...Children should experience the values of playing in a competitive sport. Playing a competitive sport at a younger age will benefit the child in the future with either the mental learning of confidence or physical advantage that can give them many opportunities to becoming successful. Children learn discipline, striving for challenges, working with others and it build s confidence. Sports give the child an activity to do and not being influenced by troubling distractions that come as they get older. Children learn more at a younger age and can give them a better advantage when competing in sports. Parents encouraging their children to get involved in competitive sports are giving them an early learning path of life skills. Discipline is an important factor when playing a sport and teaching a child this at a younger age gives them the advantage of learning responsibility. Kathiann Kowalski writes, “To do well, they must work hard and follow instructions. ‘The coach can see who's been trying their hardest’ said Mark of Bay Village, Ohio ” (17). Children can learn that rules and instructions that are followed can bring a better understanding of the game and teach them that other set rules they are given should be followed as they would if playing a sport. Competitive sports give children a way to challenge themselves in wanting to do their best. I grew up playing several sports and striving to be the best. My parents encouraged me to think of each time I played that it was my last...
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...if teleported to a new world. The unknown street names and buildings took over the area around us. Everything hit me all at once so unexpectedly, like the sound of a first lighting strike in the beginning of a storm. At that moment, nothing else mattered. This is finally happening. Andrew asked, “Do you think we will find a place to sleep every night?” Andrew was always the worried one of the bunch, but he played bass on stage he moved around like a madman. “3 weeks are a long time so probably not,” my vocalist Brandon chuckled out, “but I mean a majority of even the popular bands that go on a tour can not find a place to sleep every night so we can always just crash out in a Wal-Mart parking lot.” From my viewpoint, I could see my band member’s faces in the reflection of the rear view mirror as they all spoke about what they wanted to do at the upcoming shows; their eyes getting bigger than the cities we headed to in excitement. I still just sat there; having this profound realization in my mind while a smile slowly sprouted across my face. Over the course of 4 years, I spent more time alone in my room, sitting in an old desk chair wrapped up in duct tape to keep it from falling apart like a science experiment gone completely wrong. My summers involved not going outside to play with all the other kids, but in that room trying to perfect my craft. I began more time playing guitar in that seat writing music than I did socializing all throughout high school. I wore the same...
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...Learning Through Play In the early childhood program children learn better through the Montessori program method of play at a very early age. Teachers are well aware that an open-ended activity is a perfect way of free play. As stated on the You Tube Video, “To be defined as play the activity needs to be freely chosen by the child pleasurable not focus on an end result” (Child Care). Children learn about themselves and the environment around them. By the teacher creating open-ended activities children learn more effectively. They are able to retain what they are learning about people in different cultures and about themselves. Kids at this stage are like sponges they absorb everything around them. Having a well-trained teacher in the benefits of an early childhood education, the children have a better chance of becoming more creative and socially connected with other children. Teaching children through the Montessori method of play helps develop their language, cognitive and social-emotional abilities. Before children start the early childhood program they are in the stage of woo and dada, this does not mean that they are calling out to anyone. They are trying to express themselves by babbling to you. The older they get the more they could express what is on their minds. According to Judy Herr, “ Children around the time they are 24 to 30 months they are to identify at least six body parts and say the names of each part” (145). Children are to able express themselves to...
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...What’s the Right Age to Stop Playing Cooking Games? With the release of more compelling games comes the upsurge of online gamers. Sometimes it makes me ponder, where is this all heading? Will the online gaming obsession ever fade? And what age is considered too old when it comes to gaming? Let’s face it, despite the fact that online gaming is taking over the world; we still have innumerable questions in our heads, questions resulting from curiosity and annoyance. Annoyance if you’re a parent waiting for a miracle to make your kids stop their gaming addiction and curiosity if you’re waiting for the downfall of online gaming (which is still not happening, ever!). Is there such an age when you can nonchalantly blurt out that you have given up on gaming and have moved on to better worthwhile activities? Or is this just wishful thinking? Kids these days are hooked on online games but most girl gamers are cooking games enthusiasts. And from the looks of it, they’re not putting gaming to a halt. Putting an end to gaming addictions depends on one’s lifestyle and passions and the kind of games that they’re playing. Sometime in your life when you’re old and gray, you may have to place gaming in the back shelf. Not because you want to, but because you need to. At that point in your life, there may be tons of things to do rather than sit down and face the computer all day. When you get older, you have less luxury to enjoy everything that you want to do. You’ll have less and less free time...
