Dream Team

making almost every known fact unprovable. This means for every theory about dreaming, it is up to the dreamer to draw their own conclusions. With that being said, it doesn’t mean that we know nothing about dreams, in fact, we study dreams just about every day even without knowing it. You and I dream every night, whisked away to another world where anything is possible. But what if I told you that you make up the rules in that world and can control everything that happens around you. This would…

In the movie Inside Out, the main concept that is portrayed is how memory works. Certain specific topics that relate to memory that are in the movie include REM sleep, long term memory, dream theories, flashbulb memories and interference, to name a few. The way that some of these topics are portrayed in the movie are correct, and actually give an accurate, but comedic interpretation of how the memory works. Although the movie has some moments where concepts that involve memory are not…

Wham! Ty Clark makes another amazing tackle, he is just on fire today. My team the Richmond Bulldogs had played the Richmond Giants we were winning but I was mad because of what had happened the night before. That game I had 7 tackles because I was aggravated at the dilemma from the night before. My mind was all over the place it was hard to stay focus at the task at hand. The most important moment of my life is when I got 7 tackles in one game this important to me because I was…

were competing in the Regional finals match. The winner would receive the number one seed going into the State Championships, and the other team was our conference rivals. This was our toughest match-up of the year. We ended up clinching the first set 7-5. The next set was an up and down battle, consisting of long rallies and some amazing shots. The opposing team ended up winning the second set 7-6. This was heartbreaking because I had match point on my racket, practically in my hands and I…

Parents either dream or dread about a time when their child looks up with hopeful joy filling his eyes and exclaims, “I want to be just like you when I grow up!” The parents who dream about this occurrence usually have interests and unfulfilled dreams they would have liked to accomplish and do not want their child to regret not pursuing his interests and dreams. On the other side of the scenario, are the parents who feel a bolt of cold dread at their child’s enthusiasm. They know they have…

Being new to banking I faced multiple challenges in 2015. My biggest challenge would be staying up-to-date about policies. Since things are consistently changing it is a challenge to stay current. I have found myself reviewing policy changes days after they have taken effect. From this challenge I have learned to use all my resources to find policy changes, such as in retail banking news and week in review. It is my new year resolution to make a great effort to learn a policy change as soon as I…

TO DREAM OR NOT TO DREAM, WHAT IS REALITY? Inception vs Descartes. Inception suggests that you can know that you’re dreaming and therefore act and behave accordingly in a dream to achieve a desired outcome. While Descartes, states that while in a dream it is impossible to know that you are dreaming. In both the movie Inception and Descartes, each infer that dreams can be so real that it is impossible to know if you are dreaming or not. The movie solves this question by introducing the concept…

When someone hears the word dream, what words come to their mind? It might be a hope, a trance, or even a wonder. I think of the word ambition. A dream to me is something that I look forward to and it keeps me moving forward to achieve a major goal in my life. Dreams are different in each perspective, but some try to crush others’ dreams. Some think their dreams are more valuable than others. However, who’s to say someone’s dreams are worthless? No one should, but unfortunately that is not the…

goal. Speaking corporatively, the groups are integrations of two or more people who have an equal vision, or organizational dream, a mission and therefore common values, a similar objective, also work in a coordinated and cooperative in pursuit of the vision and of the objective without renouncing its mission or values. Based on this concept, most of the so-called "sports teams" do not go beyond being sports groups, since they do not have the same principles or values, they are linked by an…

When I was eleven years old, my volleyball journey began. I sat in the gym with my bubble- kneepads and old tennis shoes. Lacking in the fashion area, I sat in the gym with my shoes and kneepads. As my years of volleyball went on, it was time for me to hang up my nasty bubble-kneepads and tennis shoes and buy big-girl kneepads and volleyball shoes. As my love for volleyball grew throughout the years, it taught me strengths, weaknesses, and talents I never knew I had. Seventh and eighth grade…