Persuasive Speech Outline Dance is a Sport! I. Introduction: a) Attention Getter: What is the definition of a sport? A game played with a ball? Is it people in tight pants running around? How about “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature”? That sounds more like it. Football‚ baseball‚ and track fit those definitions‚ but so does another recreational activity that is not typically considered a sport: dance. b) Personal Statement: I myself
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Drugs in Sport The use of drugs in sports goes back a long-long time‚ in fact back to the original Olympics held from 776 to 393 BC. Old texts suggest that humans were always trying to find ways to do more work with less effort (work hard but suffer less). This caused them to find‚ invent & use drugs or supplements. Thus people began using drugs & performance enhancers. Doping is the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport‚ it is illegal‚ but the use of drugs completely isn’t. That
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and became popular‚ it soon spread over most of Europe. The Renaissance started in 1350‚ and ended in 1650. The topic I chose was sports. Sports in the renaissance were hard and rough‚ and even deadly in some sports. The ancient Greek Olympic Games created wrestling. Wrestling made it’s Olympic start in the Games of 708 B.C. It was a much more violent‚ punishing sport in the early days‚ when it had closer ties to military training. Wrestling spread through the Roman world‚ and became popular in the
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Recently one sport has been very controversial on whether it is considered a sport or not. This sport would be cheerleading. A sport is defined by an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Cheerleading meets these requirements so it is a sport. One sport very similar to cheer is gymnastics. Gymnastics consist of performing on uneven bars‚ balance beam‚ floor‚ and vaulting horse. Gymnastics and cheer both
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Violence in Sports Brian Thompson American Military University SPMT601 Pamela J. Wojnar Abstract Sports and violence are complimentary to one another. In some sports‚ violence is merely a byproduct of the competition. In other sports violence is expected. Certain sports require a predisposition toward violence to be successful while others encourage an over-conformity to the norm with regard to violence. The more violent the athlete plays‚ the better for him and his team. Violent behavior
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involved in sports during their busy academic life? I believe so‚ there are three major benefits that i believe are the most important reason to start a sport: They are Health‚ helps build good values‚ and are just all in all fun. I encourage students to take up sports. Even though I’m a student myself and i know how busy we get from homework and test‚ but sports can help relieve stress and make school more fun. A report from the United Nations Inter-Agency Task force on sports for Development
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Sport is so much a part of daily life for so many Australians. An Australian child is brought up to idolise their sporting heroes and to pursue the sport itself. It is devastating to think that maybe our sporting heroes are cheats. Today students are being pressured to perform at higher levels to make the first team‚ representative side or a sporting scholarship at a Greater Public Schools (GPS) which then could lead to the opportunity to make a break into the professional sporting teams. With the
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| |Physical Education (HKDSE) | | |Part VI: Sports Injuries‚ Treatment and Precautions | |[pic] | |
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Sports and Games are essential for many reasons.They not only help us to maintain good health but also foster friendship and goodbehaviour.Many people think that the aim of sports and games is to win gold medals in olympic games.That is not at all important.what is important is that every boy and every girl in our country should be interested in sports and games.Being interested in games does not mean merely watching other people play games.They should devote at least an hour a day to sports and
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Personal Statement My passion in sports has driven me to apply for the programme of Sports Science and Physical Education offered by Your University. As both a basketball player and coach‚ sports have been an integral part of my life. Sports Science encompasses a wide range of studies‚ including physiology‚ psychology‚ anatomy‚ biomechanics and biochemistry. Acquiring the above knowledge may equip one to become a sports researcher who can help enhance a player’s performance through reducing the
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