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...Select character tells the story of a woman who plays his husband’s video game and in the process of playing through the entire game, gets told by the department of defense that the country needs her. Throughout the story, her husband is watching her play the game and is chastising her on what she is doing and telling her what she should be doing. The husband portrays the stereotype that females who play video games don’t know what they are doing and need constant help to get through the game. The woman has been playing the game for some time now and has developed her own way of how she wants to play it and while she tries to explain to him that she knows what she is doing and that she has done this before, he doesn’t bother to listen to her and instead continues to tell her what she should be doing. This is a...
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...Everything is taught in a simple, fun and effective way. You only require around 20 minutes of free time a week to use the program, which is enough to learn to play the ukulele. Even if you're a beginner without any experience, the program is simple enough to follow it and learn how to play the instrument. Allen's simple teaching method has touched multiple thousand people around the world. You, as well, can learn how to play ukulele no matter which kind you own (soprano, baritone,...) How blogger Jack started learning the instrument, you can check out in the video below. In it, Jack describes his experience with playing this Hawaiian instrument. He explains his experience with the instrument alone and with the lessons UkuleleBuddy: This was all about our overview of the lessons Ukulele Buddy. If you plan on learning, how to play the ukulele, simply visit Ukulelebuddy.com. If you don't own the instrument yet, we suggest you buy a soprano ukulele in the price range od 70-150$. Experts suggest instruments o f this kind for any beginners. If you want to...
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...The Most Useful Knowledge You Will Ever Need So you want to learn more about playing bass? I’m about to tell you everything you need to know on 1 sheet of paper. “I didn’t follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.” -Billy Sheehan One of my biggest sayings is that “There are no rules.” In music there are only theories. Hence the term “music theory.” The way you play an instrument is the way you interpret that instrument. Yes there are better ways, and better techniques than others. What I hope to do with just a few minutes of your life is to help you find them. So who am I? I discovered the bass in 2006. I played for youth groups, local bands, anywhere that would let me. Crowds of 5 to 5,000. The outdoor playground to the arena, and have also played and worked with Grammy & Dove award-winning artists. Oh! I also love building relationships & creating art. Now go ahead and get to it! There are 7 notes; C D E F G A B Between each note are sharps (#) and flats (b). Most commonly this is all referred to as C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, Bb, B, and then you start back over at C. To explain it more- C# could also be called Db just as F# could be called Gb. However, F could never be called Fb because there is no Fb or E#. In the case of E to F and B to C, there is only 1 half step; there are no sharps/flats there. ...
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...My coaching philosophy is laid back for sure. I believe that being a tough coach is not the way to go. I believe this because most players will not respond well to hard coaching especially in golf. Golf is all about fundamentals and staying positive. So as a golf coach I would focus on getting to know my players and making sure they are staying positive and constantly working on fundamentals and how to fix their mistakes in all sorts of positions. My practice would consist of some range time but I have found from experience that playing 9 or 18 holes a day will better players for matches. I think this because on the range you can’t really get a good experience playing the game it’s more for working on your swing and fixing bigger mistakes,...
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...the day when I was 14 years old I went to a soccer academy for the summer and I have to say that it was one of the most beautiful, memorable, marvelous experience of my life. Most people that knew me were only bringing me down, including my mother. I never really paid attention to what people had to say because all I ever wanted to do and still do is to be able to play. Only two persons believed in me and to me, that was enough. My dad and my coach were the only ones who were there pushing me to my best both mentally and physically. Although, it took me a bunch of hard work, patience, effort, perseverance and believing in myself once I was in the academy everything fell like heaven to me. Everything started in France that’s where I first started playing. One day I was playing in a tournament a semi final game, while playing against a hard team I went for the ball and I happen to get tackled and injured real badly. My mom who was watching the game was frightened of course thinking the worst that my leg was probably broken because of the swelling. The morning after, I had an appointment with the doctor and I remember him saying, “ no more soccer for the next 3 months you have a second degree sprained ankle. I’m going to need you to rest, ice, compress and elevate your foot at least 3 times a day.” I was devastated knowing that the summer and my chance to go to the academy was only a couple weeks away. My mom was really mad at me for some reason; She didn’t...
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...Introduction Think back to your childhood, perhaps you remember playing games with siblings or maybe going on a walk with your parents or something fun and happy. And then as you go through life, maybe you realize that playing isn’t as fun and maybe the colors of the earth around you aren’t as vibrant or beautiful as they used to be. That’s growing up, realizing that everything isn’t sunshine and rainbows and not everything works out. In the books The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, kids are forced to mature or grow up because society is unethical. Glass Castle In The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, Jeanette starts as a child who thinks everything is all fun and games and that there is no bad in the world, she thought everything was a fun adventure. One example of Jeanette’s innocence is in the first chapter when she gets set on fire. Instead of freaking out, she jokes around about it and when Rex took her and ran out of the hospital, she thought it was a game. In chapter 2, Jeannette says, “in my mind, Dad was perfect”, even though the reader can clearly tell that Rex is far from perfect....
