Gold medal

and wasn 't really known for anything athletic before then. In 2008 China ranked #1 overall in the Olympics finishing with 51 gold medals, 21 silver medals, and 28 bronze medals. China 's best sports at the Summer Olympics are badminton, diving, gymnastics, shooting, table tennis, and weightlifting. China is known for soaring in table tennis and has won 23 of 27 gold medals for table tennis in the Olympics. Although China may not be known for being the most athletic country, their athletes that…

Have you ever thought what if I had tried harder then I would have succeeded? Most likely you have and that is known as counterfactual thinking. Counterfactual thinking is the theory of what could have been. We tend to correlate our failures with counterfactual thinking. For example, if we had studied harder on that test and not gone out that night we might have gotten an A on the test not a B. We can also look at counterfactual thinking in a positive way and how that helps us in our lives. In…

Counterfactual thinking and living in imagination is another aspect of life that distracts adults and children from their realities. These individuals get captured in their thoughts of how life should be or how things should go. By adults and children carefully planning out their future’s and how certain things should happen, it causes misery when their “blueprint” does not go as planned. In Jeanette Winterson’s essay “The World and Other Places”, she introduces characters who live their lives…

Alex Morgan was the most youngest player of the U.S. women's national football team during the event of 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, and she also won a gold medal with the U.S. Olympic women's soccer team in 2012 150067554.jpg.CROP.article250-mediumBIRTH: Alexandra Patricia Morgan, commonly known as Alex Morgan was born in July 2, 1989 (age 26 years), Diamond Bar, California, United States. Synopsis In 2009, Alex Morgan became the most youngest member of the U.S. women's national soccer team…

injured leg and in a hospital in Milan and was rewarded a silver medal for his bravery, but this meant his career was in the military was over. In the short story, In Another Country, the American soldier in the story, who is also the narrator and Ernest Hemingway have almost identical aspects. The American soldier is in the hospital in Milan for a leg injury; he cannot bend his knee. He proceeds to talk about how he received a medal saying “…were written in very beautiful language and full of…

Not all Medals are made of Metal An icy and bitter mist surrounded me. The sun had secreted behind piles of looming clouds, while droplets of water dispensed from the sky. The track bore a vast expanse of puddles, and runners plunged their way through them. I was sitting in the dewy grass underneath the canopy of our tent. Rain trickled down the stadium steps as I heard the booming announcer eagerly bellow, “Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2016 State Track and Field Meet.” My heart began to…

She did a lot of work and had a positive mindset that helped her get to the point she wanted to be and beyond. She got to the Beijing Olympics, which was a dream come true to her, and she won one gold medal on the balance beam. She didn’t end her career like she thought she would, but she succeeds farther than most for her age. Sacred Acre and Shawn Johnson did not start on the right foot, but found people that knew what they were doing and succeeded…

detested, and if I didn’t hate them then I sure as fuck do now. To the young girls in the years below me, I was known as The Girl That Sings. I wore this badge with the kind of pride middle aged women get when tommy gets a medal in the race that everyone else also got a medal in. I was, and forever will be The Girl That Sings. In…

and are guaranteed a percentage of food from the farm, and miners are offered a similar bounty of housing, food, and are given a certain amount of precious metals as well. Food and precious items flow into the economy through trades, a few ounces of gold for a plot of land, or food to last your family a…

Due to today’s media which has sensationalized and embellished the more magical aspects of alchemy, the layman may imagine dark spirits and flasks overflowing with noxious chemicals. The layman may also think of alchemy as a trial and error process, in which the aspiring alchemist fumbles blindly towards his next success or failure. This is far from the truth. The infancy of alchemy is located in a Greece influenced Egypt ("Alchemists, Ancient and Modern."). Ancient Egypt, Alexandria, had…