Evil Little Thing

Lock your doors, there is a wild animal that is lose in the world. There is a new world wide threat in the world that is even more dangerous then Ebola, groundhogs. Now, your probably thinking what is so scary about a tiny animal that only tells us if we are more weeks of snow or not. But in reality, there are a lot of things that are terrorizing about them. New Hampshire man , Gary McGrath, knows first hand about the demented, stygian looking, fiend. For him, last Tuesday, November 18th, 2014, started out like every other normal New Hampshire day. But that all changed when he returned home in his truck He got out of his car and swiftly went to the back of his truck. As he is in the middle of unloading his truck, it came. It started slow, but gained speed as it headed right for Gary. As Gary turned to defend himself from this incoming advisory, the groundhog attacked. Gary did the only thing he could possibly do, he used his foot to kick the demon away. But it keep charging at him. Gary said that he "pushed him away with my foot, and he still came around and came back." As the wild animal bared it's sharp teeth and glared into Gary's soul with its dark eyes, Gary knew he only had one option left if he wanted to survive this ordeal. He had to try and run from it. Gary ran to his house. But even though Gary was inside, the groundhog still tried to dig through the door to his target. With all hope gone, Gary called the authorities. Animal control came fast and they to were attack by the groundhog. In order to save them, the officer had to put down the evil little thing.

Techs Effects

Pediatric occupational therapist, biologist, speaker, and author, Cris Rowan, created and posted an article called The Impact of Technology on the Developing Child on May 29th, 2013. In the article, Rowan related children's way of life today compared to twenty years ago. Back then, kids continuously played outside for entertainment. Then at night, kids always came together at the table with their parents during and after dinner in order to socialize about their day. But now, according to Rowan, "technology's impact on the 21st century family is fracturing its very foundation, and causing a disintegration of core values that long ago were the fabric that held families together". Kids evolved from playing inside and socializing with their family to shutting themselves in their room playing video games or watching TV. Rowan goes as far as saying that "aged children use on average 7.5 hours per day of entertainment technology, 75 percent of these children have TV's in their bedrooms, and 50 percent of North American homes have the TV on all day. Gone is dining room table conversation, replaced by the "big screen" and take out." So, what's the harm from children spending 7.5 hours watching a flashing light box. Lets start with the epidemic that spreading in the United States and Canada, child obesity and diabetes. After that, their are many kid coming down with a case of autism, coordination disorder, developmental delays, unintelligible speech, ADHD, learning difficulties, sensory processing disorder, anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders. The flashing box caused this by visual and auditor overload. Rowan said that "sensory imbalance creates huge problems in overall neurological development, as the brain's anatomy, chemistry and pathways become permanently altered and impaired." She later goes on to say that "children who overuse technology report persistent body sensations of overall "shaking", increased breathing and heart rate, and a general state of "unease." This can best be described as a persistent hypervigalent sensory system." Even though Rowan doesn't know the long term effect of this kind of stress in developing children are unclear, she dose know that in adults, it weaken the immune system and many disorders and diseases.

Archetype 2

 --PBA Greatest Bowling Reaction Ever! - Bowling Legend Pete Weber Gets Hype After Win!--

   Pete weber has been doing one thing ever since 1979, professional bowling. By doing so, he has earned a total of $3,709,542.11. For thirty-four years, Walter Ray William Jr. has bowled professionally and has earned $4,491,201.65.  Even though they have spent so much of their time dedicated into something they feel so zealous for, some people still consider it a hobby. Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines a hobby as “an activity that someone does for pleasure when they are not working.” There are a wide variety of hobbies in the known world. From being indoors or outdoors, hobbies can range from collecting things, watching things, or even doing an activity. Activities like bowling. Bowling is a hobby you do when you are idle. Bowling is a fun activity to do with your friends in your free-time. Bowling being a hobby is like a soccer player playing in a professional football game. It is something that will never happen because on a competitive level bowling is undoubtedly a sport. This is obviously true to anyone, like me, who has been bowling for over ten years, has bowled three perfect games, shot a seven hundred and ninety-nine three-game series, and many other bowling attainments.

AMF Bowling

    According to the website, Bowling Museum, the sport bowling can be traced back to three thousand two hundred B.C. That is back during the time of the Egyptians. Not only did they play it, but Egyptians worshipped their sport bowling so much that even their ruler, Pharaoh Narmer, wore a bowling pin shaped crown on his head. Some Egyptians citizens were also mummified with ancient bowling ball or ancient bowling pins.  AMF Bowling, American Machine and Foundry Company, one of  the top bowling center franchises in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, said that Roman’s were the true first bowlers. Others say that today's bowling was created in medieval times, back when they called their sport skittles. Skittles was just like modern day bowling except they used nine pins instead of ten. After that age, there were many other kinds of bowling. But not all agree on the time bowling was truly made; according to the German historian, William Pehle, “bowling began in his country about 300 AD” (Bowling Museum). Bowling has been everywhere in the world and has touched every person. Today, bowling is played in bowling alleys. The main point of the sport is to throw a solid bowling ball, weighing up to sixteen pounds, onto a lane and knocking down ten, three and a half pound, bowling pins. On these lanes start with a fifteen foot approach ending with a black line called the foul line. After that, there are sixty feet (to the head pin) of oiled wood that within the first fifteen feet contain arrows. On both sides of the oiled wood is a gray drop-off area called the gutter that catches the ball if it fall off the lane. Throughout history, there has been many adaptations of modern bowling. But they all had a single critical key point., they were all considered sports.

