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Millions Of Dollars Controlled Environment
1,493 wordsAs salaries in sport continue to rise to unimaginable levels, athletes may no longer be seen as just people, but more as expensive liabilities. The health of these athletes become more and more important as it is not only their health which is on the line, but also millions of dollars. Injuries do occur in sports, especially contact sports, but astroturf increases these odds of injury. It will be shown that astroturf causes increased wear on the body and an increased number of severe injuries. B...
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Nfl Players Sports World
1,149 wordsIn today's sports world Athletes are valuable commodities. Athlete salaries are routinely measured in terms of millions of dollars. Major league baseball teams and NFL football teams spend billions of dollars for medical care, training facilities, experts and physicians all to keep the team's athletes performing at their very best. Though teams spend incredible amounts of money on signing players and keeping players, some professional sports franchises still play in stadiums with Astroturf or so...
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Los Angeles Male Counterparts
1,387 wordsLos Angeles; By 10 a. m. , the Playboy Gangster Crips are hanging down on Corning Street, calling each other "Cuz, " sipping quarts of Old English 800 Malt Liquor. The graffiti on the building behind them is theirs. So is the broken beer bottle glass on the piece of dirt front yard. They " re listening to rap tunes blaring out of an enormous boom box radio. They punch each other in the shoulder and laugh at jokes only they understand. The Pbgs are open for business. If you " ve got $ 100, drive ...
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Romeo And Juliet West Side Story
1,435 wordsThe play West Side Story, by Arthur Laurent's, is based upon the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Despite a few differences, both works, in essence, have the same plot. The source of violence in Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story is the ever-present hatred between families and between gangs, although, because of the star-cross lovers motif in Romeo and Juliet, the hatred plays a larger role in producing the ending of West Side Story than it does the ending of Romeo and Juliet. Th...
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Ice Hockey Degrees Fahrenheit
1,400 wordsHockey is a sport of finesse, toughness, and speed all wrapped up by player talent. Hockey can be played on any surface, though ice and hard rubber "roller turf" are the two major fields currently played on by professionals. All though to some these two variations on hockey may seem the same, they actually have many differences. Roller hockey contrasts that of ice in several ways. While the playing surfaces are the most obvious difference, number of players, periods, and skates also vary. The mo...
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Artist As A Young Man Part Of The Story
992 wordsIn his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce uses water-sea-liquid imagery to show that a person who desires to become an artist must first achieve a complete understanding of himself and personal circumstances before he can reject old conventions of thought and custom and finally realize a unique perception of the world. In the first part of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce portrays the young Stephen Dedalus as an insecure and confused young man. Throughout his early...
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Bottled Water Billion Dollars
1,151 wordsIn your opinion are water resources over or undervalued in the United States? Water is the most important life element to humans after oxygen. Without water human can live only up to 3 days after which they would die. Today water represents a great and profitable industry for the fact that the producers of the main US soft drinks need water, as well as the ordinary citizen who use water for their household needs, let alone for the lawn use. In the following essay I am going to speak about the wa...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,482 wordsThe play West Side Story, by Arthur Laurent's, is based upon the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Despite a few differences, both works, in essence, have the same plot. The source of violence in Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story is the ever-present hatred between families and between gangs, although, because of the " star-cross? d lovers" motif in Romeo and Juliet, the hatred plays a larger role in producing the ending of West Side Story than it does the ending of Rome...
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Write A Poem Seamus Heaney
1,122 wordsSeamus Heaney: Physical and Mental Digging In the poem Digging, Seamus Heaney seems to use his fathers and his grandfathers digging into the homeland ground as a comparison to his writing and development of his poetry. Heaney's father and grandfather use their shovels to work with the land, and Heaney is now using a pen to work on his ideas to write poetry. The beginning of this poem starts out with Heaney describing what he might do before he starts to write a poem. Heaney writes, Between my fi...
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Form Of Art Taking Place
1,500 wordsDouglas Barmore What constitutes as graffiti? Graffiti is defined as any type of writing on a surface of any type. If that is the case, then would a cave mans drawings be considered graffiti? If it is considered graffiti, then what is different about then and now that would change the worlds views about graffiti. Why is graffiti against the law? Is graffiti an art form? Can something that is done against the law, and with a total disregard for others property be considered art? The definition of...
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Gang Members Racial Lines
1,017 wordsThe topic I chose for my 4 th quarter paper is gang in America. I will be discussing there life style such as why they use colors to represent themselves, and why they use hand signals to communicate. I also will discuss who long long gangs have been around. Also how much fear does a gang put into a small or large community. Last i will talk about how gangs are worse now then they where years ago. Originally the word gang had no negative meaning. In Old English, gang simply referred to a number ...
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Things That Happen Sinai Peninsula
2,168 wordsGeopolitics is the relationship between the geography among nation states, and the state is an a territory with a sovereign body exercising predominantly within its geographic borders, and occasionally outside of them. Geopolitics can explain volatile relationships between a powerful core state and the states located at the periphery. The people occupying a region identify with the turf as being their land and these individuals or groups will go through great lightens to protect and defend their...
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Made Me Realize Game Of Golf
752 wordsIn 1788, one of the greatest days in sports, the first golf course was built in Scotland. Scotland is considered to be the birthplace of golf. The game of golf began its destiny in time towards becoming popular around the world. This weird and complex game did not reach the United States until 1844, in New York, where the first golf course was built. Some where in time the game of golf lost its prestige in the United States. The professionals are mostly the only ones that treat this game how it ...
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Correctional Facilities Gang Involvement
3,243 wordsOnce inside, I was walked through a gauntlet of desperate men. Their hot smell in the muggy corridor was as foul as their appearance. None of them seemed to have a full set of front teeth. Many bore prominently displayed tattoos of skulls or demons. One could argue whether it was the look of these men that led them to prison or whether it was the prison that gave them their look. Just looking at them made me fear for my life (Hassine, 7). Most inmates in correctional facilities felt the way that...
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Houston Chronicle Gang Violence
1,053 wordsGangs are becoming a growing problem in American society. More young people are turning to gangs to solve problems in there lives. When youths join gangs they drop social activities with family, friends and school. Members fall behind their classmates in school and do not try. A study shows that less than 1 % of gang bangers is literate 1. Gangs destroy teenager lives and destroy their chances for a good education and happy life. Gangs are now a haven for rats. Teenagers are joining gangs every ...
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