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Snowboarding Experiences And Lessons: Snowboarding Through The Years, Matt Bryker
Snowboarding Experiences And Lessons: Snowboarding Through The Years, Matt Bryker
Honors Projects
Professional snowboarding lessons are expensive. They can cost up to a thousand dollars a day for a private lesson at a high quality mountain. Many people are not willing to put that much of an investment in a sport that they might not even enjoy. For this reason, many people seek out knowledgeable friends in order to learn the sport. By receiving help from a friend it can be a more enjoyable experience as well as a substantially cheaper one. The problem with this system is that many of these friends do not know where to start when teaching snowboarding. …
Perceptions And Knowledge Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine (Cam) In Physician Assistant Practice, Travis Shamery
Perceptions And Knowledge Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine (Cam) In Physician Assistant Practice, Travis Shamery
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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a category of medicine that falls outside the realm of traditional western medicine. Types of CAM may include acupuncture, natural products, and meditation, among others. The central focus of this paper will be to assess current Physician Assistants (PA) students attending the GVSU’s PA program and examine the perceptions of CAM as well as CAM education. A survey will be conducted to these students and it will ask questions about if/how CAM is taught in their program, how important they think it is in the daily practice of a PA, and it will also …
Market Response To Corporate Social Responsibility Rankings, Jackson Lytle
Market Response To Corporate Social Responsibility Rankings, Jackson Lytle
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There have been many opinions on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and whether it has a positive impact on a company's financial status. External pressures are certainly present to encourage these behaviors, but the bottom-line impact is still much debated. By examining the long-term abnormal returns of companies before and after being listed in Forbes’ article titled “America’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens” we are able to understand whether being a socially responsible company results in better stock market returns. We also measured the effect the rankings had on riskiness. We found that in the long-term, companies in the rankings have significantly …
Pio Systematic Review Paper: Psychological Assessors And Coping Strategies For Injured Athletes During Recovery, Maggie Mcgowan-Stinski
Pio Systematic Review Paper: Psychological Assessors And Coping Strategies For Injured Athletes During Recovery, Maggie Mcgowan-Stinski
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Due to the large number of athletes participating in sports who sustain injuries there are common negative psychological responses presented such as the loss of athletic identity, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and fear1,4,13,15,18. According to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), nearly one in three adolescents in the United States (31.9 %) will have an anxiety disorder18 and around 10% will have depression18,19. The objective of this paper is to determine if there are psychological assessors and coping strategies to best determine psychological preparedness and evaluate these negative psychological effects of athletic injury …