First‚ I would like to discuss the fact that concussions are a well-known enough concern that allows people to make decisions on weather taking part in the game of football is worth the risk. In an article written in 2011 on ESPN.com‚ former Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew commented on whether he would play through a concussion or take himself out of the game. Jones-Drew responded by saying he would hide the concussion: “The bottom line is: You have to be able to put food on
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theirs. Football has a lot of health risks. My mom says that if I get three concussions that I can’t play anymore but football injuries aren’t just concussions . Broken backs or Brocken necks could be a result in being paralyzed and they may never be able to walk again ‚ Health injuries occur during practice and games . Common injuries include strains‚ sprains‚ fractures‚ dislocations‚ and concussions . Concussions have become a concern‚ as they increase the risk of mental illnesses like dementia
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bruise or scrape‚one hundred sixty four thousand concussion‚thirty three thousand is a dislocation”(USA today).If you educate people/kids about injuries and what happens more and more people would most likely try to stop getting injured or getting other people injured.The first way to prevent
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Pros for Sports Many sports can cause concussions‚ which can be changed by getting better equipment and adding other sports that won’t be as dangerous. Even though the sports are dangerous getting better equipment can help make the sports less dangerous. If the better equipment would too expensive than adding other sports could be a different alternative. There are lots of sports that people play that aren’t available at Monticello trails ‚ including soccer‚ baseball‚ tennis‚ etc. Many of the sports
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Will more stringent gun control laws create less crime? Will stiffer gun control keep known criminals from committing their awful acts? Gun Control is law designed to impose legal measures to license‚ control‚ or restrict the ownership of firearms by members of the public. That means the government’s only responsibility is and should be to determine which citizens are able to get a permit to own and carry a firearm. They should do background checks for any mental illnesses‚ past criminal activity
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Nowadays‚ Technology has been an important knowledge of tools and crafts used to help people in many different life aspects in order to generate effiency and optimize time‚ money and any kind of resource. In many societies‚ technology has helped develop more advanced economies and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. But at the same time many technological processes produce unwanted by products‚ known as pollution‚ and deplete natural resources‚ to the detriment of the Earth and its environment
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The Concussion Crisis The NFL (National football league)‚ a standout amongst the most watched games on the planet and is famous for the aggressiveness of the game. This sport is played by two groups of 11 players each on a rectangular‚ 100-yard-long field with objective lines and goal posts at either end‚ the objective being to pick up ownership of a ball and propel it in running or passing plays over the rival’s objective line or kick it through the air between the adversary’s goalposts. Despite
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you run up the field for a huge gain. The safety is there to meet you with a vicious helmet to helmet hit. You wake up on a stretcher being carried to the locker room. The crowd giving you a standing ovation. You most likely have suffered a concussion. Concussions are becoming more and more serious as today’s athletes are becoming bigger‚ faster‚ and stronger. Rules are being changed every year to try and make it safer. But is it really safe? I am going to tell you my opinion on player safety. I have
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Concussion’s are the most serious injury in sports. Weider stated‚ “Brain injuries cause more deaths than any other sports injury” (42). Do we really know the truth about concussions and the effect they have on the brain? First‚ we must understand what concussions are and the dangers that they posses. From the latest data gathered a concussion‚ “is an altered mental status with a brief alteration in the level of consciousness following blunt head trauma after following up to four hours of head trauma‚ any
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is a rule in the books that a referee can throw somebody out of the game ( for illegal hits)” (“How will NFL improve concussions over the next 50 years”).However there has been a decrease in those hits.Now the refs have to make those judgement calls. “ Now I’ve been watching football my whole life‚ I’ve never seen someone thrown out of the game” (“How will NFL improve concussions over the next 50 years”). However‚ referees play a key part in keeping the game safe. Since technology is always getting
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