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Download or read book Swim Pretty written by Jennifer A. Kokai and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cultural associations with bodies of water, the spectacle of pretty women, and the appeal of the concept of “family-friendly” productions, performative aquatic spectacles portray water as an exotic fantasy environment exploitable for the purpose of entertainment. In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A. Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century. Examining dramatic works in water and performances at four water parks, Kokai shows that the evolution of these works and performances helps us better understand our ever-changing relationship with the oceans and their inhabitants. Kokai sorts the regard for and harnessing of water in aquatic spectacles into three categories—natural, tamed, and domesticated—and discusses the ways in which these modes of water are engaged in the performances throug an aesthetics of descension. Ultimately, this study links the uncritical love of aquatic spectacles to a disregard for the rights of marine animals and lack of concern for the marine environment.
Download or read book Swim Pretty written by Jennifer A. Kokai and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A. Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century.
Author :Matt Christopher Publisher :Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN 13 :9780316094559 Total Pages :144 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (945 download)
Book Synopsis Twenty-One Mile Swim by : Matt Christopher
Download or read book Twenty-One Mile Swim written by Matt Christopher and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With remarks about his small stature and poor swimming skills ringing in his ears, the son of Hungarian immigrants begins to train for the 21-mile swim across a nearby lake.
Download or read book Swim written by Lynn Sherr and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swim is a celebration of swimming and the effect it has on our lives. It’s an inquiry into why we swim—the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It’s a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It’s about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we wear. You’ll even find a few songs to sing when you push out those next laps. Swimming enthusiast Lynn Sherr explores every aspect of the sport, from the biology of swimming to the fame of Esther Williams; from turquoise pools and wild water to the training of Olympians; and she reveals the secret of buoyancy so that anyone can avoid the example of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lamented, “Why can’t I swim, it seems so very easy?” When his friend, the biographer Edward John Trelawny, said, “because you think you can’t,” Shelley plunged into Italy’s Arno River and dropped like a rock. With Swim, you can avoid that happening to you.
Download or read book Swimming written by Edwin Tenney Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Outline of Swimming by : William Bachrach
Download or read book The Outline of Swimming written by William Bachrach and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Three-Year Swim Club by : Julie Checkoway
Download or read book The Three-Year Swim Club written by Julie Checkoway and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot. They had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields. Their future was in those same fields, working alongside their parents in virtual slavery, known not by their names but by numbered tags that hung around their necks. Their teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, was an ordinary man whose swimming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water. In spite of everything, including the virulent anti-Japanese sentiment of the late 1930s, in their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size; in their second year, they were national and international champs, shattering American and world records and making headlines from L.A. to Nazi Germany. In their third year, they'd be declared the greatest swimmers in the world. But they'd also face their greatest obstacle: the dawning of a world war and the cancellation of the Games. Still, on the battlefield, they'd become the 20th century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they'd have one last chance for Olympic glory. They were the Three-Year Swim Club. This is their story.
Book Synopsis Nice Is Better Than Pretty by : John A. Lapointe
Download or read book Nice Is Better Than Pretty written by John A. Lapointe and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style by : John Leahy
Download or read book The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style written by John Leahy and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style by : Leahy (Sergeant, John)
Download or read book The Art of Swimming in the Eton Style written by Leahy (Sergeant, John) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A First Reader written by Florence Bass and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Munsey's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swim, Bike, Bonk written by Will McGough and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as George Plimpton had his proverbial cup of coffee in the NFL as the un-recruited and certainly unwanted fourth-string quarterback for the Detroit Lions, so, too, did Will McGough immerse himself in a sport he had no business trying. Like Plimpton, whose football folly turned into the bestselling Paper Lion, travel and outdoor writer McGough writes of his participation in, around, and over the course of one of the world's premier triathlons, the annual 140.6-mile Ironman in Tempe, Arizona. McGough chronicles the Ironman’s history, his unorthodox training, the pageantry of the race weekend, and his attempt to finish the epic event. The narrative follows not just his race but also explores the cult and habits of the triathlete community, beginning with the first Ironman competition in Hawaii in 1978. This is a light-hearted, self-deprecating, and at times hilarious look at one man's attempt to conquer the ultimate endurance sport, with a conclusion that will surprise and delight both dedicated triathletes as well as strangers to the sport.
Book Synopsis The Baldwin Primer by : May Kirk Scripture
Download or read book The Baldwin Primer written by May Kirk Scripture and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Munsey's Magazine for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Caterpillars Can't Swim by : Liane Shaw
Download or read book Caterpillars Can't Swim written by Liane Shaw and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan finds his freedom in the water, where he is not bound by gravity and his wheelchair. When he rescues his schoolmate, Jack, from the water their lives become connected, whether they like it or not. Ryan keeps Jack's secret about that day in the water, but he knows that Jack needs help. The school is full of rumors about Jack's sexuality, and he has few friends. Almost against his better judgement, Ryan decides to invite Jack on a trip to Comic Con he's planned with his best friend Cody, the captain of the school's swim team. The three boys make an unlikely combination, but they will each have the chance to show whether they are brave enough to go against the stereotypes the world wants to define them by.
Download or read book A Primer written by Gail Calmerton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
