Kin 263 Midterm Exam

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Kin 263 Midterm Exam
45 marks
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Short Answer(jsteinb5_at_uwo.ca)
25 marks
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 1.List what you consider to be the 4 major
reasons the MAAA might claim to have been the
powerhouse of Canadian organized sport prior
to 1910 (4 marks)- initiative in forming from
Library, MLC, MSSC, MBC-business acumen or savvy
of middle class businessmen good at
organizing-success - hockey, lacrosse, Olympic,
football etc champions-financially prosperous -
membership and gate receipts-formed NSGBs esp
AAA of Canada-right institution in right city at
right time-defined amateurism and promoted that
ideal in comp sport 
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•  2. Describe the basic notion of muscular
  Christianity and its application to sport. (3
  marks)
• - 19th century ideology, originating in Britain
  equating the importance of playing hard and fair
  on the field, with Christian values, and
  transferring these values to the world outside of
  sport embodied in Tom Browns Schooldays and
  the teachings of the public schools

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• 3. What is the great irony of European contact
  with Aboriginal peoples in Canada and what are
  the two physical activities in particular which
  are good examples? (4 marks)
• - in part the Europeans claimed to be
  civilizing the Natives, when in practice many
  Europeans including fur traders and soldiers,
  later colonists, would not have survived without
  the skills of the bush and the skills of
  transport which they learned from their
  Aboriginal guides
• - examples snowshoeing, canoeing
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• 4. In what ways can we infer that Athenian Greek
  sport was antecedent to the development of
  Canadian sport prior to 1900? (3 marks)
• -equipment development amentum, himantes,
  husplex therefore added sophistication to sport
• -amateur ideal or holistic ideal of sound mind
  in a sound body
• -facilities for sport - palaestra and gymnasia
• -passion for the struggle in sport, not
  necessarily the victory
• -excellence of competition with ancient Greek
  national athletic festivals

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• 5.What kinds of physical activities, other than
  the work that was taking place, would one
  typically see at a barn-raising, harvest, or
  logging bee in 19th century Upper Canada? (4
  marks)
• - wrestling, boxing, dancing, races, contests of
  strength (lifting objects, arm wrestling, tugs of
  war) contests with tools (chopping contests,
  sawing contests)
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• 6.  a) Adam E. Ford remembered the first
  rule-based baseball game in Beachville, Ontario-
  1838
•  b) Medieval jousting - festive, organized,
  symptomatic of timeless impulse to compete/play
• -rules, code of chivalry (proper way to compete)
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• c) the rules of the Montreal Curling Club
  social experience was far more important than
  competition
•  d) The Sabbath Day Act passed in 1845 in Upper
  Canada restricted the kinds of activities that
  were appropriate for Sundays including various
  sports and games made them illegal
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•  e) The MSSC snowshoers song very clearly
  established the important values of a physical
  masculinity one that was class and race based
  and one that stipulated a defined gender polarity
  between men and women
•  f) rifle-shooting an activity used for nation
  building, to create a volunteer military force
  to acclimatize people to the economic and
  political changes that were taking place in the
  new Dominion of Canada Canadas first federally
  funded sport 1 million dollars between 1867 and
  1908
•  g) articles of agreement - early format for
  standardizing competitions in the absence of
  codified rules ex Lucknow hammer throwing
  articles
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Essay Questions 20 marks(jmforsyt_at_uwo.ca)

• Generally, it is expected that students will be
  able to present an answer to the question that is
  guided by an analytical framework as outlined in
  the question the answer should have a thesis,
  and should be supported by arguments which have a
  basis in evidencea good answer will have
  analysis, evidence, and will be well written
  the lessor grades will have parts of those
  qualities, but not all the even lessor grades
  will have one of those qualities, but no the
  other two the lowest grades will have little of
  each or at least substandard qualities
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• 1. Based on what you have studied in class and
  from your course readings, explain the
  significance to sport and leisure of the mid-19th
  century emergence of the middle classes. It might
  be useful to explain how dominant forms of
  masculinity changed from the previous era and how
  these related to social values. Be sure to
  provide examples to demonstrate the issues you
  raise in your arguments.
• - the analysis should talk about how the notion
  of male honour was related to physical practices
  and how this differed between classes and how it
  changed over time

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• -the evidence should discuss the elites and their
  honour code the duel as sustaining these codes
  of honour the private club as sustaining the
  rights of privilege and of social difference
  family name and money sustaining social hierarchy
  - the labouring classes, their sense of honour
  the physical challenge, strength contests, tavern
  brawls they must talk about the success of
  reformers in gaining access to forms of public
  power the new middle class man, values of
  family, work ethic, honour achieved through
  success and deeds, not through family privilege
  the new public man celebrated physical competence
  in public through sport valued fair play, but
  rough play tempered by Christian values muscular
  Christianity social Darwinism that the social
  crème rose to the top through the natural
  hierarchy created by industrialization the new
  middle class man was an organizer, a record
  keeper, rationalized all forms of behaviour
  according to their ends
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• 2. Describe the nature of sport/physical
  activity in British North America prior to about
  1850 then, discuss the ways in which industrial,
  technological innovations affected the rate,
  magnitude and direction of changes in the
  development of Canadian sport after 1850.

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• -should describe the nature of physical activity
  in BNA with bees, horseracing, garrison officers
  sport (NOT New France) - pastimes, informal,
  upper class, social first, athletic second - all
  this as describing the nature of sport/PA prior
  to 1850 - could use documents from web site like
  Montr Ol Games, Sabbath Act, MCC rules
• -major part of paper should discuss changes to
  sport from
• -transportation changes
• -communication changes
• -equipment changes
• -facilities changes
• with solid examples of exact changes to sport
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• Extensive use of readings s 4-7 inclusive would
  be hallmark of excellent answer