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Life Orientation Literature Review

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Joshua Joffe
11-5
Life orientation
Literature review
Mrs van de Welde

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The best way to create a functioning country is to have it band together and act as one in order to function at its optimum level, while many possibilities to convert this thought into reality have been attempted, sports has been used as not only a nation building tool but as a tool for peace building world wide

According to Alex Krafchek (2012) sport is an activity that has multiple purposes and benefits to people’s lives. He stated that sport offers many social benefits, as almost all sports are not outlier’s unknown to other countries, but rather are an activity that does not understand borders, race or language. The game has the same rules, …show more content…

The limitation is that it isn’t published in any official book, but rather on an online site in the form of an essay. This article was useful as it gave practical examples of where sports were being used to unite people; it gave both negative and positive feedback, allowing a more in-depth …show more content…

Pieter Labuschagne, 2008, African Journals Online, http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ai/article/view/51207, 8 October 2015

Pieter Labuschagne (2008) is a reliable author as he is a professor at unisa, in political sciences; his writing is valid as it talks about times where South Africa has banded together because of sport, as well as problems that are arising in sport unification to political intervention. The limitation it doesn’t show resources for where he got his research, so it is unknown how much of the article is his opinion.
This article was useful as it gave another argument to using sport as a nation builder, unseen in the other articles.

3. Aamir Bilal, unkown, the news on Sunday, http://jang.com.pk/thenews/feb2012-weekly/nos-05-02-2012/spo.htm#2, 8 october 2015

Aamir Bilal is a reliable author purely because he is writing for a new publication. His writing is valid as it speaks about how in his country is not being used properly, and why it should be used, as well as giving examples of where it is being used. The limitation is that it is not from any professor, or research article but rather from a news journal. This article was useful as gave me information about how sport is being both used and misused, how sport has helped people and is helping people , as well as how it is sought

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