... University. I am just beginning my senior year of high school at Abington Heights and I am looking forward to going to college myself. That is who I am right now but to truly understand me I have to talk about my past and things that helped shape who I am. When I was born in May of 1985 I lived ... to talk a little more than I did back in pre-school. Also as I grew older I began interacting better with kids because I moved out of Newton and I now lived close to some of my friends. That is why today I am still kind of shy and not very talkative. Another aspect of who I am is the hobbies t...

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... is schoolwork. My second, is what else but the football team. Basketball is not my favorite sport. I'm four foot nine inches. Needless to say, I get hardly any playing time. This is my first year playing, and the only reason I made the team is because I have a positive attitude and I'm "coachable." The only reasons I went out for the team this year was because all ... that I badly want to be a three-sport letterman. Since basketball is the only female sport in the winter, it was my only way. When I do play, I'm a one or a two. I like playing defensive one and offensive two. My favorite ...

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... about different colleges and once my senior year starts, my thoughts scatter, just as in pool. I start traveling to different school locations and attending college days. This helps show why playing pool is like finding a college. I labeled each pocket on the pool table and showed its resemblance in deciding a college. The pockets represent each college I am considering. If a majority of balls ... pool when the eight ball is hit in the game is over. Just like when finding a college, when I decide to enroll in a certain college the searching game is over. When playing pool, accessories a...

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... when I realized I loved sports. My love for basketball became really strong in the fourth grade. This is when my parents put me on a competitive team and we traveled all over playing all sorts of really hard teams. We actually hardly won any games this year. Things started to look up the more we played and we ended up being unstoppable in ... . Most of them I believed to have never done any wrong. Turns out, I had been wrong. 17-year-old me is less dramatic and sassy but still strives for greatness. I am now the president of our high school student council. I am a district vice president...

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How I End up Where I am Now Now I am 22 years old, for the long history, it's very short, but for me it has a lot of meanings. It's consisted of happiness and pain. And give me a lot of ... it for me, every night I went to sleep with my mother's story. I am very naughty. I often made my mother angry, now my mother has gone, if I were a boy again, I would say sorry to her. I would say how much I love her, but now everything can't come back again. Looking back over my 22 years, it seems to me that I have learned the most ... as my major. I know that English is very hard to learn and I had poo...

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... that paying college athletes is wrong but I will persuade you that it is the right thing to do. The first reason that these athletes should get paid for playing their sport is that it is their job. A typical college student has a job such as stocking shelves at a store or working at a gas station to ... they don't they may make a stupid decision and leave school early to get the compensation they feel they deserve. Another reason college athletes should be paid for playing a sport in college is that it will support higher education for athletes in college. There had been more then 100 bas...

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... It allows us to return to the innocent, trusting child that we all once were and have so quickly grown out of. Coloring outside the lines, playing hide-n-seek, building a spaceship. Yaconelli encourages the reader to reflect on his/her own childhood and current state while giving us many passionate and intimate ... stories of his life and those around him. He shows us how most humans are now living a dull, passionless life and that we yearn for the excitement, wonder, desire to savor and listen in order to hear the whisper of God ... walk into a room of completely sober 20-something-col...

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... Time flies when you"re having fun." My fun time or magic time is when I"m on the soccer field. Soccer is my one and only passion; when I am playing the time seems to fly by. Although when I am waiting for the whistle to blow to start the game time seems to stand still. This is the same time ... seconds to minutes, to hours, to days, to months, and to years, but also in terms of its relativity. Some hours rush by in a minute. An hour of playing does that. But when you wait an hour for Dad to come home, it seems like a day, doesn't it?" Everyone has a moment in their life in which they ....

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... third game I was worn out and I understood that I couldn't handle every play going towards me, and I fell to my limitations. My coach got on me for not playing good and told me I wouldn't make it next year if I didn't pick it up. I got very sick during our last season tournament and I couldn't play. I ... that courage and force are not the only elements of being brave and wanting to try new things but that mind and attitude have a lot to do with playing the game. I learned that passing the ball and giving it up helps the team out a lot and that you can't do everything by yourself. After ...

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... and ran track. He received All-Southern Conference first-team honors for football and helped lead the basketball team in qualifying for the 1995 NCAA tournament. Now I will talk to you about Terrell's attitude concerning football, his ability, and himself. When Terrell was a rookie for the San Francisco 49ers in 1996 ... because he demonstrates his prowess on the football field. He's not intimidated nor is he insecure, and he doesn't let anyone or anything affect his playing ability. He is met with both criticism and acclaim for his attitude and on the field antics. He was called a punk ...

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My Rewarding Football Experience One way that I have shaped my mental, physical and spiritual abilities is by playing football. Football has taught me many things that have played significant roles in my life. By playing football I have formed a strong structure based on hard work and discipline that has helped me to achieve my goals and stay determined to succeed in everything I do. I started ... playing football in seventh grade because I wanted the physical challenge that is brought about by the game. But when I started playing football, football started playing a significant role in creat...

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... future of some who may otherwise have none. Idol hands are the devil's playground. If college sports are taken away, then the students not playing sports are more likely to do bad things. Sports keeps them away from drugs and hanging around with a bad crowd. Sports has the potential to ... about how many friendships would be lost had college sports never happened. Some of the best friends a person makes is practicing with them everyday and playing their hearts out with them. How would those friends have ever met without the aid of sports? It not only helps make friends on the team ... s...

