Tennis and my passion for this sport Tennis is a game of skill and talent. One needs to be adroit to play this sport professionally. People don’t play sport because it is fun. Ask an athlete‚ most of us hate training. We play the sport because we can’t imagine our life without it. It is a part of us‚ the love/ hate relationship. It is what we live for. We live for the practices‚ the travel‚ the countless pair of different types of shoes and the appreciation of our coaches. We live for the way
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story of one of the best tennis players of his era. Although Andre was a tennis legend himself‚ he surprisingly never enjoyed it. Before Andre was born‚ his dad had decided that he was going to be a professional tennis player. Andre was forced to play for hours and hours everyday. When Andre was eighteen years old‚ he officially became a professional tennis player. This book was very well written because Andre shares so many details regarding his life‚ is able to define tennis in so many ways‚ and any
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Table Tennis Table tennis‚ also known as ping-pong‚ is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight‚ hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve‚ players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side. Points are scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Play is fast and demands quick
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Chapters IIV - THE PRINCE Summary Chapter I: The Kinds of Principalities and the Means by Which They Are Acquired Machiavelli describes the different kinds of states‚ arguing that all states are either republics or principalities. Principalities can be divided into hereditary principalities and new principalities. New principalities are either completely new or new appendages to existing states. By fortune or strength‚ a prince can acquire a new principality with his own army or with the arms
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"The state is the highest achievement of man‚ a progressive and elaborate creation of his free will. The individual‚ the leader‚ the people‚ cooperate in maintaining it." This idea of state was put forth by Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince‚ which was in essence a ruler’s handbook to governing and maintaining his land. Machiavelli conjured his theories for government by basing his ideas in his belief that men‚ especially men in power‚ tend to follow the same directions‚ and therefore by looking
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Is a just person the best choice for a ruler; many philosophers have laid out different ways in which they believe a society should be ran whether it be a single ruler such as a prince or multiple rulers like philosophy kings. Machiavelli intended for a society/principality to be ruled a strong ruler whether he be just or unjust‚ moral or immoral; whereas Plato believed for a society to work a just ruler such as the philosopher kings along with its other social counterparts was the perfect society
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today. All those years I was searching for my true passion until one day‚ I found it. My mom handed me a racquet and I was set to follow my dreams. The first time I remember playing tennis was a simple Quick-Start tennis program. I was 6 years old and had decided to go with my friend Ryan Burns. All of the tennis coaches saw how much potential I had.
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Tennis is a popular sport being played all over the world. Starting from the late 19th century‚ when the first Wimbledon Championship was introduced‚ not only did the sport gain popularity in terms of the number of players‚ the number of spectators have also increased significantly. The growing enthusiasm in tennis serves as a motivation for it to be constantly improving‚ especially when the sport is being played at a professional level. With regards to this‚ technology has been slowly incorporated
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introducing me to sports a year before that‚ and that summer I was supposed to go to a tennis summer camp. I was scared‚ like most kids are when they start something new‚ but at that time sports were already so familiarized in my brain that I knew I would figure it out and have a fun time doing it. Little did I know that this sport would change my life forever. Coming to the summer camp I had little expectations of what tennis was like‚ I knew a ball had to go over a net to another person‚ but that was about
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Virtue 1: Machiavelli‚ in dedicating the work to Lorenzo de’ Medici‚ reminds the young prince that greatness awaits him because he is endowed with both fortune and admirable qualities. Machiavelli uses the term "virtue" to describe the positive qualities of a prince. In Daniel Donno’s notes‚ he writes that virtue is a word which "implies physical and mental capacity-intelligence‚ skill‚ courage‚ vigor-in short‚ all those personal qualities that are needed for attainment of one’s own ends." (p. 125)
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