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    four of his five games, which one of them was his final game against the Miami Dolphins. When the contract he had with the Jets expired, he went to the Minnesota Vikings in 2009. When he was with the Vikings, he achieved his goal, he went into his 11th pro bowl. Toward the 2010 season, that season would be his last. Favre returned to Minnesota in 2011 which made it a disappointing season for the quarterback and the club. Favre retired for good at the end of 2011, and returned to his hometown…

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    The word “redskins” is offensive. According to Dictionary.com the word redskin means, “A contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian.” The logo and mascot of the football team, the Washington Redskins, is a Native American man. While it is not right to use an offensive word for a team’s name, it is not immoral. If something is offensive, it doesn’t automatically make it immoral. We use offensive words and phrase often, that doesn’t mean we are being immoral. The word slut, for…

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    The Adrian Peterson Case

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    this NFL player have inspired me to take a deeper look into parenting styles in regards to corpral punishment, how discipline techniques are critized , and how or if there is any social impact on society. Mr. Peterson, running back for the Minnesota Vikings, was recently indicted on charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child and charged with one count of injury to a child for spanking his four year old son with a “switch”. Montgomery County First Assistant District Attourney Phil Grant…

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    There are several reasons why some people elect sterilization procedures for the prevention of an unwanted pregnancy, especially when health risks are high. However, some may disagree with pharmaceutical measures as well as physically altering the body just to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and are based on religious beliefs. In any case, should this decision be that of the person seeking such preventive measures? In contrast, some people believe that if a man is convicted of sexual child abuse,…

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    Salt Lake City: Case Study

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    City #1: Salt Lake City Absolute location: 40° 45' N / 111° 53' W The city is located in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges on the eastern and south western borders. Salt Lake City has a dry continental climate with hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters. Its current weather is partly sunny with occasional showers. An example of vegetation in Salt Lake City is sagebrush. It is a…

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    Darren Sharper Essay

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    He played in the National Football League for fourteen seasons. Sharper had played school football for the College of William and Mary. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He later played for the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints. Darren Sharper was a five-time Pro Bowl choice. Darren was also signed to the NFL's 2000s All-Decade Team. He completed his vocation with 63 captures, 6th on the NFL's untouched leader list at the season of his…

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    We had gone to NFL games before, but we had never been to a game at Arrowhead stadium. When the overtime field goal went through the uprights for the win it was one of the loudest things I had ever heard. None of us knew that we were going to the game at first. Our parents told that we were going to go see my little brother’s doctor. Riley was cancer free for some time by then, and a lot of that reason was because of the person we were planning to see. She was in Kansas City at the time, and…

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    Even though the NFL affiliation is very popular, there are many cheaters in the game of football. Many teams have double crossed in the NFL. Some people, do not see the deceiving or cheating. But the NFL says all these ways are considered a scam and are punishable. There are many different ways teams can deceive, which media attention has brought these to the public’s attention One of the most talked about scams or cheating in the NFL took place at the last super bowl. It is simply known as the…

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    Randy had some very notable accomplishments in his High school sports career despite his small town and his childhood. Moss was born on february 13, 1977 in Charleston, West Virginia. He grew up in the nearby small town of Rand and attended Dupont High school. Rand (aka “Rand University” according to ESPNS 30 for 30 on Randy) was a very small town with a population under two-thousand. In his High school days as a Dupont Panther, he carried his football team to back-to-back state championships…

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    The Lottery. Mankato, Minnesota: The Creative Company, 1948. Print. Jackson, Shirley. & Hyman, Stanley. Come Along with Me; Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lectures. New York: Viking Press, 1968. Print. Murphy, Bernice. Introduction: 'Do You Know Who I Am? Reconsidering Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy. Jefferson…

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