Sports Specialization Sports are a popular pastime among all ages and types of people. People not only participate in them for fun, but also for money, physical fitness, rush of competition, and for many other personal reasons. Playing sports is especially common among young people in schools. Athletics are great and enjoyable for many reasons, but there can be a point where sports participation can go too far and become negative for children and adults. Sports specialization for young people is an increasing trend that results in sports having a negative impact on individuals and society. Sports specialization among young people is when a child or teenager trains for and competes in only one sport. They work extremely hard year-round in order to become well-rounded in every aspect of the game. They make sacrifices and put their health in jeopardy in order to become the ultimate participant in their sport. One of the many young athletes who is only participating in and focusing on one sport is fifteen-year-old OJ Mayo from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the young talented athlete who is predicted to be the next LeBron James in the National Basketball Association (NBA). This young athlete provides evidence of striving for perfection in this single sport when reviewing his daily schedule versus that of his siblings. He says, “The other kids go home and sleep. I come back to the gym” (Thompson, 2004). He is obviously putting forth a lot of effort in his sport to become successful at an early age. Not only is this young athlete a single sport athlete, but also Mayo provides a prime example of why this trend is occurring. The reason is primarily because of the increase in the commercialization of sports. The media a... ... middle of paper ... ...p://www.aabss.org/journal2000/ f22Gray.jmm.html Jeffers, N. (n.d.). Training youths for a sound future in athletics. Intensity Magazine. Retrieved March 17, 2004, from http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/inmag51.htm Specialization in youth sports: some guidelines. (n.d.). Retrieved March 17, 2004, from www.soccerpark.com/lasher/Specialization.pdf Starr, M. (2004, January 6). Freddy Adu: a strong kick for the American soccer. Newsweek. Retrieved March 17, 2004, from http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067737/ Thompson, C. R. (2004, December). Fresh squeezed. ESPN The Magazine. Retrieved March 17, 2004, from http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/story?id=1669821&contentType =insider Wahl, G. (2003, March). Who’s next? Freddy Adu. Sports Illustrated Magazine. Retrieved March 17, 2004, from http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2003/03/03/freddy/
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Over the last several years, the United States has experienced the emergence of countless lifestyle based illnesses. We have seen an increase of inactivity, poor nutrition, an increase of tobacco use, and more frequent alcohol consumption; Americans are living unhealthy lifestyles that are surely factors contributing to the pervasiveness of chronic diseases. Chronic diseases use to be seen as problems that older generations faced, but over the past several years the United States’ working age group has become a main target. For example, Americans are experiencing higher rates of diabetes, and heart disease. Conditions like these only lead to a diminished quality of life, could possibly lead to shorter life spans, disability, and quite possibly in the long run increased health care costs. Businesses are also impacted by an employees lifestyle decisions; absenteeism and presenteeism.
Esperanza dreams of someday having a satisfying life. She doesn't want her path of freedom to be cleared by having a baby or finding a husband. She has no desires to fall into the trap of dependency. As the author writes, "Her power is her own. She will not give it away" (Cisneros 89).
Mitochondria originally existed as a single celled organism, but were then engulfed by a eukaryotic cell. Thereafter, these organisms displayed an endosymbiosis relationship. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited from the maternal parent. Due to this fact, mtDNA is a useful molecule for studying point mutations, because there is no crossing over in mtDNA. Furthermore, the point of this lab was to analyze how mtDNA changes over time and from the changes in the mtDNA determine material linage and haplogroup. In this experiment, the hyper variable region I was analyzed to determine the haplogroup and the haplotype of a specific individual. Mitochondrial DNA was extracted, amplified, purified, and then ran through a gel. The 1% agarose gel displayed that
The innocence is slowly fading away. Nike, Addidas, Reebok and McDonald are fighting each other off in pursuit of finding a new face to sell and sponsor their products? The camera crews are off course invited, to capture all the action. Films can be later made out of this footage for more revenues. It all about blowing this moment up and making sure it is hyped up to the biggest possible level. The sport news writers have been talking about this for months now. Little kids are now wearing t-shirts with his name on it. His name is increasingly becoming popular all over the world, fans are spending there fortunes on anything with his name on it. We stay eager to here what’s to become of this, as we continued to be rapt up in the hype. The occasion is just as monumental as the coronation of some king or queen. Lights, camera and when the action unfolds, a boy in a man’s body, standing taller than the average, with an ego that has been feed all of his life for his gifted genius as an athlete. He sat in the center of all the attention. The moment we have all been waiting for as arrive, there is complete silence now, to hear him say these words. “I am here today, to declare that I have decided to forgo my college years and make the leap from high school to becoming a professional athlete” We have seen from the recent past the detriments of such decisions. For that reason, it is important that high scholars attend college for at least three years before becoming professional.
Mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) is inherited from the mother and passes down from female generations. For that reason, molecular biologists are able to link DNA from one person to a relative. I found it peculiar that albeit this specific genetic material is located in the mitochondria, which are housed within the eukaryotic cells and those cells have been reported to contain mostly introns; non coding sequences, this would be a reliable source for DNA.
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The initial part of successful corporate wellness programs is employee evaluation and assessing risk factors. People that are most commonly in the high-risk group are those that are smokers or overweight. That group is responsible for the majority of absences as well as the utilization, so it is very important that program has specifica...
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.In addition young athletes have become more aggressive. Kids that participate in competitive sports are becoming more and more aggressive and competitive the sports have become themselves. Mitchell reveals "traits like bullying and the need to dominate their oppo...
Throughout The House on Mango Street Esperanza learns to resist the gender norms that are deeply imbedded in her community. The majority of the other female characters in the novel have internalized the male viewpoint and they believe that it is their husbands or fathers responsibility to care for them and make any crucial decisions for them. However, despite the influence of other female characters that are “immasculated”, according to Judith Fetterley, Esperanza’s experiences lead her to become a “resisting reader” in Fettereley’s terminology because she does not want to become like the women that she observes, stuck under a man’s authority. She desires to leave Mango Street and have a “home of her own” so that she will never be forced to depend on a man (Cisneros 108). During the course of the novel Esperanza eventually realizes that it is also her duty to go back to Mango Street “For the ones that cannot out”, or the women who do not challenge the norms (110). Esperanza eventually turns to her writing as a way to escape from her situation without having to marry a man that she would be forced to rely on like some of her friends do.
Overall, Esperanza experienced multiple events that shaped her into the person she is. The experiences she had built the foundation for what she values by exposing her to the world around her. By moving to the house on Mango Street and experiencing the traumatic events along with the social norms Esperanza became the person she wanted to be even when the circumstances weren’t in her
Taking the theory of paternal mtDNA leakage during embryogenesis into account, the process of embryogenesis needs to be studied. Embryogenesis is the formation and development of embryos where after the egg is fertilized by the sperm, the sperm mitochondria enter the egg cell. Here in the egg is where the sperm mitochondria are outnumbered by the maternal mitochondria and are killed through a mechanism that identify the ubiquitin sperm are tagged with. Thus paternal mitochondria do not transmit to further cell stages of embryo development and mtDNA is solely believed to be maternal in inheritance. Taking the case study into account, the question that is raised is how paternal inheritance of mtDNA could have occurred if embryogenesis prevents it. Therefore, the further research in recombination of mtDNA can be conducted to see if mtDNA can be similar to nuclear DNA, where mtDNA can be incorporated or fused from many sources (Bromham et al 2002).