall of Fame members are their lifetime statistics, their biographies, pictures of their plaques, and desktop wallpaper. For those interested in analyzing the history of baseball elections, the results of the past votes are available. An online catalog of the museum's holdings is accessible here. The baseball history here is good, if sometimes not overly evaluative. The exhibits at the museum are also portrayed, and among the current exhibits are one on Ichiro Suzuki and another on Sports Illustrated. Information about visits is here as well. Basketball Hall of Fame http://www.hoophall.com/ This hall of fame (located in Springfield, Massachusetts), unlike baseball and football's hall of fames, represents all of basketball in one hall. (The other halls have separate halls for college and professional). Among the items on the site are information about the Hall of Famers, running from James Naismith, who invented basketball, to Medowlark Lemon, to Phog Allen, to Lynette Woodward. Five whole teams are also honored as members, including the Harlem Globetrotters, the New York Rens and the Buffalo Germans. Three people, Lenny Wilkens, Bill Sharman and John...
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...remove him as coach. At this meeting it was almost certain that the coach would be fired until Jimmy showed up. Jimmy gave the community an ultimatum “I play coach stays, coach goes I go,” and ultimately the coach was voted to stay. From there the team started to gel and both the players and the community started to believe in the coach. The team goes on to make the playoffs and eventually win states and be the Cinderella story, a small town school goes up against the big boys to win the Indiana state basketball championship, a David vs. Goliath story. I believe perseverance and desire, desire to not give up and that nothing is impossible is the intended message the movie is trying to get across. A coach persevering with the whole community and his players, and the players and coach having the desire to believe they can win and that they belong. The Major Characters The biggest character in the movie was played by Gene Hackman as Coach Norman Dale. Norm was an old college basketball coach who returned to coaching after twelve years to coach at a small High School in Indiana. The next major character was Myra Fleener, a fellow school teacher that looked after Jimmy and did not treat Norm very well at first. She eventually respects him and believes in the coach and they form a relationship. The third major character in the movie was Shooter, a drunk father to one of the players. Norm took him under his wing and built up his confidence and helped him to get sober. The fourth major...
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...How We Know What Isn't So The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life Thomas Gilovich THE FREE PRESS A Division of Macmillan, Inc. NEW YORK To Karen and liana Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction vn 1 PART ONE Cognitive Determinants of Questionable Beliefs 2. Something Out of Nothing: The Misperception and Misinterpretation of Random Data 3. Too Much from Too Little: The Misinterpretation of Incomplete and Unrepresentative Data 4. Seeing What We Expect to See: The Biased Evaluation of Ambiguous and Inconsistent Data 9 29 49 PART TWO Motivational and Social Determinants of Questionable Beliefs 5. Seeing What We Want to See: Motivational Determinants of Belief 6. Believing What We are Told: The Biasing Effects of Secondhand Information 7. The Imagined Agreement of Others: Exaggerated Impressions of Social Support 75 88 112 Contents PART THREE Examples of Questionable and Erroneous Beliefs 8. Belief in Ineffective "Alternative" Health Practices 9. Belief in the Effectiveness of Questionable Interpersonal Strategies 10. Belief in ESP 125 146 Acknowledgments 156 PART FOUR Where Do We Go from Here? 11. Challenging Dubious Beliefs: The Role of Social Science Notes Index 185 195 214 Four people made unusually significant contributions to this work and deserve special thanks. Lee Ross commented on drafts of many of the chapters and provided a number of his uniquely...
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...Tue, Apr 9, 2013 8:40 PM PDT View full HTML message Page 2 of 2 Prev Next d tasks. Mental representations are a critical part of the sensorimotor phase and are later the foundation for all other mental representations. Children holding mental representations of ideas and objects within their heads and can serve as the basis of later complex mental representations. With such an idea, it is an important idea that children and infants develop a schema related to games, and play. For example, as children develop more sophisticated schemes, or cognitive structures, they become increasingly able to adapt to their environments(Pg. 211). This basketball-oriented toy, does allow children to develop their definition of play, before Piaget thought it was possible. Furthermore, the basketball hoop can serve as a golden ring in which giants used to wear, while enacting make believe play. In fact, the one definite positive of this toy is that it inspires play, and for children to act on their environment an see how gravity works and furthermore for parents to play alongside of children. Semantic development takes place across a lifetime, though it is active very early on in development. Children develop the meanings of words from before they are even able to pronounce them, in fact there is often a lag in ability to pronounce the words that the child understands. In fact with in the toy’s age range, a child begins to speak, and progressively becomes better at speaking and properly labeling...
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...Sport Autobiography Throughout an early age I always took an interest too sports. I played numerous sports from an early age such as soccer, basketball, football and baseball. My parents Deborah and Jeffrey enrolled me in sports at the age of 5. They thought it would be a great idea to make new friends and such which it has because to this day most of my best friends are guys I played sports with. When I was young the main sports I took an interest in was soccer, basketball and baseball. To this day I still play all those respected sports in men’s league and such. I played in numerous pee wee leagues and stuff until I was too old and had to move on too school sports. Throughout my time in Pee Wee and stuff I won numerous awards and trophies that I still have to this day. Going to School where I was a member of the Men’s varsity soccer team, Men’s varsity basketball team and Men’s varsity baseball team all as a freshmen. Having to play on these teams at such a young age was very tough for me at first but I learned to deal with it and just play through it all. Throughout soccer games as a freshmen I would get muscled off the ball and picked on a lot because I was 13 years old going up against 17 year olds and the maturity and physical level was completely different than what I was used too. I ended up starting my first game and never looked back and ended up going all-league which too me was a big deal because I was 13 years old thinking “hey I can...
