Volleyball Study Guide History YMCA Director William G. Morgan developed the game of volleyball in 1895 in Holyoke‚ Massachusetts. It was devised as a recreational activity for businessmen who wanted a game that had less physical contact than basketball. Morgan originally called the game “mintonette”. Dr. George Fisher is known as the “father of volleyball” for his organization of the United States Volleyball Association (USVBA) which was established in 1928. Volleyball was introduced to the
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Buying into the Green Movement What are you doing to help our environment? Are you recycling because it positively impacts the environment‚ or are you recycling because it is trendy? According to Alex Williams essay‚ “Buying into the Green Movement‚” companies are turning an environmental movement into a fashion statement. Many people are only buying eco-friendly products because television and magazines advertise the movement as a new trend. The eco-friendly fashion statement is actually making
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Compare and contrast William James and G. Stanley Hall’s contributions to psychology. William James was born from a wealthy family‚ from supportive parents were provided with the best educational opportunities at the time. Early on was interested in painting‚ love literature‚ entered in the Harvard School of Medicine. After traveling to the Amazon with naturalist Louis Agassiz‚ contracted measles and his experience was not as positive as he expected. Depression took over him and marched for Germany
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inspired by constructivist and experiential learning ideas of Jean Piaget. Piaget’s theory of constructivist learning has had wide ranging impact on learning theories and teaching methods in education and is an underlying theme of many education reform movements. Research support for constructivist teaching techniques has been mixed‚ with some research supporting these techniques and other research contradicting those results. Constructivism is a theory of knowledge (epistemology)[1] that argues that
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but they probably don’t know all of it. Such as the inventor‚ the name and background‚ or even the rules and regulations. William G. Morgan invented volleyball in 1895. Just four years after James Naismith invented basketball. He was born in Lockport‚ New York on January 23‚1870. William was the oldest‚ and smartest‚ of his his siblings. Although he was raised in New York William moved Springfield‚ Illinois for college. He later married Mary King Caldwell. They had four children together. He went
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David Hochheim Markets‚ Bureaucracies‚ and Clans William G. Ouchi (1980) The text „Markets‚ Bureaucracies‚ and Clans “ written by William G. Ouchi in 1980 describes these three modes of control for forming an organization. At first William G. Ouchi aks the question what an organization really is. He refers to different authors‚ who are answering this question. At first he refers to March and Simon’s (1958) who a taking the aspect in consideration‚ that an organization “will exist so
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Within William G. Roy’s passage ‘‘Race records’’ and ‘‘hillbilly music’’: institutional origins of racial categories in the American commercial recording industry‚ Roy explores the relationship between cultural segregation and race and how they are deeply intertwined and are reciprocal relationships. Roy utilizes a plethora of rhetorical devices to showcase how homology among societal structures creates racial segregation in music and in turn how racial segregation also parallels the
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Melisse Valeton American History 1 8 November 2012 Antebellum Reform The antebellum period was a time of many reforms throughout the US. A change in the society and ones views on the US. During this period there were movements that a plethora of reformers used to change the US into a more democratic place. Reformers looked at the US as it having many evils that needed to be eliminated‚ such as slavery‚ alcohol‚ women rights and jails. They took many approaches and strategies in order to improve
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mission movement to spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth. This organization has grown and changed over the last few centuries with influences from many God-fearing men and women. These people have shaped the mission board that we have today and have helped carry out the Great Commission that each Christian is called to They were 3 of the most influential men during the start of the missions movement in its early formations from early to mid 1800s. The Father of the Great mission movement is usually
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It was located in the Ottoman Empire and was a way of updating imperial laws. This new movement led to the creation of a new government and new laws. Although this movement was for the good of the Ottoman Empire‚ some people didn’t like it and resisted it‚ which led to very long reforms. Reforms in Imperial Policies: China’s Self-Strengthening movement- China’s Self-Strengthening movement began in the late 19th century. It was a way of industrializing against Western Imperialism. China
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