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Many people believe soccer is unimportant.. Some think it’s pointless. To us soccer players we are insulted by this. I believe soccer makes the world a better place. Soccer connects people of all ethnicities and race as a universal language and helps teach people life skills. I believe soccer is the best sport, that is why it is the most widely renowned sport in the world. When I first played I was 7 and when I experienced soccer I was filled with a deep passion for this sport. I played on a…

Imagine you are playing your favorite sport with thousands of people watching chanting your name and, your friend plays the same sport The stats have proving men should make more in almost every sport in america. Although I do believe in gender equality and equal pay in the workforce; Women athletes should not get paid as much as male athletes because not as many people watch, make less sponsor revenue, and when they do have the same crowd and sponsors they are paid the same. Men and women all…

My Last Soccer Game It was the morning of my last soccer game of the season. I still haven't made my first goal yet so I was determined to that day. As I got out of my car walked through the grass to get to my team and start stretching to prepare for our last game, the smell of wet grass hit me in the face. My soccer cleats began to get wet and sink into the wet muddy grass as I walked. " Hey! Good morning Navarro" My coach John said. He called me by my last name instead of my first…

Every year men's sports teams make record high viewing numbers on both tv and live games, yet women’s team struggle to get half those viewers. Last year, Syracuse University had about a 21,000 people average attending their men’s basketball games while women had an average of only 752 people. This huge gap in fans is due to the fact that people like to watch men’s sports because women are not seen as strong, tough and athletic people which makes sports so exciting in the first place.…

Standing up for others It was a nice sunny morning and Jasmine and George were playing soccer in the nice green soccer field in morning recess and everyone outside could hear all the noisy kids play in the playground. Then George took the ball away from a boy named Randy who was the meanest bully in the school and kicks it to score a goal but misses. Then Randy starts making fun of him and tells him, “ha ha ha you will never be good at soccer maybe you should try another sport but guess what…

Brazil has a diverse culture which can be experience through their food, dance, sports and much more. Firstly, the sport soccer is a major part of Brazilian culture, being the most popular sport played and over 10,000 Brazilians play all over the world. Impressively, Brazil has had many successes when it comes to soccer. They have a national football team who qualified for the World Cup competitions every year and as of 2016 the team won the gold medal in the Rio Olympics. The language spoken in…

For the project, experimenters need to test how pressure affects the distance a football can travel. One hypothesis is that if pressure is added to the football, then the distance the ball projects will increase when distance is a function of pressure. The independent variable for this experiment is the amount of pressure that is in the football, and the dependent variable is the distance that the football proceeds according to pressure. Furthermore, for a control, one can inflate the football…

Policy Identification and Explanation Public Law 105-19, also known as the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997, was passed by Congress on May 1, 1997 and went into effect on June 18, 1997. The need for this bill became evident as litigation against volunteers for negligence increased. The goal of this bill has been to protect volunteers from becoming involved in situations out of their control. In an attempt to reach this goal, this law has placed conditions on volunteers to reduce litigation…

The advertisement I chose was the Adidas World Cup advertisement selling the cool blue F150 soccer cleats. I play soccer at DBU and enjoy looking at the latest soccer cleat trends and when I came across this ad on google I felt drawn to write about it. Ever since I was a kid, I loved brightly colored soccer cleats. My parents would save up extra money for me to go and buy the latest shoes that I was convinced would help me play exceptionally better. This advertisement is excellent for the sake…

The task was to either move the object up and over to a platform with and X as the target point the other alternative was to launch the ball through a goal post 2-3 feet tall. These tasks had to be completed with minimal human interaction. Our group chose the launching the ball through the uprights because it matched with our interest of sports as the analogy of it being like a PAT in football.This machine had complete the task of Does it launch into the desired area? For our design the tennis…