Rachel P. Maines‚ Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press‚ 2009) In the book Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure‚ author Rachel P. Maines examines how an activity such as needlework shifts from industrial production to recreation. Technologies formally associated with necessary work and productivity such as gardening‚ needlework‚ hunting‚ cooking‚ and others‚ have gradually evolved into recreational
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result of developing technology and automation‚ people in the U.S. would have much more leisure than in the future. However‚ a recent survey indicates that since the early 1980s the median number of hours worked by Americans has increased by 20 percent while the amount of leisure time available to the average person has dropped by 32 percent. According to the survey‚ this trend toward less and less leisure time has been steady and unwavering. 1. Discuss some possible causes and consequences
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FCE SPEAKING EXAM PRACTICE JOBS Look at pictures A and B and describe the jobs the two people people are doing. doing. Picture A shows … whereas picture B shows … They both show… They remind me of… Additional discussion questions What difficulties do you think the person in picture B faces in her working day? I imagine … Also‚ I suppose … Do you think the job in picture A is as glamorous and exciting as it looks? looks? It depends … The best thing about it is … but … / Personally‚ I think that
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SOCIAL STUDIES SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT TITLE: THE LEISURE TIME OF TEENAGERS IN MY COMMUNITY? Name of candidate: Romario Tulloch School: Excelsior High School Territory: Jamaica Names of teacher:Mrs.McEARON Candidate number:100033 Year of Examination:2015 ACKNOWLEDEGMENT First I would like to give gods the praise for giving the strength and courage to start my Sba.This sba completion
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experience tourism they usually need at least:- 1. disposable income‚ ie. money to spend on non-essentials 2. leisure time 3. tourism infrastructure‚ such as transport and accommodation. 4. Other factors such as health and motivation to travel are also important. Tourism has become a highly popular global leisure activity. Increased disposable income and leisure time‚ the development of transport and accommodations‚ low cost air fares‚ emerging markets and expanding economies
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conspicuous leisure? Examples of conspicuous leisure are abundant on television. In what ways are leisure activities informed by social and economic class? Provide an example of a popular leisure activity. What assumptions can you make about the participants of the activity? Conspicuous leisure is somewhat similar to conspicuous consumption. Conspicuous leisure is what happens when a person chooses leisure activities based on wealth and social status. The main purpose of conspicuous leisure is if someone
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Definition of Sport Sport is part of a broad range of activities encompassed by the term leisure and undertaken in what we would describe as our leisure time. Defining leisure is a difficult thing to do since it depends to an extent on the perceptions of the individual participants. The same activity can be leisure to one person but not to another. The European Sport for All Charter (Council of Europe‚ 1980) divided sport into four broad categories. | |
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The graph description of the table on the Participation in Selected Leisure Activities of Girls and Boys |Leisure activities |Girls age 5-14 |Boys age 5-14 | |Skateboarding or rollerblading |25 |39 | |Bike riding |58
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is conspicuous leisure? Examples of conspicuous leisure are abundant on television. In what ways are leisure activities informed by social and economic class? Provide an example of a popular leisure activity. What assumptions can you make about the participants of the activity? b. Conspicuous leisure is taking long vacations to exotic places for the sake of displaying a type of social status. This is not limited to just exotic places but doing or participating in leisure activates that one
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Today‚ ninety percent of American households possess a television and the average American home has more television sets than people. The average daily viewing time per adult in the United States is 4.5 hours‚ making television the most important leisure activity among Americans (Bruni and Stanca). In the United States‚ most television viewing is done alone. People devote more time to watching television than they do talking with their spouse or playing with their children and one third to one half
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