Buffy Summers

“Somewhere behind the athlete you have become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you, is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… Play for her.” This was said by Mia Hamm, a professional soccer player from Team USA, in a television interview. Consider the outcome, if that “little girl” never got the opportunity to fall in love with a sport because of feminist discrimination. Every generation of adults, who wanted their daughters to have the…

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is an intricate and powerful novel with grim elements yet a consoling humour. The majority of the novel takes place in a fictional town of Molching, Germany, during World War II and the rise in power of Adolf Hitler. Death narrates the story as it follows the protagonist Liesel Meminger through her trials and tribulations between the years of 1939 to 1943. In The Book Thief, many elements are woven into the story, delving into a complex web of the character’s lives…

sacrifice they take to achieve this journey is immeasurable, but the lessons will guide their whole life. Athletes from all over the world have trained for many years so that they may all come together every four years to compete in either the winter or summer Olympics. The Olympic Games don’t just bring in the competing athlete’s, but it also brings in the family members and the fans from all over the world to enjoy the competition of all the sports. Athletes come in hope to win a gold,…

The terminology of legacy is different meanings to other people within the event industry. The term was argue by Schlenker (2013) of the different meaning of legacy as opposed to using words such as ‘impact’, ‘outcome’ and ‘structure’. Cashman’s (2003) also states that the word legacy means entirely a different sources in other countries that isn’t relevant to English. Sadd’s (2012) highlights that the main concept of event legacy represent the results, implications and the after effect of an…

Everyone is unique, no one is exactly the same; and God created humans this way. He wants people to have their own success and to show perseverance to get through anything that comes up in their life. Because no one person is the same, everyone has a chance to show what they can bring to society. This was taken away from people in Germany because Hitler grouped the people together to make it seem as though they were all equal because of their religion. This also leads into my second teaching…

Context The 2016 Nevada Senate race is one of the country 's most competitive races. Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, former Nevada Attorney General, and Republican Congressman Joe Heck are competing to replace the retiring Harry Reid. With both parties fighting to control Senate, this close race has attracted the attention of outside groups, including Freedom Partners Action Fund which created the anti-Cortez Masto ad “Driving Away Jobs.” The Ad The ad begins with a mother and her young…

of Boise, Idaho, renamed one of the city’s oldest and most popular parks after 43-year-old mother and full-time career woman Kristin Armstrong, who recently won her third-straight gold medal in the women’s cycling individual time trials at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After overcoming a diagnosis of osteoarthritis in 2001, Kristin is now the most decorated female cyclist in U.S. history and a leader in her community. The Kristin Armstrong Municipal Park stretches for 28 acres on…

“Breaking news! the world’s fastest man on Earth, Lightening C failed to qualify for the men’s 100m sprint for the 2076 Olympics”. It was a shocking news, but on the other hand, it was kind of anticipated as there was astonishing discovery that became available since 2060, which is the genetic modification. Although it has not been the most common and trustworthy methods for having children due to its ethical reasons, some people still insisted on using the new genetic engineering system to…

In 2016, the Summer Olympic games was held in Rio, which was the first South American city to be a host (Dale,2016). When Rio was chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it was experiencing a period in which their economy was increasing (McBrid, 2016). In 2013, Brazil’s poverty rate dropped from 25 percent to 9 percent (Nelson, 2016). In 2009, the inflation rate was lower than the banks predicted, so the Brazilian stock market had the highest value in the world (Dale, 2016). Also,…

Imagine that you are at the Olympic Games, swimming the 100-metre freestyle. It is your first time there and you are surrounded by the most prestigious swimmers in the world. Do you quit right away? No, this is what you have grown up on, what you were trained to do. In Hero by Perry Moore, it explores Metro City and it’s residents. In particular, Thom Green. In Metro City, superheroes are the talk of the town and are no longer pieces of the imagination. Thom is a sixteen-year-old boy who is…