Ultimate

I believe that soccer is the ultimate team sport.Soccer brings people together, if both you and a complete stranger play or are into soccer, you can instantly connect and have a conversation. When Alvaro first came to our English class, I had never met him in my life, but we connected instantly because we both play soccer. Alvaro and I talked in both classes we have together about soccer. The soccer world is a community. It is a very popular sport in the world and fans bond over their favorite…

“The Ultimate Decision” Kathrine, a young girl of nine, sat buried in her closet listening to her parent’s screams. She was crying. She thought back to a mere three hours earlier when she had been at school, sharing her toys with a little boy of which she did not know the name of. The new student had been crouching in the corner until Kathrine had approached him and asked if they could play together. Listening to her parents fight, she wanted nothing more than to yell at that boy. She wanted…

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the largest mixed martial arts company in the world featuring most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport. Based in the United States, the UFC produces events worldwide. The organization has nine weight divisions and abides by the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. The UFC has held over 300 events, mostly in America with the exception of a handful around the world in the last couple of years. Dana White is the current president and spokesman of the…

On Nov. 14, 2015, UFC fighter Ronda Rousey’s world came crashing down around her. When she woke up, she realized her life would never be the same. In the moments prior, the former women’s bantamweight champion was knocked out by a vicious head kick and several hammerfists to the face at UFC 193 in Melbourne, Australia. The beating came via current women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm, who not only stripped Rousey of her belt but everything she had come to believe she was. Rousey, who…

1. Explain the complexities of proximate cause. - The complexity of proximate cause is determined when the question to how the crime was committed arises. According to Schmalleger F & Hall D (p. 74, 2017),” The complexity of causation can be seen in the 2014 case Paroline v. United States. In this case, the Supreme Court had to determine how to measure the harm which was proximately caused by the possession of child pornography. The statute in question required that restitution be paid by…

It's rather easy to point out a typical Nara male. They appear to be lazy, unmotivated, weak, passive towards women (especially the domineering ones), and always muttering their typical catchphrase 'What a drag,' or more commonly, 'Troublesome.' Those would be the first characteristics that anyone would point out to you, and if you were a foreigner, their wise words would be the first things to come to mind upon seeing one. Those are the first things that come to mind when seeing them, but what…

The idea of an ultimate victim in August Wilson’s Fences varies from reader to reader. Troy Maxson often portrays himself as the victim of this play. However, that is not the case for the readers. Rose, his wife, is the true victim of this play; Troy cheats on Rose with another woman, he even has a child with her. Not to mention her one-way love towards her unloyal and arrogant husband. Apart from the other characters of the story, Rose gives a numerous amount of times to Troy. However, she…

In the 2013 Forbes article “the Ultimate Litmus Test: Personality” by Amanda Neville, she talks about the increasing frequency of personality tests for personal and business use. The main, but not the only, test she talked about was the Myers Briggs Test. This test categorizes people into four letters. The options are Extrovert or Introvert, Sensing or iNtuition, Thinking or Feeling, Judgment or Perception, and you are given one letter for each group and that gives you your “personality”. There…

Physical Fitness Rock hard abs, massive pecks, and bulging biceps can be considered the ultimate in physical fitness. Everyone is obsessed with having a “perfect” body and will do almost anything, including plastic surgery, to achieve their fitness goals. However, I confused appearance for physical fitness. At a young age I loved to watch World Wrestling Federation and wondered how I could someday look like an atheletic superstar. But as time went on I never understood the basics of a healthy…

Questions Episode 6: Executive Retreat (1865-1901) (The Ultimate Guide to the Presidency) America after the Civil War was a traumatized country in desperate need of leadership. Over the next three decades, a series of struggling presidents took a back seat to Congress and to captains of industry. After Lincoln’s assassination his Vice President Andrew Johnson assumed the Presidency. He was to be a ‘uniter’ of sorts to re-unite the country. He took action, without consulting with Congress, to…