Notes for Olympics Controlled Assessment! Slide 1 Hello everyone Have you ever felt like you weren’t going to succeed or reach your ultimate goal? Have you ever wanted to be known for something you love or enjoy? There is a place where all your dreams can come true, The Olympics were peoples dream become reality Slide 2 The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in southwest Greece. The Games were part of a religious festival from 776 BC – 393 AD and were held in honour of Zeus, king of the gods they were staged every four years at Olympia.
The long-term marketing strategies continue to assist in the promotion of Olympism throughout the world. They aim to ensure the Olympic Games can be experienced by the maximum number of people and promote the Olympic ideals and image. What’s more, the programmes are also responsible for controlling and limiting the commercialization of the Olympics. Thus, the Olympics Games can move towards a sustainable development. London 2012: The First ‘Social Media’ Olympic Games The London 2012 Games was not the first to be held with social media and networks present.
Through this we can represent Source 2.7, a statue on behalf of Leonidas, a renowned King of Sparta who lead the three hundred men. By looking at this source, it is evidently shown that a Spartan King was highly respected and perceived as true Spartan warriors. We can clearly say this through the statue being represented as not only the king but as many soldiers due to it not having a facial details or expressions. Therefore, the military role of a King was the main slot that had to be
“Religious festivals were occasions of public display” a quote from ancient historian Xenophon, exemplifies the how gods and festivals play an important and crucial role in the lifestyle and the overall society of Sparta. Religion in Sparta was a way of bringing the community together and uniting the gods with the everyday social and political institutions of the Spartan state. Major festivals celebrated by the Spartans included those common to other Greek city states, along with festivals unique to the Spartans. These main festivals were Gymnopaedia, Karneia and Hyakinthia which were celebrated in honour various gods for various reasons. This will be explored through primary and secondary sources revealing the information behind the annual commemorations.
In Atala the Native Americans worshiped more than one god, and they are very closely related to the Greek gods. They believed that these gods could take on any form and any gender. The Greeks did this to test their hospitality. They both have myths that explain how everything came to be like the gods, and how humans came, and fire, and all things imaginable. For years these myths were passed down orally until somebody decided to write them.
In 1912, he competed in the Summer Olympics, contesting the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals; both events were won by Jim Thorpe. He won national championships in track three times between 1914 and 1918, and founded his own construction business. He earned his wealth from this company and from investments, and never accepted pay for his sports involvement. Following his retirement from athletics, Brundage became a sports administrator, rising rapidly through the ranks in United States sports groups. As leader of America's Olympic organizations, he fought
He was not allowed to eat with the team he could only attend “black only” restaurants. He also had to live off campus with other African American students. And Owens did not receive a scholarship during his time at Ohio, so he was required to work a part time job to pay for his schooling. Jesse Owens is commonly known for his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics; however his best athletic performance was in May 1935 at the Big Ten championship. Owens set three new world records and tied a fourth one.
Maria Fernandes Mrs. Cook Latin III Odysseus Portrays the Ideal Greek Hero Odysseus portrays the ideal Greek hero, but before showing how he portrays the ideal Greek hero I must first define Greek hero. In today’s society, a hero is somebody who is willing to give or sacrifice his life for the well-being of others. In the other hand, a Greek hero has nothing to do with sacrificing one’s life for others. Here are the main characteristics of the epic classical hero of Greek and Roman literature: he is of royal birth or even half mortal, half god; he must perform extraordinary feats; he is a noble character which is close to perfectly ideal but for a fatal flaw; the suffering of the character is physical; the hero fights for his own honor; and death must occur in an unusual way. The first characteristic of a Greek hero is to be of royal birth or even half mortal, half god.
Rather, Hesiod affirms the kingship of the god Zeus himself over all the other gods and over the whole universe. Further, in the "Kings and Singers" passage (80-103) Hesiod appoints himself the authority usually reserved to sacred kingship. The poet states that it is he, where readers might have expected some king instead, upon whom the Muses have giving two gifts a scepter and an authoritative voice (Hesiod, Theogony 30-3), which are the visible signs of kingship at that time. It is not that this is meant to make Hesiod a king. Rather, the point is that the authority of kingship now belongs to the poetic voice, the voice that is declaiming the Theogony.
When Philip of Macedon conquered Greece in 1338 B.C.E., Greeks did not feel the gods had deserted them. They simply believed that Philip for all his power and glory, was just one more tool in the hands of the Olympians. When he was assassinated in 336, only two years after his dramatic triumph, his new subjects nodded knowingly to one another: the gods had grown tired of him. These sorts of intriques, of course, would have been typical among the gods, and therefore familiar to both Greeks and Macedonians. Ruling the former Persian Empire turned out to be more difficult than defeating it.