Pool

“What just happened, why is Mason crying!” Many thoughts were going through my head during the toughest moment of my life. It was the 4th of July, and I was having a great time at a friend's house, nothing bad could ever happen, right? concussions are not a real struggle for many people, but for me they are about as real as it gets. Many do not worry about their health, but this scare brought it into a whole new light for me. 4th of July. A time of happiness and celebration. Or neighborhood had…

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor E. Frankl said. In “The Call of the Wild”, Buck has been kidnapped and he can’t change the situation, he has to learn and adapt to survive in the environment, similarly in the “Born Worker”, Jose and his family are very poor, he needs to do everything he can not rely on others. In the fictional novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London and the fictional short story “Born Worker” by Gary Soto, the…

My Essay is all about rehabilitation and how it helps people who struggle with different things. For example, Animal Therapy can help those with high anxiety. Pool Therapy can help people calm down and relax their mind and body. Counselling and Talking can give someone the opportunity to have someone they can trust to talk things over and feel better about themselves and others. Animal therapy is a good thing to do if you have high anxiety or a high level of stress, or a mental illness or other…

Just past the Raceway gas station, where the speed limit drops from 55 to 35 on Route 10, stands a narrow bridge that hovers over the James River. As your car veers with the road to the right, the trees disappear and the dark, flat water rests beneath you. The bridge’s concrete and rubber expanders jump your car’s suspension up and down as you slow to enter the city. Along each side, the green trees envelope the shoreline and reach out their bright branches, enshrouded with leaves, to you in…

In Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s film, Blackfish (2013), Cowperthwaite captures the psychological torture killer whales, specifically Tilikum and Kasatka, face at Sea World after being brutally separated from their families. The film takes us through the journey of captured killer whales becoming mentally unstable and being used for entertainment purposes. This film displays archival footage and interviews with former trainers who had close experiences with killer whales at Sea World. The attacks at…

Why i deserve the 25,000 dollars. I deserve the 25,000 dollars because i am a good person. I always try and help people in need. I work for everything i get in life. My parents taught me to work for the things i want. I never get anything handed to me. I help my dad with the bills and with my younger siblings. I had to become an adult at a younger age. I have more responsibilities than most teens. I am not rich; i am not poor either, but my family doesn’t have much money. I tend to…

lapping across the windows. Despite the dreary sky, the weather was muggy and hot, so we decided to drive to the “big pool” which was, at my age, extremely deep and long. My mom suited me up and squeezed my arms into two pink arm floats. Before I was placed into the pool with my father I was given specific instructions, “Do not take off your arm floats,…

just go to the hotel’s pool and swim until the rain passed. We would then go to Six Flags. Little did I know that the next hour or so would ensure my future plans. At this point, I was undecided about what I wanted to be when I got older, maybe a chef, a teacher, an accountant, or a bakery owner.…

very young age I would read on a daily basis the dangers of swimming and the death toll every year in water related deaths. This in fact made me fearful of swimming, so much in fact I would never deter away from the shallow end or the walls of any pool. I infact never taught myself how to swim.…

country. The Natatorium War Memorial sits on the edge of the beach with a substantial entrance into a large 100 by 40-meter ocean swimming pool with bleachers. The ocean swimming pool represents a “living memorial” to the Hawaii residents and symbolizes a life surrounded by water. The ocean is symbolic of the strength and power of America’s military. The ocean pool “living memorial” was a place to not only come and reflect on a fallen comrade or family member, but to come for leisure and for…