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| Leisure is contextual in relation to: |
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| The Ancient Greek Leisure Ideal implies that leisure is. . . |
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| Path to good life, available only to the upper class. Leisure was both intellectual and physical. |
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| In Ancient Greece Plato and Aristotle taught that Leisure was primarily available. . . |
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| Eudaimonia - happiness. Highest good was contemplative life. (Aristotle) |
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| The Greek words/terminology related to leisure and work. . . |
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Schole - To halt or to have peace - leisure.
Ascholia - A want for a lack of schole; un-leisure (no word for work)
Paidia -Amusements (games)
Anapausis - Recreation (re-creation) |
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| Ancient Greece left a legacy of leisure as. . . |
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| Maximize pleasure, minimize pain - physical health and mental health |
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| The Roman Empire utilized leisure as a means of . . . |
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| Maintaining discipline and social order - with the middle class. |
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| The Roman words/terminology related to leisure and work. . . |
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Otium - (rest) a well deserved rest after a life of negotium
Negotium - (unrest/work) greek ascholia |
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| Contributions by Polynesians and Muhammad to Western leisure. . . |
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Polynesians - 1st tourists
Muhammad - Constant relaxation, slowing down, leisure |
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| The Middle Ages primary influence on earl American leisure. . . |
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| Otium: (rest) A well deserved rest after a life of negotium |
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| A philosophy emphasizing the capacity and worth of human beings |
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| Distinctive features of colonial pastimes. . . |
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| Being productive, purposeful recreation, utilitarian, punishments for acts that weren't productive (drunkenness, idleness, gambling, dancing) |
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| The earliest planned urban outdoor recreation spaces. . . |
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| Playground movement (1885) Boston Sand Gardens (10 massive piles of sand) |
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| Focus early forms of leisure in the United States (Colonial America) |
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Church Attendance
Parks and conservation - village greens were created in the cities |
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| Lower and middle class leisure during the industrial revolution. . . |
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Poor, 60 hour work weeks, $.20/hour.
Tenements, factories
Very low amounts of rich people |
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| Impacts of Industrial Revolution on leisure in America. . . |
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| Used as a tool for social good |
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| Social movements originating at the beginning of the 20th century that impacted American leisure. . . |
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Voluntary organizations - YMCA, YWCA, Boy scouts, boys club, campfire girls, girl scouts, 4H, rotary clubs, Kiwanis clubs
Playground movement - School movement |
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| Influences on the growth of leisure in American culture. . . |
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| Endorsement by high education |
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| Fredrick Law Olmsted 1851 543 acres ---> 1853 800+ acres |
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Great Depression
CCC - civilian conservation core
Federal emergency dollars
Multiple Recreation Facilities |
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| Started by Jane Adams, used for people to learn English and positive healthy activities. |
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| Started Hull House in Stanton Cott, NEW. Started settlement houses in Chicago 1889 |
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Revealed slums to the rich.
Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" (what's going on around the tenements and poor communities)
NY 1st playgrounds |
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Father of the playground movement.
1st playgroup in Boston.
Used his own money, not the governments (voluntary action). |
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Lyceums are mechanics' institutes and agriculture organizations.
Lectures, dramatic performances, class instructions, and debates that significantly contributed to the education of the adult American in the 19th Century. |
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| The myth of superabundance |
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| Jeffersonian era - the thought that we won't run out of resources. |
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| Characteristics of leisure services following WWII leisure services. . . |
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Spending increased.
Growing concern for environment.
MWR.
Programs to better serve women, the disabled, and the elderly.
Leisure would become increasingly important to preserving values and life satisfaction. |
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| Important legislative acts impacting leisure and recreation in the America. . . |
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National Defense and high way act of 1956 - needing to transfer military personnel from one part of the country to the other.
Civil rights movements.
Schools to strengthen physical fitness.
federal water pollution control commission (1962) |
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| Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission |
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Water Quality Act (1965)
Clean Water Restoration Act (1966)
Solid Waste Disposal Act (1965)
Highway Beautification Act (1965)
Mining Reclamation Act (1968)
Wilderness Act (1964) |
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| Professionalization of the therapeutic recreation field. . . |
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federal government increased aid for special education.
National Recreation society 1960s.
American Therapeutic Recreation Association 1980s.
After WWII there was a need for specialized disciplines.
MWR |
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| Role of leisure on the was on poverty. . . |
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Income gaps.
Community action programs.
User feed attached to government funded recreation facilities/activities. |
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| Funding issue for modern recreation programs. . . |
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Leaving the national parks in despair and understaffed.
Small towns survive better major cities.
Many cities rely on private business to construct or maintain facilities and provide services public departments contract with private companies. |
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| Three modern ways of categorizing leisure's meanings |
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1) Free time
2) Recreational Activity
3) Special Spirit (state of mind) |
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| An armed group of white men scouring the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in search of Indians, hoping to drive them from their homeland. |
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| People who should be feared; they are killers. |
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| English man who failed at being a prospector in the gold rush. Wanted to make a fortune posting about CA's wonders. Made it more touristy than it was meant to be. |
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| Proposed a bill to set aside natural scenery. Yosemite and Mariposa should never be private ownership (owned by the national government) |
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Disgner for NYC Central Park,
Strict regulation to keep the landscape the rights of porsperity.
1st landscape architect. |
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Father of the National Parks
Nobody wonderer
Did not Hech Hechi to become a dam. |
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| survived in Yellowstone by himself for 37 days. |
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Lead expeditions to Yellowstone to show people its true value.
Proposed bills to protect Yellowstone. |
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1st National Park in the World.
2 million acres + |
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| Railroad and hunting rules in Yellowstone |
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| Self-appointed protector of Yellowstone |
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Concerned for buffalo, liked hunting, didn't trust American who didn't hunt.
Biggest President to contribute to National Parks and Monuments. |
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| Americas 1st National Park |
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Muir - wanted forest to be left alone (no logging, grazing, hunting) Preservation
Pinchot - Said not to leave them along, but to manage their uses (greatest good for the greatest number) conservation |
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Editor and owner of Forest and Stream Magazine.
Creator of The Audubon Society |
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Graduate of Yale and studied forestry in Germany and France.
Returned to America and declared himself a professional forester. |
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Worked with Grinnell and Roosevelt.
Pushed the bill to protect the wild buffalo heard.
Lacey Bird and Game Act of 1900. |
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| Promoted and lobbied to get Crater Lake to be the 6th National Park (1902) |
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| A dam within the boundaries of Yosemite |
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