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Greco Roman Gold Medal
1,243 wordsSYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Rulon Gardner did the unthinkable. He beat the unbeatable. He proved that Alexander Karelin isn't perfect -- and he won a gold medal that virtually nobody in the world thought he could win. Gardner, never an NCAA champion, never a world medalist, ended Karelin's string of three Olympic gold medals and 13 -year unbeaten streak by winning the Olympic super heavyweight wrestling gold medal 1 - 0 Wednesday. Miracle on ice? This was the miracle on the mat. ''When did I think...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Drugs In Sport
1,109 wordsDrugs in Sport Stuart Fox 4 T I am certainly a great sporting enthusiast. I love nothing more than to watch a great sporting encounter, no matter which sport. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly common for sportsmen and women to use substances to aid their performance. That is not to say all competitors use illegal substances, however when competitors start to use illegal substances, they ridicule the whole ethos of sport and competition. I cannot see the point of people competing when th...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Anabolic Steroids
1,747 wordsMany athletes of all ages are turning towards performance enhancing drugs as a way of improving their performance by giving them that extra edge. This is not only wrong but its cheating and harmful to the athlete. Performance enhancing drugs have been around for hundreds of years. The Incas of the South America country Peru used the burned leaves of coca trees to give them great amounts of energy when faced with battles, hunts, ect. Even today they use coca leaves as a way of giving them the ene...
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High School Athletics Good Or Bad Influence
1,149 wordsHigh School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, which has its own set of laws. Football is a way of life. This excerpt taken from the beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in 1998, shows the way of life for high school football players. In this movie, Jon Moon played by James Van Der Beek assu...
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Parents Let Me Stay Eleven
489 wordsYep! If you are reading this youve probably already conquered the tumultuous eleventh year of your life. However, if you are ancient you have probably forgotten all about being eleven, so here are the advantages and disadvantages. First of all, there are many advantages of being eleven. For instance my parents trust me more. My parents let me stay home alone instead of having a babysitter. They also let me go to movies without them leading me by the hand. My parents dont act so paranoid about me...
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Major League Baseball Baseball Player
1,154 wordsThe film Rookie is a factual drama that is based on the life of Jimmy Morris, an ex-major league baseball player. The subject matter of the movie was to never quit; try, try again or at least until you reach your goal. This film inspires the person to fulfill their dreams no matter how impossible they may seem. There were not many major characters in this movie, but all played an important roll to the subject matter. Jimmy Morris was the main character, a young man, about 30 years old with a wif...
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Greatly Influenced Athletic Ability
744 wordsMy political views are greatly influenced by nurture. In the fourth grade, my mother was participating in a school related election for the President of the United States. My mother distinctly remembers that she did not know any of the candidate's positions or political views. To find out which candidate my mother would support she turned to her father. Because of my grandfather's influence, my mother then voted Hubert Humphrey for president. Because of this incident she learned that my grandfat...
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Male And Female Gender Role
1,152 wordsToday's society plays a very important role in the construction of gender. Gender is a type of issue that has raised many question over the years in defining and debating if both male and female are equal. Today gender is constructed in four different ways. The first way gender is defined is by the family in which a child is raised. Second is the society in which a child interacts; makes friends and enemies. The third is our school system and our board of education. And the last but not least is...
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Open The Door Football Player
731 wordsMy most embarrassing moment 15 years old, freshman in high school, all I wanted was to be noticed and somewhat cool. Dating a junior, how cool could that be? An awesome football player and homecoming nominee. I knew I could fit in to a new grown up place, competing against the older girls would be a race. One Friday night, after a game, the football player asked for my name. Shy and reluctant I replied to his question, unaware of his dreaded next suggestion. A date was in the making, what should...
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Violence In Sports Part Of The Game
1,739 wordsWith the increase in society taking a stance against violence by many people, sports has become an area where some feel that the violent acts such as the hitting and fighting that occurs should be eliminated. You can not change something that has been around for so long because it would change the aspect of thegame to something completely different. The elimination of violence should not be done in sport because the violence is a part of the game which would only hurt its popularity. The reasons...
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Violence Love Fight
538 wordsViolence on Television: Violence is Everywhere I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war, But I felt for the rest of that day, as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle (Henry David Thoreau) These days our whole life seems to revolve around violence. There are so many channels on TV that advocate violence on a daily basis. Sports that we see every Sunday stir up aggressiveness and bring anger to a high level. Around school conflicts se...
