Netball

I met 16-year-old Aliah in one of the transit camps in Greece, with her friend and three siblings. They arrived this morning from Syria and are waiting for the bus to the processing center. Three years ago a bomb was dropped on their family home in Damascus and the house burnt to the ground. None of the children were inside, but Aliah tells me, “My father and my mother, they are dead.” She says this so casually that for an instant I think I must have misheard her. But she goes on to explain…

I want a career that is interesting, challenging and rewarding where I can make a positive difference to people’s lives, which is why I have chosen to follow a career path in adult nursing. I came to this decision during work experience in my local hospital pathology lab where I had the opportunity to broaden my knowledge and see at first-hand how analysis in the lab underpins the work of healthcare professionals. I was able to witness the commitment and composure of the blood transfusion…

How are we influenced by society’s Judgement? You walk down the street, you see a man with a dress on. What do you think? How about a girl with bright pink hair, a black man with a gun, a person on the large side eating McDonalds? Are they positive or negative thoughts? And are they really yours? Society the one thing that we all listen to, if they say it we believe it because who else is going to tell us the truth of what we believe is the truth. Society is judgemental. Over the years it has…

Sport has always been a big part of my life, what has developed is my interest in how science plays a large role within sport. For a long time I have known this is the career path I want to take, I want to be able to expand my knowledge about how the body adapts to different types of training to help others develop their sporting performance. Learning to train the human body both physically and mentally in order to achieve those extra margins is where my interest lies. While studying Biology I…

which entailed organising teams and training sessions. This improved my leadership skills and offered an insight into other roles in sport, other than being a competitor. I represented my school in many different sporting events such as athletics, netball, rowing, swimming, cross country and football. The varieties of sport I have been involved in have allowed me to develop different skill sets; both physical and psychological. Outside of school, many of my interests are sport related. I swim…

To channel bottled up aggression, I have found an outlet in writing. Besides writing sports became my comfort zone, I would wake up early in the mornings and go for Basketball practices thrice a week and netball practices twice a week, on the weekends I would go for a two-three hour swim or would practice running for athletics on a national level. Sports helped me re-energize and kept me focused on what was important, it was an easy outlet for anxiety. If…

and afford frequent health check ups. This health knowledge leads to good physical health as the individuals are able to recognise the benefits of being physically active. They also have greater health facilities available to them such as gyms and netball courts. Emotional health is also positively affected from living in a higher economic society compared with those living in rural societies. Individuals are more likely to receive better education and less likely to have financially instability…

Perception has to do with the way one uses intelligences to obtain information about the surrounding environment or situation. In addition, there are different factors that explain how one perceive others (Pearson, Nelson, Titsworth, and Harter 29). For example, psychological factors, people’s past experience and role, and their present feeling and circumstances (Pearson, Nelson, Titsworth, and Harter 29). Psychological factor as to do with the way people differ from each other by sex, height,…

The hashtag, double crossed parallel lines, has been on keyboards and used as a symbol to represent numbers for many years before becoming a phenomenon in the world of social media. Creator, Chris Messia was the first recorded person to use the “hashtag” on Twitter in 2007. Almost two years later, Twitter has incorporated hashtags into their app. As a result of hashtag popularity Twitter introduced “trending topics” which displayed the most recent and popular hashtags. Now eight years on, media…

Since age 6, I was dragged around Melbourne every Sunday to watch my 2 brothers play footy. Since age 6, I was serving hot dogs and canned drinks to the hungry players in the canteen, and updating the scoreboard for each new goal. Since age 6, I was roped into endless games of jack in the pack and kick to kick with my brothers. At age 6, the thought of playing football never crossed my mind, not ever. It was not until 6 years later my local club introduced an U’15s girls football team. I was 12…