Outdoor and Adventurous Activities - risks, percieved and actual

Outdoor and Adventurous Activities Situation 1 . How would the children be feeling as the day progresses? At the beginning of the day my guess would be that the children would be feeling fairly anxious or nervous at the fact at what they were about to experience, but they would find comfort in the fact that their teacher is experienced in hiking and they will also be feeling excited. As the day progresses they will grow in confidence in both their hiking and knowing their surroundings, I think that their anxiety and nervousness will have dissolved and by the end of the day they will have full confidence that they can hike the walk again, knowing they'd be safe. 2. Would their pre-trip preparations have increased or decreased their feelings of fear, danger and apprehension? In my opinion the group's pre-trip preparations could have both increased or decreased their fear or apprehension. It may have increased or decrease it because it gives the group an insight of what they will be taking part in, this could frighten the group and because they don't know exactly what it may be like, they could perceive the risk and danger to be greater than the actual risk. It also could work the other way because when it gives an insight of the hike, they may get more excited and more confident in being able to do the hike which will decrease their perceived risk and will increase their

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I am going to write about technology and media in sport. Im going to describe and explain the influence and effects of the media and technology in sport.

Influence of media in sport in UK: Introduction: I am going to write about technology and media in sport. I'm going to describe and explain the influence and effects of the media and technology in sport. This information might give you some knowledge about things that happened in the past in Olympics. The media has changed a lot throughout the years, they used to have to wait and find out the score the next day. Or they would try to access the score threw the radio where as now the can go online and find out right away. The media can make people feel a certain way by what they write. What is Media? Mass media exists in many different forms such as: * Magazines * Television * Newspapers * Internet * Movies * Books * Radio * Video games Television: TV is the most widely used telecommunication medium for giving moving images that are either black and white or color, usually it has sound. TV has been available from the late 1920s; television became very popular in a matter of years. Newspaper: A newspaper is a regularly scheduled publication containing news, information, and advertising, usually printed on relatively inexpensive. Radio: Radio was well known and used well before television, radio was so popular because you could listen to it when you were travelling somewhere and needed to know the news. The radio gives information about many different

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