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Baseball Field Football Field
970 wordsAn experience that shall never escape me is my first week of marching band camp in ninth grade. Held at my high school of the time, this two-week journey will fill your soul with glorious notes and alert your senses to the feeling of music. Everywhere you place yourself for those two weeks at camp, no matter where, you cannot get away from the essence of song and rhythm. Whether you? re sitting in the heated band room with humidity that resembles walking through an ocean or on break for fifteen ...
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War Dress Girls
509 wordsDear Diary, I have to leave soon to go to my new job. I? m very happy to have gotten a baby-sitting job at the Hagen? s. These days, its so hard for a young girl to find a job, unless you are someone famous. I consider myself lucky to live in a nice house with a good family. It bothers me to think of the poor families who suffered during the Depression or the wives of soldiers who receive a telegram telling them that their husband has been killed in the war. Thinking of the war makes me scared t...
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Forrest Gump Doesn T
996 wordsThe film Forrest Gump was out on the big screen in 1994, it was directed by Robert Zemeckis. In the movie Tom Hanks stars as Forrest Gump. The movie is based on the book written by Winston Groom. Forrest is faced with a challenge; the normal IQ s start 80 and Forrest s is 75. This borderline intelligence quotient places Forrest in the deficient range. Forrest doesn t look too far into things. John Twyning wrote an editorial the film, which explains that the movie doesn t present history in a rea...
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Nuclear Weapons Human Beings
494 wordsThe stories and events that unfold in John Herseys, Hiroshima, have certainly been eye-openers for me. As a child in middle school and high school I, we have all heard of the atomic bomb and of course of Hiroshima, but never in as much detail or on such a personal level as these stories. Not even in chemistry or physics class, where I learned some of the specifics as to how the bomb works, had I known of the destructive force of the bomb or its gruesome effects on human beings. As I mentioned be...
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Hunter Walks Kill Animals Hunting
345 wordsA hunter walks through the woods, stalking an unsuspecting deer Bang! The deer is dead. The hunter walks away feeling good about himself, and happy that he got a deer. Some people think this is wrong. They think that you should not kill animals for sport. It is important that hunting does not become extinct. A good reason for hunting is for food. Many people who hunt can not afford to buy food at the market. Sometimes in order to get food you have to go out and use your own brain and bring home ...
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Afraid To Die Ernest Hemingway
1,165 wordsIn Another Country What we do and observe everyday determines us as people. Our reactions, and expressions of our thoughts allow those around us to perceive who we are. Ernest Hemingway shows in the short novel In Another Country the various types of lives people lead, and the issues the face day to day. In this piece Hemingway presents his reader with a variety of characters ranging from the optimistic doctor to Signor Maggiore hardened by war and death. Ernest Hemingway s method of characteriz...
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Full Time Officials Replay Out Of The Game Instant
799 wordsThe NFL can vote to keep instant replay out of the game every year, but the owners will never get rid of it. Thats because like it or not, the NFL has instant replay. It comes courtesy of television and Jumbotron. And its leaving the leagues officials vulnerable to widespread and immediate second-guessing from fans, coaches and players a net inside every stadium. The officials, in a matter speaking, are left working without. Seemingly on the verge of returning instant replay to the game earlier ...
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Years Of My Life Game Of Baseball
745 wordsPicture a young child full of life and happiness. The love of his parents shows through his eyes, smile, and tears. Some people would like to think that those things about a child are exactly what make life wonderful. People who think that way have no idea how right they are. Its a wonderful life to know that your parent? s dreams live on in you. The dream of a mother; that her son will be a doctor. The dream of a father; that his son will some day become a major league baseball player. Most of ...
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Works Of Art Part Of The Poem
1,378 wordsJack Kerouac was a poet who focused on the forgotten people of the world. Wherever he traveled he found the places nobody wanted to find and turned the un-pretty into magnificent poetry. Kerouac used the people no one wanted to remember and turned them into poetic works of art. Jack Kerouac? s life was filled with adventure and self-destruction. Born on March 12, 1922, Kerouac grew up in the poor city of Lowell, Massachusetts. His life was tormented with poverty and alcoholism, first by his fath...
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