Essays on Knockout

One of the oldest sports is considered a fistfight. Even in ancient history in the era of the ancient Greeks during the Olympics athletes competed in the pankration, which is how they called their fist fighting competitions. Fist fights in a modern understanding are mixed martial arts or MMA (Mix Martial Arts), and not boxing, as the two are often confused.

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Since the antique times MMA lost its glory and popularity. Is place was taken by what e now perceive a traditional boxing, kick-boxing, judo, taekwondo, and other types of martial arts. For a long time MMA was in ...

Japanese optimism was already very high even before the attack on Pearl Harbor. A large sect within the Japanese Military government held the same ideological notions about the United States and Western Democracies as Hitler did. The U.S. was decadent; it was afraid of the cost of war; it was split with racial and class conflict. Most had expected the attack on Pearl Harbor to lead directly to a treaty granting Japan rule over much of the Pacific (Johnson, 2006, p. 120-126). Even realists within the Japanese cabinet, like Yamamoto, the mastermind behind Pearl Harbor, who accepted the industrial ...

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Soccer, or association football in many countries around the world, is a ball game played by teams consisting of eleven players each. The game itself is played on a rectangular field with goals at either end. The objective of the game is to score a point by making the ball enter the opposing player’s goal. Each team has a goalkeeper, a player who guards their respective team’s goalposts and prevents the ball from entering it. Except for the goalkeeper, players are only allowed to use either their head, torso, or feet to kick and touch the ball. ...

In Knockout, Suzanne Somers interviews a number of doctors who have very specific ideas on cancer treatment and prevention – namely, that radiation, chemotherapy, and mammography do not work, and can actually cause more harm than good. They then proceed to offer their own alternatives, usually from their own field of medicine, which they claim are much better solutions for preventing and treating cancer. Somers then goes on to detail her own experiences working with doctors in the face of a misdiagnosis of cancer, and how that led her to seek alternative treatments and preventative measures. Upon reading this book, I ...