Screen with you and we can get right started. Ok, great. So as always, what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, withfitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the kind of overarching arc of the class. Today, we turn to the 1980s. So the name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories that i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. We will get there to the end of class. I will tell you who said it, but that idea that in another historical moment, the people who became architect
This is i believe our third week together virtually. I hope you all are doing well. I will share my screen with you and we can get right started. So as always what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, cutler fitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the overarching arc of the class. Today we turn to the 1980s. The name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. We will get there to the end of class. I will tell you said it. In another historical
Started. So, as always, when we are looking at in this class is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness culture. With working out. Even as the United States is not a particular fifth nation, and even as if anything, in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or a signal of individual virtue and morality, even as the ability to do so and having a quote unquote fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the kind of overarching arc of the class. And today, we torrent turn to the 19 80s. So the name of the lecture today is a quote from one of the oral histories that i have done for the Book Research that i am doing on which this course is based. And it is, i would have been a peach or. We are going to get there towards the end of class i will tell you who said it. But that kind of idea, that in another historical moment the people who bec
Pioneers. Champions. Two labels that merit respect, celebration and honor.
So it was last week as Wheeling High School inducted into its Athletic Hall of Fame its pioneering girls cross country teams .
The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team celebrated Senior Night and recorded a dramatic come-from-behind victory over Emory & Henry to close out the regular season