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lauren kazanjian English 1 Level 2: blue expository essay 10 October 2015 Swing, hit, homerun! Softball is my favorite sport. I love the excitement it brings me every time i smack the ball out of the park. The game of softball was created on Thanksgiving day 1887, but did not become a NCAA approved sport until 1910. (http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-softball.htm) One person that i look up to as a role model is Jennie Finch. She is one of the best softball players that has

Armani Battle Miexner English 4A- 4th Pd. The History of the Olympics Have you ever wondered where the Olympic Games started? No one ever talks about it but it’s pretty fascinating. People around the world don’t take the time out to do the research and well I 'm here to tell you. The Olympics are ranging from different sports around the world and they allow you at home to look at the success of other and root them along during the Olympic process. Other than that I 'm Armani Battle and here 's the

Golf is a very well-known, controversial game that has held high popularity for many years possibly going back even as far as 960-1279 AD during the Song Dynasty. Though the game was played much differently during the Song Dynasty there is proof that there are similarities. The closest game played to the game today was in the 1400s in Scotland. The game played in the 1400s has changed over time but the main objective remains; on must hit a small ball, with a club, into a hole in has few hits as possible

Ever since its inception in 1896, the Modern Olympics has hosted an invisible sport: politics. The Olympics calls for “a halt to all conflicts … [and to] strive towards a more peaceful world,” but politics soon spoiled its biennial message. “As the Olympics continue to dissolve into … a political competition … they no longer … justify the time and trouble,” Dave Anderson, Pulitzer Prize winner for his sports column, wrote in the New York Times in 1984. The Olympic spirit has routinely been used as

more popular. The first Winter Olympics changed the image of the Olympic Games forever. The thrilling event of “International Winter Sports Week” later became known as the first Winter Olympic Games. The Ancient Grecian summer tradition was brought to the winter for the first time in Chamonix, France on January 25, 1924. The event was a huge success and it became a tradition in the same manner as the Summer Olympics. It was to be celebrated every four years. Having a Winter Olympics as well as a Summer

The Olympic games is a unique sporting event in which the host cities need to build venues, housing, stadiums, as well pay for millions of employees to run the event. As seen in Exhibit 1, the Summer Olympics is only second to the super bowl when considering the most expensive athletic events. Each year as well, the cost has been increasing to the point in which recent games, the cost of everything together has reached millions and even billions of dollars. Depending on the city these games either

When I hear the words “white elephant,” I think of an albino elephant, or a white elephant gift exchange that you do during holidays with friends and family. However, neither one of these are what this paper will be referring to. The dictionary defines white elephant as “a possession unwanted by the owner, but difficult to dispose of” and “a possession entailing great expense out of proportion to its usefulness or value to the owner.” It deals with something that is both expensive and hard to

Fiona Cullum United States History Serrano Block: 3 I. Introduction “Our nation does not know us as Olympians. Our sublime moments of exertion and triumph do not exist. We have no memories and you have no memories of us” (DeFranz, qtd. in Caraccioli 17). In 1980, the United States led a 61 nation boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics. President Jimmy Carter called for the boycott to protest the Soviet Union Invasion of Afghanistan. Many people have debated whether the United States should have

Palestinian territories of West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon, Pakistan, Benin, Thailand, China and Peru, among others. History Olympic Aid was conceived by the Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee (LOOC) in 1992 in preparation for the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. [2] Initially the focus of Olympic Aid was to show support for people in war‐torn countries. It formed partnerships with other Norwegian humanitarian organizations to raise funds for awareness of the specific initiatives

Jessie Sisavat Professor Killick HESP 141 25 Nov 2014 Sex tests are necessary to maintain the integrity of sport. INTRODUCTION The gender verification has become a major controversy for women’s sports. The International of Olympic Committee (IOC) motto is promoting fairness among the gender equalities (IOC 2014). However, the purpose of the verification method is to create a fair competitive sports game for female athletes. According to Medical Dictionary, the definition of “Gender Verification