Tennessee Williams '¨security: A Kind Of Death'

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¨Security is a kind of death¨.-Tennessee Williams
Introduction-I agree with the quote because you may go and do an extreme sport with friends and something might go wrong, which could end your life there.Thesis-Extreme sports are a bad idea because they are dangerous, and wingsuit flying and base jumping are probably the most dangerous of you.There has been fatalities of extreme sports over the past 5 years per 1,000 participants.Between 1930 and 1961,71 out of 75 people died trying to perfect a wingsuit.

Paragraph 1-Topic Sentence-Extreme sports are a bad idea because a lot of people died trying to perfect an extreme sports.We found a little list of statics on fatalities in extreme sports over the past 5 years.

Paragraph 2-Evidence-Extreme

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