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...peak performance, as stated in the chapter itself. Written with meaning and passion, the text describes the steps and state of mind necessary to enter “the zone” while playing music. If a musician does not play and blend with their music with passion, they have not yet entered “the zone”. As the author states, a musician devoting themselves to the music they play, the musician’s muscle memory and keen senses, including touch and feeling develop, especially when they...
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...the evidence that can prove otherwise. This has been a problem since video games first came around. The good side to video games, such as hand eye coordination being trained, will be talked about. The bad side, such as the violence in video games, or the addiction they cause, will also be addressed. These problems are often serious problems and can be difficult to deal with. It is worth noting that some video games can actually be good for a person to be playing—in moderation of course. The Positive Effects of Video Games One thing that video games can help train is a person’s spatial navigation. Spatial navigation is the ability to be able to know what is around you, even though you might not be looking that direction. Though often the game that trains this area the best is a first-person shooter (often violent), the player becomes more aware of their surroundings and practices being able to react different depending on their surroundings. A study done at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development shows that people playing a game called “Super Mario 64” have increased size in brain regions that are...
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...Bowl. The book states “But the entire Oklahoma Panhandle is so dry, everything is going up in flames” (Hesse 156). This book takes place in the 1930’s. The novel explains “January 1934” (Hesse 7). There were dry wheat fields and apple trees. For example, the book says “I walk with Daddy around the farm and see that the pond is holding its own, it will keep Ma’s apple trees alive, nourish her garden, help grass around it grow, enough to lie in and dream if I feel like it. . . As long as the dust doesn’t crush the winter wheat, we’ll have something to show in the spring” (Hesse 219). The ground is almost always covered with the thick blanket of dust from the dust storms. The book points out “I was sulking in the car beside my father when heaven’s shadow crept across the plains, a black cloud. . . More birds tumbled from the sky frantically keeping ahead of the dust. We watched as the storm swallowed the light. The sky turned from blue to black, night descended in an instant and the dust was on us. The wind screamed. The blowing...
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...Price 1 Tranisha Price Dr. Brennan HUMN 1002 Film Background Report Coach Carter In many sports movies there is some type of resilience and character building that takes place. Playing sports goes hand in hand with resilience and character. These two articles personally talk about the importance of these two topics which tie in with many of the events of the movie. The team in this movie overcame a lot of adversity to prove to everyone else around them that they could do better with the right motivation. They faced the fact that you play and conquer everything as a team; overcoming the bad grades of many and turning that around to get themselves into colleges so that they could pursue better things for their future. Pursuing their dreams against great odds taught them character and to stay tough and stick together through all things. When you go through many different experiences such as Timo going through the death of his older cousin he reacted in a proactive way rather than a reactive one. In Minchew’s article it states that what matters most is how we respond to life’s experiences. He states that proactive people take initiative and assume control of their lives. In the movie instead of Timo continuing on a negative route he decided to go back to the team and do something positive to stay out of trouble. Price 2 Becoming an athlete means you have to have the ability to learn from adversity and triumph over it. In Minchew’s article it states that athletes must...
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..."If You Can Count To 7, You Can Play Almost Any Tune in Existence On The Piano - By Ear" ...Using Little Known Secrets That Professional Musicians Have Been Using For Years. Dear Friend: Have you ever wondered why a professional musician is able to hear a song and almost instantaneously play that song on the piano? Is this a gift that he or she is born with? In some cases (very rare), it is. But, in most cases, this ability was learned over time. There is no magic behind this ability, but there is knowledge. Most go through years and years of trying to play piano without ever coming close to the knowledge that is required to get to this level. Best of all, you need: · · | No Experience | | No Private Lessons | And, you can work at your own pace. Imagine what it would be like to finally be able to sit down at the piano and play any song you can think of in a few minutes. Or, how about being able to make up songs that really sound good and impress others that hear them. You will finally be able to: | Hear a song and be able to figure out this tune by ear in a few minutes | | Sing a tune, and almost instantly figure it out on the piano | | Play songs without having sheet music in front of you | | Play for a band | | Play and impress friends | | Learn this valuable information without having to pay $50 or more an hour for weekly private piano lessons | This is possible. More Amazingly, this is easy to learn. As a matter of fact, once you start...
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