Basketball is a team
sport. There are two teams playing at
all times and there are five people from each team that are playing for the
teams. Basketball is played on an even
surface generally called the “court”.
Both teams play with a basketball which is a circular shaped sphere made
of leather and air is pumped inside it to give the object the ability to
bounce. The ball weighs 20-22 ounces and
has a 29.5-30 inch circumference. The
game also uses a rim and backboard. The
rim is circle that allows the basketball to go through and is bigger than the
ball. The rim has an eighteen inch
diameter and is ten feet above the ground.
The backboard is an assistant to help the basketball get through the
rim. The backboard is rectangular shape
and four feet in length and 3 feet in width.
The main objective of the game is out score your opponent before the
time runs out. There are two sides: Offense and Defense. The offensive player’s objective is to find
the most efficient or any way to put the basketball through the rim. The offensive team may run a set play to give
them the edge over the defense that will allow them to score easy. The offensive player with the ball generally
has three major options: pass, shoot, dribble (not necessarily in that order). The defensive player’s objective is to stop the
offense from scoring. This team may
different formations that may hinder the offense. To stop the offensive team from scoring the defensive
team can steal the ball, block a shot the offensive player puts it, and rebound
the ball after a missed shot.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
blog
Everyone knows that a good amount of sleep
is vital and sometimes I try to squeeze as much as possible into a day and
forget the importance of rest. It turns
out there is a simple rule for how much sleep you should get and several
reasons as to why it is so important.
First of all it is important that
you understand that according to Melinda Smith, M.A., Lawrence Robinson, and Robert
Segal, the authors of How Much Sleep Do You Need? Sleep Cycles and
Stages, Lack of Sleep and Getting the Hours you Need, “the quality of your sleep
directly affects the quality of your waking life, including your mental
sharpness, productivity, emotional balance, creativity, physical vitality, and
even your weight.” To reap these positive benefits of sleep you must get a
proper amount of sleep and an efficient sleep cycle so your brain can get the
time it needs to restore your body. A
person’s average sleep needs, according to their age, are displayed in the
table below.
|
Average Sleep Needs
|
|
|
Age
|
Hours
|
|
Newborns
(0-2 months)
|
12
- 18
|
|
Infants
(3 months to 1 year)
|
14
- 15
|
|
Toddlers
(1 to 3 years)
|
12
- 14
|
|
Preschoolers
(3 to 5 years)
|
11
- 13
|
|
School-aged
children (5 to 12 years)
|
10
- 11
|
|
Teens
and preteens (12 to 18 years)
|
8.5
- 10
|
|
Adults
(18+)
|
7.5
- 9
|
§ So
we know how important sleep is and we know how many hours we are meant to sleep
every night. However, people don’t get enough
sleep a lot of the time and don’t realize they are sleep deprived so the
question is how do you know if you are sleep deprived? According to previously
listed article, you may be sleep deprived if you “need an alarm clock in order to
wake up on time, rely on the snooze button, have a hard time getting out of bed
in the morning, or feel sluggish in the afternoon.” They also mention that if you “get sleepy in
meetings, lectures, or warm rooms, get drowsy after heavy meals or when driving,
need to nap to get through the day, fall asleep while watching TV or relaxing
in the evening, feel the need to sleep in on weekends, or fall asleep within
five minutes of going to bed” you may be sleep deprived.
In conclusion, if you are not
getting at least around the average sleep needs of your age group and you show
any of the mentioned signs of sleep deprivation, be sure to re-establish your
sleep-cycle so your body gets the time it needs to recover from the day.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The universe
The universe. It is a region with vast unknowns. People have many opinions, beliefs,
accusations, but I am certain that no one truly knows its boundaries. Scientists and physicists have many theories
on have the universe all began, starting with the big bang theory. Scientists say, eons and eons ago, the
universe started as just one atom or particle.
The object exploded created this region of space following the explosion
and kept increasing, spreading out without termination. They called this the “red shift” of the
universe for where you can see visible movement of stars and galaxies, because
there is visible red light. They aren’t
sure what caused this exploded or happening but it is just a situation that occurred
for the natural being. The universe is
commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all
matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and contents of intergalactic
space. Everything in the universe is
made of atoms. Atoms are very small
particles that are comprised of protons (positively charged particles),
neutrons (no charged particles), electrons (negatively charged particles), and
the electron cloud, where this is just the space the electrons travel. At the center of the atom are the protons and
neutrons and this region is called the nucleus and it is positively
charged. The electron cloud is the area
where the electrons flow and it is negatively charged. They are equal number of protons and
electrons in an atom to make an atom neutral charged for if it was not the atom
will become heighten or excited and will find any way possible to become neutral
again. All around in this universe is
energy. Everything has energy or has the
potential of energy. There are two types
of energy and many forms of energy. The
two types are kinetic and potential energy, where the kinetic energy is energy
in motion so to speak, and the potential energy is energy that has potential to
be kinetic energy. The forms of energy
are: heat or thermal, chemical,
electrical, electrochemical, electromagnetic which is light, sound, and nuclear
energy. The universe is a very big place
and has many knowns and unknowns to mankind.
I’m sure one day we will find out how big the place we will live in.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Life
Life. What is life?
Life is a characteristic that distinguishes that have signing and
self-sustaining processes from those that do not, because they lack such ways
and are classified as inanimate objects.
They have the ability to grow, maintain homeostasis, undergo metabolism,
respond to stimuli, reproduce, and adapt to their environment when generations
succeed. Many living organisms have ways
of communication. These means vary from
organism to organism. A good number of
animals communicate verbally which means they use their mouth to give some form
of dialect to their recipient. Humans
have many ways of communication. They
collectively communicate verbally and emotionally. They verbally communicate by a regular means
of talking to one another, e.g. Bob says hi to sally. Humans also emotionally communicate by
showing body language. If someone’s
parental figure asked their children to do something for them and they didn’t
want to do it, he or she would sign, shrug their shoulders, and do other means
to effectively communicate they do not want to perform the action. But life deals with more than just
communication, it involves the senses:
sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
It has a varied of meanings, forms, ways of being perceived and much
more. It’s not an easy field of study;
biology is a very intuitive field.
The state
of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with
death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an
animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all
or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.
This says
that living things have three stages: birth, the state of being alive, and then
death and if it is perceived as life then it has the three stages and is classified
as plant or animal.
Life is
something that is truly unknown how it started, why it ends, it’s just
something that is what it is.
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