...reason why it is so popular is how accessible soccer is. First of all, I am a big fan of this beautiful sport, I play soccer for high school, I am currently practicing soccer 3 times a week and during the weekends I play around 6 games on average in Hispanic leagues. This extraordinary sport brings and unites a lot of people into it, some being analysts which help us understand the sport and how complex it is in reality and how many factors play into a team winning the game. One of the biggest often talked...
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...Black Chess Champion and Activist Earns Prestigious Cover The U.S. Chess Federation (US Chess) is a nonprofit organization for chess players and supporters. The group has over 85,000 members in over 2,000 clubs, sanctions over 10,000 tournaments and upwards of 500,000 games every year including 25 national championship events, and represents the United States in the World Chess Federation. This year, the group also hosted an essay contest on how a players' club activities advance the purpose of US Chess, which is "to empower people through chess one move at a time" and their vision, which is "to enrich the lives of all persons and communities through increasing the play, study, and appreciation of the game of chess." In 2015, the inaugural...
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...down in the Cage and speak with Mr. Anthony Jones himself.... Mr Jones thank you for this opportunity to report on the CFA Oh this is how it works, no need to thank me. I should be thanking you. Sooo what happened? You was here, then poof! You was gone..... I had to take a brief leave of absence to finish my education. I know that was a little scary for my organization but hopefully I can bring my knowledge and savvy back to the MMA community and continue moving forward with plans. Congratulations! We thought we lost another manager to the other world that takes so many away. So let's talk about Caged Rage 2: Redemption. What can we expect? Excitement! Excitement in each fight. I do my best at match making. The CFA is establishing a great relationship with Paddy O'Malleys Bar venue. The CFA is here to stay I am always talking to fighters about being a part of the CFA. Many are skeptical but I’m confident they will come around. So when will the CFA fans see the vacant Champion slots in each weight class be secured. I mean you have to have a champion for others to take down. Funny you mentioned that, I’ve had a couple of managers already put their bid in for a title fight in their respective divisions. Just to give you a little insight I am in the process of putting an event together so the Champions can be crowned. I’m sure once the belts are handed out and the champs are crowned the CFA will have arrived. As we...
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...characters. Now enough about what is a MOBA. Let's talk about League of Legends. Body First I will explain the core concepts of a standard game of League of Legends. First you queue into matchmaking and once a game is found a lobby is put together in which the players are split into two teams of five and put into Champion Select where, as described, players start to select "Champions". "Champions" are characters that you play in the game that have 4 active abilities and a passive ability as well as different play styles. There are 6 main play styles or roles which include Tank, Fighter, Assassin, Mage, Marksman, and Support. There are also 4 positions that a Champion can fall into such as top lane, middle lane, bottom lane which consists of two champions, and jungle. After each player has selected a Champion the players are then transported to a magical arena called Summoner's Rift. Summoner's Rift consists of three lanes and a jungle as I previously stated. Top lane is usually played by Fighter or Tanks, Mid Lane has Assassins or Mages, Bot lane is a duo lane that has a pair played by a Marksman and a Support, and Jungle can be played by different types of champions but depend on the type of abilities. Now for the game objectives and how to obtain victory. Lanes continuously spawn minions which push lanes forward and when defeated yield gold which can be used to buy items to upgrade your Champion and experience that can be used to augment abilities and base stats. Minions also act...
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...In my life, I was beat on both mentally and physically but only recently have I realized that these beatings have been preparing me for this ruthless world. These beatings are making me tougher and are preparing me for the unforgiving, cold world after I turn 18 and go to college. They teach me to keep fighting and to strive to better and to always get back up when I get knocked down. I started wrestling when I was 5 years old. I used to wrestle Greco-Roman, which is upper-body only. I used to be pretty good but when I turned 7, my family moved from Toledo to Sylvania, and I quit wrestling for the time being. I was not used to the environment because Toledo was way more urban to the semi rural and close-knit community that is Sylvania. I soon...
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...I will tell you something that happened to me yesterday. Yesterday I was training back and biceps, and I played cardio 4 times this week, so, I was watching tv and chilling, then my coach called me he told me, Mo I have good news, my coach never tells me that. So i felt happy, if he is calling me to tell me that he have good news, so there is a really really good news. I replied what is it coach. He told me your cardio will increase to 45 minutes on the stair master. These next two weeks. Then we will reach one hour. I was silent, it was midnight. Who cares about cardio. I told him are you serious? He said no i am not kidding other players that are competing in the 212 and if you want to achieve something. And if you want to achieve anything you...
