How do you finish a competition? Some say you would only need to have the body and the muscle to finish because it is the most important. But in truth, mental strength is just as important if not more. You would use intelligence or mental strength to find out if the strategy you use is the right one like in the story, “What Could Be Better Than A Touchdown?” Also if you have the strength to believe and vision you can finish like in the piece,”Why We Run.”
The story, “What Could Be Better than Touchdown,” is about how you don't know if your desicion was a good one until you know it’s affects. I know this because in the story it says, “It’s probably impossible to contest the first part without confirming the second part.” Making a decision is not always the best thing to do like in the story, “There are a few situations in football where scoring an easy touchdown is the wrong thing to do.” For example, If you have the possession of the ball in the last few minutes of the game, you want to run down the clock so
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With elongating stems and twirling tendrils, plants race one another toward light.” (67) The author used a plant to compare with running because a plant needs sunlight and human thrive for progression. It’s apart of our nature. In the story he writes, “… we are inherently more like wolves than lapdogs because the communal chase is part of our biological makeup.”(65) The author asserts that wolves chase prey instinctively, similar to humans chasing dreams instinctively. The author then states, “Most of us chase after ‘antelopes,’ and sometimes we catch them. Often we don’t. But why do we bother to try?”(65) Here the author uses the metaphor of the antelope to explain that running is about chasing dreams. Having motivation and the vision that you can reach the finish line is extremely important to finishing a
Football DBQ The Ely Tigers versed the Dillard Panthers. They had an instant win at the end of their football game. They don’t know if it was a lucky catch or if it was a skilled catch. From reading through all of these documents from the story, they proved that Donnell Wilson caught the winning touchdown because it was a clean catch, didn’t have a penalty, and he caught it across the touchdown line.
American football has quickly become America’s favorite sport, nothing like turning on the TV on a Saturday or Sunday and watching some football with friends or family. Whether you love it or hate it there is no denying that football has become one of the most popular sports on the planet. Despite the controversy surrounding the dangers of football, it has still developed into a multi-billion dollar industry. Pretty much everyone has heard of football or the stars that surround it, but few people know how football got its start. Football is believed to have descended from the ancient Greek game of harpaston.
This helped the author believe in himself, train harder and run that 100 kilometer race. Without that belief he may have never completed his goal. This emphasizes that without mental preparation Bernd
For many years has football has been considered the utmost dangerous sport in high school, but recently many new studies have been made to prove the exact opposite. High school football gives money to the school and improves the school. In high school sports when a team wins the championship the school gets money that can be used towards hiring new teachers, providing scholarships for students, buying new books, and overall improving the school itself. When a high school football team wins the championship the team's school gets $400,000 that can be spent on the school in many different forms.
Once you have that motivation you will be able to achieve almost anything in life that you want
The sport I chose to observe was college football. I decided to chose this sport because football is a sport my family enjoys to watch. Also I enjoy watching football more than any other sport because there is so much that could happen, in football many unexpecting plays could happen, and each game is different than the last one. The game I chose to watch was a college football game between the University of Notre Dame and the University of Miami that took place at the University of Miami on Saturday, November 11, 2017. The game started with Miami kicking the ball to Notre Dame.
Should young kids be be able to play tackle football? What i want to achieve is to convince people that kids playing tackle football at a younger is better than at an older age. young kids should be able to play tackle football. Research proves that kids who start football at a younger are proven to be safer.
Contact sports are the reason kids are getting hurt. Contact sports are good for kids. The Federal and state government should stop kids under 10 to stop playing contact sports because 45% of kids under 10 getting hurt are from contact sports and 5% of the time its ending that kids chances to play sports in the feature, Not to mention contact sports can also make kids go to their fullest and being burned out and although contact provide some kids will useful tools in life most of the time there is more negative than positive.
In Mowat’s writing, he uses emotion, facts, and trust to convince the reader that wolves are not bloodthirsty killers. To begin with, Mowat uses emotion to help the reader connect with the wolves. In chapter five he watches as the wolves are “centered around the playing of a game of tag” (64). From this, readers are able to connect with the wolves and understand the joy
Also, with the help of Ootek, a local Eskimo he was able to understand how wolves communicate and hunt, and he saw that these wolves were not a tremendous threat to the caribou. This book gives the reader a view into the life of these wild animals and how they all work together in their unique environment. Mowat had many doubts, but he slowly understood the truth about wolves. He also spent time following the wolves as they hunted and he examined their techniques. Mowat even experienced close up encounters and the wolves did not treat him like a foreigner.
Crystal Stafford Ms.Thielen CIS Writing September 16th, 2016 The similarities and differences between “The Chase” and “Shooting and Elephant” are covert, and they deserve thorough examination. The purpose of “The Chase” was to give it everything, without hesitating in fear. In the the boys were being pursued they ran as fast as they could trying to lose the pursuer at every small or hard place, but failed to do so. Their pursuer shared the same passion for never giving up.
Frances is a field hockey player for her school team. One day, she got her report card and saw she got a C+ in Spanish. The next day at practice, her coach told her she was off the team--Even though Frances had been trying her best in Spanish. Frances thought this was unfair and ceased putting effort into Spanish. This is an example of how a child could be negatively by the No Pass, No Play rule.
Even though I had been down all night, a competition allowed me to refocus and harness my skills and allow me to reach a level I would have never gotten to without it. Competition makes people better and allows them to reach heights never thought possible, and heights that would never be reached if they were not forced to push themselves to be their best
“On A Mountain Trail,” by Harry Perry Robinson, portrays wolves as grim, dark forms who moved as rapidly as they did and whom silently, yet ever persistently came upon them with no warning. (paragraphs 1, 6) These ominous creatures may represent the swift and graceful desperation of nature. This representation reveals itself to us in many ways, one of these ways being the way in which Robinson describes the wolves. By describing the pack of wolves as silent and consumed with the pertinacity of the hunt whom which seemed to rise, “out of the earth and the shadow of the bushes,” he conveys that the figures were in sync, yet held chaos in their
Coach Charlie always tells the cross country team that," they just gotta believe," which is definitely true for racing. It requires great mentality to be able to push past all your pain to beat your time. In order to be able to improve, a runner must be able to push himself or herself further even when they are exhausted. Running is the greatest