damaging to students. (competitive sports: are they a good or bad thing) In an article by Sports Performance Consultant Dr. Alan Goldberg‚ he claims‚ “Coaches and parents‚ who have lost their perspective of the game and don’t really understand the true purpose of youth sports‚ end up turning the game and competition into a pressure-filled nightmare for kids” (Goldberg paragraph 7). Kids crack under pressure and there is no avoiding that issue. A parent or coach does not have the right to push a child
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The Gershwin biographer Isaac Goldberg wrote in 1931 that with the Rhapsody in Blue‚ George Gershwin "fired the jazz shot heard round the world." This symphonic jazz concerto may be the most famous piece of American classical music. Undoubtedly the most famous classical work of its own time‚ it was a serious concert work that contained elements of popular music in the 1920s including the style of jazz. Gershwin’s Rhapsody even remains a part of American popular culture today; its famous themes are
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groups of personality comprising of‚ high neuroticism group‚ low neuroticism group‚ high extraversion group‚ and low extraversion group from 386 undergraduate psychology students. Personality was assessed using the International Personality Item Pool (Goldberg‚ 1999). The study then measured which of two coping styles each personality tended to prefer. The two coping styles were emotion-focussed and problem-focussed. These coping styles were selected from the COPE Inventory (Carver‚ Scheier‚ & Weintraub)
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Horseshoe pitching has existed as a sport for over a thousand years. The origins of this sport are most likely based in athletic competitions that involved throwing a heavy discus (imagine a stone Frisbee®). It is believed that fans of the Greek discus competitions created their own game by using discarded horseshoes and throwing them towards a stake in the ground. In 1869‚ the British devised the first actual rules for the game of “horse-hardware” pitching. There were limitations to the size of
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were absent from work‚ which is a fraction compared to the 397% leap it took up until 2012 (Goldberg‚ 2012). Employees are often considered to be a company’s most valuable asset and according to Hamilton-Atwell (2003: 56-61) one of the best ways to increase profitably is by increasing the returns on this asset. Reducing absenteeism is one of the most overlooked methods of reducing costs According to Goldberg (2012) managing absence is critical for all organisations‚ as the negative impact that they
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(e.g.‚ Ang and Low 2000; Kover‚ Goldberg‚ and James 1995; Kover‚ James‚ and Sonner 1997; Pieters‚ Warlop‚ and Wedel 2002; Stone‚ Besser‚ and Lewis 2000; White and Smith 2001)‚ but the studies‚ while individually interesting‚ taken as a whole‚ have not portrayed a particularly cohesive or comprehensive understanding of creative advertising. As one article stated‚ "in all‚ advertising creativity research is limited‚ abstract‚ and fairly recent in
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Human Trafficking Goldberg‚ Michelle. "The Super Bowl of Sex Trafficking." Newsweek 7 Feb. 2011: 7. Criminal Justice Collection. Web. 4 Apr. 2013. In this article Goldberg informs us that human trafficking tends to accompany major sport and entertainment events. While every football fan was cheering for their team during the super bowl‚ children were being sexually exploited. In the 2009 game in Tampa‚ Florida; 24 trafficked children were saved. Texas is second to California when
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1) Immigrant families in the United States Immigrants feel that their roles‚ beliefs‚ values‚ etc. are not as effective as the Unites States’‚ thus becoming stressful. “Therefore‚ in addition to the typical normative (e.g.‚ family transitions) and nonnormitive (e.g.‚ family natural disasters) stressors that families encounter‚ immigrant families experience unique stress and change relates to migration and acculturation” (Bush et al.‚ 2010‚ p.287). Immigrants feel that they have to change their ways
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DIAGNOSIS AND REMEDIATION OF STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA AND DYSCALCULIA IN THE NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM BY ABUBAKAR SALIHU MADA KADUNA POLYTECHNIC‚ KADUNA Abstract: Dyslexia is a learning disability that manifest itself as a difficulty with the visual notation of speech or written language‚ particularly with reading‚ while dyscalculia is a learning difficulty in which a person has unusual difficulty in solving mathematical problems and grasping mathematical concepts‚ memory of
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M.A.‚ Waldrop‚ A.E.‚ Deblinger‚ E.‚ Cohen J.A.‚ Danielson C.K.‚ Mannarino A.R. (2005). Community outreach program for child victims of traumatic events: a community- based project for underserved populations. Behavior Modification‚ 1‚ 130-55. Goldberg‚ J. (2012) "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Techniques‚ Sessions‚ and More." WebMD. WebMD‚ Hockenbury‚ D. (2014). Discovering Psychology (6th edition). New York: Worth Publishers. Voss Horrell‚ S. (2008). Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral
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