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    The Multi-sport Athlete: A Dying Breed Ever since the first competition of throwing a spear‚ contests have determined who is stronger‚ faster‚ and smarter in a specific skill. The competitors‚ now better known as athletes‚ are beginning to specialize in a specific type of competition. Growing up‚ young athletes participate in a variety of sports‚ but they often specialize in one before even entering high school. There are numerous exceptions of athletes playing multiple sports

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    Young Female Athletes

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    Young people today are surrounded by cameras‚ social networking apps‚ and images that tell them how to look and behave. The world of competitive sports adds significantly to the already existing pressures of today’s society. Unfortunately‚ female athletes often succumb to these pressures and take drastic measures to supposedly look and perform their best. Young people need to know that they dont need to alter themselves to be the best. Action needs to be taken to put young female athletes on the

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    effectively shown through ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ through the ironic old world view of the glory of serving one’s country and ‘Anthem of Doomed Youth’ which focuses on the tragedy of the lack of recognition given to those that die on the battlefield. Wilfred Owen’s own experience allows him to describe the true and horrific nature of war through a range of effective poetic devices which resonate with responders‚ such as figurative language‚ imagery and structure. Additionally‚ Wilfred Owen explores

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    Youth is wasted on the young My dad often keeps repeating‚ “If the young knew [how life works]‚ if the old could do [something in the world‚ given their experience on how life works]”. This clearly states how commonly youth is defined: a transitory period of human beings’ life. This is half of the truth. Considering youth as an unrepeatable stage between childhood and adulthood is equivalent to say that there is a golden part of our life followed by a much longer one characterized by the daily

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    reward youth athletes who earn their trophies? Participation trophies the easy way out. Participation trophies not only harm youth athletes‚ nut are a waste of money in youth organizations. Giving participation trophies decreases motivation. It is ok to give participation awards to 6-8 year old’s‚ but not to older youth athletes. Participation trophies should not be given because it teaches kids that you can get an award for just showing up. According to the "Trophies for All" youth athletes are being

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    Youth and Young People

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    its intelligent students‚ engineers‚ scholars etc. In India‚ Youth is not useless rather Youth is used less For any country for it to be a developed country‚ youth’s involment is compulsory. Youth are the best resources available. If they are used in the correct way‚ then development is achieved very fastly... RESPONSES: important role of youth of India in Indian Economy is their fast moment according to the condition of market. Youth can take risk and can activate the different activities of money

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    Poetics

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    ticsTHE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE A TRANSLATION BY S. H. BUTCHER A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE trans. S. H. Butcher is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file‚ for any purpose‚ and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis‚ Faculty Editor‚ nor anyone associated

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    Today youth athletes are playing more team sports lately‚ people find that there are benefits of playing team sports. Now a days youth athletes are getting participation trophy for the hard working and the ones that only kick the ball once. there are parents that even get in the way to share on the internet‚ but I can say that participation trophies are not that bad.Propenets of participation awards stared that it was worth a few bucks to give youth athletes a smile.

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    The Doomed Rafts

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    It is a painting which the eye can easily divide into smaller and ever smaller units‚ each one of which requires – perhaps even seems to demand – feverish attention from the onlooker‚ quite as feverish as the terrible ocean‚ which is buffeting the doomed raft itself. • It is a painting of tumultuous bodies‚ reaching out‚ turning‚ twisting‚ and contorting‚ much seemingly in desperate conflict with each other‚ which coheres as if by some miracle. • There is so much of it‚ and it engulfs the eye

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    Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ are both poems that protest against and depict the subject of war. They both follow Wilfred Owen’s angst against those who encourage war and the savagery of warfare that he experienced himself. His poetry was devised to strike at the conscience of England during the World War. Owen’s mother had encouraged him to write poetry from an early age and when he was old enough he travelled to France to teach English when the war broke

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