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It’s Different If you were to look up success in the dictionary you would find that, success is “1. the accomplishment of an aim or purpose 2. a person or thing that achieves desired aims attains prosperity.” Yet we all seem to take the definition of the word a bit differently, what might be considered successful to a six year old will vary from what it means to a 17 year old. Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book “Outliers”, defines success based on the facts of when you born, where you grew…

The ability to overcome tough obstacles in an individual's life is known as human resilience. The book “Boys in the boat”, written by Daniel James Brown, is about a young man named Joe Rantz, who is on the rowing team for the University of Washington. He had to overcome many challenges regarding his past, but it didn’t stop him from gaining a spot on the United States Olympic crew team. He helped lead his team to victory, despite the hardships of living alone as a teenager. The second story…

Can you believe that some people think swimming isn’t a sport? Awesomely swimming has been around for centuries, but most people like it for entertainment. Luckily, people learn how to swim because it’s an essential skill that should be, but unfortunately almost required in life and parents want them to be safe, but other people learn for different reasons. Some learn it because you can actively perform it your entire life. Amazingly others pursue this sport because it’s the sport they dream…

Caster Semenya is an athlete who has identified herself as a woman and has her whole life. However, it changed when she was required to do a gender testing. In this test, she found out that she had no ovaries or uterus, but she did have testes that could produce testosterone. Because of this result, there was a huge debate whether she would be allowed to race as a woman because she had a huge advantage over the others. However, Dr. Myron Genel, a professor at Yale University, states that she is…

Critical Commentary of “The accidental celebritisation of Caster Semenya” by Dr Jaime Shultz Individuals that are deemed ‘Celebrities’ are omnipresent these days, in the news, on television, in the papers…. Many, such as movie stars and musicians, choose their celebrity status and take every opportunity to promote that status, including the current US election season. Others have their status thrust upon them. One such case of ascribed celebrity status is that of Caster Semenya whose celebrity…

Aesop’s Fables Folio A 600-metre race is conducted between the cat, dog and hedgehog to determine which animal can run the distance the fastest. The aim of the investigation is to identify the characteristics of animals’ races and in the final analysis, the results of the initial, semi-final and gold medal races. The cat follows a quadratic line with the equation . The dog’s path follows a cubic line with the equation . The hedgehog follows a linear path with the equation . These graphs can be…

predators go after the weak and elderly, our culling targets those that are fittest or targets those that have others depending on them. So with this kind of culling it could challenge the entire existence of the sharks that have been here for over 400 million…

will sell approximately 80 million metres of fabric (includes domestic value-added and plain fabrics as well as exports) for the year 1997-98. This is an increase of 8.92 per cent over the last year when it sold approximately 74 million metres of fabric. The trouble is that this growth is too less. Its sales forecast and viability required it to function at 80 per cent of the built-up capacity. That meant an output of at least 100 million metres (of 120 million metre build-up) for the operation…

It was influenced by the Ancient Greeks Pergamon Altar, 400 metres long and 24 metres high and could accommodate 340 000 people. Speer also designed the Nuremberg parade grounds which was used in Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film "The Triumph of the Will". For additional dramatic effect Speer surrounded the airfield with 130 anti-aircraft searchlights shining them up 8000 metres into the sky. British Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson declared it was like being in a…

almost moved to tears as he described the mixture of emotions he experiences over the past week, looking on his offspring shocking the world. He said he was at his brother's house to witness Jereem finishing third in the 200-metres men's finals but missed the 4 × 400 metres relay team's inspiring victory. It was only yesterday that he saw the replay of the Jereem and his team mates Jarrin Solomon, Machel Cedenio and Lalonde Gordon's race. "His performance was great and I really…