Kin 2501 – midterm Exam
Questions with Solutions
Primary sources - -one that was part of the event
ex: eyewitness account, The Iliad and The Odyssey
- Secondary sources - -of historical research mostly written by those that
were not there
ex: history textbook, Hollywood movies
- why study history? - -can lead to a more enlightened and productive life,
can learn from it
- descriptive - -- "just the facts"
- detailed account of what happened in the past
- provides the who, what, when, and where
- interpretive - -- attempts to explain how and why of events in past
- introduces the narrator's perspective into the interpretation
ex: Michael Oriard's "Reading Football" book (tells story of the development
of the game of football and how our attitudes toward it came to be)
- Sport - -- "while it can be argued that all sport is play, it does not follow
that all play is sport"
- modern term first used in England
- origins of Latin and French
- grew throughout England referring to competition in the form of games,
individual athletic exploits and hunting
- latin word "deportare" -means to amuse oneself
- a pattern
- audience -Tiger Stadium
- supporting establishment (Brand deal)
- play - -- is intrinsically motivated
- involves the temporary suspensions of normal/ typical reality
- involves internal locus of control
- game - -- more organized effort at play
repeated
- formal def: "a play activity which has explicit rules, specified or understood
goals, the element of opposition or contest, recognizable boundaries in time
and sometimes in space, and a sequence of actions which is essentially
"repeatable" every time the game is played."
, - Socrates - -- was put to death
- knowledge of him come mainly from his pupil Plato
- no written material
- formulated philosophy based on dualism (the separation of mind and body)
- believed in a god that was higher than any other god worshipped by the
greeks
- believed training the mind was crucial
- Plato - -- Socrates pupil
- harmonious relationship between mind and body
- wanted only the best citizens (no patience for all physical and no intellect)
- no patience for athletetes devoted to training the body while neglecting the
mind
- supported the need for modern physical education/ kinesiology program
- Aristotle - -- studied with Plato for 20 years
- tutored Alexander the Great when he was 13 years old
- started his own school - The Lyceum
- belief that health of the soul/mind was contingent on a healthy body
(exercise and grammar)
- strive to be the best physical, mental, and moral
- called " The Father of Logic"
- The Iliad - -funeral games of Petroclus
- at the games they did chariot races, foot races, discus
- honored and appeased their gods (Zeus) and played tribute to dead warrior
- The Odyssey - -Odysseus proving himself
- had to prove himself after coming back from war
- threw the discus to show his greatness
- What do these stories ("The Iliad" and "The Odyssey") tell us about
Greece? - -the stories tell us Greece valued athleticism highly
- athlete - -one who competes for a prize
- Greek ideal - -unity of "man of action" and "man of wisdom"
- Arete - -all-around physical, mental, moral individual excellence one
strove for
- Sparta - -- Military power whose primary purpose was to rule all of Greece
- One goal: to be warriors
- had codes that allowed women more rights and freedom
Questions with Solutions
Primary sources - -one that was part of the event
ex: eyewitness account, The Iliad and The Odyssey
- Secondary sources - -of historical research mostly written by those that
were not there
ex: history textbook, Hollywood movies
- why study history? - -can lead to a more enlightened and productive life,
can learn from it
- descriptive - -- "just the facts"
- detailed account of what happened in the past
- provides the who, what, when, and where
- interpretive - -- attempts to explain how and why of events in past
- introduces the narrator's perspective into the interpretation
ex: Michael Oriard's "Reading Football" book (tells story of the development
of the game of football and how our attitudes toward it came to be)
- Sport - -- "while it can be argued that all sport is play, it does not follow
that all play is sport"
- modern term first used in England
- origins of Latin and French
- grew throughout England referring to competition in the form of games,
individual athletic exploits and hunting
- latin word "deportare" -means to amuse oneself
- a pattern
- audience -Tiger Stadium
- supporting establishment (Brand deal)
- play - -- is intrinsically motivated
- involves the temporary suspensions of normal/ typical reality
- involves internal locus of control
- game - -- more organized effort at play
repeated
- formal def: "a play activity which has explicit rules, specified or understood
goals, the element of opposition or contest, recognizable boundaries in time
and sometimes in space, and a sequence of actions which is essentially
"repeatable" every time the game is played."
, - Socrates - -- was put to death
- knowledge of him come mainly from his pupil Plato
- no written material
- formulated philosophy based on dualism (the separation of mind and body)
- believed in a god that was higher than any other god worshipped by the
greeks
- believed training the mind was crucial
- Plato - -- Socrates pupil
- harmonious relationship between mind and body
- wanted only the best citizens (no patience for all physical and no intellect)
- no patience for athletetes devoted to training the body while neglecting the
mind
- supported the need for modern physical education/ kinesiology program
- Aristotle - -- studied with Plato for 20 years
- tutored Alexander the Great when he was 13 years old
- started his own school - The Lyceum
- belief that health of the soul/mind was contingent on a healthy body
(exercise and grammar)
- strive to be the best physical, mental, and moral
- called " The Father of Logic"
- The Iliad - -funeral games of Petroclus
- at the games they did chariot races, foot races, discus
- honored and appeased their gods (Zeus) and played tribute to dead warrior
- The Odyssey - -Odysseus proving himself
- had to prove himself after coming back from war
- threw the discus to show his greatness
- What do these stories ("The Iliad" and "The Odyssey") tell us about
Greece? - -the stories tell us Greece valued athleticism highly
- athlete - -one who competes for a prize
- Greek ideal - -unity of "man of action" and "man of wisdom"
- Arete - -all-around physical, mental, moral individual excellence one
strove for
- Sparta - -- Military power whose primary purpose was to rule all of Greece
- One goal: to be warriors
- had codes that allowed women more rights and freedom
