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    telling you about my topic. My topic is Volleyball. When volleyball was first made, it’s name was “Mintonette”. Volleyball is a game where two teams of six players are on a court and are hitting a large ball back and forth over the net without letting it hit the ground. Volleyball is also where 3 plays on each team hit the ball one after another, once someone has hit the ball that player loses the right to hit the ball again. This is my argument on why volleyball is one of the hardest sports to…

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    This article is about girls who chose to play and love volleyball over basketball. Over the past few years, more high school girls have chose to play volleyball rather than basketball. The number of volleyball players have risen while the number of basketball players have dropped. Reaction time and needing a strong base and ready arms is something players from both sports need to have. Both sports are more alike than different. Basketball is a sport that takes time to master, the player needs to…

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    running the mile outside or playing basketball, they would always find a way to fall to the ground, or fog up with the heat of the gym. Regardless of our activities, I would constantly be on my toes, awaiting the next mishap. We had been playing volleyball, a sport that screams catastrophe in the face of those glasses. It was the other team’s turn to serve, with all the eyes of both teams on the server, anticipating an opportunity for them to score a point for their own team. Just as the ball…

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    Introduction The idea of the popular and continuously growing game of volleyball was thought of in 1895. The rules and skills started to evolve as the game grew more popular until it was an official Olympic sport in 1924. It started off with passing the ball back and forth until the three hit rule was developed. The game always started with a serve and as time went on, the serve became more and more complex. Different varieties and techniques of the serve started to emerge as the game grew.…

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    Making history Winning this tournament meant everything for our team, I would had never imagined that we were capable of achieving such a goal. In 2014 the annual volleyball competition of Bilingual schools took place at “Escuela Internacional Sampedrana" in San Pedro Sula, Cortes. Our school took teams to compete in four categories in Pre Juvenile girls, Pre Juvenile boys, INFA girls and INFA boys which was my category. Our team had gone under a harsh training, but not only had us,…

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    gained skills, hobbies, and passions. I have many I would like to share. One of my skills include volleyball. Volleyball is a sport I love and take seriously in club. I hope I can make the team at FAMMS, then pass it on to high school. And after high school, I would like to play volleyball in the college/ university I will attend. Currently, I am in club, and my position is outside hitter. Volleyball is a activity I highly enjoy. Another one of my skills is nail art. This skill is a little…

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    retired American professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, the most successful female beach volleyball player with 112 individual championship wins in domestic and international competition is her. Early life She was born july 30,1997, Angels , California,U.S . She grew up playing beach volleyball at Santa Monica pier With her parents.And her and her father teamed up and played a first beach volleyball tournament when she was nine…

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    “Hey, can you pass me the popcorn?” Katherine asked “Sure! Haven’t you had enough though Kat?” I replied jokingly. Kat was my nickname for her. My nickname was ______. “Nope!” Kat replied grinning like a clown. I passed her the popcorn and replied with a smile, “Alright, suit yourself.” We had been in my large basement the whole day binge watching television shows and movies on Netflix. Kat and I made a drawer in one of my closets filled with junk food and sweets back in middle school. It…

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    nice to me and since I was new to the school, she made me feel like I wasn 't alone and had someone to talk to. We would play volleyball a lot and play her x-box whenever I went over to her house after school. She was kind of tall and slim, so when we played volleyball, she would normally beat me very bad because she was in better shape than I was. Behind that sweet volleyball player was a really shy girl who never would say or do anything to hurt my feelings. She would laugh all the time. But…

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    My finest moment in Sexual Politics was when we analyzed the lyrics of songs because they are words I heard daily and hadn’t given thought to. In class I participated often that day because lyrics are so open to interpretation that I was less concerned about saying the wrong thing, and more concerned about finding messages that went unnoticed by others. In history last year my finest moment was during the simulation of the Berlin Conference. Even though in the end our group went off track, like…

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