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Everybody gets what most people may call summer fever. The weather is bad and all that is on somebody's mind is, "I wish it were nicer outside, like summer weather!" Or the last couple weeks of school start to drag, "Seriously there is a week left of school and we are starting another unit?"

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Recently, many young athletes have been dropping out of a sport they had played for years to play a game called LaCrosse. What is LaCrosse? Lacrosse is a game that is mixed with hockey, soccer, and basketball. The goal of the game, like most sports, is to get the ball down the field and score... But with a stick...? and a ball the size of a baseball? This seems outrageous! But most teens have left their other sports to come out and play this amazing game.

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In the book, "Huckleberry Finn," Huck is a young kid with bad grammar and a poor education due to his rough childhood involving his drunken father and no mother. But throughout the book, he would display himself as someone of intellect and maturity when he would describe a person or a situation. But when he would talk in dialogue his grammar was that of somebody with little education. Why is it that people change their grammar in around certain people or in certain…

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About a week ago, Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was hit hard by a Giants defenseman late sunday night. It didn't look like much of a hit... Jay Cutler has recovered from hits like this... but this hit was different. In the replay it shows Jay Cutler's head hit the ground... not too hard, but hard enough to cause the injury most feared by athletes anywhere, a concussion.



When people first hear of a concussion their first question is, What is it? A concussion is the brain… Continue