Personal Narrative: My Sympathetic Nervous System

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This past week my sympathetic nervous system was activated during a game of kick ball. My team was on offense and as the ball rolled into home, I was expecting a big kick. I was not focusing on what was going, and to my surprise, the ball was kicked right towards me! My fight or flight instincts ramped up when I became aware of my surroundings. My body immediately took action and I braced myself for the hit.
There are two types of empirical evidence on this event. The first is measurable evidence, for something to be measurable it must be large enough to be noticed. As the ball was flying through the air in my direction, it was a large enough reaction to the kick that I noticed and had a second to respond. This is measurable evidence because

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