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Leisure Concepts

so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at...

Leisure Categories

that work is negative and it is a task that is chosen rather than enforced or necessary. If this is considered in terms of the 196...

Basingstoke's Report on Leisure Services

The Arts and Heritage section, for instance, lists the new...

21st Century Leisure

easier. Sure, people are not chained to factories, but high priced executives, doctors, lawyers and people in high positions find ...

Late 19th Century Leisure

the end of face-to-face communication (Stone, 1995). There were both positive and negative social side effects of the new technolo...

Leisure and Work in 1900 to 1920 Urban US

This paper discusses early 20th century leisure and work as conceptualized in urban America in a consideration of Kathy Peiss' 'Le...

Concepts of Restraint and Freedom in Utopia by Thomas More

the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...

Siegfried Giedion's "Mechanization Takes Command"

of work those appliance could not do. Giedions treatment of this spurt in technological advancement and how it did not provide it...

Social Theory: Recreation, Leisure And Play

Peer Group Affiliation And Differences According To Residential Status, Subsistence Patterns, And Use Of Services" provide empiric...

Information Warfare (IW) and Cyber-Terrorist Activities

The concept of information warfare is not new, it has been around for centuries, while cyber-terrorism is new. Despite this the tw...

Alzheimer’s and Therapeutic Recreation

2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...

Marketing Plan for the Sun Disk

salon business remains quite healthy. Exposure cautions eventually extended to tanning beds as well, with the added caveat that n...

Small Leisure Boat Environmental Audit

environmentally damaging transportation. The chain is very long, and this extended in many directions, so in reality a true total ...

Lifetime of Leisure

category refers to personal unexpected events, such as divorce or disability (Mannell and Kleiber, 1997). A major landmark study...

Trustworthiness as it relates to Mergers and Acquisitions in the Leisure Economy

by movies (Fischer, 1994). Film-going would grow as would radio that first appeared in the 1920s (Fischer, 1994). It seems that b...

Should People Who Work in the Leisure and Recreation Industry be Considered Professionals?

home, because when we settle down to watch a DVD or film, play a game of Trivial Pursuit or even go outside to play catch, we are ...

An Examination of The Theory of the Leisure Class

all, a class of people set higher, financially and socially, than others who must somehow struggle and work for a living. Veblen f...

Leisure Pursuits, Cultural Practices, and Their Primary Motivation

In six pages this paper discusses how prestige is the motivating force for leisure pursuits and cultural practices with travel and...

Leisure Industry and Making Decisions

need to ensure that marketing allows for the variety of purchasing models and influences that may be seen as applicable to the tar...

Anthropology and Leisure

In five pages this paper takes an anthropological view of leisure within the context of Phillip R. DeVita and James D'Armstrong's ...

Acquisitions and Financial Concerns

In eight pages a student submitted possible leisure company acquisition case study is examined in terms of sale reasons and variou...

Takeover Bid Financial Considerations

In ten pages the perspective of a financial advisor for the International Leisure public company is taken in a consideration of Ga...

Leisure Activities in Programs for the Elderly

In six pages elderly programs are examined in a consideration of how important leisure services activities are. Five sources are ...

U.S. Slave Children's Leisure and Play

In five pages this paper discusses the play and leisure activities of slave children in the United States as represented in the ci...

2 Adolescent Peer Interaction Journal Articles Reviewed

most part, peer groups are formed out of a similarity in interests and personality behavior. This clearly explains the reasons wh...

Sports and Leisure Time

less and less are seniors retiring to go sit on the couch, while more often they are spending their golden years in sports-related...

The Overworked American The Unexpected Decline in Leisure by Juliet Schor

able to analyze Schors findings through a careful definition of the problem, understanding the extent of it, considering how it ca...

Australia's Recreation and Leisure

Bicentennial Authority, designed projects based on the theme of "Leisure in the Age of Technology" (Editor, 1990, p. 3). The diffe...

Research in Tourism and Leisure

words, "Heritage tourism reintroduces people to their cultural roots" (McKercher, Yo and du Cros, 2004, p. 539). Furthermore, cult...

Aristotle and Sebastian de Grazia on Leisure

In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...