Pilates Total Conditioning Program lays emphasis not only on proper exercises, but also on the proper breathing while in the process of performing any one typical body movement. In other words, the technique is very similar to the ancient Indian exercise, 'yogasana', and in the same way in which the practitioners of yoga concentrate not only on exercises and specific body movements, but also on specific deep breathing exercises while performing the exercises, the Pilates' methods attempt to control and regulate the breathing of the individual during the course of his exercise regimen. (Pilates, a Core Conditioning Program)
However, one significant difference between yoga and Pilates is the fact that while yoga concentrates more on breathing and its regulation, Pilates concentrates more on exercises. Another difference is that while yoga is practiced more for spiritual benefit hat comes as a result of physical welfare and well being, Pilates is practiced…...

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References

About IM=X Pilates. 2004. Integrated Movement Exercise. Retrieved at   Accessed on 5 February, 2005http://www.xercize.com/about.html .

An overview of the Pilates Technique. Pilate Exercise Specialists. Retrieved at on 5 February, 2005http://pilates.nzsites.com/html/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3Accessed

Deciding to try Pilates. Retrieved at   Accessed on 5 February, 2005http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-862.html .

Exercise, a Program you can live with. Retrieved at Accessed on 5 February, 2005http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:kJdkeCIKvIIJ:common.nustep.com/.

(Craig, 2001)
According to Craig, "The deeper you get into the work and the more you understand its principles, the more Pilates should expand into other parts of your life. It's not about compartmentalizing exercise into one or two sessions a week or building up some muscle groups and neglecting the rest. Instead it cultivates an awareness of your spine, posture and everyday movements. This translates into how you lift a child, sit in front of a steering wheel or bang a tennis ball." (Craig, 2001)

It is clear, then, that Pilates truly does affect people's recovery from injury through rehab. ecause of its generalist applications, and focus on back strength and flexibility, Pilates is a one-stop shop for those looking to make their daily lives more pain free and those looking to accelerate their recovery from falls and sprains, for instance.

Pilates is mental as well as physical work. One must…...

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Bibliography www.allaboutpilates.com

Craig, Colleen. 2000. The Pilates Path to Fitness. Alive Magazine.

Crawford, Elisabeth. 2002. Master class ballates: Balance on the Ball: Exercises Inspired by the Teachings of Joseph Pilates combines Pilates and stability ball exercises to create an innovative workout. American Fitness: May-June 2002.

Ellie Herman Pilates. 2005. www.ellie.net.

Glosten, Beth. 2005. What is Pilates? Harmonia Riding.

Pilates and After Injury ehabilitation
As a child, German-born Joseph H. Pilates suffered from several illnesses that resulted in muscular weakness. Pilates was determined to overcome his frailties, and dedicated his life to becoming physically stronger. He studied martial arts, yoga, Zen meditation, and Greek and oman exercises, and worked with medical professionals including physicians and his wife Clara, a nurse. Joseph Pilates' experiences led to the development of his unique method of physical and mental strengthening, which Pilates brought to the U.S. In 1923 (Anderson & Spector, 2005).

Popular dance instructors and choreographers, including Martha Graham, George Balanchine and Jerome obbins, all embraced Pilates' exercise method in the 1930s and 1940s. Dancers often suffered from injuries that resulted in a long recovery period and an inability to achieve peak performance. Pilates' method, which was unique at the time, allowed and encouraged movement early in the rehabilitation process by proving needed assistance.…...

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Reference List

Anderson, B.D. & Spector, A. (2005). Introduction to Pilates-based rehabilitation. Retrieved June 4, 2011 from  http://www.studioequilibrium.com.br/downloads/Introduction%20to%20Pilates-Based%20Rehabilitation.pdf 

Cluett, J., M.D. (2009). Pilates for injury rehab and prevention: Using Pilates to help prevent orthopedic injuries. Retrieved June 4, 2011 from  http://orthopedics.about.com/od/alternativetreatments/qt/pilates.htm 

Cohen, S.M. (2009). Pilates for injury rehabilitation. Sports Medicine by Suite 101 Web site. Retrieved June 4, 2011 from http://www.suite101.com/content/pilates-for-injury-rehabilitation

Documented benefits from the Pilates Method Alliance. (2011). The Christ Hospital Web site. Retrieved June 4, 2011 from http://www.thechristhospital.com/?id=568&sid=1

Pilates matwork exercises

While there are dozens of matwork exercises, the rollback is basic and typical. Because it strengthens the spin and facilitates motor control, it is essential before beginning other exercises. "It is a key movement in the Pilates system because it addresses the core musculature of the powerhouse in detail. This exercise gives an opportunity for an instructor to observe the body's symmetry. It allows them to cue a client to move straight through the spine, correcting the body's inefficient

" (Coleman-Brown and Haley-Kanigel, 2003).

