2004 Summer Paralympics

Around the U.S., schools everywhere have been switching to the year-round schedule, one with no summer break, yet more frequent brakes. Many people feel Florida should switch to it too, and that is the smart choice, for less memory loss and refreshment. Although more people enjoy the log summer break, they lose some memory of what they did before it. To begin with, memory loss over summer break is very high. Some kids can only remember a major low amount of what they learned before. This…

Recess is a time for kids to be kids. Students can play sports, catch up with friends they don't have classes with, or do some homework sitting outside. If the weather was rainy students would stay inside and do their normal schedule. This will help Lake Zurich Students! K-5 students get recess, but once students go into junior high, recess is eliminated from the day. The students at Middle School South in Lake Zurich Illinois would like recess in their school. Having recess would benefit…

So, you went on a picnic and decided to go for a nice long walk in the woods. You have great fun. The kids had great fun. But, none of you are having fun any more. You are too busy scratching. You were all allergic to poison ivy, just like seven out of every ten people in the United States. What is poison ivy and what do you do about it? Poison ivy is a vine that grows through the United States and is known for its distinctive three leaves, each having its own stem. It normally grows along the…

with long vacations. Some adults do most of their work during the summer with kids. Without kids in the summer they won’t be able to get as much money. Kids also make their money during summer jobs, for example, college kids save up during the summer to help pay bills. At the end of the day year-round school makes all of us work more. Students should not have to attend school year-round. Most people need a vacation during the summer to relieve stress.An artical from Usa Today states that…

Children around the world run wild in the summer, having sleepovers, lounging beside the pool, partying at night. But should they really be doing that? Children have flexible minds, meaning that they learn and retain the information about things and easily lose the information on it. If children read during the summer, even 20 minutes a day, it will keep the information from the previous year stored in their heads. Test scores will improve, it will prevent summer reading loss and improve grammar…

Summer School has taught me many things that will stick with me throughout the last year of my High School career. One of the many things that a learned is not to procrastinate as well as making sacrifices for the better of myself. It has taught me many different things that I will be practicing and putting into my life the last year of high school. The most important thing that I learned this summer was how important attendance is. One thing that I have learned is to get my stuff done and not…

student would allow for an additional 10,760 dollars of funding. The second concern that children require down time as it is beneficial to them and allows them to engage in play, familial events, and societal occasions such as festivals or tourism. Summer camp is a social gathering event, allowing a child to learn interactive skills and meet other children, taking that activity away would be wrong. However, this concern over peer interaction and learned social skills is easily mitigated, as…

1. The Special Olympics calls itself the largest sports organization for people with intellectual disabilities and a “global social movement” (Special Olympics, 2015). The goal of the organization centers itself on several principles, both for the individual athletes and the larger system. Special Olympics strives to build global communities in the hope of spreading acceptance and education for the population it serves, it strongly and actively advocates for raising awareness to both the…

Although some level of adaptive sport has likely occurred throughout human history, organized sports for people with disabilities has a relatively brief history. The earliest international sports organization for people with disabilities was the International Committee for Deaf Sports, which was establish in 1922. 1932 saw the establishment of the British Society of One-armed golfers, which is one of the first organizations for people with specifically physical disability. The bloom of adaptive…

involved for more than 100000 people included 70000 volunteers and millions of Brazil citizens were directly or indirectly involved in the city build, that attracted over 15000 athletes form almost 250 nations to participate (Rio 2016th Olympics and Paralympic Games, 2013)during the two weeks competition. The Brazilian government has confidently believed that these two international games seem like the fresh blood could motivate the Brazilian downtown market and change their depressed economy.…