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It is to me understanding that each and every NFL football player is taught everyday to play hard and hit hard. NFL players know that they are taking a massive risk of getting injured every time they step a foot on a football field, whether it be for a game or just practice. If you have the football in your possession, you should be able to take a hit anywhere on your body, even if it is on your helmet. There is no point in time where a line should be drawn. If a player makes helmet-to-helmet contact unintentionally, he should not be fined as much as if it were intentional.

Bone crushing forces are delivered to football players of all ages and sizes. According to ESPN, the average Pop Warner football player will experience 107 collisions per season in games, with some collisions being upwards of 80 G's, or the same forces that college football players experience. For comparison, NASA astronauts only experience six to eight G’s of force when they leave earth’s atmosphere, yet people still think it’s okay to let kids as young as 8 experience forces up to ten times what astronauts experience. According to Livestrong, which is a foundation that promotes an active and healthy lifestyle, it says that because of the constant forces being applied to players’ joints and ligaments that they are very susceptible to torn ligaments, and pulled muscles. These injuries can develop into severe arthritis and joint pain later in life if the players endure enough trauma. Ricky Watters-a former NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers-gave his football testimony recently, he said, “I’ve suffered five concussions, tore two ligaments in my knee, I have five pins in my left foot and a metal envelope encasing my femur, I also suffered a cracked sternum and have failing kidneys at the age of 43. I’ve played when I know I shouldn’t have, but now I suffer pain from head to toe every day of my life.” Now parents, the decision is up to you, do you want your kids suffering the same way as Ricky

The NFL has established a strong set of rules through the years focused on player safety, designed to promote fair competition while attempting to minimize risk of harm to the player. While many of these rules have focused on reducing contact to the

First, players of the NFL and NCAA or of any football league should know that playing football has a high risk for them to have head contact. If players want the rules to change they can quit. This is because you can take the fundamentals out of the game, there is a lot of hitting, that's just going to make the game boring they need contact. Also, players did not sign up to die. They do football for its value and that they like the sport the commissioners and every top rank of NFL cant listen to every complaint that players make. This is bad because there too many rules to follow and the refs would have to pretty much call a penalty every play, the refs don't want to change the

We as a state have a problem Mississippi is the state full of the most obese people in the country. It is recorded that 35.1% of the people living in Mississippi are overweight, that being said we have to make a change to our state in some way. I don’t entirely blame the people of Mississippi for being overweight; I think our state is to blame to. It is not our fault there is not much to do; the state needs to find more activities for kids and adults. I think that is why people in other states are not as obese as the people in Mississippi.

By most standards, that’s a rather quick recovery from a concussion. By cruel fate, I was assigned to block a 6’2”, 200lb defensive end on kickoff return. I might weigh 160 after a large meal. But did I didn’t cower in fear. Rather, I learned to play smarter. If I need to block a person bigger than me, I’ll take out his legs. If I need to get past someone bigger than me, I’ll fake one direction and juke past him the other way. There’s no reason for me to play against my own strengths. By the time you read this, my final season will be over, my pads put away for the last time. I wasted a fifth of my senior season because of that concussion. I watched as the team floundered, and I could do nothing to change that. From that sense of helplessness, I learned not only how much I cared about the team but also how important it is for me to play smart and keep everything that I can control under control. Once I collide with a person, who knows if I’m going to get injured. However, it is under my control if that collision happens and how it

Players of the modernized Nation Football League are tremendously bigger, faster, and stronger than they once were. Taken from the Current Events of the Weekly Reader Corporation, the article “Hit Men” explains, “one reason concussions are becoming more severe and frequent in the NFL is that the average size of the players is increasing.” The physical expectation set by the NFL constantly pushes these athletes to achieve their most preeminent physical state. Although this “survival of the fittest” notion may sound encouraging, the result is seen in the amount of concussion numbers increasing over the years. However, this necessity to greater themselves can be seen on both sides of the argument. Jeb Golinkin, the author of “Why Parents Should Let Their Kids Play Dangerous Sports” acknowledges how “between the lines, our children learn the importance of teamwork, sportsmanship, toughness, and competitiveness”(11). The qualities attained through contact sports are essential in order to make it in todays working world, not to mention how valuable they are in managing interpersonal relationships. With that being said the argument could be made that these life skills could be learned elsewhere. Sports like baseball and volleyball both offer the opportunity to learn these qualities and many other skills, without the same risks football imposes on its players. Overall, although football

“The overall injury rate in NCAA football is 8.1 injuries per 1,000 athlete exposures. There were more than 41,000 injuries and 25 million athlete exposures.” There are more than twice the injuries in football than there are in basketball. This will continue to rise if the NFL, NCAA, and all schools around the world don’t take initiative to protect their players. Many people believe that football should be readjusted to where injuries are no more. However, injuries will happen no matter how protected the player is, which is why some people want the sport to be banned for good. In the article “The 5 most dangerous sports for boys”, Lauren Shanley states, “It’s estimated that every year, doctors treat 389,000 musculoskeletal injuries in players ages five to

Barrie Davenport once stated, “Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered--just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.” The movie Queen of Katwe, is directed by Mira Nair. Queen of Katwe was released September 30, 2016 by Disney, the movie was based off the book Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers. The actors include, Phiona Mutesi played by Madian Nalwanga, Robert Katende played by David Oyelowo, Nakku Harriet played by Lupita Nyong’o, and Taryn ‘Kay’ Kyaze “Night” played by herself.

Players in the National Football League (NFL) are currently bigger than ever in NFL history; coming in at 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds, Cam Newton is bigger than most offensive linemen in the 1960s. (Gaines, 2015) Now imagine that hitting you at an average of 4.56 feet-per-second on a 40-yard dash – that’s roughly 1600 pounds of tackling force connecting with player’s bodies and leading to severe concussions. (Higgins, 2009) These concussions lead to blackouts on the field, mental confusion/disorientation, and debilitating long-term effects such as daily migraines, memory loss, and nausea. (Cerebrum Health Centers, 2013)

Our world we live in have so many of athletes. Have we ever thought about the life threatening injuries they go through? There should be a rule in football to stop head contact on the field to limit concussion rate and for safety/health purposes. There should be no physical head contact in the game.

The comparison of Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne’s reactions in the face of judgment shows that Hester possesses the courage and mental stamina which is the shortfall of Dimmesdale. It is clear though that while she resides in the community she is “subjected to a social ostracism so relentless as to amount to an emotional exile” (Bronstein 204). She wears the letter of her sin, yet she is not a character who withdraws into herself to avoid the stares of her fellow citizens. When she appears at the prison door, Hawthorne describes her as “ladylike, too, . . . characterized by a certain state and dignity” (50). This scene paves the way for Hester’s character to emerge as a direct contradiction to Dimmesdale’s character. While her demeanor

Playing football is not like playing other sports. Athletes in all kinds of sports risk injuring themselves, but in football, a lot of the risk comes from other athletes. While there are many ways to be injured playing football, one of the worst is head-to-head targeting. This has been a problem in football since the beginning of the game, especially, when equipment was not very protective. Over the past eight years, the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) has implemented rules and penalties specifically designed to protect players and to hopefully reduce the number of bad head injuries (Marshall). The NCAA is doing the right thing by protecting players from severe injury by calling and enforcing targeting penalties.

Never sugar coat things, when it comes to confronting topics like this one people try and make it sound a lot less serious than it is. They tell you that it happens, but may not give you all the details and leave the most important parts of the story out. They want to make you feel like it happens to everyone but you but the fact is it might not. It would be better to learn about drugs and addition through real life stories and really see what people go through and how they overcame that or how they didn't because the truth is not everyone overcomes it and we need to be taught that because it lets us see how bad people can become from drug addiction. Another way would be to tell them what some of the side effects are that happen to your body

Many things were talked about in chapter one, but the specific thing i would like to talk about is world war one. I believe this war didn't solve much because it didn't really resolve what it started for. The war did little to resolve the political and military tensions that were going on in Europe. Many lives were lost and a lot of money was spent but not much was accomplished in this war. This war was about communism vs capitalism and capitalism claimed to win the war but nothing truly came out of it. A few years later after the war the worst time period in history started, the great depression. This was caused from all the wars debts and problems that world war one caused. One quarter of the united states was unemployed. This brought