Farewell Summer

The story of Michael Phelps Michael Phelps discovered swimming at a young age. He showed hesitation at first but soon after showed his immense talent for the sport. After years of training Michael Phelps went to the Olympics at the age of 15. I chose Michael Phelps because he showed you what there you can do. He trained and trained and became one of the best athlete to ever live. He shows kids an example of what you can do. If you want to do something must try. I always saw Michael Phelps in…

Swimming is a challenging sport and requires a lot of time to excel at it. There is no more accomplished or impressive career than swim athlete Michael Phelps. Michele was born June 30th 1985. His parents are Debbie and Fred Phelps. Phelps first started his swim career at Loyola High School. During his time their he was diagnosed with AD-HD, which made balancing school and swimming difficult. He started personal training with his coach Bob Bowmann at North Baltimore Aquatic Club at the…

Jen Bricker can be such an inspiration. She did things that even people with legs can't do. imagine doing gymnastics with no legs. Helen Keller once wrote "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” The story "The Amazing Powers Of Jen Bricker" by Kristen Lewis can show what that quote means because Jen Bricker has no legs but she still looked past it and she could do gymnastics. So did the poem "Can't" by Edgar Albert Guest because when people think they can’t, they have to…

What do you think of when you hear the word Olympics? Does your mind go to the games that happen every other summer and winter? Or are you one of those people that thinks all the way back into time, about how the Olympics started and why they started? For me, I think of the Olympics as something that allows you to dream big. “The Olympics show that your dreams can come true if you work hard. It’s not IMPOSSIBLE.” Jencarlos Canela hit the Olympics right on the head with that quote. The Olympics…

Throughout time as humans have evolved and their way of thinking has evolved they have built technology to make their lives easier and things more efficient. Such as cars to increase the speed of transportation and axes to progress the way of living. However, even though technology helps civilization by creating faster means of transportation and safer homes it pollutes and causes harm to the planet. Throughout history, as time progressed so has humans and the advancement of technology. For,…

The Olympics in Sochi have multiple dialectical relationships between the events that took place, the host country of Sochi, and the global stage of economics, technology, politics, and culture. The events in Sochi have a dialectal relationship with Sochi in that they occurred there, the people in Sochi and the terrain of Sochi also effected the way the events were run, and how the fans of different countries interacted during the events. The events in Sochi also effected Sochi economically, it…

The idea of a permanent venue is not a novel proposition. Greece has long offered to bring the Summer Olympic Games back home (“Permanent Olympic venues: A great (and necessary) idea”). Furthermore, in 1980 the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously passed a resolution calling for, among other things, “urgent consideration to the creation of permanent homes for the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, including one in Greece, their country of origin” (“Permanent Olympic venues:…

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.…

When most people hear the word Olympics, the first thing that comes to mind is the sporting competitions that house worldwide athletes every four years. But for the Intuit people of Alaska, the word Olympics represents something more. For generations the Intuit people have been participating in what they call, The World Eskimo-Indian Olympics. Their Olympic games consist of activities that challenge the mental and physical abilities specific to the Eskimo lifestyle. Although now these games are…

Every four years the Olympic games are held in another country, in the 2012 Olympic games over 2.1 million people have attended the events in the first three days. (Degun, 2012). One of the Olympics worldwide sponsors is McDonalds, who has been an official sponsor of the Olympic moment since 1979. McDonalds has served a Varity of menu choices to over one million athletes, their families and fans. (McDonalds, n.d.) This year McDonalds has agreed to sponsor a new event taking place prior to the…