Essays on Volleyball

Very few activities are such that they give many feelings at the same time. I believe that sport is one such activity. It gives a thrill, excitement, joy, defeat, failure, sadness, distress, anticipation, and many other feelings at different points in time. Such a wide range of experience is what makes me like sports as the discourse community of my interest. I enjoy watching sports, and I would even love to be a part of some major sports. Ever since I was a child, I watched my father and my uncles watch different games. They introduced me to various ...

Beach volleyball as a sport has evolved to be included as part and parcel of the mainstream sporting world. There are a variety of standard tests that are used to reveal the core requirements expected of the beach volleyball players. The most important trait expected of a player in this field is the jumping ability. Here, there are two major tests conducted to examine the requirements of the players. These are the Squat Jump (SJ) and countermovement jump (CMJ). The former is a test that reveals the players’ concentric strength and power, while the latter test is a measure ...

The John Orwell Sports Centre

The John Orwell Sports Centre is situated in the center of Wapping. The center facilities contain a tailor made fifty-five plus station gym which presents an astonishing view of the ever changing London skyline, an extensive selection of complimentary weights and a group workout studio scheduling daily classes.  The facility’s personal trainers are readily available to assist people in achieving their health and fitness objectives, whatever they may be (Chadwick, 2012). The facility has a well-known four court sports hall with markings for basketball, badminton, and volleyball and also has an outside Astroturf pitch for hockey and football ...

WRTG 393 Advanced Technical Writing

Dear Members of the Board, I am enclosing my research report into the aftermath of injuries in our youth, from which changes are needed to protect not only our children’s health better but also their future. I have received and documented information from multiple credible sources that establish the overuse, misuse and turning of a blind eye to injuries our youth are undergoing, while parents along with coaches continuing to enable it. I am interested in meeting with you to discuss this matter further and would welcome any opportunity you are available to do such. ...

v. Ocean City SEACRETS, INCORPORATED; Leighton W. Moore, Jr.,

Defendants-Appellees.

Top Four (4) Facts: Fact1: Ocean City Seacrets had put the necessary precautions to guard against customers’ injuries, especially diving, which is relevant to the case in question; the defendant exercised the duty of care. Reason fact is important: First off, it is clear that Ocean City Seacrets hosted many customers or rather invitees, the Mahons included; therefore, it owed them the duty of care. The necessary measures were taken to prevent guests from diving since the water was not suitable for diving. A total of nine ‘NO DIVING’ signs ...

The history of the sand volleyball is dated form the 1920s and the place where it emerged was California, more specifically Santa Monica. The beaches of this city were the first to get courts for beach volleyball and members of families played with six members on each team. In 1927 sand volleyball was established in France in a camp for nudists. There was the escalation of popularity of this sport during the 1930s. California was the place where everything happened for the first time regarding sand volleyball where the first match between two men was played. Sand volleyball appeared ...

1. Introduction Bulgaria is located between the Turkey and Romania in the Southeastern Europe and has a variety of different sports practiced by its citizens. The country of more than seven million citizens has been part of the summer and winter Olympics game from their early start. In the country the most popular sports are football - soccer, volleyball, various different gymnastics, wrestling, weight lifting and others. There are various different sport figures popular in the country, but they do not fully address the international sporting achievements of Bulgaria on the international level. The paper will present the country’ ...

Summary of the main themes of the field study

Violence in sports-sports is often marred by violence and other forms of hooliganism. Sports fans in most cases take their passion for the game to extreme heights where they turn a blind eye to the sensibility and decorum. The numerous fights are a clear demonstration of violence in sports. Qualitative research offers firsthand information regarding field incidences (Corbin & Strauss, 2014). Intolerance in the game-while sports acts as a uniting factor in the society. It is often full of intolerance. Fans normally find it too hard to withstand contentious decisions that go against them. As a result, the referees are ...

Volleyball Officiating

Volleyball Officiating Officiating is a central aspect of any sporting activity. It is the avenue through which the winner of any sporting event is decided. In volleyball, referees play a significant role in ensuring that the players observe the rules of the game and ensure that the competing teams do so fairly.

As a referee selected to officiate a game where the teams are made up of young people, I should not only act as an official but also as a special trainer. This is because I will help the learners know more about volleyball. The officiating in this ...

Character & Fitness – Temple College

During one semester of the 2002-2003 school year, I was placed on academic probation at Temple College. I compare my tenure at Temple College as the first time I tried to jump rope: it looks easy, but if you do not stay calm and focused, you can quickly get tangled up in the rope. My family was the rope in this analogy. In order to get untangled and move at a consistent pace again, you must slow down and refocus. I was eventually able to untangle myself, but I needed to unwind and sort out all the chaos in ...

Whole Class Grade IV Literacy Lesson Plan

A Grade 4 school adviser, Kate Rollins, has been very keen on observing her class of 40 students in terms of academic achievement and physical development as part of the school curriculum. Kate’s students are children of well-off parents. Some of the students are well-behaved, while some are too naughty who likes bullying classmates. One of her students is Ruby Cruz, a typical quiet student who sometimes prefers to be alone and just watch his classmates play. The teachers of Grade 4 students find Ruby very good in conduct as she is not a noisy and bully student. ...

