Paintball Speech

Term Paper Title	Paintball Speech
# of Words	372
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.49

Paintball Speech

            The heartbeat quickens, sweat drips off your fingertips as you reach for the trigger on the gun.  Your muscles tense up as the body prepares for danger. Crawling through the dense foliage, you hear gunshots breakout nearby.  You pray not to be caught in the crossfire.

            This is not a battlefield in any foreign country, but is a battlefield in your backyard, or at least could be.  No deaths are going to be in this battle, at the most welts and bruises. There are no bullets or napalm showers, because this battle uses paint.

             In 1971, Daisy produced the first paintball marker available on the market.  These markers were used to mark livestock and posts. The first of idea of paintball as a sport is when two boys on a dairy farm in the early 70�s started shooting at each other with the markers.  Yet, it wouldn�t be until 1981 that the first game was played by a group of friends in a forest in New Hampshire.

            The sport of paintball is the fastest growing participation action sport in the world and has just moved ah...

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