...most of their lives to sports at a young age. They set goals high, and dream big that one day they will reach a professional level of sports. High school students have huge aspirations on pursuing an opportunity to the next level during their four years in high school. They play high school sports because they center their attention on teamwork, winning, getting in better shape, and building character traits that they’ll use forever. But, what if one year one student endures an injury that will forever hinder his or her ability to play the game he or she loves the most? How will the contributors of this article encourage high school students to participate in sports despite that fact that safety is the main issue? Students in today’s society fight the ongoing battle against obesity or being overweight. They struggle finding ways to get active in school and it shows significantly. According to sports advocates: Many health experts maintain that the rising popularity of high school athletics is a good sign. They stress that sports can help to keep students physically fit and healthy, and counteract the current trends towards inactivity and obesity in the U.S. High school...
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...success as well as ample controversy, coming off of a great season in 93-94. The league hit a huge dilemma in the next season when a lockout happened and the season was cut in half, this brought about serious talk of where the industry was headed and the next steps necessary to get there. The issue lies in the overwhelmingly large fan bases of the other major American sports coupled with the lack of hockey exposure in America. Much of the population finds themselves cemented into a certain sport and even more specifically a certain franchise, unfortunately not many find this sport to be hockey. With hockey being the least televised sport, only very recently hitting the television channels people don’’t see it in the same league as football, basketball and baseball. It is looked at as more of a big brawl on ice than a competitive, respectful sport, something needs to be done. With the elder population being too well established in other sports the target demographic comes down to the youth of the country. Targeting young adults, teens as well as children seems to be the most viable option. The proposed way of doing this will be to bring hockey leagues to the hometowns of the kids, making it more appealing and accessible as well as establishing a fan base from early on in a person’s life. Other methods of increasing hockey exposure and revenues are looked at however setting up leagues is the proposed solution. To do so sponsorships will need to be set up, schools will need to be contacted...
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...regulations, "all student athletes are prohibited from receiving any payment for their efforts". Exploited athletes generate millions of dollars for their schools, and never see a dime. Is this fair? The universities, coaches, boosters, scouts for recruiting purpose are all getting paid off the players. But the major reasons why the stadiums and arenas are filled up are because of the players but they don’t see a penny of the money. Some universities build academic buildings on campus with the money that the players make for the school. Some coaches even get a percentage of the tickets revenue from the home games the players get nothing. The school pays coaches millions of dollars to coach the player who do the work. The college athletes are slaves to the schools and the coaches. The coaches treat the players as workhorses; the student-athletes can’t even choose their own major sometimes. The student-athletes can’t have a job so where are they supposed to get money from. People say that student-athletes get four-year scholarship, or a free education, but that is not true. Student-athletes only get a year to year scholarship which they can be dropped from the scholarship for a number of reasons. The idea of college athletes being slaves have to get settled for the greater good of athletes and institutions graduation rates. College sports are big business. Every single day, universities succeed in persuading the general public into believing that the purpose and spirit of amateur athletics...
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...This essay will argue that sports teams from high school to the NFL need to focus more on the dangers of concussion sin football. In sports everyone who commits to playing for an organized team knows that there is a large risk involved by the time you are stepping onto the field, Court or Ice Rink. One of the most common sports that athletes are being injured in is the sport of football. Every one knows the dangers of the the full contact sport because it is so widely commercialized in for all ages. From High School all the way to the NFL football is a big deal but what about the injury's that come along with playing this violent game. Concussions are one of the most common injures that occur out of the football field and it has...
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...We watch sports to watch the athletes; in this day and age they are trained to ignore technology on the field, but it is always there to frustrate and distract those focused playing. The current number two and number one tennis players in the world, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, were one of the first athletes to play with the Hawk-Eye. It was during the 2007 Wimbledon when Federer asked for the machine to be turned off because he had been disagreeing with the majority of its calls as they contradicted his own. There have been other cases where the athletes become annoyed with the Hawk-Eye but transitioning to technology was the roughest patch for athletes. In an interview with Kendall Jefferies, I began to understand what it was like to...
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...Keep it Separate Girls and boys sports teams should be separate. Girls should not be able to compete with men in sports. However, in this century many people are advocating for equality. Gender discrimination has always been an issue. By keeping girls and boys sports teams separate, the game will be fairer. By allowing girls to be on boys sports teams, that would call for boys on girls sport teams. There was a wrestler in Iowa who forfeited to a girl wrestler because of his faith. He was praised and criticized for his decision. Due to the differences in physical make-up, mixed skill levels, and team dynamics, it’s not a good idea to bring teams together that have both genders. What mainly separates girls and boys is not how we think, but how...
