research paper

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Hook; the NFL is one of the most entertaining sports in America, yet this league puts these very talented athletes at risk every single game and practice. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy known as CTE, is the disease that these players can get. This disease has crashed families and it wont stop happening until the league steps up and makes it a priority to fix it.

Research question; is the NFL the main source of how people are catching CTE?

Thesis; The NFL is the main cause of the cte disease because of all the contact that goes on, because of the number of cases that have up, and lastly the league is putting no effort into fixing the problem.

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Topic sentence; there have been several players at all different positions that have contracted the disease from playing.

citation; Ward, joe, williams, josh, manchester, sam, “110 N.F.L. brains.” the new york times. 25, may

2017. 27 october , 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html

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Topic sentence; american football is the sport that has the most contact out of every other sport.

citation; Solomon, Gary. “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Sports: A Historical and Narrative Review.”

Developmental Neuropsychology, vol. 43, no. 4, Aug. 2018, pp. 279–311. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/87565641.2018.1447575.

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Topic sentence; cte has been a problem for years in the NFL and the league still has yet to real action of the matter at hand.

citation; Gove, Jeremy P. "Three and out: the NFL's concussion liability and how players can tackle the problem." Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, vol. 14, no. 3, 2012, p. 649+. Gale Academic OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A290622475/AONE?u=mlin_w_american&sid=AONE&xid=b81da565. Accessed 27 Oct. 2020.