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...have practice almost every night. It was hard trying to juggle school and cheerleading, but I found a way to do it. Cheerleading is something I am very passionate about, and something I do all the time. If I am not cheering, I am in the gym working on my skills or making sure I stay fit for cheerleading. A lot of people say cheerleading is not a sport, but you know what I tell them, meet me on the mat and I will show you what’s up. Cheerleading is a very tough sport. We lift people the same weight as us, or sometimes the person can weigh more than you do. We don’t have shoulder pads and things to protect us like football players. So if you fall, someone falls on you, or if anything goes wrong you can get seriously injured. Can you see how serious it is yet? It was lunch time at school, and some of my teammates and I, would always meet in the court yard to practice the routine. All eyes would be on us and we would practice like we were on the competition floor. We sometimes even went one by one so we can see if anyone was making mistakes. Kiara was known for always messing up routines, and it was time for one by one. I went first, because I was confident that I knew my stuff. After I got done performing all the girls would be like “that was the bomb”, or “amazing!” Kiara of course would always try to find a way to get out of doing it by herself. “Kiara, it’s your turn”, I said. “Guys do I really have to go, it’s not the best yet”, she said. “Girl if you don’t get up and do the...
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...Central High, a local basketball power, finishing 369th of 391 seniors in the class of 1960, and often traveling to fight on weekends. As an amateur boxer, Ali attracted notice in 1960 by winning the Amateur Athletic Union light heavyweight and Golden Gloves heavyweight championships. At the Rome Olympics in 1960, Ali crushed his opponents to win a gold medal in the light heavyweight division. After turning pro, Ali defeated his first opponents. Then on February 25th 1964, he fought, and knocked out, Sonny Liston in seven rounds, thus becoming the new heavyweight world champion. Ali defended his title nine times from 1965 to 1967 and became universally recognized as world heavyweight champion after knocking out World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Ernie Terrell in fifteen rounds on February 6th 1967. Ali often showed of his greatness by saying, "I am the greatest!" Soon after becoming heavyweight champion, Ali decided to change his religion and joined the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims), taking the Muslim name "Muhammad Ali." The Vietnam War then interrupted Ali's career. In 1967, he was chosen to go into the military, but he refused to serve, saying his religious beliefs forbade him to fight. While some Americans praised Ali for risking prison to...
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... February 11, 2016 Dear Hiring Manager: I am writing to express my interest in your personal banker position that you have available at Wells Fargo. I am currently attending California State University Northridge where I am pursing a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management. As part of my program, I have completed financial and managerial accounting classes along with bookkeeping courses. While attending school full time, I have worked part-time as a sales associate for multiple retail companies. Working as a sales associate, our main priority is to focus on the customer. Therefore, providing customer service is something I am very familiar with. A few examples of my tasks would be greeting customers, answering phones, working a computer operated register, and assisting the customer with products. Here, we work alongside teams and fellow employees to meet goals and sales. While I am proficient working in groups, I am confident standing alone when given a project. I have worked for Circle K Riding Stables as an assistant manager for five years, I am presented multiple tasks perform. Some of my responsibilities include: providing customer service and creating loyal customers, answering phones, handling cash and liability forms, and responding to emails for the company. I believe that the combination of my academic and professional experiences has provided myself with skills that would make a contribution to your company. I have also attached a copy of my resume which provides...
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...When Mom and Dad have sexual intercourse, my Dad places his erect penis inside my mom's vagina. He releases millions of sperm when ejaculation occurs. And the sperm have been deposited they have a long and arduous journey ahead of them, like salmon entering the mouth of a river to swim upstream to spawn. Some of the sperm swim straight up into the fallopian tubes through the cervix and uterus. - And some of them are so fast, that sperms have been found in the tubes in as little as a few minutes after ejaculation. I’m one of them joining the rides. Some sperms die in the acidic vaginal fluid; and some enter the cervical mucus and cervical crypts. During this time, the sperms are released in small numbers and these continue to swim towards the fallopian tubes. Over the millions of sperms released in an ejaculate, only a few hundred of us will make the arduous trip unto the egg successfully. Perhaps this is why so many millions of sperms are produced in the first place even though only one is needed to fertilize the egg - because the wastage is so prodigal. During the time the sperm spend in the female reproductive tract, while swimming towards the egg, they acquire the capacity to fertilize it - a process called capacitation. When the sperms reach the corona cells (only a few hundred successfully make the trip, guided by chemicals produced by the egg which serve as guiding beacons to the sperms) they become hyperactivated - they start beating their tails in frenzy. This is useful...
