…I had just left almost two years of intense mindfulness training at the Rochester Zen Center. I was working at a local YMCA as acting lead teacher for a pre-kindergarten class. The children‚ ages 4 and 5‚ were for the most part ethnic minorities and many came from high-risk‚ single-parent households. For many I was the primary male figure in their lives‚ a responsibility that was not lost on me‚ and the work I did with the children felt very meaningful. The memories that stand out are times where
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Basketball is a very common sport that originated in 1891‚ when a Minister by the name of James Naismith was appointed to teach a P.E class at a YMCA training school in Springfield‚ Massachusetts. He started by creating a ball‚ then cutting a big round hole on the bottom of a basket and nailing it to the wall. His students loved the game. It’s physical‚ funny at times‚ competitive‚ challenging‚ and easy. You can learn new moves‚ lay up finishers‚ shooting ranges‚ passing skills‚ and more. Basketball
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Section 1: Industry Overview 1-1: GoodLife Fitness Overview Background * Established 1979. * Canada’s largest and most successful fitness company. * Over 750‚ 000 members across Canada. * 1 in every 45 Canadians has a Good Life Fitness membership. * Approximately 275 clubs across Canada. * Employs over 9000 associates. * Awards include: * Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies Platinum Member status. * 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures
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is a long time dangerous bad habit because it can cause lung problems and even cancer. For instance‚ Luis‚ a friend of my father‚ has been smoking for over thirty years‚ and he is not planning to stop. Two weeks ago we were playing racquetball in a YMCA gym‚ and I noticed that after ten minutes of running around‚ he could not breathe well. A cause of that fast fatigue and breathing problem is too much smoke in his lungs. Another symptom of the smoking working on his system is his fast skin deterioration
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between local and overseas is totally different. In 1904‚ the first large-scale bodybuilding competition held at Madison Square in New York. In 1944‚ the first bodybuilding competition named Shanghai men’s bodybuilding competition held in Shanghai YMCA auditorium. It is the first bodybuilding competition held in China. It shows that the history of overseas bodybuilding competition is more longer than local’s. Overseas bodybuilding competition divided as two types‚ professional and amateur level
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1906 he became the first black president of Morehouse college (which was the same that Martin Luther King Jr. was born.) he also 23 years later became first African American president of Atlanta University. Was part of the Niagara movement‚ The NAACP‚ YMCA‚ and Colored Men’s Department. He also went to Brown University in providence‚ Rhode Island. Hope taught at a small liberal arts school in the outskirts of Nashville‚ Tennessee. Hope married Lugenia burns in 1897.Moved to Atlanta and taught at Atlanta
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Benjamin Mays Benjamin Elijah Mays was a distinguished African American minister‚ educator‚ scholar‚ and social activist. Mays was born on August 1st‚ 1894 in a rural area outside Ninety-Six‚ South Carolina. He was the youngest of eight children born to the tenant farmers and former slaves‚ Louvenia Carter and Hezekiah Mays. An ongoing occurrence in Mays’s boyhood and early adulthood was his dedication for education against overwhelming odds. As Mays’s grew older‚ and after stumbling quite a bit
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Adrian D. Horstead‚ Sr. 1217 Belcourt Parkway Hurlburt Field‚ FL 32544 Cell: (770) 686-0425 adhorste@samford.edu OBJECTIVE: To attain a long term position with a stable growing company. EDUCATION: Bachelors of Science Degree in Business Administration Samford University‚ Birmingham‚ AL Major: Management (Graduated May of 2004) Fall 2004 Marketing Internship Samford University Athletics‚ Birmingham‚ AL * Planning and execution of pre-game activities
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Norman Bowker is just a microcosm of the 22 veterans that commit suicide every day. Like the rest‚ Norman Bowker just couldn’t win the fight against the post traumatic stress he had gotten from his time in war‚ and ultimately he hanged himself in a YMCA in his hometown in Iowa. In a letter O’brien received from Bowker before his death in which he “described the problem of finding a meaningful use for his life after the war” (149). This represents the harshness about the nature of war and how people
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According to Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps book‚ Black hair‚ what motivated African Americans to attempt to straighten their hair stems from their desire to “emulate European standards of beauty‚ dress‚ and behavior” (26). This was because their importance were not their education and training‚ but the way they presented themselves that mattered to society. Due to this‚ businesses started exploited their eagerness to counter the main stream stigma- even black entrepreneurs. In the early 1900s
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