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...ENTRANCE SECURITY POST. A. Access/crowd control B. Profiling of every visitor to the facility and issue appropriate tag C. Metal scanner/search of bags and other luggage D. Accurate documentation of contractor, goods and items supply to the facility E. Brief Safety tips for all Visitors / Contractors coming into the facilities F. Contact through the intercom the staff requested for by the visitor before granting access. G. Prepare Daily duty Report H. Taking the roll call during fire drill/emergency I. Carrying out routine patrol as may be assigned ADMIN BLOCK POST A. Keeping accurate Staff Attendance register B. Helping visitors /staff to park their cars appropriately C. Direct visitors to the right office/department D. Carry out routine patrol as may be assigned by the security supervisor. THE STORE HOUSE POST. A. Keeping accurate record of goods and Raw material in & out movement B. Control traffic and order in the goods/raw material loading C. Restrict access to unauthorized persons D. Prepare daily duty report E. Carry out routine patrols checks THE PRODUCTION BLOCK/AREA A. Restrict unauthorized visitors access to the area B. Carry out constant routine check on the area C. Proper clearance before any machine/tool is remove to other location, etc OUT GATE SECURITY POST A. Check waybill and goods, document them B. Crowd/access control C. Check out going vehicles to prevent unauthorized take away /drive off D. Check bags...
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...my father would say. Growing up in the country with limited access to entertainment my father put up a basketball globe and volleyball net in the backyard, I was an outstanding basketball and volleyball player from middle school to high school. I would also watch videos to learn how to dance. My family traveled a lot during the summer I visited many lakes and beaches I was always team captain on the teams I guess that is what lead me to my career in law enforcement and many other team lead positions I love being in charge. Growing up in the country I had nothing to do but play outside mostly with boys who would tell me you got to be tough to hang with us we do not want a cry baby hanging with us. My father was dying to have a child that was athletic it was almost as if I was his last chance none of my siblings seem to even be interested any sports. It all started in elementary school during summer leagues I would always look for the information for basketball summer leagues. My physical education teacher would always tell me you need to make sure you are playing sports every year, tell your parents to give me a call and I will even pick you up and take you myself even if they cannot. My desires to be outstanding in sports lead me to practice every day. My father encourages me he was my biggest support. Its 1980 now it is time to show my talent in middle school. Basketball and volleyball try outs and I am playing my heart out because it seems like everyone is taller than I...
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...Suicide Drill The suicide drill is a basic basketball drill to develop your players' footwork and stamina. Line up your players at the baseline. When you blow the whistle, the players sprint to the free throw line. They touch the line with their hands and sprint back to the baseline, touching it. From there, they run to the half court line, touch it and then sprint back to the baseline. The process continues until each player reaches the opposite baseline, touches it and sprints back. Lateral Suicide The lateral suicide drill is a variation of the standard suicide. Instead of sprinting, the players move to each line of the court laterally with their knees bent and buttocks low, as if they were defending an opponent. Free Throw Drill Each player shoots and must make ten consecutive free throws. Another player is under the basket to rebound and pass the ball back to the shooting player. This drill is effective when the players have finished other grueling drills so they get used to the experience of shooting while exhausted. Seven-Spot Shooting The seven-spot shooting drill is an exercise to get your players comfortable in shooting jump shots from various areas of the floor. Divide the team into two groups and have each group line up at the corner of each basket. Establish seven shooting positions: starting corner, opposite corners, top of the key, free throw line and three spots on the perimeter. Each player in each group must make the shot in that position before the group...
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...1. American Sport Movies There are few countries in the world in which sports permeate national life to the degree that it does in the United States. Sports are a big part of the fabric of American life. The centrality of sports in American life is amply reflected in the American cinema. For decades movie makers have successfully mined sports to produce some of the most inspiring, poignant, exciting and memorable American movies ever made. The genre of ‘Sport Movies’ established in the Fifties and the Sixties. At the very beginning it was hard to see it as an independent genre because there was a lot of mixture. There have been propaganda movies as well as comedies, dramas, gangster movies or even westerns combined with some sport scenes. So the movie industry defined three categories of sport movies. Category 1: movies in which the main part of the narration is about sport or an athlete Category 2: movies which tell the life story of an athlete Category 3: movies which use sport scenes to describe a special milieu In addition to that there are a lot of movies of another genre which use sport scenes to dramatise the story or to create a good suspense. The first sport movies were all about the so called American Myth of victory and glory. Fair competitions and the better athletes defeating the weaken. The fascination of sport inspiring the people was used to lure the public. Then in the eighties and nineties there have been made a lot of biographical movies...
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...and feel the experience in Universidad De Zamboanga. When the day comes I ‘was going in UZ technical high school I see huge buildings and my height is only 4”3 at that time. And when I enter the huge buildings. I saw many rooms and many doors UZ ths is more advantage than the other school because it has two air-condition in a room. And when I’m walking at the hall way I see that UZ ths is clean because it has many garbage cans outside. As I continue walking I see the science laboratory it has many equipment’s that can use in many activities and many experiments that other school don’t have UZ ths buildings are so big. Then I continue exploring UZ technical high school buildings it has a summit centre that can be used by the basketball members and other sports team. High school life is different because it another stage of my life. I can meet my new classmates, new teachers and friends. I think high school life is not boring because it can encourage me to study hard. And to be more responsible student. And UZ THS I can learn much in IT it is an advantage that I can use in my future...
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