History of Badminton The history of badminton can be traced back many to the games of battledore and shuttlecock which were played in ancient Greece over 2000 years ago. The game we all know as badminton began in the 19th century (1870) and was named by the Duke of Beaufort after Badminton House in Gloucestershire1. The International Badminton Federation now has its base in Gloucestershire. In England there had long been a children’s game known as "battledore and shuttlecock". Players used a paddle
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As I come to the end of my high school years and ready to move on with my life I am hit with the biggest question I have come to answer. "What do you want to major in?” It is the question that determines your future‚ and changes your entire life. It is a question that shouldn’t be taken lightly. But theres so many possible answers to this question. Do you want to be a teacher? A therapist? An engineer? My answer is nursing. When people hear of this career choice‚ they assume that it is simply just
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading the essay “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady. I thought it was so interesting how she shared her feelings on a woman’s role in society by writing her thoughts in the form of a sarcastic and yet compelling essay. She was able to make her feelings very clear without writing in a format similar to a research paper‚ listing off the unfairnesses of the lives of housewives. Also‚ I felt that the style in which she wrote this essay was especially good because she was able to list
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I want a wife Published in 1971‚ “I want a wife” written by Judy Brady illustrates successfully the role of women in marriage. Brady humorously mentions a wife’s duties which range from doing chores and tasks‚ such as laundry and cooking‚ to take care of the husband’s mental‚ physical‚ social‚ and sexual needs. The repetition of “I want a wife who will…” is used effectively to emphasis the husband’s selfishness. Brady is right when she lays out a list of what most women are expected do after
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Donya Pittman English III Period 2 Aug‚ 25‚ 10 ‘I Want a Wife’ A In 1971 when the essay “I Want A Wife” was written it was the height of the feminist movement. During this time women were rising and speaking out about the classification of themselves as second class citizens to men. Inspired by the recent amendment giving women the right to vote‚ which was in the 1940’s‚ Judy Brady‚ wrote the satirical essay ” I Want a Wife”. The purpose of the essay is to give a blatant unfair depiction
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Crisly Barcega I know I will scrape through in being a nurse. When I was looking into career options‚ nursing attracted my attention for a variety of reasons. You could go anywhere‚ work with adults‚ children‚ in public health‚ prisons‚ physicians offices‚ schools‚ factories‚ and were only limited by your level of education‚ I found that nursing could be what ever I would want to make it. People need nurses in all aspects of life and if I were to ever feel "expended out" in one area‚ I could educate
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Faculty of Medicine‚ University of Colombo Once a rich prince went to his spiritual teacher and demanded that he wanted to be happy. Not happy from the next birth‚ next year nor from tomorrow‚ but from now on. He was willing to go through the required training. Where does lasting happiness come from? Is it important for us to know it nowadays? The aim of this article is to present an experiential and pragmatic happiness formula offered by one of the greatest spiritual leaders of mankind
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SAFETY Warm up – Warming up before playing a game of badminton is vital to reduce the changes of a muscle or joint injury. To start a warm up a ‘pulse raiser’ must be done involving some form of continuous aerobic exercise to increase the heart rate. This could be a jog around the area being used‚ or if working with smaller children a game such as stuck in the mud is good to get their hearts pumping. After this it’s a good idea to do some dynamic stretches (such as sumos‚ lunges‚ etc) followed by
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difference is who is willing to take a chance.” I have always had a dream‚ which was something no one didn’t know anything about. A secret dream. A dream about become the first astronaut” astronåt" on Mars. Imagine how it will feel like to be the first human being in history to leave your footprint on the surface(søørface) of Mars? Just imagine looking up into the sky‚ and see that one of the “stars” is actually earth; the planet you were born and raised on. I have never told this to anyone‚ because at
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the United States began during early 1960’s and lasted throughout late 1970’s. The purpose of the feminist movement was to have a right to vote and have the same equal rights as male citizens. Judy Brady’s essay "I Want A Wife" first appeared in the Ms. Magazine’s inaugural issue in 1971. I believe that genre of the article is a classic piece of feminist humor and is depicted as satirical prose. In this essay Brady aims to convince her readers to look objectively at a man’s viewpoints and expectations
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