History of the Olympics The Olympic Games originated long ago in ancient Greece. Exactly when the Games were first held and what circumstances led to their creation is uncertain. We do know‚ however‚ that the Games were a direct outgrowth of the values and beliefs of Greek society. The Greeks idealized physical fitness and mental discipline‚ and they believed that excellence in those areas honored Zeus‚ the greatest of all their gods. One legend about the origin of the Olympic Games revolves around
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Children should be kept away from media voilence Recently Web and television has been so common that it is in the access of every child. Cartoons‚ movies‚ fairy tales and fiction these all seem really wonderful‚ but if a person knows what they do to the young mind of his/her child‚ then maybe he’ll never let him/her watch or use these things again. As we see around the minds of the children these days are beyond inocence. In the 3 1/2 feet tall boy their is a brain of a 15 year old lad. Children
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I believe I will be a wrestling state champion. I have been wrestling since I was eight years old and I haven’t stopped yet. Since I started wrestling my goal was to be a State champion. Just this past year I came up short and got state runner-up. I lost to a kid from Glendale he was a junior and I was a sophomore. We wrestled two other times before the finals match and he’s always beaten me by 5 or more points. We have become really good friends off the mat but when we are on the mat we are enemies
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Should the Olympics be held in Rio‚ Brazil in 2016? The Olympics being held in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil this year has been questioned and considered a global issue as some common viruses along with several other issues are present at that time. It is essential for the competing Olympians to train‚ eat clean food and stay healthy in order to perform at their highest potential. Viruses such as the Zika virus are currently being transmitted in Brazil through mosquito bites. This is an issue as it poses
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The Olympic Athlete I always have respected Olympic athletes‚ for they spend all their time training. Victorious athletes were professionals in the sense that they lived off the glory of their achievement ever afterwards. Their hometowns might reward them with: free meals for the rest of their lives‚ honorary appointments‚ or leadership positions in the community. The victors were memorialized in statues and also in victory songs‚ and commissioned from famous poets. Today‚ the Olympic Games are
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In 1896‚ the Olympic Games were officially reborn into the modern era thanks to a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin (Lewis‚ 1992). In 1904‚ the Games of the III Olympiad arrived in the United States‚ marking itself as the first Olympics to be held in said country as well as the first hosted outside of Europe. Often forgotten‚ this specific Olympics also signifies the beginning of the horrible luck Chicago‚ Illinois‚ has had regarding the hosting rights. Three years prior‚ the International
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Greek Olympics The Greek Olympics were the building blocks for the modern day Olympics. The Olympics started in 776 B.C. and began to see who the best athlete was in all of the city states of Greece. Even during war time the Athletes were safely able to travel to the Olympics. There are many games that we have in our modern day Olympics that were used in the Ancient Greek Olympics such as Wrestling‚ Boxing‚ Sprint‚ Long jump‚ Boxing . The Olympics were not just about games it was also a religious
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as Tetris or the ever so popular Candy Crush. Nearly everyone participates to some degree of video gaming. Gaming now‚ believe it or not is considered as an actual professional sport. Hell‚ Gaming on a computer could mean earning a medal in the Olympics in the near future! Congrats guys‚ the world is slowly turning into a utopia for dweebies‚ geeks and noobs. Regardless of how you feel about gaming‚ it unfortunately has become a social activity as common as a pick-up game of basketball or a
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Thailand should kept death penalty for certain crime In Thailand‚ capital punishment is allowed in this country. It acceptable to keep death penalty in this nations and there is many reasons why this is so. The discussion in this essay is about “Capital punishment deters crime”‚ “Capital punishment keeps the convicted murderer from killing again”‚ “Capital punishment balances the scale of Justice” and “Society shouldn’t have to pay the economic costs of life sentences for murders”. This essay
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example is seen in Jacob wrestling with God from night till daybreak in Genesis 32:22-32. At the basic levels of wrestling‚ one must learn how to perform a takedown. The takedown requires the application of physics’ principles such as momentum‚ friction‚ gravity‚ and even momentum. Momentum is a vector quantity‚ meaning that it needs a magnitude and direction‚ and this expression is mathematically defined as p=mv. The momentum is equal to the mass times velocity. In wrestling‚ two colliding wrestlers
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