I was sitting in my freshman geometry class‚ talking to some friends about injuries. We were talking about how none of us have ever gotten injured in our entire life. I had been playing sports since I was in the sixth grade‚ and nothing ever happened. In my life I had never broken a bone. I had never even sprained an ankle. I had never worn any kind of brace‚ taped an ankle‚ or talked to a trainer about any muscle issue or pain issue. When kids would lay on the court‚ I always thought they were fine
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Baseball is a sport which involves two teams made up of‚ more or less‚ nine players. A baseball game is played on what we call a baseball field. Baseball is has been called the bat-and-ball game‚ in which a pitcher throws the baseball as fast and hard as he can and the batter tries to make contact with the baseball. Hitting a baseball requires hand-eye coordination. The players in the outfield attempt to catcher the ball before the batter reaches home base. I have played the game of baseball since
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Zach Dedin Dr. Myklebust Going Deep in a Major League Field The year was 2014‚ the date April 15th. On a sunny day in the town of Denver‚ a Colorado kid was about to do something that no other high school student-athlete in the state of Colorado‚ would do that year. Holy Family High School‚ school size approximately six hundred‚ located in Broomfield‚ Colorado‚ has a baseball team that gets to participate in a game at Coors Field against a rival opponent as the only Class 3A team. This year the
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soccer team kind of sad‚ my past captain‚ the person who I had really admired‚ had moved to another team. I did not really feel down though‚ because there were many of my friends that were playing with me this year. The greatest thing I had learned about soccer is “Team Spirit”‚ which I thought my team was full of. Day by day‚ we played together‚ joked in the yard‚ hung out after tired matches‚ I was so happy to have them as teammate. In my city‚ there were many rival teams‚ and they were always trying
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“You can’t eat that‚ it has sugar in it.” “Does that hurt?” “Is that the good or bad type of diabetes?” Listening to ignorant people talk about diabetes has to be the worst part about the disease‚ besides getting strange looks from people as you pull out your insulin and pretend its heroine. From hearing stories about someone’s great grandpa losing a foot due to diabetes and miraculously they’re an expert on the subject‚ or if one blood sugar isn’t in range‚ you’ll lose your liver. You can’t blame
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My body slams into the ground. I get up wipe the dust off my back‚ pop my board into my hand‚ and sprint up the stair set for one more go. Growing up I fit the skateboarder stereotype‚ I was a skater boy who didn’t care about his future. Little did anyone know‚ skating was the one thing that kept me going. I spent most of my days skating after school until dark only to come home to my parents screaming at me to throw my board in the trash. Coming from Bangladesh‚ my parents always wanted me to
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Everyone has something they are strongly passionate about‚ whether it’s music‚ art‚ dancing‚ or learning. But for someone to be passionate about something‚ there has to be a special event that took place in their lifetime‚ something that really moved them and opened their eyes to something real. This particular passion not only impacted myself‚ but also numerous people around me. I had not thought very hard about how much sports has actually impacted my life until a couple years ago‚ when
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The Truth About Prostitution Prostitution. It is a powerful word‚ which‚ with just four syllables‚ breeds uneasiness. I have gone almost my entire life without understanding what lies behind it. We live in a society where pop culture and the media give us strong suggestions as to how we should see the world around us‚ and they have not been kind to the concept of prostitution. Hollywood has shown us that prostitutes are the foul-mouths in fishnets roaming the streets of Memphis in the movie
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People always joke with me about my hair. Jokes about how I could tie blades at the end of my hair and whip it around like some kind of ninja warrior. It’s completely understandable to view two long braids as secret weapons of a trained assassin. I could probably use it as a weapon‚ if I wanted to. It was definitely long enough. Braided‚ my hair was a bit past my waist. “Why do you keep your hair so long?” people always ask me. How many times has my mom asked me this? How many times has she told
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What about me? Seriously‚ does anyone ever read it? I mean‚ was there an incident when someone really liked someone’s portfolio but said: “mmm… what about this about? I don’t think so”. With that in mind‚ I guess if you clicked that button‚ you do expect for something‚ so here’re 10 facts you don’t know about me and I’m not sure you want to know‚ but they are fun: 1. I started writing when I was 4. I had all those ideas in my head and because I didn’t want to forget any of them‚ I asked my mother
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