The Social Benefits of Sport An Overview to Inform the Community Planning Process sportscotland Research Report no. 98 Professor Fred Coalter Institute for Sports Research University of Stirling sportscotland v1‚ January 2005 This research report is one of a series of reports and summary digests available on sportscotland’s website: www.sportscotland.org.uk/ The research section is located at: www.sportscotland.org.uk/ChannelNavigation/Resource+Library/TopicNavigation/Research/
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Should Obesity be Taken More Seriously? What is obesity? Obesity is a condition where a person has accumulated so much body fat that it has caused medical conditions. Two out of every three Americans are now considered to be overweight or obese. More women become more obese in America than men. (30 million men and 36 million women)(Obesity in the U.S). Some people say that it’s not the Government’s business that people are overweight. Overweight and obesity are advancing rapidly in the
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3 Research-based Principles Guiding Watershed Management The purpose of this section is to identify various principles of watershed management that form the basis for the specific goals and implementation objectives for management of the Sudbury watershed lands during the period covered by the plan. These principles are distilled from a literature review of nearly 400 different sources‚ many of which are included in the Literature Cited listing at the back of this plan. 3.1 Principles
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How much should we trust our teachers? Schools have been going from bad to worse‚ in terms of safety. There have been a lot of shootings at schools over the years‚ but recently they have been over the top in horror. If teachers had guns‚ would the students be safer? We are going analyze schools safety‚ shootings in schools‚ and armed guards or teachers with guns. Schools have been doing a lot to limit‚ if not stop‚ the violence on school grounds. There are districts in Oklahoma that have already
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High Schools Sports in America High school sports and academics affect each other. Amanda Ripley argues that academics are suffering in “The Case Against High School Sports.” However‚ in “High School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics” Daniel Bowen and Colin Hitt argue that Ripley is wrong and sports raise test scores. Athletics distract players from learning‚ and education budgets continue to get smaller. Ripley talks about the emphasis in high school in America being more on sports and less on
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However‚ it is much more important than we know‚ as the amount of sleep acquired can be directly associated with a student’s performance in school. The amount of sleep a pupil gets‚ can determine how easy or difficult it is for the student to get the grades they aspire. Many students don’t get the recommended amount of sleep in part because of their physiology‚ busy schedules‚ and how early their school day starts. To try and help scholars work to their optimum potential‚ many schools are switching their classroom start times to later in the day
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Early school start times have been a part of everyday life‚ and it seems they may never change‚ when in reality‚ when to start school has been a controversial topic for years. But there will be a solution. High schools should adopt a later school start time. Adopting a later school start time makes many beneficial changes to our students and our community. Many people think that early school start times are helpful for our teens. For instance kids will have more time after school if it ends early
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no one wants to have life threatening problems! But‚ we children don’t watch how much sugar we digest on a daily basis‚ which leads us to a question. How does sugar affect an average middle school students heart rate and blood pressure? Do you know how many teaspoons of sugar American teens consume? BJC School Outreach and Youth Development‚ an association that offers health prevention education and career discovery chances for students‚ states‚ “According to the Journal of the American Heart Association
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As gender inequality has been a lot in the news‚ the question has been raised about if men and women should play against each other in sports. In many sports people play socially together but many do not play professional but that shouldn’t very much when it comes to men and women. Mixed sport teams do exist‚ like mixed doubles tennis‚ but this is another matter as the same number of men and women are in the team and it is one died team against another. In the remainder of this essay I will be discussing
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A young teenage girl wakes up in the morning to find herself running late for school. She hesitantly gets up and runs downstairs to quickly eat her breakfast. The young lady darts to the bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth. Soon after‚ she realizes her bus will be arriving any minute now‚ but there is no way she can miss her bus again this year. The exhausted young girl pulls out all of her clothes and makes a huge mess just so she can pick out a reasonable outfit for the day. After a long
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