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    Bowling Ethnography

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    Balls We tend to think that bowling is a very simple and boring sport played by only older men. I did my fieldwork at a bowling alley during two different leagues to explore the different social interactions among bowlers. I learned that bowling is not limited to one specific age group or gender. I also discovered there is a unique hierarchy among the bowlers that is not determined by their age or gender. This social status is dependent upon their bowling average, type of ball used, and the

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    Even though bowling is not just a game, it is a fun and relaxing sport that comes with minor risks just like any other sport. Most people think that bowling is just all fun and games and you just pick up a ball and throw is down the lane to try and knock down all of the pins. Many women out score the men on identical lane conditions and with the sport you will need to have exceptional hand-eye coordination and it also involves mental and physical precision. Where did bowling come from? What are

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    a strike. He knocked down all ten pins for the first strike.He throws another great shot, and another strike up on the scoreboard for Weber. He needs one more strike to win. How will he do it? By using the physics of bowling. Bowling is considered a life-long sport, but the bowling ball, when thrown, has physics that determines the number of pins that fall down. To start off, the basics of bowling are very simple, yet very important. One of the origins of bowling was believed to be in 3200 B.C

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    Retro Dragon Alley Essay

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    talk about my business, the Retro Dragon Alley. The business is a bowling alley. I will explain about the best things about the business, how my company relates to the other company, and how to find the business. The Retro Dragon Alley has one of the original Donkey Kong arcade machines in Nebraska. It was expensive to keep it working and in refined condition, but it still worth it. The first bowling game on opening night had ten straight strikes, unlike most other games. We have an awesome mascot

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    Really Cool Shit • Disappearing Spy Paper. Write a top secret note, then drop it in water and it dissolved. Confidentiality assured. • Magic light bulb. I loved this thing. It looked just like a regular light bulb, but touch the bottom to any metal item or aluminum foil and it would light up. I’d put a piece of tin foil in my mouth and stick the bulb in, and Wah-la, it would light up. All light bulbs have a life span, and my bulb’s life ended when Peter screwed it into a real lamp. FUCK! (So I guess

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    There are ten frames which give you 21 attempts to knock pins down. When the ball misses the lane it is called a gutter ball, hitting all ten pins down in one shot is a strike, and hitting all pins in one frame is called a strike. On the last frame if someone gets a strike or spare they will get an additional attempt. Bowling is counted among the oldest sports known to mankind. Artifacts have been found that suggest that bowling can be dated back to as early as 3200

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    weekends with some friends? Check out the Fowling Warehouse in Hamtramck, Michigan. This game combines football and bowling into one exciting game. The goal of the game is to knock down all of the opponents pins by throwing a football. The two teams stand on opposite sides of the warehouse with ten pins set up in a triangular position. Your team will have to work together to knock the pins down, but if you get a strike, your team wins! This game has been gaining popularity with people in the Metro Detroit

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    Bowling has been around since ancient Egypt. Bowling is a great way to get exercise also, you don’t have to be extremely fit to be a bowler, and you don’t even have to have legs because you can bowl with a special helper. The Olympics have been around since Ancient Greece, so it makes sense that those two go together. Bowling was previously in the Olympics but it was only in the Olympics once in the 1980’s because it did not get enough viewers. Even though bowling is not a very popular sport, it

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    Nursery Rhyme Analysis

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    2011). The basics of counting one to ten is an immensely important step in this as without counting, we could not create time lines of our history or even know what the time of day is. This is the reason why I have chosen There were 10 in the bed and other counting nursery rhymes (Press, 2015), as without this basic knowledge we would have no mathematical skill and life as we know it would not exist without

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    part of many different communities as I have grown up, but the one that has influenced my life the most has been the junior bowling program that I have been a part of for about fifteen years. The values that this group shares, shines through the children

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