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...This season was the first year that I have been in color guard and marching band, even though I had previously been in band in middle school. Prior to joining marching band, I played flute and piano. It was a difficult decision for me to give up flute to join color guard, and I contemplated my decision for the weeks up to it. Now, looking back, I am so fortunate to have made that decision. Marching band has shaped me into who I am today. I sacrificed many weeks of my summer to prepare for the show and competitions. We worked for ten hours a day from eight to six for two weeks straight. The whole day was spent outside on a football field in the heat of the summer. We listened to the screaming of instructors when we did something wrong. This taught us a lot about discipline. We had long rehearsals and had to memorize drill and actions. I learned to look out for others around me. We were all in pain and tired but we knew the show must go on. We kept watch over each other’s health and well-being. I learned about teamwork. You can’t produce a ten-minute show by yourself. You have to work with the other members in order to show the beauty of the music through flag work. The season kept going and the show was finally coming together. Our first competition came at White Oak High...
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...IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING In the summer of 2004, in the occasion of Olympic Games in Athens, Adidas, world famous brand in the field of sport clothing has made one of the most inspiring campaigns I have ever seen. With claim “Impossible is nothing” they have placed focus on the values they wanted their products to transmit and represent. This international company adapted itself to a trend that, in an occasion such as Olympic Games are, inevitably, sees in competition not only the athletes but also the brand they wear; it is a battle led through campaigns in various mass media. Focus of my analysis is placed on three TV commercials, videos each of which lasts 30 seconds. I find it necessary to describe them before proceeding with my analysis in order to provide a better insight in the material I will discuss and to present the way I saw and understood this campaign. Each of the videos has famous athletes as its protagonists and they are all made in the way that with digital trickery present day athletes are matched with champions from the past. First of them is Olympic champion Haile Geberlassie. In the video we find this Ethiopian athlete preparing himself for a surreal, 10 000 meters long race. He is surrounded with his clones, all dressed slightly different but all in Adidas. In the background we hear his voice talking in first person saying that despite all medals won and the records broken it is necessary and possible to always improve yourself and beat yourself one more...
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...gym. By the time that Ali had reached high school, he already intended to be a prizefighter and hoped to box in the Olympics. As an amateur boxer, Ali attracted notice in 1960 by winning the Amateur Athletic Union light heavyweight and Golden Gloves heavyweight championships. At the Rome Olympics in 1960, Ali crushed his opponents to win a gold medal in the light heavyweight division. After turning pro, Ali defeated his first opponents. Then on 25 February 1964, he fought, and knocked out, Sonny Liston in seven rounds, thus becoming the new heavyweight world champion. Ali defended his title nine times from 1965 to 1967 and became universally recognized as world heavyweight champion after outpointing World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Ernie Terrell in fifteen rounds on 6 February 1967. Ali often proclaimed his invincibility in verse and boasted, "I am the greatest!" Soon after becoming heavyweight champion, Ali decided to change his religion and joined the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims), taking the Muslim name "Muhammad Ali." The Vietnam War then interrupted Ali's career. In 1967, he was inducted into the military, but he refused to serve, saying his religious beliefs forbade him to fight. While some Americans praised Ali for risking prison to stand up for his beliefs, others called him a draft dodger and traitor. The government charged him with violating the Selective Service Act; his titles were taken from him; and he was not allowed to box. After a long...
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...Once I was nine years old. One day I went to Wal-Mart with my mother and I wanted to look at the toys. "Hey Mother," I said "Yes?" My mom said. "May I please go look at the toys in the toy area?" I said. "You may just looking, we may not buy any toy," My mom said. "Ok, thank you mother," I said. So I started walking to the toy area, there were all these awesome toys and stuff. I was there for at least an hour, I was just there waiting for my mom to pick me up. I was getting exhausted from walking, and I didn't have a phone so I couldn't call her to ask her where she is. After another fifteen minutes, my mom had finally passed by the toys area with a cart filled with all this stuff for...
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...League of Legends, the only game which is run by Riot Games, is one kind of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), the feature of this kind of game is team cooperation. It is session-based and including multiplayer. In each session, players need to destroy nexus which protected by numbers of turrets. The team destroys the nexus first wins the game (leagueoflegends, 2014). The main competitors of League of Legends are DOTA2 and World of Warcraft. The latter was the most popular game in this category before; however, the first place is taken by League of Legends now (Seitz, 2014). Riot games built a unique system for its customers in League of Legends. They name the players “Summoner”, and the characters they use are called “Champion”. Each champion...
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