Half & Half

Pilgrimman Half Ironman Well its official! On Sunday, September 20, 2015, I completed my first half ironman distance triathlon at Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and it was awesome! I loved it all!!! If you told me last year that I’d be racing a half ironman distance triathlon, then I’d say, “That’s crazy. There is no way that I would do a half ironman triathlon.” So who made me change my mind? My personal trainer and friend, Nilton Motta, said that he wanted me to…

Oprah Winfrey once stated, “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” But is luck really a combination of preparation with you being presented an opportunity? It is my belief that a majority of the time the answer is a resounding no. However, there are instances where if you are prepared and the right opportunity does present itself luck can sometimes be perceived as having a role. The most common opportunity that I myself have experienced as well as anyone else is having a job…

She sat in the car, opened her mouth, and started to tell her grandmother everything that came to her mind, to her grandmother she never shut up. To the rest of the world, she might as well never opened up to begin with. The drastic changes in her life gave her issues that she had to overcome. Adoption changed my outlook on life; it placed some obstacles in my life that would hold me back for a long period of my life. My life was so changed by adoption that I gained some problems in my life…

similarity of our physical aspect because we are identical. Some other similarities are, we both are family orientated, intellectually similar, and have the same tastes in clothes and music. When you’re the person who sees the glass is half full instead of half empty, you realize you’re the person who is always optimistic. Being an…

it way worse than me; my problems in life do not even compare to others. Lastly, because of Jimmy Wayne and his book, I now have a brighter outlook on life and realize that everything happens for a reason. Rather than seeing the glass half empty, I now see it half…

HλLF-LIFE Half-Life, a science fiction first person shooter developed by Valve Corporation, it was their first video game to be released. At the time Valve was creating this game they were an unknown game company. It was very hard for Valve to find a publisher but they had what Sierra Entertainment wanted, a game based on the Quake engine, later signing Valve on a one-game deal. The game was released on November 8, 1998, on Windows, PlayStation 2, OSX, and Linux. Developed on the GoldSrc…

can slowly change the world. A vision of empowerment is evident through Kristof and WuDunn’s stories of two women in Half the Sky. Throughout Half the Sky, Kristof and WuDunn offer testimonies and accounts of women who have been victims of things such as sex trafficking, gang rape, and honor killings. Meena Hasina’s story is the perfect example of a vision of empowerment in Half the Sky. Kristof and WuDunn offer the girl’s story of her past, and tell how she is doing now. In many of the cases,…

ways? In The Other Half Of Me, by Emily Franklin, there is this 16 year old girl named Jenny Fitzgerald. She is smart, pretty, and artistic. She lives with her two twin sisters Sierra and Sage, her brother Russ, and her parents in Cutler,Connecticut. But Jenny is a donor kid. This summer Jenny had the worst but yet best summer ever. She finally got the boy she liked for two years, gets into the art showcase that she tried so hard to get accepted into, and finds out she has a half-sister named…

understand the concept half life. The half life of a drug being absorbed in the body is the time needed so that one has 50 percent of what was administered. Half life can be graphed as exponential decay. This is useful because when one knows what the rate of the half life is, one can calculate when the medicine needs to be taken. It is not so much that veterinarians would calculate based on the half life. It is more that veterinarians need to understand the concept of half life. For example, if…

World of Half-Adults, Bly focused on writing about gender and how the roles are changing in society. He believes that there are two different types of society, paternalistic and sibling societies. The Paternalistic society was viewed as the preferred generation, where there was structure and self sacrifice was encouraged. This society was more prevalent up until the late 1980’s. The sibling society is considered to be from the 1990’s up until now. Sibling society is classified as the…