VICTORY! “When you walk into the gym you leave everything behind. It’s like a total different world. It’s you second family. We gymnasts spend more time in the gym then with our parents. We do gymnastics not to please our family but to please ourselves.” The day I found out all my training was worth it‚ was at the Glencoe- Silver Lake Gymnastics Invite. I got to this moment by joining gymnastics and making the high school team‚ going to practice every day and giving it my all‚ and all the other
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Definition: Muscular endurance is the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time. he combination of strength and endurance results in muscular endurance - the ability to perform many repetitions against a given resistance for a prolonged period of time (1). It is a crucial element of fitness for athletes such as distance runners‚ swimmers‚ cyclists and rowers. It’s also important for success in many team sports like
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between 2500-1500 B.C. Gilgamesh ruled in Uruk‚ a city in ancient Mesopotamia. Protagonist: The epic is centered on Gilgamesh because he is the main character and ruler of Uruk who in the beginning is rude and arrogant and has a journey finding everlasting life. At the end of the epic Gilgamesh changes as a king who is loved. Antagonist: Gilgamesh being half man is what is stopping him from receiving eternal life that Gilgamesh wants so he will not die. Major conflict: The main issue between
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1. Parallel – position where feet and legs face forward 2. Passe - movement in which the working leg passes the supporting leg‚ sliding close to the knee. 3. Demi Plie -A basic step in ballet; a smooth‚ slightly and graceful bending of the knees 4. Grande Plie -A basic step in ballet; a smooth‚ graceful bending of the knees; almost in seated position. 5. Releve -In ballet‚ a rising with a spring movement to point or demi-point 6. Flatback –stretch position in which the spine is parallel to
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Centripetal Force Lab Activity Analysis: 1. A) Average Percent Difference: 50g: (values expressed in newtons) Step 1: Calculate the average value of the two variables Average Value= Value 1+ Value 2 /2 = 0.49+ 0.61/2 = 1.1/2 = 0.55 Step 2: Calculate the difference between the two variables Difference= Value 2- Value 1 = Fc- Fg = 0.61- 0.49 = 0.12 Step 3: Calculate % difference % difference= difference
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“Shifting Terrain: Increasing Rate of Plastic Surgery among Women;” Jiyoung Jang State University of New York at Geneseo Women always want to be a beautiful regardless of their age. The main reason why women are so eager to have a perfect face and body is the portrayal of celebrity in the media. Television commercials‚ magazine covers and internet advertisements constantly show the ideal beauty of women. Gaye Tuchman‚ professor of Sociology in Queens College and the Graduate
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icon I used to represent the rising action is the fountain of youth. The fountain of youth is almost exactly the same thing as everlasting life. They both are legendary and thought to be myths. Many people have tried to find the fountain just as Gilgamesh searches for everlasting life. The rising action of the epic of Gilgamesh is when he travels to find everlasting life. Gilgamesh can’t stop grieving for Enkidu‚ and he can’t stop thinking about the prospect of his own death. He sets off into
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damned’‚ she said‚ ‘but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see” (674). The legless girl chooses to use the word “damned” in an attempt to better connect to Manley Pointer’s religious language. In addition‚ Dorothy Tuck McFarland points out in her essay “On ‘Good Country People’” that the blindfold confession does not empower her‚ but actually shows “Hulga’s surrender to love”(1054) which “makes her vulnerable to a revelation of her own blindness” (1054). I agree
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their bodies‚ and it has became social norm in the generation that we live in. Although there are some side affects to plastic surgery‚ some people don’t realize that there is many ways it can help. Some people take it so far that they get a nip in a tuck at every place they can’t stand to live with‚ but when is toughing up going to far? There are many questions about cosmetic or plastic surgery such as if its good or bad‚ people who get it‚ reconstructive surgery‚ and has it already been taken out
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The Epic of Gilgamesh vs. Star wars The Epic of Gilgamesh and Star wars at first glance seem as though they are polar opposites. One is a journey through space and the other is a journey for everlasting life. Vaguely these stories are very different but when looked at closely they share a lot of the same themes and concepts. They are similar in the fact that both Luke and Gilgamesh go on a quest for an overall end prize‚ they both have qualities of immortals and mortals‚ and they both had sidekicks
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