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I am greatly honored to be a recipient of the 2016, 2017 Witham Trustee Scholarship. Thank you very much for the kind generosity of this gift. Your support will greatly help my family through the struggle of paying for college. Just earlier this year, a brother of mine has graduated from this University and wishes to move on to medical school, which leaves quite the financial burden on them. The scholarship you have given me helps offset that burden just that little bit that greatly helps my…

remember, my cousins and I were told never to go near the bunker because our parents told us it is very dangerous or at least they saw it that way. Many times we would see small figures scaling the bunker eventually finding themselves at the top, then jumping into the cool crisp blue water far below. Although none of us would ever dare go near the bunker we were fascinated by its stature. Years passed, and when I became sixteen, everything I was told when I was younger began to fade away.…

Concussions and brain injuries caused by sports related accidents are things that happen all the time, and they do not seem like threatening things, but they are extremely dangerous to student athletes’ health. The most common sports that produce concussions are soccer, football, and equine related sports. If a person receives multiple concussions they can have major effects on the student’s health and education. Concussions can have effects on the student’s academic performance and it can keep…

The sun was shining brightly against the trees and rocks surrounding us. The smell of bug spray and sunscreen drifted through the air. We had just arrived at our campsite. Stepping out of the car was like being an alien stepping on a new planet. Everything was different. It was peaceful. There were children running around on the volleyball courts, parents cleaning dishes from their breakfast, and dogs lying calmly underneath the shade of the massive trees at every campsite. I was five years old…

The two stories were Barro Boy and A Day's Wait the theme about these stories is that when you experience something you haven't done and you get explained you feel different and better.There are different because they have different emotions and they are scared of different things. The narrators don't do or like the same things but they are both men. They things the experience are not the same the two stories talk of something totally different. This stories have different meanings and feelings.…

went above the normal weight range. I am not an active person; however, over the past two years, I decided to exercise five days a week and 40 minutes everyday, except for the weekends. In one hour, I would do a 20 minutes warm-up consisting: 20 jumping jacks, 20 push-ups, 50 sit-ups, 10 bicycle crunches, and 10 power lunges. Every Mondays, after my warm-ups, I would walk for one mile under 16 minutes. Tuesday to Thursdays are days that I can walk or play sports after my daily warm-ups. Every…

This summer I went to the D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. The best part was going to the Parks and Resorts panel. My mom and I were waiting in this mile long line at 9am for this panel that started at 3 pm. We finally started moving and went down the escalator to go into the basement. We entered a giant room under the main ballroom and sat down on this cold gray concrete floor with about seven thousand other people to wait. After being down there for about three hours we finally got…

There are many student athletes all over the United States that have torn their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Sports like football, basketball, wrestling, and soccer are constantly shifting left and right and jumping give making them a higher risk for a ACL injury or minor knee injury than an average young adult. After the knee injury these young athletes need to go through some kind of rehab to get back on the field and to their everyday life activities. During the time of rehab they will…

The traumatic meniscal injuries in basketball players are caused as a result of compressive forces together with knee flexion rotation (Zedde, Mela, Prete, Masia & Manunta, 2014). Hence, the prevention of injuries in athletes has become more and more essential in recent years. Many fitness professionals advice time efficient static stretching before the competition. A pre competition static stretching is believed to reduce the risk of injury during the game. The fast paced game of basketball…

What do you think of when you hear the word shark? Maybe scary, dangerous, creepy or even deadly. Some people's biggest fear is getting attacked by a shark, but they don’t know how to stay safe! Is this you? Do you want to know how to become shark aware? If the answer to that question is yes, keep reading! Sharks do not hunt for you and I. If they do, it is because they have mistaken your identity, they may of thought you were a turtle, a sea lion or any other animals of their natural prey.…