group to friend group. She loved making new friends, and she never was rude to people. She seemed to have the perfect life. She had good grades, was in a lot of clubs, and played badminton. Everyday she would race home, finish her homework easily, and race to the courts, refining and improving her skills in badminton. Badminton season at school is now only a month away. She was excused from conditioning, because once the coaches had heard of how much she practiced outside of school, they knew…
him. Ben maintains a high level of enthusiasm in his course work, even if it’s not material he is 100% interested in. He applies himself to the expectations of the course and drives himself to do his best. Ben’s after school activities included badminton, ice hockey, guitar, volunteer work and part-time…
community, outside of the classroom, would you most want to impact and why? (150 words or less) I want to get involved in the Columbia University Badminton Club. As the president of the Badminton Club in my high school myself, the club won the award for the Best Club; badminton is always the sport I have great passion for. Columbia has a well-developed badminton club with weekly exercise and professional games. If I can get in this club, I am going to further revise the setting of weekly…
I stepped off the plane and was hit by southern Vietnam’s hot, humid air. A relative I had just met handed me a water bottle and I drank from it as I scanned my surroundings. Hundreds of motorcycles zipped around the streets, some riding up onto sidewalks blanketed with dust. People lined the streets, stray dogs loped in narrow alleyways, and old men sat on plastic stools, smoking cigarettes and scratching their patchy beards. Looking up, I saw power lines clumped in a jumbled mess. Vietnam’s…
At age twelve, I left the woman I love the most in Vietnam to start a new life with my dad in the United States. I was always wondering to myself that why my mom doesn't want to go with me, and our family can live together. But then as i've growing up, i realized that she sacrificed to stay there, so my dad can take care of me better. I remember the first day i went to middle school, i was clueless, i couldn't speak English and the people around me, we have different cultures, and ethinicity.…
During our 2 weeks of teaching our lessons I was able to observe 7 different activities and games. Some of the activities that I was able to experience and observe were practicing balance, baseball or striking skills, badminton, volleyball, tennis, soccer, and dancing. All the activities were different, although some of the activities were similar on the skills we are practicing or learning, but all were unique in their own way. Starting with the balance activity with Jaelyn and Allie the…
economies of scale and thus improve the contribution margin. 2. Initially the firm will manufacture Tennis balls but within a span of three to four years, the firm will expand its product offering by producing Cricket Bats, Tennis and Badminton Racquets, Badminton Shuttlecock etc. The firm will produce equipments that are used in more than one sport with minimum difference in the product…
SCIENCE.PEOPLE.CARING. Three reasons why I want to become a paramedic. The complexity and vulnerability of the human body is intriguing and has driven my keen desire to help people when they are at their most vulnerable and positively impact their lives from the first precious moments of life through to their last. Fear of my mum telling me off meant that, I was able to mask the pain of burning my hand at the age of 4. From then my interest was sparked, at how powerful the mind is to control…
Author- Anisha Dixit ABSTRACT: Although there has been a steady increase in the number of women professionals over the past 20-30 years. Most mainstream newspaper coverage continues to rely on men as experts in the fields of business, politics and economics. Women in the news are more because of stories about accidents, rape cases and domestic violence than in stories about their professional abilities. While the coverage of women’s sport across the world is already not equal to that of male’s…
A probable activity is to pair up competent players, usually school players for badminton and tennis, with beginning players and instruct them to return the shutters such that their partners learn to receive by with underhand and overhand skills. The advantage of this activity is that the teacher able to monitor the groups and give feedback…