Introduction

My name is ENTER NAME. The school that I will be representing is Georgia State University (Not to be confused with the University of Georgia Bulldogs). Georgia State University—also referred to as Georgia State or State—is public commuter school located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The university was founded in 1913 initially as a night school but grew to a full-time university in the later 1940s. State is a part of the University System of Georgia's four research universities and has over 32,000 undergraduate and graduate students as of fall 2015 (Georgia State University: ...

Part 1

The study does not include a direct research question or hypotheses. Rather, it has an objective and several aims. Its objective was to outline an epidemiology of high school associated ligamentous ankle sprains in the United States (U.S.). The aims include a description of aspects linked with ligamentous ankle injuries, patterns of ankle injury through particulate ligaments, and the rates of ligamentous ankle injury per sport. The partakers of this investigation were sporting girls and boys of participating schools, which were selected on a basis of their trainers. These schools were 100 in number. Thus, participants were in a ...

Introduction

Sport is one of the recognized means of promoting individual and communal health and wellness. However, the goal of deaf sports goes beyond this simple understanding to a more sophisticated form of social interaction. It is estimated that “one in every 1000 children” possess acute hearing loss at birth (Hopper). The diminished hearing capability during the formative years considerably hampers the acquisition of speech and language skills in individuals. Thus, the majority of deaf people exhibit stunted growth in cognitive, social and academic levels. This scenario changed radically with the advent and extensive adoption of deaf sports across the ...

I must confess that I really liked the way you started your essay. However, you seemed bent upon influencing your readers that you want them to accept your view on the advantages of video games. Video games do have certain advantages; like the on you mentioned about critical thinking and hand-eye coordination. However, it just doesn’t seem right when you say that videogames build teamwork and developing communicative skills. I also find that you have contradicted your own view on the benefit of video games when you mentioned ‘The Call of Duty.’ ...

1. The CEO Role in Management

Imagine that you are the CEO of an organization. Give specific examples of how you would use the four functions of management -- Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling.  How do the functions tie together for a Chief Executive Officer? 

As a CEO of an organization, one has to be involved in the various plans of the company. For example, in designing a marketing plan for a new product, one must decide who will be the person in-charge of the project. One must try to get suggestions as to who should compose the team who will create the ...

1. Life achievements and success are determined by the number of hurdles an individual is able to jump. Academics is one such hurdle but with many challenges that require intelligence, wisdom, dedication and self motivation, among other aspects. It is the dream of each individual to obtain the highest possible achievement in academics. However, academic success requires one to systematically climb up a ladder from the lowest position and get promotion with each success in the preceding stages I am helpful, diligent, trustworthy and cooperative. I consider myself to be a social person and outgoing. I easily make friends and ...

The U.S. Department of Corrections is reeling with a multitude of issues that are caused by the overflowing prison population. A little over ten percent of the nation’s population languishes in prisons across the nation. Despite harsher laws being passed often, career criminals keep pushing their luck and eventually end up right where they started. It is advocated that the core issue for recidivism is lack of education, drug abuse and poverty. However, there have been examples of people who gave up crime and were successful. The common characteristics in these extraordinary former inmates is that they chose to ...

English

DORM LIFE VS. HOME LIFE Introduction A college is a very exciting experience and it is worth noting that for most students, it is their first chance of becoming independent and living away from their home under the care of their parents. There are several living arrangements for college students. These include; rental homes, off campus or on campus apartments as well as dorms (Honari, Goudarzi, & Heidari, 2010). There are some colleges that requires their students to live on campus while others provides more option for an individual student. There are pros and cons associated with each, hence ...

At the age of four, I had not learnt to associate with many of my peers; solitary life overwhelmed me, but not to despair point. Car dolls made ease of my environments and still squandered my childish time, but still, unwelcomed animates of diverse species categories, particularly the arthropods from classes of insects, mollascus and a few mammalian pets, amphibians and reptiles made part of my environment. I definitely developed a unique character by getting interested with them, initially watching butterflies hovering in the air as they did their mediocre plays; in fierce struggles, I touched, rolled them, and even molested ...

Soccer

Defensive Strategies Defensive strategies in soccer can be carried out as an individual player or as a team. Individual defensive strategies include man to man marking strategy. This occurs where individual players ensure that they have their opponent players “marked”; hence, not offering the opponents a chance to control the game and score goals. On the other hand, team defensive strategies in soccer are evident in cases where a team puts tremendous pressure on the opponents when they are in possession of the ball.

Offensive Strategies

Offensive strategies in soccer align with the need to create and sustain more possession. The most basic ...

Procedures.

Warm Up (5 minutes). The teacher asks students about differents kind of sports they know: - what kind of sports do you like? - have you tried all those sports? - do you enjoy watching championships? - do you know some kind of weird sports from other countries? - are there some kinds of sports you would like to try? - why haven't you tried it yet?

Development.

The teachers tells about national sports of different countries. A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be ...

