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New Risks for Soccer Players

The sport, Soccer, is one of the world’s most popular sports and is played all over the world. With more and more teenagers playing soccer than ever before studies have raised concerns over the sport’s safety. One major part of skill used in the game is “heading the ball”. This may seem a harmless act at first, but recent scientific studies have revealed alarming results that may put the future of heading in doubt. According to The Week Magazine, a study by England’s Football Association discloses that heading the soccer ball can cause “chronic brian trauma”. A study was conducted by University College London’s neuropathologists who concluded that “heading the ball produces progressive brain damage and leads to heartbreaking dementia later in life”, as recorded in Business Insider Publication. The study took fourteen retired Soccer players who died with complications of dementia. Twelve out of the fourteen had advanced dementia and their symptoms began fifteen to twenty years after
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A New Epidemic

Over the last few months, a new health crisis has erupted among America’s youth; Federal Officials have stated recently that there have been over 1,300 cases with at least 26 deaths from the new epidemic of vaping. Many people, including Heath Officials, have been warning the public of the dangers that are present with vaping. The devices, originally designed to help adults quit smoking, have now become a recreational habit by teenagers. People are arguing that this is due to the flavors such as “Cotton Candy” and “Bubblegum” that are catching the eyes of young adults. Vaping has been on the market for over a decade now, but now illnesses and, more worryingly deaths, have began to appear in almost every state. On October 11th, the Center for Disease Control, or CDC, announced that the name for the lung illnesses will be called “EVALI”, which stands for “e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury”. According to The Washington Post, “Officials are still trying to figure out

My Origin

At 10:02 AM on Monday the 21st of October 2002, I was born in the maternity wing of Simpsons Memorial Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. I spent the first five years of my life living fifteen minutes away from the center of downtown Edinburgh. I loved my life in Scotland. My entire family lived so close to me, and there was a real familiarity about living there. However, in 2008 my mother came back from work one day and told us she was offered this amazing opportunity to work and live in the United States. After lots of detailed planning, we packed up everything we owned and moved a couple months later. We settled in Winnetka due to the great schools nearby and the closeness to my mother’s job downtown. As I began my new life in Chicago, it was apparent the difference between my two lives. I had to adapt to my new life in America in so many ways. In my old life in Scotland I had a routine. I would run to catch the massive double decker bus in the morning, in my maroon colored school unif