...pounding of my heart seems to get louder with each beat. My slow deep breaths did nothing to calm my stomach. I could hear the crowd getting louder and names being cheered. It’s all I can do to filter out those distractions. I need to focus! My eyes follow the official’s every movement. TWEET! My heart leaps and I am grappling. I can honestly tell you that wrestling is what defines me; leadership, talent, comfort, and family. Wrestling was introduced to me at the age of eight with club wrestling, arising in me a growing desire and ache for competition and the will to win. My love of wrestling developed over the following year and throughout the years, many titles were added to my repertoire. The diversity of wrestling events further increased my exhilaration for the sport. Over the years, there were few wrestlers who I considered my mentors. I believed that these wrestlers led by example demonstrating determination, dedication, and leadership. When I look back, they were the ones that impacted my young soul as an athlete. My obvious love of the sport and true dedication to improving was acknowledged when I was chosen to represent our team in both my junior and senior year as the captain. This honorable position has strengthened my self-confidence by building strong, candid, and respectful relationships with both my coaches and teammates. Holding the title of captain has forced me to develop better communication skills while employing my gregarious personality...
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...Returning Wrestling to the University Imagine this, you are in the gym waiting for the first practice of the season to start. Your excitement is overwhelming. You have spent your entire life working up to this point; you are a college athlete. You are being paid to attend school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling programs...
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...Socialization My Charts Activities Prior to High School | Level of Intensity | Age Range | Goals of Participation | Tumbling | Sport | 5-9 | State Champion | Tae Kwon Do | Recreation | 4-12 | Become a black belt | Soccer | Play | 5-7 | Have fun with friends | Baseball | Recreation | 6-13 | Play in the city league with my friends | Football | Sport | 9-16 | Score as many touchdowns as I can | Wrestling | Sport | 7-present | Place in the state tournament | Motocross | Sport | 5-present | State Champion | Activities in High School | Level of Intensity | Age Range | Goals of Participation | Football | Sport | 9-16 | Be a team player | Motocross | Recreation | 5-present | Have fun but don’t get hurt | Wrestling | Sport | 7-present | All State, State Champion, All-American, National Champion | Activities in College | Level of Intensity | Age Range | Goals of Participation | Wrestling | Sport | 7-present | Win the starting spot, Conference Champion, All-American | Motocross | Recreation | 5-present | Have fun but don’t get hurt | I have been involved in activities, more specifically sports, from a young age. My parents never forced me to do anything I didn’t want to do. It was always my decision to participate in the activities that I chose to become involved with. My parents supported everything I have ever been involved with on two conditions: I don’t quit, and I always give one hundred percent. I chose to play the sports I did either because my friends...
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...based on what makes each adolescent their own unique individual. The adolescent social observation setting chosen for this adolescent review is the Rainier High School wrestling practice starting week of varsity conditioning. All practices are in a combination setting of three places. The weight room is used for conditioning weigh training and is located above the gym. The gym is used for mat practice and warm-ups and the local community is used for endurance and cardio exercises. The specific setting I have chosen is in the gym for mat practice and warm-ups of which is where the team spends most of their time. The purpose for choosing this setting is to observe the dynamics of social interaction accompanied by leadership of the older more senior varsity wrestlers and to include the naturalistic form of competition that exists in sports programs. The gym environment is typical for a rural community high school as it is small in size. Laid out on the floor there are four large wrestling mats coordinated with team logos to accommodate 23 team members. Eight members are female wrestlers and fifteen are male wrestlers. Education level ranges from senior to freshman as varsity and junior varsity has not yet been decided. The wrestling team has three coaches as...
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...Should People Be Able to Decide When to End Their Lives? In a wrestling match, two opponents fight until one holds the other down for ten seconds. If the one being held down has an emergency or wants to give up, they can “tap-out.” However, if they do this, their opponent automatically wins the match. If you were wrestling and could tap-out and win, would you bother putting up a fight? Euthanasia is the ultimate way for someone to give up, and it has become a debatable topic today. I believe whole heartedly that it is wrong and should be illegal. If euthanasia was legalized across the United States, doctors would have too much power, people who are incapable of making or verbalizing decisions would be at risk of being murdered, and it would...
