A community that I belong to is my swim team‚ and on my team‚ I am one of the captains. I joined the school team as a freshman and due to my dedication‚ persistence‚ and ability to lead I was given the honor of being a captain. As a captain I aim to be a leader that inspires and leads by example. I make sure that I work as hard as the rest of the team‚ and that they see me as someone they can look up to. Some of my duties as captain are making sure everyone gets into the pool when practice begins
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can be best described as happiness and living in the lap of luxury‚ but the “American Dream” is fictitious. Winter Dreams and The Swimmer both have characters‚ who try to achieve their own perception of the American Dream‚ but in the end‚ fail. The “American Dream” comes with a great cost. F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts that in his short story Winter Dreams. The Swimmer by John Cheever depicts the “American Dream” as something already achieve but then‚ it is lost. The “American Dream” is not just one
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Career narrative My career narrative is to join the coast guard and hopefully become a rescue swimmer. I don’t really know if that’s what I want to do yet because that is a tough job to have. I do hope to have a final decision by the time I graduate. Although I have always wanted to become one since I was in middle school now that I have gotten older it seems to be a tough decision now. I have done a lot more research on my job since middle school and I don’t really know if that’s something I’m
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and seventies. Cheever‚ an award winning writer‚ balances hope‚ uncertainty‚ and anxiety in his stories’ characters. In Cheever’s “The Swimmer”‚ the main character‚ Neddy Merrill‚ incorporates this description into his actions. The actions of Neddy Merrill can be compared to those of Francis Weed‚ the main character of Cheever’s “The Country Husband”. “The Swimmer” and “The Country Husband”‚ however different the plots of each may be‚ each analyze the suburban life of a middle aged‚ middle class man
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Sports Training and Nutrition BIO/164 Term II December 5th‚ 2010 Ilse Silva-Krott Abstract This paper will outline a training program for high school swimmers. This program will touch on the history of swimming and a training schedule that will aid in helping swimmers reach their peak performance and avoid injury. Also outlined with be dietary factors and benefits of calcium intake. Between a training schedule and proper dietary intake students should be successful in reaching their top performance
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in Cuba The legacy of slavery and the legacy of systematic racial discrimination imposed on Afro-Cubans are grim realities that are imbedded in Cuban societal and cultural fibers. Despite the abolition of slavery in 1886 and its gaining of independence in 1902 Cuban society‚ politics‚ and ideology have been haunted with the specter of the ‘race issue.’ According to Aline Helg‚ "the myth of Cuban racial equality has proved remarkably enduring‚ even since the revolution of 1959". In order to comprehend
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Sharks Sharks are one of the most feared carnivores in the sea. There are 365 species of of sharks in the sea as we know today. All sharks are carnivores. Most of them eat live fish‚ including other sharks. A shark’s most common natural enemy is an another shark. Most sharks eat their prey whole‚ or they tear off large chunks of the bodies. Some sharks crush their prey. Others take out small pieces off flesh from large fish. Sharks also feed on dead or dying animals. Sharks have the reputation of
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Perez Leydi 10-22-13 ‘’Cubans contribution to the South Florida’s cultures’’ As many people know the United States is habited by millions of Hispanic people from different parts of the world. The Hispanics have developed a great impact on the American community. Latin’s people have influenced the culture of United States in a impressive way. In any part of the country we can meet a Cuban‚ a Venezuelan‚ a Puerto Rican‚ etc. However‚ when we refer to the community of South Florida
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the number of items in the stack. You Hardin in 1974.[1] Hardin’s metaphor describes a lifeboat bearing 50 people‚ with room for ten more. The lifeboat is in an ocean surrounded by a hundred swimmers. The "ethics" of the situation stem from the dilemma of whether (and under what circumstances) swimmers should be taken aboard the lifeboat. Hardin compares the lifeboat metaphor to the Spaceship Earth model of resource distribution‚ which he criticizes by asserting that a spaceship would be directed
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Evaluating fiction is not based on which piece of literature is a better story‚ or was written by a more profound author‚ instead‚ literature can be loosely evaluated by two main judgments. First‚ each piece should be reviewed as to how fully it connects to the central purpose‚ or theme of the work. Each element of the story should contribute to the central theme in a well executed story. Second‚ each work should be judged by how powerful the purpose is. This can cause differing judgements between
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