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Of the eight million high school students who play sports in the United States, only 460,000 will compete at NCAA schools (“Probability of Competing beyond High School”). This means that only about 5.75% of high school athletes will pursue their athletic careers at the college level. Excelling in athletics is the goal of many young kids for their future. They idolize the sports stars they grew up watching whether it be an NBA player, local track super star, or older sibling. As children grow up,…

It 's 2016. Large, clunky devices have been replaced with small handheld gadgets. No longer attached to a wall, phones have become wireless. Today 's world can be viewed from a TV screen or a laptop. Cell phones have the ability to do almost everything just by tapping it a few times. Unfortunately, these rapid developments has socially brought Americans back. People no longer need to think or meet up with others to communicate. People rely on different means of communication where one can sit…

do have various support groups in different states, but for the most part, ex-cons just end up returning to the criminal world because they cannot seem to find support. Many feel as if they have been disconnected from the real world for so long that they cannot even manage to buy groceries. For example, in this article by the New York Times, two guys named Carlos and Roby have set up a service in which they help ex-cons take their first steps into the real world. They notice that many of the…

During the Crusades the Christians (aka. The Franks) were “to expel the enemies of god.” According the Christians the Holy Land resided in Jerusalem. The current inhabitants of Jerusalem were “the Turks and Arabs.” The Turks and Arabs were primarily Muslim and not Christian. They were seen as a problem to the current Pope. Pope Urban II then gave a speech to the men of Franks. Pope Urban II stated that the people living in the Holy Land were not behaving as if they were living in a Holy Land…

Nanotechnology and Cancer: A Look into Better Options Since the beginning of time, human beings have been felled by disease and one of the most common killers of humans and animals as well. Until recently cancer has gone uninterrupted in its mass killing spree. Methods of treatment began to arise such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Now technology has advanced enough to allow nanotechnology to arise. Nano allows access to treatment and detection options that neither radiotherapy nor…

Music is a complex idea that has a multiple outcomes and experiences. We are surrounded by music every day, all different types of it, too. There are theories on how music takes place in how we go through our society, like how it tells stories from the ancient world or even songs that most people can relate to today. But the two major periods of music in this piece is the classical and baroque style music. Although “classical” is now a common term to describe instrumental music, it is actually…

Intro To us, the GoPro is the ultimate tech product; however GoPro started small, developed from research and development in an amateur entrepreneur’s garage, not in a multi-national’s lab. Started with 10,000 dollars in bootstrapped cash, Nick Woodman, an aspiring entrepreneur started off selling bead and shell belts to raise the cash to sell the product that is now part of America 's fastest-growing camera company. It was while selling bead and shell belts out of his van that Nick Woodman had…

1 To most people, pharmacy is just the study of medicine and their local pharmacist is just another person who puts pills in bottles all day long – but pharmacy is more than that. 3 Pharmacy is years of hard work in school, years of training to make sure one knows what they are doing so someone does not get the wrong dosage of a medicine, and it’s years of time spent researching with different medicines, trying to find cures. True, pharmacists do collect a pay check and work like everyone else,…

A Dictatorship is a disreputable form of government in which one person or a small group of people, in this case being Saddam Hussein and his “Dirty Dozen”, have complete and utter control of a country. Dictators essentially have the right to do whatever they see fit with their people and country – restrict the legal and civil rights of their subjects. Subjects are technically citizens, although citizens are a part of a democracy, and have civil and legal rights, and have a say in government,…

Introduction Whether it 's an adult or a five years old kid, humans have always had to make decisions of whether to obey or disobey authority. In the beginning of time in many religions, the first two humans, Adam and Eve, had to decide whether to obey or disobey God. This decision has consistently shaped history. For example, when the first humans disobeyed God, they were made to leave The Garden of Eden and come down to Earth. Though disobedience has been thought of a vice, it is a normal…