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...part of our way of life. Generally, what it says is that economics is a good tool in understanding and eventually helping us decide important aspects of our day to day living. The innovative ideas presented in the various segments tries to alter a lot of perspectives on how we think. At the end of it all, it leaves one with the thought that "conventional wisdom" is not what we thought it was. For example, it was interesting to note how the principle "Rational people think at the margin" was discussed in the movie as a real estate example. Explained in layman's terms, agents tend to advice homeowners to sell their house even at a lower price if the marginal benefit for the agent is low. The documentary demonstrated the pervasiveness of incentives in society. I agree to Levitt and Dubner’s premise that it is commonly accepted that for most people, given the right price or the right incentive, 1. cheating will always be considered by the most affected people as an option 2. there will always be a desire to maximize the incentive 3. certain behaviors could be changed. The first premise was elaborated further on the portions of the documentary that analyzed Chicago public school test data for evidence of teachers cheating on standardized tests and allegations of cheating at sumo wrestling matches in Japan. For teachers in Chicago public schools, the incentive is high: get high scores or face losing funding or even your job. So is the situation in sumo wrestling: I scratch your...
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...was a kid, sports has always played an important role in my life. Growing up, wrestling and football was my life; everything I did, everyone I met, and why I am who I am was helped shaped by the sports practiced throughout the years. My knowledge of concussions was very slim growing up until I was in 6th grade. Years before I had never heard of what a concussion is and what kind of tolls it has on a person. In 6th grade, a concussion became aware to me. It was a mild day at practice and we were participating a hitting drill on our other teammates. I remember my dad, who was the coach at .the time, saying “you got to be tough, so lower your head when you hit and don’t be afraid!”. So, me being me, I lowered my head and sure enough I got a concussion. At this point in time, I was so young that I didn’t know what that really was so I didn’t worry about it so much. One year later, I got the horrific news that a kid I used to wrestle with in practice killed himself because he had a concussion. It caused him to be confused about his life that he decided it wasn’t worth living. Again, I was a little young and I didn’t know him that well to realize how serious the concussions really were so I never really thought about them and basically forgot about it after a couple of weeks. But… (long pause), one year later, that’s when it all changed. I remember this day like it was yesterday. One weekend in December, we had a wrestling tournament in Fargo, North Dakota and we were staying in...
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...EVAN 101-B04 LUO 8-28-2012 Testimony Paper Part ONE – My life before I came to Christ. My life before Christ was quiet simple; I was consumed with myself, only carried about myself and what I wanted to do with my life in whatever way I saw fit. I had no time for God or His word. Part TWO – How I came to a cognitive knowledge of Who Jesus is and what He did for me. Throughout my life I had heard off and on the gospel of Christ Jesus but never really took it to heart, sure I wanted to be saved from hell but that was it. The true understand did not occur until I started to read the bible on my own around late May of 2005. This is why I believe faith was truly triggered in my mind and heart which lead me to an understand of my wickedness before God Almighty. Part THREE – Circumstances surrounding your conversion. It was about an eighth month process which began around Oct 2004 leading to June 17th of 2005 of the Lord God dealing with me daily, especially with His Holy Spirit. I had a few dreams that really shook me up and lead me to daily engage with my thoughts concerning if I was truly a Christian as I had always thought I was. Almost every day my mind was bombarded with thoughts like, “If you are really a Christian then why do you not, pray? Why don’t you ever read the bible? Why have I been experiencing these dreams and in the dreams? If I am really a Christian then why don’t I live like one?” After wrestling with these questions for such a long time I decided to start...
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...She is particularly known for her work studying Alzheimer’s disease and the consequences of repetitive traumatic brain injury. Christopher John Nowinski is an American author/co-founder and Executive Director of the concussion Legacy foundation, and a former professional wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment. Nowinski is renowned for being WWE’s first Howard Alumnus as he graduated with an BA in sociology. He is also recognized as the youngest Hardcore Championship in WWE history. Following his wrestling career, he wrote Head Games and Footballs. They all helped prove that NFL players and football players can get CTE even if no concussions are found. Players can show no symptoms, results in depression, suicide, violent authority and attacks. They exposed NFL for hiding and covering up CTE and their injuries. 4.NFL says that they haven’t known about it being the cause of these harsh outcomes, and so they prolonged and delayed more and further research on CTE. Even though the first report of CTE in the NFL was found in 2002 people believe that the NFL new about injuries dating back to the 50’s when injuries were being found to be...