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...Korea, and Taiwan provide access to readily abundant cheap labor. These corporations could now reap the benefit of the United States consumer market, while keeping their costs extremely low in offshore production. The media has awakened the public to this fact and several prominent corporations have come under fire lately for the malpractices. The term “child labor” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical-mental development. It refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children, and interferes with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school prematurely or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work. There are an estimated 186 million child laborers worldwide. The 2001 national census of India estimated total number of child labor aged 5–14 to be at 12.6 million. Small-scale and community-based studies have found estimated prevalence of 12.6 million children engaged in hazardous occupations. The culture icon of Nike has been the corporation most under fire since the media outburst. Nike has had child labor accusations since the 90s with a regular resurgence of the same controversies at regular time intervals. The CEO has been adamant about fixing the problems after the 2005 scandal for the world cup balls made by child laborers surfaced...
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...INTRODUCTION Transgender, Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual are not words you would expect to hear when being associated with sports and the steady growing field of coming out stories within sports. For just a moment, lets thing about what these athletes are going through and how hard they fight to be accepted or a part of a team. The question can be posed that should transgender athletes have the same rights as other athletes? The NCAA as well as various other sport affiliations agree that they should. The NCAA implemented a less somewhat rigorous guideline in 2011; within that guideline four major questions are being asked. Those questions include:” Why must we address transgender issues in Collegiate Athletics Programs? Why focus on college athletics? Should the participation of Transgender student athletes raise concerns about competitive equity? What are the benefits of adopting fair and inclusive policies?” The purposes of the guidelines areproviding equal opportunities in all aspects of school programming are a core value in education. As an integral part of higher educational institutions, college athletics programs are responsible and accountable for reflecting the goals and values of the educational institutions of which they are a part. It follows that athletics program. “The NCAA Office of Inclusion provides or enables programming and education, which sustains foundations of a diverse and inclusive culture across dimensions of diversity including, but not limited to...
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...Creativity comes in different forms and fashion to an individual which results in combining knowledge and imagination to produce helpful ideas. Creative individual can have numerous talents ranging from problem solving to an individual who is creative in the arts. Understanding creativity and where it comes from is rather difficult as no one knows what it means because creativity comes in different ways. The application process of creativity is something that researchers are constantly studying and demonstrating in hopes of understanding the process. The creative process includes four stages, which involves six techniques that will produce helpful ideas to resolve a problem or issue. The Four Stages to Creative Process Searching for the challenges is the first stage of the creative process, and this take place when an individual can meet his or her challenge in an imaginative, original, and effective way. As individuals challenges are often sought out, and they come in forms of issues or problems. For example, drug addiction among teenage boys are more prevalent today than in previous years, and it is causing a problem that can but young teenage boys at risk for health complications and mental issues. According to the United States department of human health services (2006) the percentage of young teenage boys using drugs are much higher than teenage girl, especially between the ages of 14 to 18 (Para. 1). Drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, household...
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...tend to be more violent and aggressive. Time and again boys have been put to the test only to discover that “boys will be boys”. I was raised with 3 brothers and 3 sisters and share the same thoughts as Christina Hoff Sommers that efforts to change boys will be difficult if not impossible. We can however, teach them to utilize the morals and ethics they have and use them to their advantage. Sommers also adds that keeping fully consistent with their masculine natures it is necessary and effective to civilize boys with honor codes, character education, manners and rules of good sportsmanship. My brothers were always taught to be protective of us girls and never to demoralize themselves or anyone else. Men may have natural tendencies to be overly aggressive but they can be conditioned to control it. I am now the Father of three boys. While they were growing up they were involved in various sports activities. I have been surrounded by all types of boys and men for most of my life. While they did show signs of natural aggression they were able to express that with sports, hunting and camping. They are very competitive and always look for a challenge of who is more dominant whether it’s wrestling with me or shooting a bow & arrow. They have been taught to treat people with respect and have learned this behavior by the environment they have grown up in. An article in the Science Daily printed on June 21, 2006 stated that Steven J. Suomi Ph.D., chief, Laboratory of Comparative...
