VIOLENCE IN YOUTH SPORTS It's a beautiful fall day. There is a touch of autumn in the air and the azure sky contrasts the dark green grass of the peewee football field. Children line up in a mock exhibition of an NFL pro game. Signals are called and the ball is clumsily hiked and so...

While going up, sports were a big influence in my life. There was not a day that went by that I would have to go outside and throw either the football or baseball around with my dad whenever he got home from work. In my early years all sports were to me was going across the street and gathering a gr...

When I was young, I was dreaming to play football. I imagined that I was a striker and scored a lot of goals. When I went to school, I was playing with my classmates. We could play it until evening. I asked my PE teacher whether there was a football team in Bishkek. He said no. At that moment I real...

A Memorable Place to Live The sun sets at about quarter to six. Kids begin to come out of their houses like bats come out of their caves, ready to start playing something, anything that would come to mind. This is how my barrio was when I was growing up. I have lived in Juarez all my life an...

Children often find difficulty pronouncing certain letters, thus, they tend to either omit them from their words and pronounce the words without those letters or replace those letters with other ones easy for them to pronounce. Parents think of this as "the cute way my child speaks". The...

Orison Scott Card wrote Enders game. Ender is a boy in the book who was taken away from his family at a young age to go and save the world. But at the same time he loses the love of his life. The year is 3002 and a highly intelligent race of bugs has attacked the Earth twice. Nobody knows wh...