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a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely as "the after effects such as confusion of a temporary capacity”. In the movie Head Games directed by Steve James, the documentary follows football players and hockey players. The former professional wrestler and Harvard graduate Chris Nowinski is on a mission to uncover the truth about the consequences with sports that have a great deal of head contact. The changes that can be made in sports to benefit the…

I’ve been playing the incredible sport of Ice Hockey for over 10 years now. Although it has become steadily easier, and more about sharpening skills than developing them, in the beginning it was extremely difficult. The progress I have made since when I first began playing is immeasurable. I have come as far as I have in hockey through all the years of support from my father, because he’s always been happy to watch me play competitively. When I first began he helped me by buying me a brand…

When I had to pick an article that related to physics is Ice Hockey. I have been playing ice hockey since I was 11 years old, it's a fun sport to play. The article that explains how physics play a role in hockey. In this paper, I will be talking about skating, hockey stick, slapshot, and hockey puck. While a hockey player skate pushes off with his rear leg, a perpendicular energy is exerted on the skate by the ice. The factor of the force that point onward is what thrusts the player forward.…

rinks on weekends. But it was the rink his father built for him behind the little house on Varadi Avenue in Brantford that became known as the birthplace of his skating skills.” Gretzky was only six years old when he began his first year in organized hockey. That year, he scored one goal, “the lowest yearly total of his career,” states “Wayne Gretzky Biography”. By six, Gretzky had already mastered a unique skating stride. By the age of nine, after following his father’s advice to “skate where…

Never Give Up On Your Goal The final school bell rang. I just got done with gym and walked into the locker room to put on my Hillsborough High School soccer jersey. This was just one game in my freshman season and was expected to be like any other. We were expected to win as our record proved that we were a strong and athletic team. I am ready for the game with my soccer bag packed with my gatorade and training gear. My other teammates begin to fill in the locker room preparing for the game…

Goals are set so you can achieve them. But if you don’t set them what’s the point of life? If you set them too high you will never achieve them. So you have to be realistic. Realistic goals give you a meaning in what you are doing. After that goal is set, you work your butt off to achieve that goal, and that 's exactly what we did. It was March 1, 2012. We had just finished walking around the rink to get a sense of where everything was but most importantly where the judges were and what we…

This wasn’t just any ordinary game. My team, The Minnesota Junior Whitecaps, had been invited to play in the biggest hockey tournament of the summer. NAHA, or the North American Hockey Association, holds the NAHA Invitational in Burlington, Vermont over Labor Day every year. Every team hopes to take home the trophy, but individual players hope to leave their best impressions on the ice. What makes the NAHA Tournament so special is the amount of college coaches watching at every game. Every…

I would like to begin this letter by saying thank you very much for providing me with the Robert & Karin Moe Study Abroad Scholarship. This scholarship will significantly help my family and I pay for my trip to Havana, Cuba with the Global Entrepreneurship Program. I am extremely grateful for your generosity. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I grew up in a Wheaton, IL, a suburb outside of Chicago, where I attended Wheaton Warrenville South High School. During the summer of my junior…

The Goal It was the start of the 1st period. Me, Potter and Rock were on the bench. We still had to wait 2 shifts, but it felt like 10 seconds. So the black puck is deep in the other team’s zone so me and Potter chase it down. “I got left you got right!” I yell. I said this so we can trap the guy so he can’t go anywhere but what I didn’t realize that there was trouble getting Rocco on because Seth tripped so he wasn’t there to get his guy. So with Rocco’s guy wide open me a Potter worry so…

In a small town of 1,000 people called Peanut in the state of Iowa, there is a girl the age of 19. Her name is Beth Rose; she is very intelligent, kind, and curious about the world. Beth wants to go to college and live her dream to become a mathematician but there is some obstacles she has to accomplish first. It is currently the year of 1962, the era where women have no rights in the world. Women cannot vote, have minimal rights, they are not allowed in many Ivy League colleges, are not allowed…