Below are Coleman-Brown and Haley-Kanigel's instructions:

1. Sit on a mat with knees bent, heels together, and knees in line with the shoulders. Place hands behind thighs and make sure shoulders are over hips. Pull the powerhouse in and up, hollowing out the abdomen. Eyes gaze toward navel (photo 2,-page 28).

2. oll back one vertebra at a time, starting from the base of the spine, until the…...

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References

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury. Retrieved 18 October 2005 at  http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cybertherapist/front/knee/anteriorcruciate.htm 

Coleman-Brown, L. And V.Haley-Kanigel. (July 2003) Movement with Meaning. Retrieved 18 October 2005 from July 2003  http://www.rehabpub.com/features/72003/5.asp 

Common Causes of Hip Pain and Loss of Hip Mobility, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Retrieved 18 October 2005 at  http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/booklet/view_report.cfm?Thread_ID=2&topcategory=Hip 

Exercise Therapy for Low Back Pain. (2005). Retrieved October 18, 2005 from Spine-Health.com at  http://www.spine-health.com/topics/conserv/rehab/ball/ball01.html

Pilates: History, Uses and Benefits
Background on Pilates

While other ancient forms of exercise have a more dubious or nebulous history, the beginnings of pilates tend to actually be well-known and well-documented. Joseph Pilates created this form of exercise in the 1920s as a means of rehabilitating individuals, athletes and others who were under great physical strain (Weil, 2014). "Some of the first people treated by Pilates were soldiers returning from war and dancers such as Martha Graham and George Balanchine (to strengthen their bodies and heal their aches and pains)" (Weil, 2014). While pilates has been tweaked and adjusted throughout the years, it still remains a heavily used form of exercise, and stays true to its origins. One of the core tenets of pilates is that it is focused creating an intense amount of strength training, but without creating unnecessary bulk. The pilates method revolves around engaging in a series of…...

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References

Little, L. (2010, July 30). Dance Pilates: How Pilates benefits dancers. Retrieved from Examiner.com:  http://www.examiner.com/article/dance-pilates-how-pilates-benefits-dancers 

Martin, S. (2009, April). Pilates for Scoliosis. Retrieved from Pilates-pro.com:  http://www.pilates-pro.com/pilates-pro/2009/4/3/pilates-for-scoliosis.html 

Pilates.com. (2014). The Benefits of Pilates. Retrieved from Pilates.com:  https://www.pilates.com/BBAPP/V/pilates/benefits-of-pilates.html 

Weil, R. (2014, January 17). Pilates. Retrieved from medicinenet.com:  http://www.medicinenet.com/pilates/article.htm

spine-health.com/topics/conserv/pilates/pilates01.html)
Just adding this simple group of exercises to what you already do for fitness, or as an entirely new fitness regimen will develop a strong balanced set of core muscles that will be much more resistant to lower back stress and strain, and will likely improve or even eliminate lower back pain.

Case Study: Jack

Jack (age 49) presented for chronic lower back pain that had been reoccurring over the past several years. He had a relatively minor injury, many years previous and the pain has exacerbated in the last few months as he has recently taken a job that requires more sedentary behavior than he has experienced in the past. Jack received several prescriptions from his primary care physician for a narcotic pain medication but complains of side effects and his concern of long-term dependence and increased tolerance. Jack has limited range of motion in bending and rotation, reduced by as…...

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Works Cited

BASI Pilates Exercise Book

Diagram of lower back Lumbar Spine and Sacrum" ND Retrieved November 18, 2007 at  http://www.sjhc.london.on.ca/sjh/programs/di/lower_spine.htm 

Field, Tiffany M. "Massage Therapy Effects." American Psychologist 53.12 (1998): 1270-1281.

Myslinski, Norbert R. "Using the Brain to Conquer Pain." World and I Feb. 2003: 132.

Her society tells her she needs one, and when Milkman enters her life, she invests her entire personality in him. When he leaves her, Hagar lacks the self she needs to survive. Pathetically, she tries to create a self that Milkman will want by buying makeup and clothes, turning her beautiful African hair a horrible orange (Milkman has been dating light-skinned redheads), and generally abasing herself.
Morrison certainly deviates from a sterotypical feminist perspective when she criticizes Hagar's possessiveness as well as Milkman's cruelty. When Hagar and uth argue over Milkman, Pilate points out that a man is not a house to be owned. Finally, when Hagar is trying to kill Milkman (not able to possess him, she does not know what else to do), Guitar tells her how wrong she is to base her value on the possession of a man. How can Milkman love her if she is…...