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...My Hero I didn’t meet him before, I saw him on TV only, but he gave me a deep impression in my heart. I still remember his stiff fist, his strong body muscles, and his roar. Everyone call him Bruce Lee, the man who carries forward the Chinese Kung Fu to the hold world, and he was the greatest martial artist in 20th century. He had extraordinary accomplishment, he had inordinate passion, and he influenced the main world of martial art. Bruce Lee had extraordinary accomplishment. Nearly 30 years after his death, he was elected to the American time magazine “One of the 21st century iconic figure”, he along with Princess Diana and US president John f Kennedy. His first movie “The Big Boss” has broke the box office records in Hong Kong with over 230million us dollars in 1971, and he was the first in the world of Chinese martial arts promoter that led the Hong Kong movie out of Asia in the meanwhile. (Richer) After few years, he spent all of effort to develop his film career, and he became the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honors Bruce with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. However, in 2000, US government announced the release of "Bruce Lee's 60th anniversary commemorative stamps," he was the first Chinese person can got this glory, and this was the second Marilyn Monroe and 007 third place award of the artists (Yu). Lee attracted major attention from famous people who wanted to master Kung Fu; among his famous students were celebrities such as Joe Lewis...
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...factors in their civilization, which contributed to their success. The Greeks’ government changed multiple times throughout their history and caused them to have multiple types of governments and leaders. All these power changes brought new ideas that helped their civilizations survive, including a new way of medicine. These power struggles also made people begin to think and questions their lives through the study of philosophy. One of the civilizations...
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...Chapter Thirty Fast-forward toward the end of my mission. The man who saved my life was Elder Burkley Probst. I love that guy to this day, because of how he came to me. My last area would be in the city of Cape Town proper. It was such a wonder living in the city. Even to a missionary, a certain excitement or energy occurred in the city. Elder Probst was just as exuberant as the city! Instantly I found Burkley to be stalwart in his pursuit of the gospel. With his drive and my experience in the area, we were looking for changes to come—and come they did! Our goal was to teach people and allow the spirit to convert them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, but for months, no one accepted Baptism. With few weeks left in my mission, and no baptisms to...
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...Theft Auto IV raked in $500 billion its first week on sale (USA Today, 2013). Grand Theft Auto is a series of video games in which the “fun” of the game is to kill, car-jack, and sleep with prostitutes while completing missions with story lines that involve drugs, violence, and gang activity. It has since been the object of controversy since the first game of series entitled Grand Theft Auto, released in 1997(Stout, 2013). One problem that exists in crime is the lack of known reported crimes due to inconsistent reporting. Many crimes go unreported due to fear of retribution from criminals and as well as concern of profiling past criminals and their creditably. Internal issues exist within the law enforcement, the consent question how serious is juvenile crime and is it just normal behavior issues or is it a sign of a future adult criminal. Once a minor has committed a crime, the argument of which punishments are appropriate for both the crime and the age of the offenders arises. Many court officials and society believe in rehabilitation over strict punishments, even more so in juvenile cases (Hagan, 2013). In...
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...Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner focuses on our economy and the study of incentives. The two authors discuss comparisons that seem so foreign such as “What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?” and “How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?” Questions like these stir up the novel and essentially unravel the untold stories of life and consumption. Core economic principals are discovered within each story of the book. The title Freakonomics in itself has a humorous connotation with the combination of two words: freak and economics. Freak, by definition, means abnormality or oddity and most people might familiarize economics solely with finance or commerce. However, Levitt and Dubner break this common misconception and reveal how...
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...Saying Like Father Like Son Is Not Always True. In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, we see different relationships between parents and their children. Women seem not to have so much value in leadership role since they can’t earn a title. They are married off to able men to bear children for the clan. We see the boy child being raised to take over after his father. Achebe has shown in great length the concept of father and son relationship to a deeper level. He has shown how a boy will always look up to his father for both positive and negative aspects. The grown adults have a choice to figure a path in their leadership. We mainly learn of Okonkwo the main character that hated everything about his father and chose to live his life the opposite. He put his whole energy into becoming his opposite. Unfortunately his oldest son, Nwoye who looked like his father Unoka was the opposite of him. Okonkwo is a great man in the village of Umuofia since he was 18 years old. He threw the cat in a wrestling fight. “As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino.” (Achebe, Chapter 1 para 1) We are told that he continued to earn respect among his clansmen because no one had defeated the cat in seven years. Okonkwo worked so hard to be the opposite of his father who was lazy, owed people and had no intention of paying them. He could not provide for his...
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