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    Most Americans often take for granted that bowling is a sport. To prove his point that it is,  Rich Carrubba, one individual out of the one and a half million bowlers in the world, teacher of the sport of bowling, and a former ten year participant of the PBA tour, wrote  an article about bowling being a sport. He wrote that bowling was first counted as a sport when it was introduced into the 1988 Olympics.  That means that just by being in the Olympics, a worldwide competition in which people can only play a variety of true sports, qualifies bowling as a sport.

    The dictionary defines a sport as “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical powers and often of a competitive nature” (after the definition, it lists some different sports, including bowling). In bowling, you are hauling an average of six, fifteen pound, bowling balls from your house, into every bowling alley, and then back home into your house. Then while you are bowling, you walk about sixth-tenth of a mile for every three games, and that is just on the fifteen foot approach. You add more walking time for when you have to get another ball out of your bag or walking to talk to people waiting to bowl. After reading this, I know what many of you are asking, so does that make moving or walking a sport then. No it does not, they just are everyday norms that we all do. Plus, in bowling, you are not only moving, you are lifting and stretching your muscles. With all of those thing together and adding in bowling at least six games all together, wasting your voice cheering on your teammates, and standing for over six hours. Dave Begel, a contributing writer, published an article about whether or not bowling is a sport. He said it is not a sport because “bowling is too easy. Anybody can do it.” It’s true; bowling is easy, for any experienced bowler. But for amateur well,  as Rich Carrubba said, you try having the skill to throw a fifteen pound “bowling ball at nearly 20 miles per hour with a precise axis of rotation down a 60 foot narrow lane, hitting a one inch sighting target, and knocking down 35 pounds of lumber” at least thirty six times in a row. As you watch this video of pro bowlers responding to people who say bowling is not a sport underneath, watch the parts of them bowling and tell me you can continually do that for over 6 hours.

--PBA Tour: What do you tell people who say the bowling is not a sport?--
 

    In response to the competition part in the definition of sport, the word sports tournament says it all. A sports tournament is where a number of competitors come together to face off against each other in a series of  competitions. There are multiple bowling tournaments across the world. In Rockford, the Sunday morning N.I.S.S., Northern Illinois Scholarship Series, is one of the most attended tournament. In the beginning, you bowl four games and, depending on how many other competitors there are, you cut to the field (eliminating other competitors) to the top X. On Sunday, October 4th, 2014, fifteen men came to N.I.S.S.; which meant we had a cut to eight. Everyone had to beat seven other competitors just to make the first cut. Then after the field is cut, you have to either bowl in brackets, bowling one on one and the winner moves on, or survivor, everyone bowls each other at the same time and the field is cut in half after every game. That day we had survivor, so after the first game, only the top four scores move on. Then, the field keeps cutting in half until there is only one victor left. The winner has to beat 14 other serious competitors who all want to win.

    When I was a sophomore in high school, my friends and I would debate whether or not bowling is a sport. One of them, Yaritzel Lopez, said that in order to be an athlete, you have to have a good physical and mental game. This is perfect for an athlete in the sport bowling. Two years ago, at an end of the year banquet for High School Bowling, a once Rockford bowler but now Professional bowler, Jesse Buss, gave a speech about bowling. He said that bowling, like any other sport, is fifty percent physical and fifty percent mental. If you have a bad mental game you will never be good at what we do. When you get mad in bowling, you start to rush or you can miss your mark, usually by only a single inch, and leave a split. But if you can control it and have a good mental game, there is not anything you can do. For the other fifty percent of the aspect of the sport, “An average bowler with a 16-pound ball swings 864 pounds full circle in a three-game series. That is well over one-third of a ton.”

    There are many benefits in having bowling as a sport. Fred Eisenhammer, a Los Angeles bowling examiner published an article on February 15th, 2013. In the article, Eisenhammer provides a list of benefits by AMF and himself.  Some of those benefits are the strengthening of the body and organs thanks to the lifting and throwing of a weighted ball while also quickly moving to the foul line. Also, bowling is one of the only lifelong sport that any one of any age can do. Bowlers can be awarded an overwhelming amount of scholarship money. At the end of the article, Eisenhammer said what he thinks the most important benefit is, and that is the social part.  Bowling is a great way to socialize and make friends. Liza Blau said that in the United states alone, over “two million bowlers socialize and bowl together each week in leagues.” Everyone knows everyone. Our bowling family consists of people from different schools and different areas. If one of us needs help with something in or out of bowling, then we all try to help them together.

    Tim Watanabe explained that bowling , the number one participation sport in the world, has more than 95  million people in the world “heading out the lanes at least once a year, with a large portion of that number going once a week or more as a member of one of thousands of USBC-sanctioned bowling leagues,” Bowling is something we have all done. But most people still do not know that it is a sport, even though it has passed every single requirement to be recognized as one. The non-believers pass it off as an activity or a hobby. Saying it will never be a sport based on belief even though the facts prove it is a genuine sport. Saying that no matter how many strikes you throw, you will never win, even though you bowled a perfect game.

--My sister Taylor bowling a 300--