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Assignment - Final Research Paper

Objectives - By the end of this assignment, students will be able to

• analyze how a particular sport can be interpreted in different historical methods,
• compare and contrast a particular sports significance historically,
• link modern and classical versions of sports,
• articulate certain thinkers approaches in the history of sport and culture generally, and
• generate arguments in a logical and analytic style of thinking.

Instructions -

1. Over the course of several stages, you are to develop an essay to address the following:

• Compare and contrast a particular sport from the classical Olympics and the modern Olympics. Eg, wrestling. The sport could be the same sport used for the timeline assignment. Alternatively, one can contrast a classical sport with a modern sport that is new and in this case, part of the assignment is looking at why there are new games.
• Further, you must demonstrate how a certain type of historian or historians, may interpret these historical changes from the classical to modern Games.: e.g. empirical dates and places, hermeneutical methods, Hegelian dialectic, etc.

2. You will be preparing a research essay that

• develops your particular approach to answering the question,
• establishes your arguments,
• provides support for these arguments (both from the assigned readings and external sources), and
• summarizes everything in a conclusion.

3. The essay should be 2000 words. Format the paper using APA style. A minimum of four academic references should be included.