To describe myself in three adjectives‚ one of the words would have to be that Im ambitious. To be ambitious is to be eager and greatly desirous. For example‚ I play on an ice hockey team and lots‚ if not all‚ are all skating drills where its really tiring‚ but yet‚ the day before practices‚ I am always excited and eager to play the next day‚ where I no that many other players hate going to practices. Another example would be that I make many goals that I always try my best to achieve which most
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Significant Experience "Fight on‚ push till you have nothing left‚ never give up even when you are an inch away from defeat." These are the words of my hockey coach before our championship game‚ which would make or break our season. This was the first year our team has ever made it to the final game‚ and we were prepared to give it our all out on the ice. For this would be our teams last game together before we all went our separate ways in high school. We gathered in the locker room before the game
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The stories of player perseverance against seemingly insurmountable odds are the anomaly in sports as opposed to the norm. Most players who make it to professional hockey have skated since they were kids. It is especially rare to see a player who was cut not once‚ but twice from his high school hockey team gain an opportunity for an NHL career. Adam Carlson is one of those anomalies. Not Good Enough Carlson wasn’t skilled enough to even make the junior varsity team his sophomore year at Edina
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the United States. In locations such as lake placid Ny and the USA hockey development center. The movie is a true story. The movie starts out with a collage of current events in 1980 such as a heighten of gas prices‚ the space race and also the Cold War. The U.S. Economy was struggling. The lose of hope was predominant. The Soviet Union was a world power house. That’s where Herb Brooks changes that. He applied to coach the USA hockey team that would be going to the Olympics along with many other coaches
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chance occurrence but an iron law of Canadian hockey: “in any elite group of hockey players—the very best of the best—40 percent of the players will have been born between January and March‚ 30 percent between April and June‚ 20 percent between July and September‚ and 10 percent between October and December" (Chapter 1‚ p. 22). Galdwell’s opinion is to a certain degree a surprise; I am familiar with this happening within the education system but in hockey younger or older never crossed my mind. The
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because the Canadian’s new that hockey was their game and that they were better than the Russian’s even thought the Russian team was apparently unbeatable. Pierre Trudeau the president at the time used the summit series to claim the majority vote once again in the upcoming election. The summit series also proved that democracy could prevail over communism. This was proven after the Canadians were able to beat the super power Russians to win the summit series and claim hockey as Canada’s national sport
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Canadians are the people who are identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential‚ legal‚ historical‚ and/or cultural. Canadian Government policies – such as publicly funded health care; Every canadians are having their own care card‚ they dont need to worry about spend lots of their saving money on their health. Their health care are covered by the taxes. That is why Canadians are need to pay higher and more progressive taxation. Canadian government
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against the San Diego Chargers‚ and they ending up winning 35-24 with 35 unanswered points. Many basketball games come down to the wire during March madness and many teams win by hitting buzzer beaters. For the USA hockey team‚ this miracle happened to swing their way. This special hockey team hit the biggest lottery numbers possible and took it home for the country. The best sports teams always seem to have very good coaches‚ and Herb Brooks is another prime example of a good coach. It’s easy to
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tolerance. In the US‚ the most popular is football. In Canada‚ it’s hockey. In Mexico‚ it’s soccer. In all of Central America except for Cuba and Puerto Rico‚ it’s soccer since in those Cuba and Puerto Rico the favorite is baseball. In all of South America‚ it’s soccer. In all of Africa it’s soccer. In all of Europe it’s soccer except for some icy countries like Finland where they can’t play soccer so it’s snowboarding and hockey. In most of the Middle East‚ it’s soccer. In India‚ which has about
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is only promoting this as a value‚ instead of an issue. Another battle that this bloody sport is fighting is for its own legitimacy. There are plenty of other sports that have some fighting‚ but no one questions the legitimacy of sports such as ice-hockey‚ in which there is a fight at least once a game‚ or football (Frisht n. pag.). MMA is also a relatively new and has also taken a large step from where it started‚ having been illegal in all 50 states shortly after its institutionalization (Ramirez
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