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Babe Darkson was one of the greatest athletes of all time. She was accomplished
n just about every sport - basketball track golf, basebal, terris, swimming dung
boxing voleyball, handball, bowing blords, skarg and cycling
Babe was the frst to prove agricould be an al-stor athlete She won track and
Field gold medals at the 1932 Olympics played professional basketball, and was a Foundng
member of the Lodes Professional Golf Association
The Associated Press voted her the Greatest Femde Athlete of the frst half of
the 20th century and honored her with Fernde Athlete of the Year sex tmes - once for
her track dominance and five times for her golfing
Babe performed at a time when fernale athletes were considered unacceptable
Darkson was not famine at al in her youth and she was called a freak because of her
muscular body. Even though it was surely discouragra Babe refused to back down
While she qualified for five Olympic events n Los Angeles, women were allowed to
compete n only three In the Olympics, she won a gold metal n Olympic javelin and 80
meter hundes and tied for gold n the high jump. After the Olympics, she traveled with a
basketball team called Babe Didrikson's Al-Americans and toured with the House of David
baseball team
In 1933, she wanted to try golf. Just like everything else she tried, she succeeded
As an amateur golfer, Babe won an amazra 3 consecutive tournaments durng 196 She
was the frst American to win the Bntish Amateur Among her 55 tournament victores
were three US Women's Opens. In 1918, Babe won her frst US Women's Open the World
Championship and the Al-American Open She contrued her mpressive performance on
the LPGA Tour for the next several years
Babe Didrikson later became a wife and began to dress more famine, but she
remaned famous for being one of the greatest athletes of all-time what is the main idea

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

its hard for me to see which word is supposed to be in bold. if i knew then i would be able to better.

last one is the answer