Lifestyle: Essay Topic

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Slartibartfast is teaching his new friends, the frogs, to play cricket. Not much of a match in prospect with only nine players, but he's doing his best to hone their skills. He's introduced them to bowling and batting, having fashioned a wicket from toothpicks and bats from lolly (popsicle) sticks, and (after extensive trials) using dried peas as balls. He's particularly proud of two frogs in particular -- Croakers has incredible natural talent with the bat, and Hoppers has a reverse swing which is coming on very nicely, once the pea is a few overs old.

He takes a moment before the start of play on Thursday morning to write a note, which he pins to his classroom door.

Essay topic this week is "Sport". Please provide a hundred words on sport, on the positive and negative effects it can have on lifestyle. Essays in the tray here by Saturday evening, please.
The lifestyle course is open to new registrants -- if you want to join in our seminar on Monday, just drop an essay in the tray with the others.

He returns to the table, where the frogs are just emerging from the home-made pavillion ready for warm-up. He makes a mental note to fashion some whites for them -- playing naked isn't ... well, it isn't cricket.

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Sports should be an essential part of anyone's lifestyle, for they provide a much needed relief from the endless stream of pain that is life. I myself regularly practice the arts of fencing and rapier fighting, both of which I have been training in ever since I was young. Fencing is a wonderful way to stay in shape and fighting ready, which is a part of the reason I founded the Fencing Club at Fandom High. The downside of rapier fighting is that it is possible to kill your opponent or to be mortally wounded by the same, or that your oppoennt may cheat and use an unbated blade or poison, but such things rarely happen, and I have not yet had any personal experience with such.