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Teach A Beginning Swimmer Strokes To Teach A Beginning Hands
724 words
The breaststroke is the oldest known swimming
stroke and is one of four strokes used in
competitive swimming. This stroke is also very
popular in leisure swimming because the head can
be held up, making vision and breathing easy and
because the swimmer can rest between strokes if
needed. Swimmers can also use the breaststroke in
survival swimming and in lifesaving situations.
Since the breaststroke has many uses and is easy
to learn, it is one of the best strokes to teach a
beginning swimmer. Wh...
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Stay Healthy Regular Basis
757 words
Free dive spear fishing is a very enjoyable sport.
This great outdoor sport is a perfect way to keep
the body very healthy. It can effect the body in
many positive ways. It works as a great
cardiovascular exercise; a great way to relieve
stress; and a delicious way to get the proper
nutrients the body needs to stay healthy. The
first effect that free dive spear fishing has on
the body is the way it allows the body to stay in
shape with its demanding cardiovascular work out.
Spear fishing require...
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Building Endurance Hartl Swimmers Should Eat Swimming
408 words
Training for the sport of swimming requires a lot
of time, proper health, and a positive attitude.
In a normal week a swimmer spends fifteen hours in
the pool so about two to three hours a day.
(Hartl). Each swim practice is broken down into
different parts. The first part swimmers spend
twenty to thirty minutes on warm-up. (Crouse,
Hartl). The second part concentrates twenty
minutes to drills which teaches proper technique.
(Crouse). The next hour to a hour an a haft
focuses on condition and bu...
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Swimming Pool Ice Cream
771 words
One of the best vacation spots and most fun are
down the shore in Wildwood, New Jersey. Wildwood
consists of a boardwalk with tons of rides and
fun, a beach with a beautiful ocean, and little
summerhouses with ocean-side views. The best
attractions though would probably be located on
the boardwalk. There are so many things to see and
do. Although its rather costly, its well worth it
and its a great place for a family to share
quality time together. The boardwalk is consisted
of shops, arcades, a...
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Cross Country Olympic Games
839 words
The Modern Pentathlon The Pentathlon is a contest
of 5 sports- jumping, running, wrestling, throwing
the discus and hurling the spear or javelin that
occurred between the same contestants on the same
day. The contestant who won three events was
considered the victor; but that was in the Ancient
Greek times, now the modern day Pentathlon is very
different. The sports The sports that make up the
modern Pentathlon became part of the Olympic Games
in 1912 at Stockholm, Sweden. The modern contest
inc...
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Spinal Cord Fresh Water
581 words
Schistosomiasis (also known as Bilharzia) is a
disease caused by small parasitic flatworms,
species of trematodes of the family
Schistosomatidae, which are commonly called blood
flukes. The major types that cause schistosomiasis
in humans are Schistosoma mansoni leading to
intestinal schistosomiasis, S haematobium leading
to urinary schistosomiasis and S. japonicum
leading to Oriental or Asiatic intestinal
schistosomiasis. Persons can get schistosomiasis
when their skin comes in contact with con...
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College Football Rivalry Between Ohio And Michigan
883 words
The first is that a person always, if possible,
buys an automobile that was made in the U. S. A.
The other is to always root for The University of
Michigan to beat Ohio State in any sporting event.
I am not always very good at doing the first; my
financial situation tends to overshadow my desire
to buy American. But I am always able to uphold
the second, no matter what is at stake. Michigan
is a far superior school than Ohio State in a
number of ways. Michigan dominates Ohio State when
it comes ...
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Central Nervous System Motor Control
1,145 words
Sport Skill Sports skill learning has always been
concerned with the acquisition of new skills with
practice. This emphasis has been blended somewhat
with the field of motor control, so that the ideas
about the how skills are learned and particularly
how they are performed differently after practice
were an important emphasis. The concern has been
to understand the principles by which these new
skills were acquired and to develop theories that
would account for them. For example, Swimming is a
c...
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Surface Of The Water Arms And Legs
1,892 words
Learning How to Swim Swimming is one of the
greatest abilities that a human may possess.
Swimming is act of moving in the water using body,
arms and legs, by moving in a certain kind of
motions called strokes. This ability to swim
usually is present in each and every human kind
from the day they are born but in order to do it
well some exercises and practice is necessary.
Some scientists believe that human beings are born
with an instinctive ability to use their arms and
legs to stay afloat. Tha...
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Time In Her Life Speaks Of Rivers
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Nature and the Human Soul: The Shackles of Freedom
Langston Hughes and Kate Chopin use nature in
several dimensions to demonstrate the powerful
struggles and burdens of human life. Throughout
Kate Chopin^s The Awakening and several of
Langston Hughes^ poems, the sweeping imagery of
the beauty and power of nature demonstrates the
struggles the characters confront, and their
eventual freedom from those struggles. Nature and
freedom coexist, and the characters eventually
learn to find freedom from ...