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... through the inspiration and steady encouragement of my violin teacher, I began to develop a certain affinity to the violin. Almost nine years later, I consider playing the violin as one of the most gratifying aspects of my life. In my mind, the violin reigns as the best instrument. Whether blusteringly chaotic ... or lovingly sweet, good violin playing, with its deep, rich tones and tremendously broad range is the quintessence of expression. I also had ample opportunity for the other half of the ... can make me feel ebullience or rage. Not even the hectic schedule during junior year of ...

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... didn't get into these games, I just thought of them as one of my many toys, just used them for a short amount of time then put them away. But after playing these games for a while I slowly got hooked. I can remember a time when I was finished a book and had no other new books to read. I was bored ... pressure is very powerful. Peers can influence people and affect you and in turn can make a person think and do things they might not normally do. Playing sports at recess is what most kids did. Nobody read books at recess. So you can imagine what would happen if you read a book instead of ...

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... , you're considered to be in a very elite group of kids that get the opportunity to keep playing. However the transition from high school and college is not easy at all especially if you're playing a sport. Regular students might have it a little bit easier then student athletes with all the time ... . With being student athletes you're held to a higher standard then regular students because you have to make sure you maintain a good GPA to keep playing and making the program look good as well. To make sure student athletes maintain good GPA's they have to have a certain amount of study ha...

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... age where they decide they want to get involved in sports it starts out pure. The child plays the game because of how much fun they have playing it. Children have no pressure to make the team or to win every game; they play to have fun not to win. However, as the child ... or team they can play on. The pressure of making a team coming form parents and coaches can force a kid into depression and force them to quit playing the sport because of that pressure. The focus of youth sports has changed recently because of parent involvement in the game, originally the focus of the game ... rested...

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... a violinist and sax and horn player a drummer a bass player and a guitarist. the violist Boyd Tinsley grew up in Charlottesville Virginia and stumbled into playing violin when he was around 12 he signed up for a middle school strings class because he wanted to learn how to play guitar he quickly discovered that ... move Baltimore because Tinsley was quickly becoming a virtuoso. At this point he decided he was not ready to make that sacrifice and switched from classical playing to jazz and rock, which he played all through college with various musicians. Leroi Moore the horn player also g...

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... age where they decide they want to get involved in sports it starts out pure. The child plays the game because of how much fun they have playing it. Children have no pressure to make the team or to win every game; they play to have fun not to win. However, as the child ... or team they can play on. The pressure of making a team coming from parents and coaches can force a kid into depression and force them to quit playing the sport because of that pressure. The focus of youth sports has changed recently because of parent involvement in the game, originally the focus of the game ... rested...

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... place promptly at seven o"clock, two hours from now. Until that time, I will have to lace up my "Air Jordans" and prepare for this anticipated game. I step out onto the court to play the most significant game ever played in my life. I have been playing basketball ever since I was seven years old but ... feeling the pain, but I did not cared, I waited too long for this moment. I feel as though I am giving one hundred and ten percent in playing this game but my team is still down 20-26. Our opponents surpassed our expectation; they are a strong team, much more potent than any of the team...

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... freshman team. I was told about the danger of the sport, the potential for concussions, and even neurological damage. I didn't care. I could die tomorrow playing a sport that I hate, all the while wishing that I continued to do what I love. Research shows that long-term football play poses a severe threat ... break, but I was not ready to abandon my passion. At this point, I believed football would always be part of my life. I had dreams of playing in college, and eventually the NFL; however, as I grew older and considered the danger of the sport, I began to reassess my priorities and h...

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... , and partly because I was interested in other things like being outdoors, coloring, and playing pretend. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed TV and never missed an episode of Zoobalie Zoo, but I loved playing games and stuff with my friends more. Playing pretend was the best game. I used to go to a catholic school and can ... and potato chips as Holy Communion. Our biggest fights were who was going to be the priest first. It's funny looking back now at how simple games like "pretend" amused little kids. Not until I ventured into middle school did I fall into the trap; the television. I was .....

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... . My dad took a lot of time out to make me grow up to be one of the best athletes in the country. I started off playing tackle football. I accumulated lots of trophies, winning super bowls, and being the most valuable player of our little league team at the age of ten ... graduated from Yates and got a scholarship to play at Grayson County Community College. I played there for a year then I transferred to Texas Southern University. I started off playing, but I was introduced to a job that took the basketball out my hands, so I gave up basketball in school. I talk to agents every day and t...

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... active in basketball, softball, tennis and soccer. No stranger to injury my four years in high school; I had a right thigh muscle tear my freshman year while playing soccer.  Sophomore year, I was kicked in the left calf; tearing the muscle to the point I was out for the rest of the season. My junior year ... shin, face, head and other areas of the body but nothing substantial enough to involve the hospital. There was this one time I thought I broke my face while playing soccer in 30 degree weather. I was running as fast as a cheetah after a rabbit, when all at once, it felt like I h...

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... seemed perfectly healthy, but in actuality, he suffered brain swelling, bleeding, and bruising  all resulting from numerous hits to the head while playing football. Janes was only one of the eight high school athletes who died in 2013 from the brain and spine injuries they suffered while ... playing high school football. In addition to brain trauma, heart conditions, asthma and heat stroke have contributed to three times more deaths in ... .  So it would appear that with a few modifications and the proper funding, high school football can be made safer. There will always be risks asso...

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... fear out of letting their teammates down or losing their spot on the team (Denke 3). Athletes who suffered a concussion shouldn't return to playing their sport until completely symptom free (Washburn 3). Concussions are very dangerous to everyone because of the possibility of long term effects. Experts say ... sports, found that concussions represented about 15% of all the reported sports-related injuries (Denke 1). About one in every five high school athlete playing a contact sport suffers a concussion during a season. That equates to about 300,000 spots-related concussions every year. E...

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