[pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] Competitive, enjoyable, great fun THE BARBADOS AMATEUR SWIMMING ASSOCIATION PRESENTS THE 24th ANNUAL AQUATIC CENTRE INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONAL GARFIELD SOBERS SPORTS COMPLEX AQUATIC CENTRE WILDEY, ST MICHAEL TEL # 246-429-7946; FAX: 246-436-2272 The Barbados Amateur Swimming Association extends a cordial invitation to you to participate in The 24thAquatic Centre
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NAME: Stellah Waithera UNIT TITTLE. QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUE Q1. A manufacture will produce two products A and B, Product has a contribution of sh 3/unit and product B has a contribution of sh 4/ UNIT. The manufacturer wishes to establish a weekly production plan which maximizes profit. the table below summarizes the factors of production requirement and their availability . Factors of production Contributor per unit PRODUCTS A machine hours Labor hours Material(kgs) B
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HISTORY OF SWIMMING Swimming has been known since prehistoric times. Drawings from the Stone Age were found in "the cave of swimmers" near Wadi Sora (or Sura) in the southwestern part of Egypt. Written references date from 2000 B.C., including Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah 25:11), Beowulf, and other sagas. In 1538 Nicolas Wynman, German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, "Colymbetes". Competitive swimming in Europe started around
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relax and feel good. Common swimming styles in recreational swimming are breaststroke, backstroke, side stroke and freestyle. Competitive swimming Some people who enjoy swimming want to take it to a competitive level. This can provide the health benefits of a vigorous workout as well as the fun and thrill of competition. The main strokes used in competitive swimming are breaststroke, freestyle, backstroke and butterfly. The distances swum in competition swimming can vary from 50 metres in a
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I started swimming class begrudgingly. I was excited to swim and improve my technique, but I wasn’t pleased about the hassle it would be to swim twice a week and go to other classes with wet hair. However, in Ms. Meissner’s swimming course I learned more than I ever thought I would about myself, my capabilities, and the stereotypes of black people and swimming. As a child I never really thought about swimming as something that I couldn't do. My parents put me in lessons pretty young, and I was
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the first indoor swimming pool being built just a year later. While it was not very popular when it first started, it started to get more popular. Now there are lots of different strokes that people can do like breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle, butterfly, elementary backstroke, combat sidestroke, sidestroke, and trudgen. While some of these strokes are not used competitively, they are all used for some specific purpose or sport. It was
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Australia, where he taught the stroke that was to become the famous Australian crawl. OLYMPIC HISTORY Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to butterfly, whose first official appearance
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Army, or swimming team. Take a sport like swimming for instance; each swimmer has a separate task but the goal is still the same. When the time comes to compete in the medley relays the team uses the strongest swimmers in each stroke (freestyle, backstroke, breast stroke, and the butterfly). In teams, individual strengths are complementary to make the team a whole. In Learning Team A’s team charter, the group acknowledges individual strengths and weaknesses to make a mental note of their diversity
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#8. What have you done to make your school or your community a better place? High School is one of the best experiences coming from my perspective. When in high school think of it as some of your last few years of being a teen, after you go into what is signified as the “Real World”. Extra curricular activities have made my experience amazing as well as making a change in the school's reputation. The idea of joining sports and joining clubs make the schools feel like a comfortable place. Joining
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devolvement. Through filmic techniques and images shine and swimming upstream connect with the action scene. David presents an intense piano piece called the Rachmanioff piano concert no 3, and tony competes in the commonwealth games performing 100m backstroke. These scenes first interconnected is when the camera angle shows the eyes of the participants, David walking to the piano and tony walking to his swimming board. Close up shots of the two boys faces indicating how focused they are revealed. This
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