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Didn Acute T Doesn Acute T
1,173 words
The problem that faced Baz Luhrmann when he was
directing the new version of Romeo and Juliet was
that he didn´ t know whether there would be
an audience for Shakespearean stories in a modern
culture. So Luhrmann didn´ t make this film
with the old-fashioned, Shakespeare purist in
mind. Instead, by using lively, modern images
(swimming pool etc. ) with a modern rock
soundtrack and young good-looking popular actors,
he has taken Romeo and Juliet to an audience that
would normally thin...
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Time In Her Life Speaks Of Rivers
1,838 words
Langston Hughes and Kate Chopin use nature in
several dimensions to demonstrate the powerful
struggles and burdens of human life. Throughout
Kate Chopin's The Awakening and several of
Langston Hughes poems, the sweeping imagery of the
beauty and power of nature demonstrates the
struggles the characters confront, and their
eventual freedom from those struggles. Nature and
freedom coexist, and the characters eventually
learn to find freedom from the confines of
society, oneself, and finally freedo...
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Jaques Cousteau Juan Ponce Named
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Jaques Cousteau Jaques Cousteau was born June 11,
1910 in France. His father Daniel, a lawyer worked
for Eugene Higgins. His mother Elizabeth looked
after him andes brother Pierre. Jaques Cousteau
loved the water. As a child, he would place his
hands inthe water to feel the current over his
fingers. Unlike other children, young Jaques could
not play in the ocean or run along the beaches
because he warwick. Jaques had to remain inactive
to stay healthy. At age 7, Jaques turned tothe
world of book...
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Buried Alive Harry Houdini
1,174 words
King of Handcuffs The man known world wide as the
most famous magician of all time, Harry Houdini,
was born March 24, 1874 in Budapest. Although
Houdini often claimed to be born in Appleton,
Wisconsin, Houdini actually came to the United
States when he was four years old. In later years,
in a magazine interview, Houdini said, ? the
greatest escape I ever made was when I left
Appleton, Wisconsin. ? Houdini? s actual name was
Ehrich Weiss. His father was Mayer Samuel Weiss.
He was a Rabbi for the ...
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Buried Alive Harry Houdini
1,173 words
The man known world wide as the most famous
magician of all time, Harry Houdini, was born
March 24, 1874 in Budapest. Although Houdini often
claimed to be born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Houdini
actually came to the United States when he was
four years old. In later years, in a magazine
interview, Houdini said, ? the greatest escape I
ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin. ?
Houdini? s actual name was Ehrich Weiss. His
father was Mayer Samuel Weiss. He was a Rabbi for
the German Zoin Jewish...
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Back And Forth Pine Trees
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As a child, on any hot, sunny summer day there was
always a good chance that my family and I would be
going swimming. Going to our cousins? house to
swim in their pond were exciting times. We parked
in their driveway and walked through the very tall
pine trees that went up as far as the eye could
see and as far down. The trees seemed like an
entrance into another world. If I looked up, I
barely saw the tips of the trees swaying back and
forth by a light breeze. I faintly smelled the
light scent ...
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Gold Medal Los Angeles
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Olympic Olympic Legends Tristan Yapuncich Olympic
Legends 9 / 21 / 00 Olympic Legends There are many
important Olympic athletes. Three of the most
amazing, however, are probably Jim Thorpe,
Florence Griffith Joyner, and Mark Spitz. These
legends were super athletes as well, as amazing
people. Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a
one-room cabin in Oklahoma. Although there is much
confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the
date according to his estate. The career biography
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Law Of Inertia Second Example
974 words
Presently scientist are conducting research to
help people gain new techniques in swimming. While
scientists continue research for new swimming
techniques, scientist must start with early
techniques of swimming as a sport and part of
life. Learning how to swim is not easy. However,
swimming is physics. There are laws, buoyancy,
drags and motions. To become a good swimmer one
should take initiative to learn how certain
techniques evolved. This report will state a brief
summary of the physics of s...
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Naturally Occurring El Nino
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The signature Species of the Southern Hemisphere
(Antarctica) the mascot if you will is the
penguin. There are not one and no fewer than
seventeen species of penguins. Penguins are
flightless birds in which several factors are
contributing to the reduction of the penguin
population. These contributing factors are both
man-made and naturally occurring. ? The origin of
the word? penguin? has been the subject of debate
for a long period of time. Researchers and
historians? theories range from refer...
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19 Th Century Learn To Swim Swimming
485 words
Swimming Swimming is the act of moving through the
water by using the arms, legs, and body in motions
called strokes. The most common strokes are the
crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and
sidestroke. Some scientists believe that human
beings are born with an instinctive ability to use
their arms and legs to stay afloat. That instinct,
however, disappears within a few months after
birth. Later in life many children and adults
learn to swim in order to be safe around the
water, to have f...
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