individual and I will prevail” My artistic craving started to lean towards the legendary surf and skate illustrators of the 1970’s to 1990’s. The Skateboarding‚ Surfing and rock & roll art of the 3 decades was by three illustrators‚ Jim Phillips‚ Vernon Courtlandt Johnston and Mark Gonzalez. Within this essay I will be looking at the History of Skateboarding through the 50’s to the 80’s. Skateboard graphics can be humorous‚ controversial‚ political‚ abstract‚ thought provoking and even collectable
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When the word “skateboarding” pops up‚ what comes to mind? Skateboarding has been around since the early 1950’s‚ when surfers wanted a way to mimic surfing without the water. Skateboarding then‚ was known as “sidewalk surfing” to many local skateboarders. The name “sidewalk surfing” comes from skateboarders wanting to do surfing-like maneuvers while traveling at a high rate of speed. Then 1950’s were the opening era of skateboarding‚ but it was not very popular at this time. Many people disliked
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Hallo »guys«! Today i’m going to talk about skateboarding because it is something that keeps me happy and relaxed at once. So the history of skateboarding is really long. First skateboard was probably invented in early 50’s when one day surfers couldn’t surf because the waves were flat‚ so they took a wooden board and roller-skate wheels and put them together. From then skateboarding became really popular‚ first in US and then all over the world. It was developing really quickly. People started
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representations of police work. As a result‚ a complex relationship exists between media consumption and public attitudes towards the police. The purpose of this study is to test the impact that media consumption has on attitudes toward police misconduct. The research design proposed for use in this study would be the experimental design‚ a two-group‚ posttest-only‚ randomized experiment. Introduction The public impression of police use of force‚ as brutality‚ in modern day policing continues to be a sensitive
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Perception in public speaking can mean the difference between a standing ovation or being booed off the stage. How you come across to someone‚ or how someone perceives you‚ is an important part of the feedback loop in the communication process. Your perceptions shape the way you interpret or decode a speaker’s message. Then you form a reaction‚ whether it is verbal or nonverbal in nature. Whether you cheer words of encouragement‚ agreeing with the speaker‚ or whether you cross your arms and shake
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Prejudice and Public Perception After September 11‚ Americans have a negative point of view towards people from Arab Nations and all Muslims in the world. Most of the people get the wrong perception about Islam because they lack of knowledge of how this religion works. Middle Eastern people face prejudice today because of the public’s lack of understanding of their religious beliefs‚ their treatment of women‚ and the perception of their being terrorists. One of the reasons why the
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Skateboarding as a sport Another important discussion is whether skateboarding can be considered a subculture more than a sports activity wherein different subculture participate. As shown in some of the reports in the state of the art (Johns 2011; Van der Rijt et al. 2002) skaters were not significantly more involved in marijuana use than other cultures‚ but as Nielsen and co. found it is possible that participating in several subcultures that acknowledge a particular behavior make the individual
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Did you know that skateboarding came from surfing? That is why people call it “sidewalk surfing”.The very first skateboards were actually kinda like scooters‚ with roller skate wheels attached to a two by four. Once the scooter like piece was broken off‚ the skateboard was born.Skateboards started with the old clay wheels and now with some improvement‚ “In 1972‚ Frank Nasworthy invented urethane skateboard wheels‚ which are similar to what most skaters use today” (Cave). Urethane wheels was made
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Today I am going to be talking about the history of Skateboarding. Skateboarding first appeared in the 1950’s. It started when California surfers wanted to surf when the waves were flat. Nobody really knows who invented skateboarding‚ people just had similar ideas. People would take the wheels off of roller-skates and attached to a two by four. They realized that skateboarding could recreate the feeling of riding a wave. It was during this time that modifications were made to the trucks making
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Skateboarding has rich history of innovation and is full of intriguing stories. Many of these stories are documented in this book in great detail. However‚ this essay will provide you with an overview of the last nine decades. The first type of skateboards were actually more like scooters. These contraptions‚ which date back to the early 1900’s featured roller skate wheels attached to a two by four. Often the wood had a milk crate nailed to it with handles sticking out for control. Over the next
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