devices usually work‚ but sometimes a rescuer must swim a float to an active victim‚ or swim out and tow an unconscious person to safety. Such cases require strong swimming skills. First Class rank requirements start you on your way to becoming a good swimmer‚ but you need additional skills to begin training for the Lifesaving merit badge. You need to master the front crawl‚ sidestroke‚ breaststroke‚ and elementary backstroke. These are introduced in your Boy Scout Handbook and reviewed here‚ but you will
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Darya Dotson 02/17/06 Literary Heritage Summary Five-forty-Eight In the short story Five-Forty-Eight John Cheever demonstrates the effects a man can have on a fragile women. There are two characters is this story: Blake (the business man) and Miss. Dent (the women scorned). She had been his secretary whom he slept with a consequently fired. Miss Dent was not stable mentally and she didn’t take this very well. The story starts out with Blake getting off the elevator in the building he
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Muscle Tone and Strength Did you guys ever see a flabby dolphin or a weak-looking competitive swimmer? We didn’t think so. That’s because swimming is a great way to increase muscular strength and muscle tone -- especially compared to several other aerobic exercises. Take running‚ for example. When a jogger takes few laps around the track‚ that jogger is only moving his or her body through air. A swimmer‚ on the other hand‚ is propelling himself through water -- a substance about twelve times as dense
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Some might wonder why she had such a big effect‚ or what made her so special. The thing that makes Missy so special is the fact she is such an amazing swimmer. Missy was just 14 years old and was already a star in the pool. She competed in her first duel in the pool in 2009. At age 5 missy learned to swim‚ and is still swimming at age 20. (says-http://www.biography.com/people/missy-franklin-20903291). Missy
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You can not just the book by its cover Reunion by John Cheever is a short story about a son and a father who had not seen one another for 3 years after his mother divorced him. The son looked back to the day where the reunion took place. At the beginning of the story ‚ readers can see the son’s glad feeling with his opportunity meeting his father and his high expectation of his long-time-no-see father. The reference the son had to his father at the beginning is the image of a noble‚ rich
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makes them physically fit to be in any environment that they travel to. Even though most would say that jellyfish are horrible swimmers‚ they are actually in fact many are very strong precise swimmers. Jellyfish can swim horizontally and vertically by using contraction against their bell to expel jets of water to propel them. One drawback of them not being stronger swimmers like larger fish is that they often get caught in sea currents and get stuck in them as they go pass. The bell that propels them
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Cheating and Sportsmanship HPE essay-BY Elliott Biggs Just like everything in life‚ sports too are governed by rules‚ customs and even competition. Sports are a way through which we are able to connect with our past and have good feelings about the future. Sports acts as a way of bonding people despite their age‚ gender and race differences. Sports today‚ instead of bonding people and teaching them discipline and teamwork is causing them to cheat. And athletes have a reason to cheat now with all
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6)‚ register is a combination of the field‚ tenor and mode in a particular situation that provides the reader with a framework of understanding. The register of this article provides an understanding of the field; high-profile Australian swimmers are unhappy with ASADA’s lack of transparency and uncomfortable sharing training facilities with the Chinese swimming team. The tenor of the article is depicted in the relationship between Halloran and Harris as the journalists‚ as well as Grant
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in the final for the 200 meter butterfly race. Known for his strict coaching methods‚ Bowman would analyze and rework Phelps’ stroke under scrutinizing detail‚ until it was close to perfection. He would also have Phelps watch the tapes of famous swimmers such as Ian Thorpe‚ to assist in his training. In an interview with the Baltimore Sun‚ Phelps says‚ “Training with Bob is the smartest thing I’ve ever done. I’m not going to swim for anyone else” (Van
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Marilyn Bell Marilyn Grace Bell Di Lascio is a retired long distance swimmer‚ born October 19‚ 1937‚ in Toronto‚ Ontario. She was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and later swam the English Channel and Strait of Juan de Fuca. Personal life Bell was born in Toronto‚ Ontario to parents Sydney and Grace Bell. The family moved to North Bay‚ Ontario‚ then Halifax‚ Nova Scotia before returning to Toronto in 1946.[1] After her swimming career‚ Marilyn married Joe Di Lascio and moved
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