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...Football in America by Jeannie Ray SPM/210 - SOCIO-CULTURAL ELMNTS OF SPORT: PLAYING WELL W/OTHERS DR DION DALY August 6, 2011 Football In America American football has a long legacy in American History. It can be traced back centuries to early European cutures, influenced through the years by multiple people, changed the rules and has become a National phenomenon for Americans. American football is over 100 years old and still going strong. It has inspired songs, movies and motivated individuals to great heights in their careers and lives. American football originated with its earlier form of play that derived from a variation of the sport Rugby in 1892. There are mentions of Native Americans playing ball games but, modern American football originates in traditional ball games played at villages and schools in Europe dating many centuries before America was settled by Europeans. Reports of early settlers at Jamestown, Virginia playing games with inflated balls in the early 17th century have been noted in history also. American football is the result of several major divergences from its earlier form of rugby. The introduction of the line of scrimmage and down-and- distance are among the first major changes of the game Rugby to its conversion to American football by Walter Camp. Walter Camp is considered as the father of football. The changes that he incorporated into collegiate football became dominant in the United...
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...The discussion on homework has been a controversy for many years now. Susan Schwartz, a writer for the Montreal Gazette, wrote an article reviewing parents and teachers opinions on whether homework is necessary or not. In Schwartz opinion, she believes that homework is a necessary assets to a student's school experience. Many others do not share her opinion because they believe it is keeping their children from being kids. Schwartz states that homework allows students to gain a further understanding of the content they learn in class. Many teachers agree that homework allows them to see what students have a firm grip on. One of the teachers Schwartz questions stated that “homework is also a way for teachers to see where their students are...
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...Is America Really a Melting Pot? Over the years the Native American mascot debate is one that has gotten major press. Native Americans are very angry and want to be heard. The tribal names that these natives go by are something that mean very much to them. School boards, and sports teams around the country have used these mascots, and names to define who the team, and or school is. Today, many people see using Native American names for mascots to be racist. These mascots and cultural figures are part of the Native American culture. To go and generalize these people into a sports team that have nothing to do with who they are, is being very prejudice, misleading, and in many ways wrong. Native Americans deserve the right to be heard and understood that their names, tribal figures, and beliefs are theirs. Mascots used to define them bring nothing but racism, shame, stereotyping, and generalization. Many sports teams, schools, and universities in the US have adopted some incarnation of the Native American warrior as their mascot. However, many people, of Native American heritage as well as non-Indians, believe that the portrayals of Native Americans in this manner is a harmful, racist aspect of our culture, and one that we should take strong measures to prevent. It is not wrong for one to say that racism all around the world needs to be put to an end. We as Americans hold ourselves to high standards of being accepting to all ethnicities. It is hard to understand how we are unable...
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...He argued that the circumference of the Earth was much smaller than what everyone else believed and by traveling across the atlantic it would be a relatively easier journey. Finally in 1941 the Spaniards agreed to the plan and in 1942, Columbus set sail. Columbus, already greedy before setting sail, wanted fame and fortune while Ferdinand and Isabella wanted the same, along with the opportunity to expand christianity. Christopher agreed upon these terms keeping 10% of the riches for himself. And he set off to the unknown. On August 3, 1492, Columbus and his crew set sail from Spain in three ships: the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria and on October 12, the ships made landfall. But it was not in Asia as was expected. Columbus had landed in the bahamas. He spent months sailing from island to island looking for “pearls, precious stones, gold, silver, spices, and other objects and merchandise whatsoever” but no such luck. Not only that but Columbus spread disease to the native americans whose weak immune systems gave under pressure wiped out almost an entire population....
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...Jose A. Jilpas Rebecca Millan Engl-1302 VF1-Composition 2 - Rhetoric 9 December 2014 The Big HIT in the NFL: Head injuries are changing the way the game is played I firmly believe that the future of the NFL and all of its players is in jeopardy of being lost as the American sport as we know it simply due to the fact that too many injuries are occurring in the NFL today than what was happening in the past. Sure past players got hurt, but players now hit ten times harder, play ten times tougher, it’s obvious they are due for a serious injury, it’s just a matter of time and when, surely they make millions each year, but is all that money worth the risk of losing your life or possibly harming it? Imagine this, you’re at your sons final football game as he’s a senior about to graduate, he’s got the crowd rooting for him, he’s the one who snaps the ball, yes the quarterback of the team. The defense is running full force, showing blitz when suddenly “ WHAM!” he takes a huge hit from a defensive player and stays laid out on the floor , suddenly coaches and staff from the team rush to the field while he remains still, the crowd silent , awaiting the outcome . Slowly he gets up with the help of the staff and coaches, he’s then carted to the locker room by team staff where they tell the parents that they are checking him for a concussion because it’s UIL protocol when it comes to hard extensive hits taken by a defenseless player. Not one person who loves football can deny that...
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