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Bakerman, Jane. Failures of Love: Female Initiation in the Novels of Toni Morrison, American Literature 52 ( January 1981), 541.

Cowart, David. Faulkner and Joyce in Morrison's Song of Solomon. American Literature 62.1 (1990): 87-100.

Duvall, John N. Doe. Hunting and Masculinity: Song of Solomon and Go Down, Moses. Arizona Quarterly 47.1 (1991): 95-115.

Marilyn, Atlas. A Woman Both Shiny and Brown: Feminine Strength in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter 9 (Fall 1979), 1-13.

The end of the novel seems to signal a return to the novel's first setting, which is Moscow, but changes that setting in a fundamental manner. For successfully hosting the party with the Devil, the Devil grants Margarita her greatest wish. She asks that the Master be set free, so that she can live with him. She does this knowing that, in the current social and political climate, life with the Master will be a life of poverty. This choice seems to help change the nature of Moscow at that time, because both the Devil and Christ leave Moscow. This seems to signify that, when one loses religion, one may lose the Devil, but one also loses Christ. This idea is reinforced by the fact that the Master and Margarita are able to attain peace at the end of the novel, but denied salvation. Bulgakov's overriding message seems to be…...

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Works Cited

Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita. New York: Penguin Group, 1966.

Rst: New Testament
the passion in synoptic gospels vs john'S GOSPEL

The Synoptic Gospels, which are the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, are called "Synoptic" because their patterns and stories show similar themes as well as differences. Placing them side by side, which has been done many times, can give a quick "historical" synopsis of Jesus' life. hile the Synoptic Gospels use many of the same patterns and stories, each author stresses his own themes, particularly in describing Jesus' Passion: his suffering and death. Mark emphasizes Jesus' suffering. Matthew focuses on Jesus' kingship and the jealous plotting against him. Luke stresses Jesus' innocence and its recognition by several of Jesus' key oppressors. The Synoptic Gospels use common historical patterns and stories to convey their messages.

In contrast to the Synoptic Gospels, John's Gospel is less historical and more poetically, theologically developed. John's Gospel does not use the same patterns or many…...

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Works Cited

Just, Felix. The Passion and Death of Jesus. 15 August 2014. Web. 15 August 2015.

King James Bible Online. John Chapter 18. 2015. Web. 14 August 2015.

-- . John Chapter 19. 2015. Web. 14 August 2015.

-- . Luke Chapters 22 and 23. 2015. Web. 14 August 2015.

Critic Donald B. Pruitt uses "cold hard fact" from the narrative involving Christ's trial to set those chapters aside from the chapters that are fantasy. Pruitt sees the success that Bulgakov has accomplished by editing St. John's version of Pilate and Christ's discussion, and in truth Bulgakov's version is read-made for creative realism.
In the Gospel According to John, Pilate says to Christ: "Do you not know that I have the power to release you and power to crucify you?" (Pruitt, 1981, p. 2). Christ answered: "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above…" (p. 2). In Bulgakov's version, Pilate says something more contemporary and likely more true to what actually took place: "[Your life] is hanging by a thread: know that." Christ answered cryptically: "You don't think, do you, hegemon, that it is you who hung it?" "If you do," Christ continued,…...

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Works Cited

Bulgakov, Mikhail. (1967). The Master and Margarita. New York: Harper & Row.

Frank, Margot K. (1981). The Mystery of the Master's Final Destination. Canadian-American

Slavic Studies. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg. Vol. 159.

Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from Literature Resource Center.

Alice Camille agrees, noting that when Jesus tells the others, "It is finished" (John 19:30), he is reinforcing the notion that the sacrifice has been made. Camille points out that this death is "no helpless surrender, but a deliberate action, freely chosen" (Camille). Because the words were spoken from the cross, they have the "power to create reality" (Camille). Up until this point in history, the word was the word and with this symbolic death, it becomes something tangible that people can associate with Jesus' mission. In addition, we know that the crucifixion needed to occur because it fulfills prophecy. The Bible says, "He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth" (Isaiah 53:7) and "it was the Lord's will to…...

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Camille, Alice. "All That Begins at the Cross." U.S. Catholic. 1999. EBSCO Resource Database. Information Retrieved November 8, 2008. www.infotrac.galegroup.com

Collins, Adela. "Finding Meaning in the Death of Jesus." JSTOR Resource Database. Information Retrieved November 8, 2008. www.jstor.org

The Holy Bible, New International Version. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 1988.

