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Volleyball

Women's volleyball was not always played in today's aggressive manner. In 1895, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), William Morgan, decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game that would demand less physical contact than basketball. The YMCA took this new game around the globe and introduced this uniquely American sport to the world as volleyball. (Oglesby et al. 291)

Volleyball is among the first team games, which were taught to college women in the 1890s. Team sports for women quickly became controversial because they were vigorous and promoted attitudes that are more competitive. From the earliest period of college women playing these sports until the 1960s, most physical educators accepted sport for health and social reasons while frowning on the idea of girls and women's teams competing against each other. During the first half of the twentieth century, individual and dual sports were seen as more appropriate for females because costumes were more feminine without being revealing, and no physical contact could occur. From childhood, girls and women were conditioned in these sexist attitudes, which prohibited their engagement in highly competitive activities. Most people accepted the notion that such restrictions were in keeping with "appropriate differences" between males and females in sport. However, as women continued to work for political freedom through suffrage (the right to vote), they began to challenge gender restriction in many other areas of life, including competitive sporting opportunities. (Oglesby et al. 133-134)

At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, a women's team sport was included in the Olympic Games for the first time. That sport was women's volleyball." (Oglesby et al. 291)

Volleyball is not a sport that can be defined as a sport that moves in a straight line, and actually, the ball is not the only focal point. The practice of dictating movements by word of command is the simplest and most direct way to get the work done; it is not the best way, because the human body was not developed to its present form in that way. It is not mere chance, as the advocates of gymnastics say that decides what movements a child at play will make; his movements are determined by organic structure, which is the result of countless centuries of evolution, predisposing him to certain movements. Being alive and seeking growth this organism functions in its natural way and develops accordingly, urged on by wishes which themselves are based on the nature of the inherited structure. As the structure changes with growth, it naturally seeks to function in the use of the new capacities. (Mitchell, and Mason 221)

Grace is art, wherever found. The ball player, awkward in the reception room, still exemplifies high art when he catches and throws a ball, every movement expressing grace and conservation of effort. "(Mitchell, and Mason 218)

The above quote is also true for volleyball. Volleyball is a sport that plays on teamwork, movement, hand eye coordination, and endurance. Not only is it important to hit a ball back and forth over a net, without the team working as a single unit the same is sure to be lost. Congruency is necessary among the team players and their techniques.

It was in 1665 that the young Isaac Newton retreated to the family farm at Lincolnshire to escape an outbreak of the plague at Cambridge University, where he was attending classes as an undergraduate. While in his temporary self-imposed exile, Newton began to think about the nature of space and time and motion. Over the course of the next 2 years, this young man, who had not been a particularly impressive student at college, constructed a magnificent intellectual edifice, offering the world a vision of a universe governed by immutable physical laws. Specifically Newton's three laws of motion (e.g., "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.") and his law of universal gravitation (which was inspired by his being hit on the head by a falling apple). In doing so, Newton created the field of classical mechanics and posited a universe in which space and time were absolute and the cosmos itself was thought to be akin to a gigantic watch spring wound up by the hand of God. (Weaver 4)