Essays Tagged: "spectators"
Ancient Greek Olympics
cook in a near by Greek city called, Elis. He ran naked on a sandedcourse in front of thousands of spectators. The course was about 630 feetlong 'or one stad-from which the word stadium was derived.' ... cook in a near by Greek city called, Elis. He ran naked on a sandedcourse in front of thousands of spectators. The course was about 630 feetlong 'or one stad-from which the word stadium was derived.' ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Theater of Dionysus
great semicircle on the slope of the Acropolis, with rows of seats on which about eighteen thousand spectators could comfortably seat. The front rows consisted of marble chairs, and were the only seat ... pot. This ancient ceremony was performed by choruses of men who sang and danced in the god's honor. Spectators would gather in a circle to watch these dancers; that was the way that the theater took i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
About Germany
group ofbuildings that contain remarkable architecture, and there is an open space in the middle sospectators can watch shows. The Kreuzkirche, is a famous boys' choir of theKreuzkirche, it's perform ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Basketball
herwise mounted so that its lower edge is about 9 ft above the court. Backboards originated to keep spectators from interfering with the game. The baskets are attached firmly to the backboards about 1 ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
MTV and THE MADONNA PHENOMENON
intuitive grasp on the televisual world inwhich we live- of the medium's possibilities for engagingspectators in diverse ways- that in part accounts for hersuccess. She is the supreme television hero ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Bullfighting
ighter, called a matador, faces the bull in a large dirt-filled arena that is usually surrounded by spectators. Aided by a group of apprentices, called the cuadrilla, the matador goads the bull into c ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Sheppard v. Maxwell, Warden. 3S4 U.S. 333, S6 S.Ct. 1507, 16 L.Ed.2d 600 (1966)
nquest took place was filled with reporters, television cameras, radio technicians, and hundreds of spectators. At one point, the Coroner ejected Sheppard's counsel. Sheppard was arrested and the tria ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
What to do? Terrorism and the Media
r and he yells 'death to all Romans' and attacks a roman guard, killing him in front of hundreds of spectators. The assassin quietly slips into the crowd and is lost in a sea of people never to be fou ... of Jerusalem to revolt in 70 AD (Miller V). If this attack had been made in some dark alley with no spectators would the people react the way they did?The marketplace of old Jerusalem, can be compared ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
"The Season Opener" this is a creative writing that uses the five senses to express the first game of the softball season.
ally come.As my anticipation arose, the once empty metal bleachers slowly began to fill. One by one spectators, parents, and friends came to watch what was the first of many futile competitions in a s ... he first of many batters to come in that last inning. Soon came my turn, as I stepped3up to bat the spectators seemed as if they were all of a sudden resurrected. They began tocheer in hope of a much- ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
I know the secret!
w the Secret!It is a sickening sight for a magician to look out into his audience and see one ofhis spectators nudging and pointing when he does his famous sleight. These people whoare so delighted th ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Visions of a Past Society in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet letter"
splay, because she committed the crime of adultery.A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and ... crime itself, is not as evil as they make it out to be. Hawthorne describes it as enjoyable to the spectators, by showing thechildren watch her and laugh as she makes her way to the scaffold. It's as ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
analysis of Karl Shapiro's "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
cross to the reader. By bringing the scene of the accident to life and relaying the emotions of the spectators with language and several metaphors, the poem gains a realistic and sometimes transcenden ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Design of Greek and Roman Theatres
r orchestra was usually a circle marked out by a stone perimeter directly in front of the stage for spectators to use. The cavea was the seating which was usually a range of steps or terraces for the ... . The parodoi were ramps that lead from the pit to the outside the theatre to provide access to the spectators (Molinari, 57).The book written by Picard and Cambridge entitled Theatre of Dionysus in A ...
Subjects: Art Essays
A report on Charles Lindbergh's legendary flight
t of St. Louis' painted on the side lands at LeBourget field, in the midst of thousands of cheering spectators. A tall, thin, sandy haired,twenty-five-year-old man emerges from the cockpit and timidly ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Mechanical Engineering
The origin of The Olympic Games.
took place at the house of worship of Zeus at Olympia in 776 B.C. The sanctuary had room for 40,000 spectators, for many years the Olympian Games were for male contestants and male spectators only. Ev ... e in the games. Anything involving the games, the rules were very strict such as, only men could be spectators and they had to be decent strong men. The people of Greece treated these games with a gre ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Should teens be able to drive after being convicted of a DUI and what can be done to prevent it
on which would bar teens from driving once they are convicted of driving under the influence (DUI). Spectators now pose the question: Should teens who are caught drinking and driving lose their licens ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
The history of boxing
roughly alike a boxing bout we know it today. All fights were carried out on open plots, where the spectators were the "alive arena borders". The fight normally lasted until one of the opponents was ... particular. In those bouts each boxer's remuneration as well as the percentage of stakes gambled by spectators were settled. The fighters didn't use gloves and did not follow common rules. Weight clas ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. An essay on this story relating the extreme detail and the actual storyline.
might feel as though he or she were actually there. The narrator tells where all of the guards and spectators (not really spectators, but infantry) were and what they were doing while this man was st ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Essay on the reasons the Buenos Aires, Argentina is a qualified candidate to hold the Olympic Games.
le of hosting the summer Olympics.If the Olympics were to be held in Buenos Aires, the athletes and spectators would have and abundance of places to stay. The city has been building many hotels in the ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
High School Sports: They're NOT That Great
o for the students and the school. All these comments have come from ignorant people who are merely spectators and don't experience them first hand. Sure, they might have been great back in the Stone ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports