Many people want to know if we control our destiny‚ or if our fate is predetermined. The authors David Epstein‚ author of The Sports Gene‚ and Malcolm Gladwell‚ Author of Outliers: The Story of Success‚ have different positions on the subject. The excerpt from The Sports Gene is about the athlete Donald Thomas who was gifted with genes that allow him to do well in high-jump. The excerpt from Outliers: The Story of Success is about research done to determine what difference practice makes in people’s
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Where does talent come from? Is it forged in the sweat and tears of hard work or in our natural born abilities? This has been debated for a very long time now and many authors have given their point of view on the situation. In The Sports Gene‚ a non-fiction text by David Epstein tells that talent comes from innate abilities and these abilities allow for little training to be needed to be successful. He talks about how our biological image can carry us to success. In Outliers: The Story of Success
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the movie “Bend it like Beckham” -------From the perspective of Cross-cultural communication 专业：英语语言文学 姓名：胡金庆 学号：201120327 日期：2011年10月11日 A feedback on the movie “Bend it like Beckham” -------From the perspective of Cross-cultural communication Abstract： Based on the English movie “Bend It like Beckham”‚ this paper is going
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Literature review of economic impact of large sports event Introduction Over recent years‚ there have significantly controversial discussions about the economic impact that large sporting events bring to the host city and country. This literature review mainly draws attention on four aspects: tourism boosting & expenditure of tourist‚ employment‚ price and living cost‚ reconstruction and investment. It is argued in each item about the extent of the economic impact works and the process they worked
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film Bend It Like Beckham (Directed by Gurinda Chadha) was the act of challenging ‘gender stereotypes’. I found the presentation of conflicting typical gender requirements especially important because this taught me that expectations are not always meant to be met‚ and that sometimes going against them gives you the opportunity to become the person you would like to be‚ and not what others want you to. The demonstration of challenging gender stereotypes in Bend It Like Beckham played a vital role
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In chapter two of the book‚ The Sports Gene‚ the author David Epstein compares and contrasts two high jumpers that have achieved their greatness in very different ways. Donald Thomas is a basketball player who happened to be in the right place at the right time when a fellow high jumper challenged him to clearing a high jump‚ which he surprisingly did with ease. The other jumper; Stefan Holm‚ was a trained professional who had won the previous championships. These two athletes could not be anymore
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Jackie Robinson’s Impact on American Sports Jack Roosevelt Robinson (Jackie) was born on January 31‚ 1919 in Cairo‚ Georgia and died on October 24‚ 1972 in Stamford‚ Connecticut. Jackie Robinson is best known for being the first African American baseball player of the modern era‚ by breaking the color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Robinson’s debut for the Dodgers in 1947 came a year before President Harry Truman desegregated the military and seven years before the Supreme
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High Impact We all need to help people who are playing a high impact sport and people that have played a high impact sport and have been injured because of the impact. The high impact injuries need to be prevented because if they don’t more and more people will suffer from concussions‚ permanent brain damage‚ and different thoughts and emotions then they had before the injuries. The amount of injuries caused by high impact sports in much more than others. “I don’t think my life will ever be the same”
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It is decidedly impossible to hold a serious discussion about sports without bringing up politics; the two subjects are permanently intertwined. In fact‚ the major political events of the 1900s had a profound effect on sporting events across the world. Sports played a multitude of roles during this time period‚ from being used as war propaganda to a tool of political manipulation to a symbol of freedom. From World War I to World War II‚ global conflicts dramatically increased the politicization of
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The Depopulation of Native Americans (Colin Calloway v. David S. Jones) Issue #2 Karen Lee @01234920 History 170 Professor Seiling M/W-9:05 A.M. March 4‚ 2015 Was disease a key factor in the depopulation of Native Americans in the Americas? In “Taking Sides‚” issue 2‚ Colin G. Calloway argues that key factor of the depopulation was through the epidemic diseases contact from Europeans. In contrast‚ David S. Jones controvert that there were other factors at work that explains the drastic loss
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