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Greco Roman Gold Medal
1,243 words
SYDNEY, 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.
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Drugs In Sport
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Drugs 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
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Many 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
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High 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 words
Yep! 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
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The 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 words
My 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 words
Today'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 words
My 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
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With 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 words
Violence 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 words
An 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 words
Dear 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 words
The 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 words
The 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 words
A 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
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Afraid To Die Ernest Hemingway
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In 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 words
The 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 words
Picture 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.
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Works Of Art Part Of The Poem
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Jack 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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