309 words short essay on the Importance of Sports and Games by Shekar Kumar Sports and games are very important for us. They keep us healthy and fit. They offer us a change from the monotony of daily life. It is a useful means of entertainment and physical activity. Sports and games help in character building. They give us energy and strength. Sports and games are means of mental and physical growth. During sports we come to learn many things. We learn how to maintain mental balance in the
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Why might athlethes take drugs? Athletes may take drugs to give them factors that will increase the liklihood of winning their event. For example weightlifters need a lot of muscle and need to be strong so use anabolic steriods to build up their muscle mass How do sports events monitor drug use? The sports authorities keep producing new tests for drugs. Sometimes they run random drug tests to try and identify people using them. Find an example of a athlete disqualified for drug use? Marion Jones
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Is texting Ruining the English Language. [Youth Radio]. Available from: http://www.youthradio.org/news/is-texing-ruining-english-language [accessed 4 June 2010] Author‚ A. N.‚ untitled. [accessed 7 June 2010]. Christopher Dawson
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I have played sports my whole life since I was just a young kid. Sports have taught me so much in life and have really helped to make me a better person. Sports are a very good opportunity for kids to meet new people and have lifelong best friends. They teach you so many things in life and it has shown in my life especially. Some might think of children playing sports as dangerous and unsafe‚ but playing can teach kids so many life lessons like being a leader on the team or a leader in anything in
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Why is performance appraisal important? Performance appraisal is a formal system of measuring‚ evaluating and influencing an employee on job related issues‚ behavior and outcome. The objective of a performance appraisal is to determine an employee’s productivity and to determine if his/her productivity can be improved. From the employee’s perspective‚ it is a time when they are informed if they are performing well or not and what corrective action needs to be undertaken and if they have achieved
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Fifty years ago people wrote letters or used corded telephones to communicate. People in society today can have a conversation by typing on a small cell phone screen. As stated in an article written by Haley Toadvine titled “Are Cell Phones Ruining Our Social Skills?‚” “ In 2002 only 10% of the world’s population used cell phones and by 2005 that number had risen to 46% (Pierce).” Cell phone use has become increasingly more common‚ while physical conversation is disappearing. Today when social situations
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when they hear the phrase “Is cheerleading even a sport?” I personally have been a cheerleader for fourteen years and the sport is like any other. Every team must come together to perform athletic skills such as jumps‚ dances and chants to gain a response from spectators at a competition or school event. Cheerleaders all over the world want to get the same respect like any other sport because it meets all qualifications to call it an official sport. Cheerleading jumps range from simple‚ quick jumps
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Sports: Strength‚ Success‚ and Then There’s Steroids Imagine your favorite athlete winning gold in the Olympics. Doesn’t that make you proud? Well‚ now what if you found out that he/she cheated by using steroids. What a horrible way to win! Steroids is ruining the fun and pride in all sports. I personally believe that steroids are just abolishing all athletes hard work. Cheaters should never win‚ but many can get away with cheating by using steroids or performance enhancing drugs.First of all‚
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Barbies have been becoming skinnier with bigger boobs and waists while the G.I. Joe dolls have been becoming more and more muscular. Children that play with these dolls are getting unrealistic body images that they want to obtain. In the article “Drugs‚ Sports‚ Body Image and G.I. Joe” written by Natalie Angier‚ she states how these dolls are influencing young people to go to unhealthy extremes to achieve this unrealistic body. Because children play with toys that have unrealistic body images‚ kids go
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Kenneth Jenkins Drug overdose was responsible for 38‚329 deaths in the US in 2010. US overdose deaths have increase the past 11 years. In 2010 is the third year in a row the number of US citizens whose deaths were related exceeded the number of fatalities in road traffic accidents. Over the last decade opioids analgesic overdoses have claimed over 125‚000 lives. The definition of an overdose is the accidental or intentional use of a drug or medicine in an amount that is higher than normally
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