In school, I was a part of various extra-curricular activities. One of them was being a part of the Student Government. I was in charge of all the cultural programs held. I, along with the help of various other students, organised many successful events such as the event of donation for the poor and needy and the 4th of July celebrations. I made sure that all students were given an opportunity to participate in such cultural programs. Another club I had gained an interest towards was the Prepharmacy club. Because of this club, I learnt a lot of knowlegde about the ...

There are several ways to improve the volley ball serve and increase the likelihood that it will result in an ace or a serve that cannot be returned and results in a point for the offensive team. The main goal when seeking to increase the likelihood that a serve results in an ace is to minimize the time the ball spends in the air and increase the speed of the ball. This will reduce the amount of time the opposing team has to react, forcing them to react faster than their normal reaction time would dictate. In this analysis of the kinematics ...

Real time kinematic of volley ball

There is several ways to improve the volley ball serve, that is time spend on air should be reduced. Due to this there won’t be any time to react for the opponent team. This will make the opponent team to react faster than the normal one. In this analysis of kinematic of volley ball, the ball spends in air should be reduced, when the serve of volley ball is made. In order to setup the analysis of kinematic of volley ball, we should consider several variables in the analysis. The schematic diagram will show the top view ...

Soccer

Defensive Strategies Defensive strategies in soccer can be carried out as an individual player or as a team. Individual defensive strategies include man to man marking strategy. This occurs where individual players ensure that they have their opponent players “marked”; hence, not offering the opponents a chance to control the game and score goals. On the other hand, team defensive strategies in soccer are evident in cases where a team puts tremendous pressure on the opponents when they are in possession of the ball.

Offensive Strategies

Offensive strategies in soccer align with the need to create and sustain more possession. The most basic ...

Through ages, humankind has invented and practiced an array of sports for leisure or competitive purposes. Among the most popular sports across the world are ball sports such as soccer, basketball, volleyball, basketball and handball, whose popularity varies from region to region, with the largest fan base being found in the country of origin of the respective sports. This classification essay explores football, volleyball and basketball as some of the most popular ball sports in the world. One classification of ball games is soccer, one of the most popular games across the world, attracting millions of fans worldwide. ...

Louisa May Alcott’s quote ‘It takes two flints to make a fire’ never seemed realistic to me during my early days. I never believed in working with others in becoming successful. This was until when I became a team captain of a renowned country volleyball team. My journey to success started when I was young, and could accompany my mother to coach her volleyball team. I used to admire the players as I watched every style, difference in the application of techniques, and skills. My passion developed with watching the team work depicted by my mother’s team until I ...

Introduction

Olympic Games emanated from the Greek City of Olympia where they were held every four years between the month of August and September. This period was referred to as Olympiad and was used to measure time. According to tradition, the first Olympic Games were invented by Hercules and throughout the years the games have been carried out to date. The first Ancient Olympic Games were dated way back 776 BC where the first Champion was Coroebus, a cook from Elis who won the sprint race. Initially, Olympics only featured one event that involved race termed as stade that measured about ...

Introduction

The body is made up of various organ systems which perform various functions. One of this is the urinary system which is responsible for excretion of various metabolic wastes. An important organ in the urinary system is the kidney. In the kidney, blood undergoes ultra filtration; nutrients such as glucose are reabsorbed back while waste products such as urea and excess water form urine which is excreted. The kidney maintains electrolyte and water balance in the body. During sustained physical activity, the body looses a lot of water through sweating. This disrupts the electrolyte balance in the body and leads ...

Admission Essay

I am genuinely excited to be applying to your university and hope that you will consider me favorably for admission. Overall, I would describe myself as an excellent student and have a good relationship with my teachers and peers. I have a strong aptitude for business this is what I am hoping to study as an undergraduate. I moved to America from Latvia when I was 11 because my family was hoping for a better life than was possible there at that time. It was very difficult for me to adjust to a different culture and education system, especially because I did not ...

Buffalo news is one of the leading newspapers circulated in the Buffalo NY and Niagara Falls Metropolitan region. The Buffalo News was found in 1873 by Edward Hubert Butler Sr and was initially started as a Sunday newspaper. The Buffalo News has been three time Pulitzer Prize winner and was a nominated finalist on four times. It has won numerous statewide awards, in competition with the New York City papers among other renowned newspapers in the market (Buffalonews.com). Buffalo.com was launched in 1999 and it has been one of the busiest websites in the Western New York area. Some of the ...

When I consider my long list of achievements throughout High School, it is extremely difficult to pick just one that I am most proud of. I chose to make the absolute best of my time in school and enjoyed a number of extra-curricular activities. I place a lot of importance upon these activities as I believe that school is as much about the social and emotional development of a young person as it is academically. That said; I pride myself on being a hard-working student who always gives their best at all times. I do not see the point in turning up and ...

When I was thirteen, my family sent me to America to complete my education. My Father told me that an American education is my ticket to success as English is one of the most spoken languages in the world. I seized my chance as an opportunity to make my dream of becoming a businessman come true. My Father owns a hazelnut business in Turkey and I hope to make him proud by, one day, exporting the product to America.

My Father is a huge inspiration in my life: as a child, I didn’t know why he was constantly surrounded by friends, family ...