High School Sports: An Unhealthy Alternative to a Fit Life According to the Center of Diseases Control and Prevention‚ the American people should exercise for at least thirty minutes a day. Most adolescents obtain that physical activity by participating in high school athletics; on average‚ 73.8 percent of high school students compete in such events (Ball‚ Bice‚ and Parry). These activities are not always the best practices for physical fitness; fitness can be obtained in other‚ safer forms
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if the benefits of participating in competitive youth sports‚ is worth all the time‚ energy‚ and risk of injury. Although there are many arguments and opinions on whether the benefits of participating in competitive youth sports are worth all the time‚ energy‚ and risk of injury‚ there is great support to why participating in competitive youth sports is worth all the time‚ energy‚ and risk of injury. They serve many purposes to the kids who choose to participate in youth sports. Most kids make friends
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Text’s Organization Learning Objectives Having read the chapter‚ you should be able to do each of the following: 1. Describe the importance of political thinking in a democracy and the current barriers to political thinking among the public. 2. Describe the discipline of political science and how it can contribute to political thinking.
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in high school athletics. Kids constantly go from school to school under the radar just to be on the best sports teams but is that really fair? Is it fair that 85% of high school athletes do drugs but don’t get tested and are treated like kings of the campus if they’re talented enough. This is what I want to personally fix‚ in my mind this would pay dividends in stopping kids from doing drugs in the first place. First off athletes are all about sports they eat‚ live‚ and breath sports they will
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Sport Should Be Compulsory At School Imagine a school without sport‚ just school work the whole day‚ every week‚ every month and every year. How boring would that be and how will the students look? They would be obese‚ unhealthy and they tend to get weary and bored of school routine‚ and studies become a drag.Now‚ what will happen if sport was compulsory at every school? If sport was compulsory at every school‚ students would be healthy‚ active and have more concentration at school. They wouldn’t
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bit about concussions. I knew concussions happened in sports‚ but I didn’t know there was this many that happened in school sports. The article had said‚ “ In the study‚ 755 schools reported 4‚452 in the 2015-2016 school year.”(Associated press) I found out on average that’s six people for everyone of those 755 schools. The connection I made to an article and my life is our 6’9” center on the basketball team had been kneed in the head at one of the basketball games and received a concussion. He ended
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Can you imagine school without sports? No more games to go to‚ no more pep rallies. People are now beginning to wonder if sports should stay or go. I believe sports are very important for schools. Sports keep students active. It gives them something to do rather than to sit on the couch. Aside from keeping students active‚ it gives them an incentive to behave in class and get good grades. Even though you’re learning to be an athlete‚ you are learning other lifestyle skills along with it. Would you
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Housman’s emotional poem‚ “To an Athlete Dying Young‚” appears to present a solemn farewell to any young athlete who dies young in the modern age. The speaker seems to be giving his last goodbye to the town athlete whether they are the star or the benchwarmer of the team it allows the reader to feel more attached to this character that the speaker is painting. Housman carefully crafts a depressing yet loving final goodbye to all the athletes or stars of the world that die young‚ and then shows briefly how
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leagues. Athletes taking performance enhancing drugs is cheating. Athletes taking PEDs is like using your phone on a test to look up the answers. Sports enhancing drugs not only cause an unbalanced field of play‚ but also has caused health issues for many athletics in a variety of sports. Just the thought of enhancing drugs helping athletes gain an edge on others sounds like a requirement. Most athletes go to the gym and work hard to improve their game. What people like to say “so called” athletes who
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Would you be okay with your child being involved in this??? It was the big championship youth football game in Corpus Christi‚ Texas‚ and the 5- and 6-year-old athletes were playing with all their hearts. With 10 seconds left on the clock‚ a coach charged the field and tackled a referee‚ knocking him unconscious and sparking a raucous brawl. Some parents jumped in to protect their kids‚ others to protect adults at the bottom of the pile. It happens in an instant. The intensity of the situation
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