2008 Summer Paralympics

With a growing audience, there will be more individuals both accepting and rejecting an artist’s idea. Artists must stay relevant in their art forms, messages, and followers to maintain their influential presence. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Weiwei was responsible for the architecture, Bird’s Nest, which he now reflects on as a misrepresentation of China as it creates the illusion of a free society: simply an image to the rest of the world (See Fig. 1; Worden, 2016).…

Sharks swim faster because of their special skin. Through the learning of this, we created artificial human “shark skin” swimsuits to enhance our performance at water sports such as swimming. This innovation has not worked very effectively. According to the article, Shark Skin Boosts Swim Speed and Cuts Drag by Adrian Bishop it states, “Shark skin is coated in sharp scales, similar to teeth, called dermal denticles (or (placoid scales) that affect the flow of water to reduce drag and increase…

Usain Bolt,born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican. He is the first person to hold both the and since became mandatory. He also holds the world record as a part of the . He is the reigning world and Olympic champion in these three events. Due to his unprecedented dominance and achievements in sprint competition, he is widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time.An eight-time , Bolt won the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay at three consecutive Olympic Games, although he subsequently…

is because there are billions more people than there was in the past. So even though our technology is more efficient and environmentally friendly we are still cranking out the high levels of pollution. A prime example of this is the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2008 the city of Beijing had to make laws to cut down on their pollution production because they were about to hold the Olympics and a person could see the smoke in the air. The pollution levels were worse there than other places not…

Culture-oriented English teaching in P.R. China I. Introduction: With the world economic and social development and globalization in the 21st century, it is an obvious circumstance which the number of overseas students in different countries has been snowballing. Facing the increasing severe talent market, more and more students in China do choose to have further education in foreign countries mainly in English-speaking countries to meet the standards of their personal internships.…

in exile for sixteen years. His unfortunate early life in exile birthed a great deal of discontent and Ai Weiwei now works to expose corruption in his home country. His forms of protest include art installations and videos. In one of his videos from 2008, Ai Weiwei set up a citizen’s project to investigate an 8.0 earthquake that killed thousands, including over 5,000 school children. An article published in ArtAsiaPacific, a monthly art magazine,…

Tommie Smith was the Olympics gold medalist in the 1968 Olympic games which was held in Mexico City that year. Smith smashed the world record with a time of 19.8 seconds. His teammate John Carlos won the bronze that same year and competition. Both Carlos and Smith were part of an organization called the Olympic Project for Human Right or otherwise known as the OPHR. The founder of the organizations was a sociologist and college professor, Harry Edwards. Tommie Smith was one of the original…

1. During my summers working as a camp counselor in 2006-2009, many events took place during these years. However, just within the USA and just within these summers I was able to narrow down the events that took place In the summer of 2006, the Louisiana Superdome reopened. This was a big deal since so many repairs had to be mad after the damages made by hurricane Katrina. In my research I learned that re-roofing this building was the largest roofing project in US history. It took thirteen…

When I was younger I had a goal to get a scholar athelete award. The reason I got the award is because I set two goals, get a state championship cut, and also mantain straight A’s for a single nine-weeks. Goals are an important part of a well round life. My athletic goal is to swim Division 1. I have swam sice I was eight, and naturally if I’ve made it this far I want to be at the top of a new level. I believe I have set myself in good position to swim in college. My father swam division 1 and…

Due to this being Gatlin’s second offense violation doping regulations, he had initially faced a lifetime ban. In order to avoid this, Gatlin had cooperated with authorities in order to find out what he had done wrong and in order to attempt to show that he had not been doping. Because of the cooperation and assistance from Gatlin he had only received an eight year ban for this offense. Not only was he banned, but his recently shared co-world record of 9.77 seconds in the 100-meter sprint had…