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    Pros and Cons of Synthetic “Turf” Fields Turf fields are shaping a better future for sports across the entire nation and the world. Across the country, more and more sports facilities, high school athletic complexes, etc. seem to be switching to synthetic turf fields. Artificial turf fields have become more popular over the course of the 2nd half of the 20th Century till the present day. Since they have become so popular, they have been studied closely to see what the differences are between

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    The Maze Runner, written by James Dashner is the first book in the Maze Runner pentalogy. The story follows the adventures of a sixteen-year-old boy named Thomas, who finds himself waking up in the heart of a labyrinth, titled ‘The Glade’. As it turns out there are many teenage boys accompanying Thomas. The aim is to escape from the labyrinth, but this does not go as effortlessly as it sounds, due to the fact that the labyrinth is constructed by the inexplicable and threatening WICKED (World In Catastrophe

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    Rute Tilahun Professor Selina Hammond English 101- Composition 12, November 2015 Gender and Discrimination in Sports: Soccer How many fans do you see supporting women’s Soccer teams? Why are women receiving less acknowledgements for their success towards sports than men? Do you know any girl who is interested in playing soccer and is not on the team just because she is a girl? Well I do. Such an incidence happened in one of my best friend’s lives. It took place at my high school back

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    The United States women’s national soccer team is being torn under discrimination and how they are being treated as an individual. Throughout the years, the women have accomplished so much more than the men, but yet are being paid less than what the men are making. They have experienced rough conditions of the fields when they play their matches, which can lead to serious career ending injuries. The women have had enough of this situation and they plan to bring this up to the U.S Soccer Federation

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    Football is a very unique sport, especially to Americans. It is almost exclusively played in the United States, at least thats where the most religious fans live. There are roughly 17 million people who tune in to watch an average football game every weekend, and each stadium holds roughly 100,000 people which is regularly filled with fans. So what is it that fans of football love so much about the sport, is it the connection to a cities team, the lovableness of the teams mascot, the fact that football

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    All around me I could hear what people were saying and majority of my soccer teammates were talking about me, yet they could not know I could hear them. My heart sinks when they call me big ears grant and I always get depressed but at this moment I am used to it. I look different from people, well people look different from me.Only me and my bestfriend know my secret, the hopeless part is that my best friend died three years ago in a car accident.I refused to go to school for one week he was my only

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    field from grass to turf has many benefits. Central Washington University will be able to use the field more hours per day with no field recovery time needed, use it for more months out of the year in almost any type of weather, save on maintenance costs such as re-sodding, watering and mowing, and cutting out harmful chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides. Changing Central’s football field from a grass to turf field will help Central become a more sustainable campus

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    Themes In The Maze Runner

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    The Maze Runner, written by James Dashner is the first book in the Maze Runner pentalogy. The story follows the adventures of a sixteen-year-old boy named Thomas, who finds himself waking up in the heart of a labyrinth, titled ‘The Glade’. As it turns out there are many teenage boys accompanying Thomas. The aim is to escape from the labyrinth, but this does not go as effortlessly as it sounds, due to the fact that the labyrinth is constructed by the inexplicable and threatening WICKED (World In Catastrophe

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    Speech On Soccer Shoes

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    well-groomed, soft grass fields. Turf shoes are basically good training shoes providing a back-up game pair for hard-surface conditions and on artificial turf as the bottom contains various raised patterns instead of studs. Indoor shoes are similar to low-cut sneakers or cross trainers. They are specifically designed for playing indoors in a gym or recreational facility for the flat, rubbery type bottom provides better traction on indoor courts or fields. On artificial turfs however they are preferred

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    The Labyrinth of Life in The Garden of Forking Paths by Yu Tsun A labyrinth is classically a human construction designed to confuse. It can trap our lives, hiding our past and future and constantly forcing us to make choices, even though we may not know what the consequences of those choices might be. The confusion of the puzzle may even tempt us to run blindly through the labyrinth, ending in disaster. Life itself is often considered such a labyrinth, and by adopting the strategies of travelers

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