Today's physical fitness environment is a far cry from where it was just a few short years ago. In fact, Americans have always been health conscious, and that line of thinking has only gotten stronger as more information has become available through various media, including the internet, and t...

The definition of physical education as in Webster dictionary is as follows: n: training in the development and care for the human body; stress athletics; includes hygiene. In 2001 nearly half of American youth's age 12-21 years old was not vigorously active on a regular basis, if fact about 1...

To be or not to be toned? Want to have a wash-board stomach? Ripped visible abs? Or how about strong, lean arms? Men and women across America strive for the perfect, flawless, and celebrity type bodies. Why do they? A physical-minded man's mentality is usually to get big and a woman's min...

If you ask almost any group of adolescent girls what they think of themselves or their physical appearance. One word you probably never hear them say as a response is perfect. An adolescent girl can always find something wrong with their appearance or just themselves in general. That is because ...

Introduction "Ok, ok. Now I don't want to get any of you excited or alarmed but I sow this on TV. This is for real. On the News today it stated that with in a year the new number one killer in America will be high fat/saturated fat." This stated by Conan O' Brien on his show...

In this new decade of provocative music and promiscuous movies, there is no way around the topic of sex no matter what the age may be, and our teenage audiences are the biggest consumers. I don't think that the decision to have sex is the toughest choice among teenagers, but the decision to be factu...

Violence is, at its core, a physical act intended to injure, damage,hurt or destroy another person. Webster's New World Dictionary also offers" great force or strength of feeling, conduct or expression; vehemence,fury" as an alternate definition. But to understand violence as a concept,one m...

Richard Heffner produced this edition of De Tocqueville's book in order to abridge and edit the original work in order to appeal to a younger audience so that more people may read it and have a knowledge of the ideas presented within. Heffner's introduction basically served to outline ...

Imagine you are waiting in a room full of people that could use some improvements in their bodies – including yourself. As you stare at yourself in the mirror, you think, "I hate the way I look." So, you turned to plastic surgery to change the person you see in the mirr...

Arabic life, in many ways, may seem unorthodox to the average American. But what may seem abnormal to us as Americans are perfectly normal for a member of an Arabic society? This has to do mainly with a culture\'s social structure. Social structure is the way people have been brought up to do things...

The education system has been failing students as time passes. In high schools, teachers fail to make students feel passionate about education. Every morning, it is the same thing, forty minutes here or an hour there to sit in a classroom and learn virtually nothing because students do not find the ...

The mission of policemen in America is to "serve and protect," but if one reviews the recent history of the police force across the country, one is forced to ask: who is doing the protecting? Africans in America are far too often the victims of police violence, and very infrequently the be...

Every day three children in the U.S. are murdered by a parent or caretaker. 18,000 are permanently disabled, and 565,000 are seriously injured every year. Child abuse kills more children in America than accidental falls, choking on food, suffocation or fires in the home (OCCAPC, sec. 1). The term \"...

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On most college campuses around America, students fall into one of two categories. They are either a student athlete, or are working while attending classes. Both have many mental, as well as physical challenges they must overcome. There are many benefits of being a college athlete. Some of the ...

On most college campuses around America, students fall into one of two categories. They are either a student athlete, or are working while attending classes. Both have many mental, as well as physical challenges they must overcome. There are many benefits of being a college athlete. Some of the ...

What is freedom? I do not know if I am sure of what freedom is yet. I believe that I have freedom, but am I really free? Freedom is one of the most important things a person can have. But the question is even though we think we are free, do we really have freedom? And if we do not have any freedom a...

Unsafe PlaygroundsOne of the major concerns in elementary physical education today that you may not even think about is playground safety. A recent survey found that almost every two-and-a-half minutes in the United States a child receives emergency medical care for a playground related injury. Th...

The pressure to be beautiful has never been so great. Turn on the television and you see ads for everything from whiter teeth to a flat stomach and even perfect vision. Housewives with cellulite, stained teeth and bad hair are transformed into super models. From Oprah to Extreme Makeover, you c...

Involvement Paper Well I'm not really sure what you want for your involvement paper, so I'll just talk about some of my journal entries. Well I was brought up catholic so I have never really gave other religions much thought. I pretty much thought that they were all ridiculous to an extent....

Fat People versus Skinny People In some countries, it would be a personal offense to be called fat or skinny, but it would also be considered breaking a code of law. In America the vast majority of people very seldom use names to describe fellow citizens; instead, physical characteristics are used....

Over two hundred years ago America was revered not only for the courageous people who helped create it physically but the ingenious people who created the very foundation for our government. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is one of the oldest documents of this kind that still ...

Gun ControlIn today’s society, one of the major problems we face is the use, and misuse of guns. Guns are deadly weapons that can change a person’s life physically and emotionally, mostly when it is not used properly. Many people possess at least one handgun either in purses or in home...

Free speech or Not Free speech- that is the Question "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the gover...

The Holocaust is likely one of the most misunderstood historical events of modern times. There are those that underestimate the extent of world knowledge about the German atrocities. There are also those whom are ignorant of the way in which the Jews reacted to their situation. The incredible ex...