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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. ....
Fitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not. 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. I will to you who said it tell you who said it. In another historical moment, the people who became architects of the Fitness Industry would have been physical education teachers is an i ....
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 ....
Residents. Long time residents say high rents are changing the character of the mission. Frustrated renters and housing activists are demanding the city leaders do something to help those being pushed out or cant afford to stay. Last month, San Francisco supervisors heard hours of testimony to hold market rate housing while they build more Affordable Housing. I work for San Francisco parks. I got evicted. I barely held on to stay in the city because my family was in the mission with my niece and nephew. Its a high proportion of their income. Mine is 50 . I live in the Mission District all my life. I got priced out. I moved, couldnt afford to rent. But, i love my city. Im here every day. I work for the city. Cant afford to live here . How is that fair to me . Let ....
Residents. Long time residents say high rents are changing the character of the mission. Frustrated renters and housing activists are demanding the city leaders do something to help those being pushed out or cant afford to stay. Last month, San Francisco supervisors heard hours of testimony to hold market rate housing while they build more Affordable Housing. I work for San Francisco parks. I got evicted. I barely held on to stay in the city because my family was in the mission with my niece and nephew. Its a high proportion of their income. Mine is 50 . I live in the Mission District all my life. I got priced out. I moved, couldnt afford to rent. But, i love my city. Im here every day. I work for the city. Cant afford to live here . How is that fair to me . Let ....