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    Basketball is the Most Difficult Sport Introduction For anyone who watched the men's tennis final at the Australian Open (January 29, 2012), there is no doubt that Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are extraordinary athletes with stamina and skills that are amazing. The match went 5 hours and 53 seconds and both men were drained physically and emotionally at the end when Djokovic emerged victorious. But is tennis the most difficult sport? The answer is probably not. Some would say boxing or football

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    typically what draws a client in to see a massage therapist who specializes in orthopedic massage. This pain could be post-surgical pain, pain from an acute injury, or pain from overuse strain due to a repetitive motion from an activity such as hokey, tennis or jogging. Whatever the cause of the muscle damage, the intent of the orthopedic massage is to lengthen and soften

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    collision of two planes in the air. In 1993, professional tennis player, Monica Seles, was stabbed during a match and developed PTSD. As a result she never regained her competitiveness. Famous lead singer of the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, suffered from PTSD when his girlfriend committed suicide in their home (Malibu). These are only a few celebrities that have come out about suffering from PTSD, but from these names it can be seen that this type of anxiety disorder can affect anyone and can be triggered

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    I had figured out that tennis players make a lot more money than rugby players so I was going to become rich this way. I always had a natural ability for tennis. Older kids would train harder and longer than me but I would still beat them. I won national championships and I was even one of the youngest players to play in the national Junior Davis Cup Team. Through all my success in tennis I had to keep my academics up to retain my scholarships. I have always

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    My family is quite competitive, and that has been especially true between me and my three older brothers. Growing up with three older brothers made me want to be competitive against them in many different things, it was my goal from a young age to match my brothers in everything they did. Example of this include; sports, video games and other activities. I yearned to better than them in the activities that we did together. All of us would compete in old nintendo games and there would generally be

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    Bouncing Ball Experiment Name Institution Affiliation Bouncing Ball Experiment Introduction Aim: To use tennis balls to demonstrate that as the height of the drop increases, its velocity changes, depending on the type of material of the ball. Theory: Energy is required in varied phenomena. Light, sound, and movements are examples of tasks that require energy in order to perform. Energy is the capacity to undertake work, and the easiest way to measure it is through observation as it is

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    not like the others, but were both of us are still included and loved. Now, the dog that I didn’t want and I are closer than any of my other family members are with him. In the novel The Golden Compass, the author Philip Pullman develops a similar type of relationship for each of his characters called daemons. These companions reflect a certain person’s identity, soul, and changes in feeling through their different forms, usually as animals. I am being considered for Mr. Pullman’s next novel and

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    Taking a Look at Title IX

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    Imagine being a female athlete before 1972, you practice playing basketball everyday just like the boys do, but they have multiple scholarship opportunities to go to college where as females do not. They tell you to be a cheerleader or work in the kitchen and stay at home, but in your heart you are a competitor and have a passion for sports. This is a feeling that many females felt before Title IX; was explicated to give female’s gender equality in sports. Title IX has positively affected women’s

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    Venus Ebony Starr Williams born June 17, 1980 in California is and American tennis player. She was taught by her father at a very young age and became a professional player in 1994 at just the age of 14. In 1997 she became the first unseeded U.S. Open women’s finalist in the open era. She was the first black woman to become World Number 1. At the Olympics in Sydney, Australia she won the gold medal in the singles competition and then won another gold medal in the doubles competition with her sister

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    Introduction Most of the people in the world watch the football match at least once per 4 years for world cup. People are enthusiastic about fantastic spinning goal and non-spin goal which is hard to kick. However, people do not think of how the soccer ball is spinning and not spinning. Also, the people who are playing soccer, do not think much about the principle of the soccer ball applied scientific facts and they are not aware of it. This background is the reason why I want to research, there

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