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    Cheerleading as a Sport Sport, an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Over 400,000 girls and boys are involved in cheerleading in the United States. With this large amount of people participating, a major controversy is brought into question, is cheerleading a sport? Susan Loomis, National Federation of of State High School Associations member, says, “Number one reason the cheerleaders are there is…

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    The Calvin Knights football team has been undefeated since 1876. How is this spectacular feat possible? It has to do with the fact that Calvin does not actually have a football team. And I for one believe it should stay that way. Despite the many fans at Calvin who crave one of America’s favorite pastimes, Calvin has yet to assemble a team. Both the Calvin board and others worry that creating a football team is not in the school’s best interest. As a graduate of a private high school without a…

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    opportunity to execute his plan. The satyrs offer to help and as they are following through on their offer, they back out using various, humorous excuses. Euripides uses lots humor in this scene. The satyrs say things as, “…for somehow or other I sprained my ankle, standing still” (Euripides 31) and “Yes, my eyes are full of dust or ashes from somewhere or other” (Euripides 31). Because of the satyr’s lame excuses, Odysseus says, “These are sorry fellows, useless as allies” (Euripides 31), and…

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    Football is an all-American sport,from little leagues to the National Football Leagues. Football can be all fun and games until someone gets seriously hurt. This sport has more physical contact to sport. You will also have more long lasting mental effects from playing football. So if all these things can happen to you why do parents let their young boys play this sport? Parents let their kids play because, they believe that, it can help work on their discipline and teamwork,but there are a lot…

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    Anterograde amnesia is when someone cannot remember events after the Incident has occurred – ‘pure amnesiacs’ is an example of this. Meaning that a person cannot store new information in their short-term memory. H.M is a good example of this; he had surgery in 1953 when was only twenty-seven years old. This particular surgery involved the removal of his hippocampus to alleviate his epilepsy. His epilepsy was severe, and had an extremely negative impact on his daily life (Saul McLeod, 2011)…

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    Would you choose to stay if your whole family died? if you had the choice to stay or leave? ‘If i stay’ was about a life or death decision. Mia has to choose between life and death after her family dies in a car accident. She has an out of body experience while she is in coma. She has flashbacks about her family as she is walking around in the hospital. Her family is all there to support her. After the book came out, they made a movie based on it. The book and movie were both good, but some…

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    Acocella, Joan. "Slaying Monsters." The New Yorker 2 June 2014: 70. Student Edition. Web. 14 Nov. 2015. This literary criticism is about how a man named John Ronald Reuel that many encouraged him to translate the poem Beowulf since the author of this poem is anonymous and unknown. Although he did publish the piece of literature, he did not publish it. Eventually, his son published the piece of literature forty years after the death of his father. Making Beowulf a popular poem at that time. The…

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    In Persepolis Marjane Satrapi grows up in a world stripped of many freedoms we observe in the United States of America. There are three different aspects of this story that I connected to. The first connection I made was in the chapter called The Vegetable “My mental transformation was followed by my physical metamorphosis.” (189 The second connection was her outspoken nature that wasn’t always appreciated by some people. The third connection is slightly odd but to her living in a regime where…

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    Interprofessional evidence-based practice can be described as health care professionals from different professions coming together to make the very best decision for their patient. Since it is still categorized as evidence-based practice, this means that both of these professionals would use research evidence, personal clinical expertise, and whatever treatment option the patient prefers. An example of interprofessionalism would be an orthodontist and a occupational therapist combining their…

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    of the water to the other, as I gliding across the water I prayed to god please help me lord. Three; my third life experience was when one year my brother took his team to the championship and two quarters left in the game he tore his ACL and sprained his ankle ad all I could hear was me and everyone around praying that he walked off safely.four:last life experience is when I found out that my little sister had sickle cell and that it was possibility that thing wasn’t gone be looking good and…

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