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Half way back my muscles were burning and my thoughts started to think “Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, come on swim like Michael Phelps!” I reached and hit the wall with a time of 38 seconds! I got third which means I medaled! I took home a bronze medal that day, I had gone from sixth place to third place. I went home feeling achieved! I can relate to the poem, “ Success is counted sweetest” by Emily Dickinson. Katie Ledecky and I share one major thing in common, we both rely on our Catholic…

The Giver was a very compulsive and noteworthy novel written by Lois Lowry, which had won a John Newbery Medal in 1994. It is the first book of a quartet, but each novel isn’t a continuation of the previous stories. The various genres for The Giver include young adult fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction and the infamous, science fiction. It’s setting takes places in an imaginary world in an unspecified year or time where pain, physical and emotional, doesn’t exist. Almost every person has no…

Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

If we were to live in a world where choices are already made for us, then we would live in a world similar to the community of The Giver. The Giver is a world created by Lois Lowry. She is a two time John Newbery Medal winner. The Giver is a story about Jonas, becoming the next receiver of memory and learning the truth of the world. I believe that we should be able to make our own choices. It may lead to mistakes, but if we learn from them then we will know not to do that mistake or accident…

of the setting, how are they creating a representation of the characters, how do these images impact their experience while reading? Many of these important aspects are taken oven by the director when a book is transferred into a movie. The Newbery Medal winner book, The Tale of Despereaux, was originally written in 2003 by Kate DiCamillo and was converted into a movie in 2008 by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen. While comparing these two it is important to notice the changes in plot, the…

“Holes” by Louis Sachar was published in 1998 from Scholastic Publishing. It has received a Newbury Medal and the National Book Award. The book follows the story of Stanley Yelnats, a poor boy with bad luck due to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great- grandfather. Stanley is accused of stealing a baseball players shoes that were up for auction at a homeless shelter, a crime he did not commit. He is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp , for his punishment. The camp is…

mother pinned it on my breast. It’s my Eagle Scout medal, and it’s my greatest achievement. My most formative experience was the year I spent as senior patrol leader, and it was crucial to my achievement of this medal. I was a mere sophomore, who was tasked with turning around a declining troop, sometimes having to make some difficult decisions. This experience shaped me into the young man I am today, and it is all represented in that small medal. The red stands for courage. I had to be…

The Copley Medal is a scientific award that is given out by the Royal Society and awarded to a scientist that shows achievements in research in any branch of science. As members of the Royal Society it is our duty to nominate and pick scientists that rightly deserve the medal. It is our job as the Royal Society to discuss these nominations in a scholarly way and not disrespect any of the finding of other scientist. The scientists’ theories are important to science because they add value to the…

For meritorious service while serving as the Senior Enlisted Advisor at U.S. Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Far East Detachment Diego Garcia from January 2015 to March 2016. Senior Chief Robinson consistently demonstrated leadership and initiative in the performance of her duties. Her ability to perform in an extremely isolated, arduous, and dynamic environment are directly reflected in the high level of success provided to Navy, Joint and Coalition forces conducting Overseas…

Albert Einstein once said, "Life without playing music is inconceivable... I get most joy in life out of music." Music has been known to bring people joy, but can it bring people success? Music had been a constant in today’s society, whether it be through a computer, mp3, phone, or on the radio. Music is heard all throughout the world, and what is not known about it, is that it can enhance ones athletic ability. Music impacts athletic preparation and performance in five ways: dissociation,…