Bryant, T.A. Today's Dictionary of the Bible. Minnesota: Bethany House Publishers. 1982.

And he gained a following both among many Jews and among many of Greek origin. He was the Messiah. And when Pilate, because of an accusation made by the leading men among us, condemned him to the cross, those who had loved him previously did not cease to do so. For he appeared to them on the third day, living again, just as the divine prophets had spoken of these and countless other wondrous things about him. And up until this very day the tribe of Christians, named after him, has not died out (18.63-64)
This paragraph has also been very controversial, because many believe it would not be likely that Josephus would have written that Jesus "appeared to them on the third day, living again." Some scholars say that Josephus had given up all his Jewish leanings by this time, but others say that this was not the true…...

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Albright, William and C.S. Mann. The Anchor Bible. Matthew. New York: Doubleday, 1971

Benjamin, Jules R. A Student's Guide to History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2004

Broshi, Magen. The Credibility of Josephus. Journal of Jewish Studies: Essays in Honor of Yigael Yadin 1982 from Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.   Accessed 10 April, 2010http://www.centuryone.com/josephus.html 

Carr, Edward Hallett. What Is History? Random House. New York. 1961.

212).
The second point of criticism Hoekema levels at dispensationalists is that "the kingdom which Christ offered to the Jews of his day did not involve his ascending an earthly throne," as most dispensationalists assert (Hoekema, p. 213). If in fact Christ had made an offer to rule the Jews from a throne on Earth, certainly, Hoekema goes on, "his enemies would have brought up this offer in the trial before Pilate, and made an accusation out of it" (p. 213). Pilate specifically asked Jesus' accusers, "hat evil has he done? I have found in him no crime deserving death" (Luke 23:2) (Hoekema, p. 213). No such charge was ever made against Jesus during that trial, though if it had been made it would have been used as evidence of the charge that "Jesus had claimed to be a king over the Jews in an earthly sense, thus threatening Caesar's…...

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Boyer, Paul S. "John Darby Meets Saddam Hussein: Foreign Policy and Bible

Prophecy." Chronicle of Higher Education 49.23 (2003): 12-14.

Hoekema, Anthony a. The Bible and the Future. Grand Rapids MI: Wm B. Eerdmans

Publishing, 1994.

Billy Budd Before Referencing
Herman Melville's Billy Budd: A Perfect Storm of Injustice

ho is responsible for Billy Budd's death? Discuss how Captain Vere, Claggart and Billy himself all contribute to Billy's downfall.

Herman Melville's 1891 seafaring novella Billy Budd is a Christian allegory, transposed into the relatively contemporary setting of a British naval vessel. The Christian Bible details the death of Christ as a series of betrayals and injustices. The popular leader and teacher Christ is betrayed by one of his own followers, Judas, and is handed over by the leadership of his own nation to the Roman judge Pontius Pilate. Pilate washes his hands of his responsibility for a man whom he believes is innocent, because Christ will not verbally defend himself, and because the Roman authorities have charged him with preserving order amongst the populace. Pilate acquiesces, going against his better moral instincts.

Similarly, Billy Budd is a man unjustly accused…...

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Works Cited

Melville, Herman. Billy Budd. 1891. Bibliomania. 23 Feb 2008.  http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/36/1006/frameset.html

I agreed, out of good will, since it is a small town and it needs the money."
Respondent 8: Nutrisystem

"My high school reunion was coming up and I needed to lose 15 lbs. (well, more like 20 lbs). I was really inspired by some of the stories, too, I admit."

Respondent 9: Bona Mop

"I had just purchased hardwood floors -- this promised an easy way to clean them, without ruining the finish."

Respondent 10: Doggie steps

"My dog is getting old. I heard later the stairs were available at Pet Smart, but I hadn't seen them there. I suppose I could have made some myself, but this seemed easier and more aesthetic. I feel bad seeing my dog strain to try to get up on the couch -- this enables her to be more like her old self."

Analysis:

All of these responses share common themes. The first is desperation: desperation about getting in shape,…...

I. Introduction
A. Health and fitness are important aspects of overall well-being
B. There are many benefits to maintaining a healthy lifestyle
C. Thesis statement: This essay will explore the importance of health and fitness and strategies for maintaining them
II. Importance of Health and Fitness
A. Physical health
1. Regular exercise can improve cardiovascular health and reduce the risk of chronic diseases
2. Proper nutrition is essential for maintaining a healthy weight and supporting bodily functions
B. Mental health
1. Exercise has been proven to reduce stress and improve mood
2. A balanced diet can support brain function and mental....