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    “Why Americans Should Stop Watching Football,” he stresses why we need to give up America’s most famous and most loved sport: football. He has us think of the movie “Concussion,” starring Will Smith. This controversial movie is about how football causes serious brain damage to the players. Camosy says this very movie is given an overall rating of sixth place. He attempts to persuade others’ feelings by using the rhetorical appeal of pathos. He does this by using quotations from football…

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    sun up to sun down. We came home tired and exhausted, but we had fun. When my aunt saw us she had nothing to say to me, but she reprimanded my sister. She told my sister that she should not play this kind of sports. She did not know much about American football so when we told her how the game was played and how physical it was she forbid my sister from playing with us again. My mother overheard what happen. She did…

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    Attack When a mindset brings forth both failure and success, it is difficult to understand its effectiveness. In my athletic career, I experience both victory and defeat as a direct result of aggressiveness. I would rather reflect upon my athletic careers and think “I cannot believe I did that,” rather than think “I wish I did that”. Whether it be stealing home late in a baseball game with my team down by two or trying to granby-roll my opponent while I am up by ten, I refuse to be…

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    Its 2013 and the US is in the middle of its annual football season. The Browns were playing the Denver Broncos, and wide-receiver Josh Cribbs is on the field. He caught a sixty yard catch and was blindsided by the opposing defense. Josh was on the ground hazed and unable to move. After approximately thirty seconds, he got up and was gestured to move to the sidelines. On the sidelines, he was asked if he knew who the opposing team was. Cribbs had no idea and no answer for the trainers. After a…

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    Sports have become one of the worlds most interesting and talked about past times. Three of the most exciting and most widely watched sports all over the world are American Football, Soccer, and Rugby. Because of all of the pressure and stress that comes with playing the sport all of the athletes in those sports put all they have into training and making themselves better in the offseason. The offseason in sports are almost completely different. Some sports work more on speed while others…

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    something in common. they are all icons of great American sports. But which sport is the most American? While the World Series, March Madness, and the Super Bowl all have immense viewership and popularity in the United States, that is not enough to make it the most American sport. Football claims the title of the most American sport for several reasons. First of all, football is and has been a mechanism for achieving the American dream. Football has been used as a mechanism by many for…

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    Two of the most popular sports in the world are American Football and Rugby. These are both two very physical sports that have a player running the ball towards the end zone or try line. Football and Rugby are two sports with similar equipment, object of the games, and rules. Both sports are also very different in many ways with field length, playing times and substitutions. American Football is only played in the United States of America whereas Rugby can be played anywhere in the world.…

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    explained how people just aren't following football as closely as they once did, in 2014 they did a study revealed that 58% of americans americans followed football closely, but a new study says that now in 2018 only 49% of americans follow football closely. In the course of only 4 years there has been an 18.1% drop in the following in football. MTP also says that white men are the main cause in the drop in football, they also explained that the football players protesting and the safety of the…

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    say whatever is on your mind. No matter how ignorant, smart, or flat out stupid it is. Everybody who is a citizen of this country has a freedom to protest the government in a lawful and peaceful way. Unless you mess with the national sport of American Football. Then you can keep your thoughts and protesting shenanigans out of here and shut up. Ironic coming from the land…

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    Before coming to United States, I was pretty confident that I could assimilate to the American culture easily because I spent a whole year talking and learning with American professors at high school. However, the culture shock just blew my mind after starting my college life in the Ohio State University. The American culture that I knew from my high school professors was just a tiny piece. Here are the three main culture shocks I encountered in my freshman year. In China, particularly in my…

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