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Viewing And Playing Sports Affect A Person's Life

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Sports are an activity that are involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Many people introduce sports early on in life and keep it as part of their lifestyle for quite a few years. The type of sport people play is greatly influenced by the country they live in and the values and traditions they were brought up with. For my research paper I gathered information from my two primary sources and 11 secondary sources to talk about how some factors of watching and playing sports have affected their lives in some type of way. I lined up a few questions to ask my primary and my secondary sources to get a better insight of whether watching or playing sports affect a person. A preview of the questions that I …show more content…

She told me that her favourite sport(s) to play where soccer and free skating and her favourite sports to watch were soccer and hockey. I asked her why is one of her favourite sports to free skate and if it had to do anything with possibly living in Canada a country whose favourite sport is very prominent and known to many people and countries, a physical sport named hockey. She said that moving to Canada definitely spiked her interest and love of skating and hockey. This answer made me wonder whether moving to a different country, especially at a young age, made a person gain new interests from a sports perspective. I then followed up with a question that came to mind, if you did not move do you think your interest in the sport would be as strong as it is now (after moving and coming to Canada) or would you not have the same amount of interest. After a minute or so of thinking Ella told me that she probably would still like hockey but not to the same degree and she definitely would not like free skating as

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Summary In “Children Need to Play, Not Compete,” Jessica Statsky tries to demonstrate the negative effect of organized sports on the physical and psychological health of growing child. She claims that the games are not festive but they end up in the wrong development of a child’s brain. The coaches and parents have high hopes for their children that result in the pressure building. This changes the purpose of sports from teaching tolerance, teamwork and sportsmanship to merely winning by all means.

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At points I would put what I needed to do in order to succeed in hockey ahead of school because until I was a sophomore in high school I was foolish enough to believe I had a shot of going big in hockey. All of this leads to my main point that I wasn’t born with an athlete identity however, I created one by pursuing a sport I am passionate about and would do anything I can to help myself succeed in it. A scholarly journal essay written by Shaun Boren called The Recreational Sports Journal talks about different athletes and how they had dreams of going big and the youth life certain athletes lived from 6am practices to missing school due to travel for a sport. While reading this journal I couldn’t help but think of myself as I lived a very similar lifestyle.

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