Water polo Essays

  • Personal Narrative: Water Polo

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    I began playing water polo my freshman year at Archbishop Mitty, and I never thought it would make such a remarkable impact on my life. I was thinking in the beginning, maybe I’ll just do one year, or most two, but that has dramatically changed over the past three years. I can genuinely say that I have fallen in love with the sport. I don’t want to play just throughout my high school years, I want more, I want to play in college, I want to try out for the Olympic team, and after that I want to coach

  • Personal Narrative Essay: The Boy Who Changed My Life

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    The good, the bad, and the smelly Little do many people know that a long long time ago in a place not so far away, I was a boyscout. I started as a kid and was in “Den 7” and slowly through the years I crossed over into boy scouting. I went through all the ranks and all the summer camps and even all of the outings. Toward the end of my scouting career I really grew to hate the program, I never thought it was “cool” to be a boy scout but with high school right around the corner I figured I was absolutely

  • Essay On Bleep Test

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    Bleep Test (Multi-stage fitness test) The bleep test is a test, which could be used to measure levels of aerobic endurance. Which is the ability to exercise your body continuously for long or extended amounts of time without tiring. The beep test is used to determine players aerobic endurance based on their results. Many athletes that play football and also athletes that perform in other sports that require high levels of aerobic endurance use this test to determine their levels of aerobic endurance

  • Persuasive Essay On Playing Golf

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    Playing golf can become very frustrating and many times, you need golf swing tips to help you. Whether you slice the ball, hook the ball, hit it too high, or hit it too low, you can find tips to help you change your swing. Sometimes it's the simplest thing and we don't even know its happening. Here are five basic tips to help you swing better when on the course. 1. Check your Setup up First The most common thing that changes when your swing seems to become awful is your setup. Often a small adjustment

  • Personal Narrative-Swim Analysis

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    and I choose my LEGO Star Wars swim trunks from eighth grade (they were loose when I got them). I pack a small picnic in case we get hungry. It is just the classic wicker basket filled with a cooler with two egg salad sandwiches. I also pack some water, lemonade, and barbeque potato chips. We wrap towels around our waists and walk up to the lake. It is a modest lake,

  • Personal Narrative Essay About Water Polo

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    Before my sophomore year, I didn't know what water polo was. I found out about it through an after school announcement, which said there'd be a meeting in the cafeteria for anyone interested in joining the team. The second I heard that announcement it peaked my interest so I searched up water polo on YouTube to see what it looked like. After watching one quarter of an Olympic water polo match, I fell in love with the sport. I loved that the game takes place in a beautiful pool and that its team oriented

  • Personal Narrative: My Water Polo Game

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    It wasn’t even the third quarter and we were losing by 12 points. This water polo game was already a loss before the game even started. I knew that our team had no spirit to defeat Newberg, the back to back to back state champions. Newberg throughout the whole game commanded the lead with physicality and speed. Every single Newberg player was ready to counter attack when we made a mistake. Their defense made us look silly with their outstanding ability to steal the ball. There was no silver lining

  • Personal Narrative: My Experience With Water Polo

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    As I joined the Water Polo team in high school, things got different. My teammates with their laughter made fun of me, because I had a different color skin than them. Last seconds of the game, “Ali, you get in” my coach had put me, sometimes last seconds of the game or no play time at all. That was my freshman year. With my teammates making racial comments of me and not being good enough in Water Polo. I faced two choices: to either give up or work hard and prove them wrong. Coming out of the classroom

  • Cary Grant In The Film The Birds

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    In one of the most remarkable scenes in the film history, crop duster scene, Cary Grant is portrayed as an isolated man, faced by hostile elements in a scary dream world. Hitchcock has to abandon subjective view point and to resort objective view point just as in The Birds, in order to prepare the public for the threat of the plane drive. The crop dusting sequence is relevant in the film’s development. The complacent, self-confident Cary Grant character is exposed in open country away from the

  • Personal Narrative: My Love Of A Horse

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    I always wanted a horse when I was little. I asked for one every Christmas I’d write it on my wish list and sometimes I’d just ask out of the blue for one. I love being around and helping animals, especially horses and cattle. I knew there was a lot of responsibility to take on if I were to get a horse. I already had cattle but for some reason I just really wanted a horse. I begged my parents to let me have one just one, it wasn’t like I was asking for a hundred horses, what’s one little horse going

  • Marco Polo Research Paper

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    born In their generation. As a young man, he embraced the dangers of his perilous journey, and he returned home triumphantly from his travels longing to share his knowledge and remarkable tales with the world. Born in 1254, in Venice, Italy, Marco Polo grew up in the middle of a bustling port city. Some of the daily sites that he would have experienced were merchant ships of various sizes in the port, vendors, merchants, and customers crowding the market square where they would exchange goods,money

  • Marco Polo Chapter 2 Summary

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    Chapter Chapter Two: Trade You may collect game or sports cards. Maybe you collect coins from far-away places. A friend may have a duplicate of something you collect but do not have. If you’re a bully and big enough you might take one of your friend’s cards or coins – not a good idea. You would lose a friend. Your former friend may call on someone bigger than you to take them back. Everyone would be affected by bad behavior, and no one would remain happy. There is a better way. You might have something

  • Marco Polo In China Essay

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    Marco Polo in China: How One Man’s Adventure Changed the World In 1271 Marco Polo set sail from Venice with his father and uncle, for China on an adventure that would last twenty-four years. Marco Polo arrived in China with his father and uncle in 1275 and returned to Venice in 1295. He brought back many riches from his travels to China, including silks, spices, jewels, and ideas, such as the concept of paper money, and the burning of coal for fuel. Marco Polo, his father, Niccolo and uncle, Maffeo

  • Safavid Research Paper

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    The brave time travelers Adolpho Amador and Claire Cindrellon, traveled back in time to the Safavid Empire which is located in modern day Iran. They were carefully chosen and trained, they both speak fluent Turkish and Persian,which were the two main languages of the empire. Their destination and time period were heavily researched to avoid any complications such as battles. It was decided they were to travel back to Isfahan in 1639. They would be in the capital city in a time of peace between the

  • Differences Between Ibn Battuta And Marco Polo

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    The difference in views between Marco Polo of Yuan era China and Constantinople illustrates of the cultural and societal differences between their views. Marco Polo had a more tolerant view of the early Yuan era China, expressing positive sentiments of society more comparable to his. Conversely, Ibn Battuta expressed more negative sentiments stemming from an intolerance of the non-Islamic culture of late Yuan era China. His intolerance stems from passages of the Holy Quran( القرآن الكريم). Concurrently

  • How Did Marco Polo Influence Trade

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    Marco Polo promoted change in cultures and revolutionized trading by making many trips to China and Mongolia. He eventually became Kublai Khan's confidant. Using Kublai Khan's power and Marco Polo's trading skills he created even more change like promoting people from the east to come to the west and vice versa.This is why Marco Polo had such a large impact on trading. Marco Polo was born to a rich merchant family in 1254. His mother died when he was very young.At that time, his dad and brother

  • Research Paper On Marco Polo

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    Brooke Gray March 8, 2023 Highschool Marco Polo: A Venetian Merchant and Traveler Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and traveler who is famous for his journey from Europe to Asia from 1271 to 1295. Born in 1254 in Venice, Italy, Marco Polo came from a wealthy and well-connected merchant family. In this paper, we will examine the life and travels of Marco Polo, his journeys along the Silk Road, his interactions with the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, his book Il milione, and his impact on European exploration

  • Bronze Medallion Reflection

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    that relate to a future job as a camp counselor, including earning their Bronze Medallion. The Bronze Medallion is a lifeguarding certification that includes a timed distance swim, called the endurance swim at camp, along with training in various water-based injury scenarios, As I was never a particularly strong swimmer, I was understandably worried by the daily two hours of swimming mandated by the SC course, and the final exams for the Bronze Medallion, especially having ignored my brother’s recommendations

  • Marco Polo's Travel To China

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    What if Marco Polo didn 't travel to China? What would the world be like if Marco Polo didn 't travel to China? There were many famous people who were known for their great finds and travels, but Marco Polo was one of the greats. He was born in 1254 in Venice Italy to a wealthy Venetian merchant family. His mother died giving birth to him, so his aunt and uncle raised him for most of his life. His father and uncle were merchants and both became very wealthy by trading goods in the Middle East. He

  • How To Break The Piñata

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    It is March 11th 2012, a day before my birthday! I got home around 6-7 at night and saw that the grass was covered with a white layer that I didn 't know what it was. I said “ Daddy did it snow only in our house?’’ and he said “ Yes it snowed only here it 's a miracle isn 't it?” When I got out the truck I went to see the snow but what i found was shocking. The what I believed was snow turned out to be white plastic used to cover the ground because it was going to rain and the party was going to