Gymnastics

the game of gymnastics has been around for a long time. the sport developed from the ancient greeks 4,000 years ago. at the time, exercise was thought to be a good use of one's time. people would spend as much time exercising as they would working on writing or math. men would meet to develop and practice moves that showed their strength, flexibility, and endurance.
friedrich ludwig jahn is widely credited with developing modern-day gymnastics. jahn, a german educator, had a great love for his country. he thought that the young people of germany could be encouraged and built up through gymnastics. in the early nineteenth century, jahn created the first gymnastics club. it make the sport popular throughout germany and later the world. jahn developed the balance beam, the horizontal bar, the parallel bars, the rings, and the vault. much of what we see in twenty-first century gymnastics equipment can be traced back to jahn.

select all the correct answers.
roderick needs to write down facts from the passage into his notebook. he is interested in only writing down information about the life of friedrich ludwig jahn.

which facts should roderick write down?

a. developed strength, flexibility, and endurance

b. improved the sport of gymnastics

c. began about 4,000 years ago

d. thought gymnastics could german youth

e. invented the balance beam, rings, and vault

B. improved the sport of gymnastics

D. thought gymnastics could help German youth

E. invented the balance beam, rings, and vault

Explanation:

all the choices relates to this passage of the reading...

He thought that the young people of Germany could be encouraged and built up through gymnastics. In the early nineteenth century, Jahn created the first gymnastics club. It helped make the sport popular throughout Germany and later the world. Jahn developed the balance beam, the horizontal bar, the parallel bars, the rings, and the vault. Much of what we see in twenty-first century gymnastics equipment can be traced back to Jahn.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.