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“Daily life offers up events where you encounter the good, the bad and the inspirational in human nature, all of which you can point out to your kids.” Sports, he implores, plays a critical ...
It is also known as videopoetry, video-visual poetry, poetronica, poetry video, media poetry, or Cin(E)-Poetry depending on the length and content of the video work and the techniques employed (e.g. digital technology) in its creation. Video poetry is a wide-ranging category where very different typologies of works converge.
It also includes a "Poetry Round Robin" where famous poems are rewritten in the style of the next poet in line, featured Casey at the Bat as written by Edgar Allan Poe. Sportswriter Leonard Koppett claimed in a 1979 tongue-in-cheek article that the published poem omits 18 lines penned by Thayer, which changed the overall theme of the poem ...
The expression has been adopted in a variety of sports and fitness activities, beginning in 1982 to present day. David B. Morris wrote in The Scientist in 2005, "'No pain, no gain' is an American modern mini-narrative: it compresses the story of a protagonist who understands that the road to achievement runs only through hardship."
Chicken Soup for the Soul is a series of books, usually featuring a collection of short, inspirational stories and motivational essays. The 101 stories in the first book of the series were compiled by motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. There have been numerous volumes of Chicken Soup issued.
Inquoris Desmond Chade Johnson [1] (born February 12, 1986) [1] [2] is an American motivational speaker and former college football player. His football career ended in 2006 at the University of Tennessee with an injury that permanently paralyzed his right arm. [3] [4] Johnson studied psychology and became a motivational speaker.
They placed fourth in the 2004 National Poetry Slam and third in the 2006 and 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam. [42] Gibson was the first person to win the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008. [43] Andrea has also been appointed as Colorado’s Poet Laureate by Governor Jared Polis. [44]
Epic poetry emphasizes the cultural values and traditions of the time in long narratives about heroes and gods. [1] The word "athletic" is derived from the Greek word athlos, which means a contest for a prize. [2] Athletics appear in some of the most famous examples of Greek and Roman epic poetry including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil ...