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    Basketball and Soccer

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    America is a country that loves sports. Two of America's most popular sports are basketball and soccer. Many children participate in the sports every year. Similarities are abundant between the two. Both sports require team work. Also the main purpose of both is to put a ball into a netted goal. However, there are some very important key differences. Soccer is played on a field that is much larger and there is a goalie that constantly defends the goal. While basketball is played on a smaller

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    In pitching, you have two major styles; windmill and slingshot. Both styles have good attributes to them. They both use the same concepts such as leap and drag (Werner, 88) the main difference is in the slingshot method your arm doesn’t go all the way around like in the windmill method. Although both ways are effective pitching styles, the windmill method has been shown in multiple studies to be the more effective way (Tocco, 105). Even though the windmill is the more efficient form, there are some

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    My Experience In Sports

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    Have you been interested in sports? Have you ever had injuries that you had playing that sport? I have been an athlete since I was four years old. I have been in three different sports such as gymnastics, softball and volleyball. With the time and years I have spent with these three sports I have had two major injuries. Gymnastics was the very first sport I have ever done. I was a gymnast for eight years. I started when I was four years old and as I got older I started competitive gymnastics. On

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    Unfortunately, they got an opportunity to bat. I was still in the diversion and I had tossed around one hundred and thirty pitches which is a considerable measure for a pitcher. Traditionally mentors take out their pitchers when they hit the one hundred pitch stamp. I was now ready to ambulate out of the hole and onto the field when Coach halted me. “I'm sad however I need to remove you from the mound. You have pitched an over the top amount of pitches and I don't need you to get hurt ,” he let me know

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    The objective of this project is to design and created a device that can process the output of a guitar pickup and automatically tune the guitar to the desired overall tuning. The core principles of the projects would be a device that is built exclusively for tuning a guitar. The device developed from the current project should be both gentle and durable. When the user strums all six strings together, the vibrations are detected by a piezoelectric sensor which utilizes an algorithm to determine each

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    Part 1: Standing Waves on the Speed of Sound A pulley was attached to the end of a lab table. The total length of the string used in the experiment was measured before the first knot and weighed by a lab balance. The linear mass density was calculated using the following equation: µ= m/Lo. Then, the pre-measured string was tied to a string vibrator and a mass hanger (hanging from the pulley by the string) with the pulley parallel to the surface of the table. The length of the string that was able

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    there are many factors to pay attention to during the performance. Important things to listen for are the pitch, scale, timbre, tone

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    orientated to the football pitch . Flags sway from left to right, trumpets and drums roar , the magisterial wave wraps around the stadium like wrap around a present. An exquisite, ravishing and magnificent mosaic is made upright by the die hard faithful to send a daring message to those who have entered their grounds. The strict formula, method and regulations of life are thing of the past and their is only one to follow, the heart; there is only one existing location, the pitch. In this sacred space

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    Parentese Parentese

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    barrier by speaking to babies in this babble kind of manner that experts have even pegged as “Parentese.” Parentese is, in its simplest sense described by ParentingPassage.com, a way where parents over exaggerate words to babies, often also heightening pitch and even throwing in a few goofy facial expressions to attract even more attention. Along with their grabbed attention is how they slowly understand social cues. Talking to your babies, Parentese or what, is a way to start your baby’s transition from

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    Dynamic contrast. Dynamic contrast refers to a combination of different sensations in the same food. In the words of Witherly, foods with dynamic contrast have “an edible shell that goes crunch followed by something soft or creamy and full of taste-active compounds. This rule applies to a variety of our favorite food structures — the caramelized top of a creme brulee, a slice of pizza, or an Oreo cookie — the brain finds crunching through something like this very novel and thrilling.” Salivary response

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