Final Project, Interview with Mr.Khaled Alhosani

My father’s friend Mr. khaled , 58, was excited to help me with this interview about the differences between activities in the past and now in the UAE.

 

He started first talking about falconry which one of the most popular activities that people like doing in the Gulf countries in general and in the UAE in particular. It is an integral part of the UAE culture and traditions. It represents in the Arabic civilization and was used before to make a living besides doing it as a type of sports. This activity was prosperous ages ago and was known as the hobby of kings. For instance, it was one of the best hobbies for the late sheikh Zayed, May he rest in peace, where he wrote a book titled “falconry sport”, and he is the only leader who wrote a book about this topic. Archeological findings proved that falconry is as old as the time of early civilization in the area. It was known in China, Japan and Korea and then moved to the Islamic World. The sport then travelled to Europe and North America as a high class sport.

 

 

 

 

He also said that falcons were used as people went into exploration trips in the desert, and that was a long time before technology has become dominant and before streets were paved. This activity was used by the Sheikhs of tribes to communicate with each other through those trips as they hunted during the day and gathered at night and expressed their respect and love to others as well as they shared their issues and ideas with one another.

 

 

Falconry was used to hunt animals and birds such as rabbits. Nowadays, it is used as a sport and has a lot of support. Technology has become involved in it where falcons are free to fly once the season is finished. Unlike wise, falcons used to be kept all the season long in the past. Now, falcons can be tracked through chips that are installed into their skin besides a numbered circle that is attached to their legs. Falcons are released after a heavy training to make sure they can survive harsh environments.

He finally mentioned the processes of training falcons. The time needed to train a falcon varies from one another. The first step is to stabilize the falcon on the falconer’s hand or shoulder. Then the falcon is trained to be familiar with humans. After that, the falcon is left to starve to make it accustomed to hard conditions. Finally the falcon is trained to be familiar with the new environment so as to adapt to its features and start hunting.  

 

 

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Case Study

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Case Study Reflection

I work in a group of 4 students, Mohammed, Sultan, Alshaya and Albeshr in the case study for the sports subject. We worked as a group because it's easier for us to divide the works between us. Me and my group meet in the library and we decided to choose one of these options, choosing the Army Forces Officers Club or Fursan Club. So we chose to make our case study about Army Officers Club, because Me and alshaya we have membership in this club.than we went there to take their approval to make interviews and to take information about the facillity that they have. And they accepted with open arms and they helped us and gave us the all types they have in the club, so we chose 3 of the facilities, gym, swimming pool and football pitch. In the begining we made an interview with the manager Mr.Eyman and we asked him some questions that Sultan made to take information about the club in general. After he organized for us the other interviews with the managers of swimming pool and gym. In the interview me and the group and Mr.Eyman who was the interviewee sat at a table in his office and each of us asked him a few questions. We learned many things from the interview and we found alot of valuable information; also some things made me shocked like the look of the club building from the top is similar to the logo if the United Arab Emirates, the falcon. Also they have four pools and it's  divided by ageis. The answers we found was expected, because this club unique of it kind because there is no place that includes all these facilities in one place. The information was relating to our subject, because we found different sports; also difference competitions that are done there like football, playstation, tennis and more.

We need to learn how to take videos and how to connect all the videos together to make it successful. We made alot of actions forthe case study. First they told us to bring from the college a paper that showed them that we are students and it took two days to take the approval from the club, because they have strong security. If I'm going to do the case study again, I will change the place because it took time to orgnize and we had to wait for the approval.

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Flo-Jo The fastest woman

Florence Griffith-joyner, Also known as Flo-Jo, and she was wife of the triple jumper Al Joyner. She was an American track and field athlete. Griffith-Joyner’s considered the “fastest woman of all time”. She topped the world record for 100 meters and 200 meters in summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988. Joyner was hopes to hold her world record for the third year but she was unable because her injured quadriceps muscle. Away from the track she designed the basketball uniforms for the Indiana Pacers in 1989. Griffith-joyner was accused that she used performance-enhancing drugs. She died when she was sleep from epilepsy at age of 38.