Swimming at the Olympics

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    actions are in question to by using Aristotle’s theory of “Who deserves what?” I plan to show how Aristotle’s theory of Who Deserves What is used in the movie by how he uses the purposes of Telos, Honorific and Deserves, bring together the book and movie in one overall understanding, who deserves to die. Under Aristotle’s Who deserves what theory, Sandel’s book explains what is meant by Aristotle, “Justice is teleological, which defines rights requiring us to figure out the Telos (the purpose, end, or essential nature) of social practice in question” (Sandel, 2009). An example of Justice is Telos, would be to who deserves what? If there was an Olympic-sized pool that was being used by children on a hot day and an Olympic swimmer who may need to practice. Who would be more worthy to use the pool? By Aristotle’s theory of Telos, it would be the Olympic swimmer because the purpose of the pool would be for someone who would use it best. His thoughts on who is worthy, not by wealth, or even by birthright, he sees who will use the object or thing to its full ability or potential. We see this in the movie Seven (Carlyle, 1995), in the scene where Det. Mills, Det. Somerset and John Doe. Where John Doe has a different reasoning of who deserves what. While talking to Det. Mills, in the car ride to their final destination in the end. What Det. What Mills doesn’t know is that he is part of John Doe’s whole scheme, but the final ending of envy. John Doe keeps saying he envied Det. Mills…

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    Have you ever wondered how athletes make it to the Olympics? Well it's not from them training themselves. Every great athlete has an even better coach standing behind them. Coaching is the most important part of any sport, especially in swimming. Swimming is an extremely demanding sport both physically and mentally. Swimmers train year round for just a few hundred yards of racing. The one who is always there making up the sets, workouts, and motivational speeches is the coach. Coaching has come…

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    Personally, one of my most challenging experiences and accomplishments was being part of the swim team. I went to swim tryouts without knowing how to swim, but yet I was determined to learn because I love the outdoors and trying out new things. I was nervous and terrified about the fact that maybe I could’ve drowned or even worse --for people to make fun of me for not knowing how to swim. Of course I was wrong, because one I did not drown and two, people that were already on the team were…

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    As a small child, I spent summers in pools, ponds, and lakes. Swimming came naturally to me, so I became a swimmer for my local swim team. Over the next seven years, I made close friendships with other swimmers my age while swimming became life. I attended every practice, even though others wouldn’t. My race times usually came close to the qualifying times of zone championships, but I never qualified. While this did feel like a failure, it wasn’t my greatest failure. The path to my greatest…

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    The girl sitting on the side of the pool with blue lips, shivering like it is twenty degrees outside, that was me. As a child, most kids go to a swimming class to learn how to swim and enjoy their lessons, to ultimately growing up spending days on the lake with their friends soaking up the sun kissed water. For me, this experience was a little different.I loathed going to swim class. I would beg and cry, asking my mom to take me out of the class but the feeling of being a young child who just…

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    “Franklin!” I had to scream his name five times before he looked up, bewildered. I offered to help him, and we worked on fixing his breaststroke for the next 20 minutes, focusing the details that he hadn’t been taught before. Pull, breathe, kick, glide. Keep the head steady. Angle the feet for the optimal way to catch water. In the following days, I noticed more people who had irregularities in their stroke technique. As the season continued, I kept my focus on helping my teammates realize the…

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    Swimming Safety Tips: Every Beginners Should Aware Of Swimming to me is something extraordinary. What is swimming to me? A sport? A form of physical exercise? No, swimming to me is a feeling. Intense feelings of happiness that wash away all the tiredness of a hectic day and make me feel alive once again. It is like a charger of my body that makes me full of energy every single time. As a regular swimmer today I decided to share some experience of mine with you guys. We all know that swimming…

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    Swimming and Eye-Health: Important Things to Know A session of swimming leaves us rejuvenated and no matter how sore we feel physically, there is a freshness that surrounds us right from the moment we come out of the pool. However, the feeling is not so pleasant for all because several swimmers are left with a stinging and burning sensation around their eyes, which is quite uncomfortable. In fact, the problem is so common among even the avid swimmers that it is popularly termed as, “swimmer’s…

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    I Believe in Competitive Swimming Swimming is my life. Joining the swim team has changed my life more than I ever thought it would. Since I joined my weeks have been filled with practice and more practice. Weekends are filled with meets and going to events. I went through a lot of years just so I could join the team. Being part of a team is amazing and full of fun. Swim has changed my life in a lot of ways. From being part of a team, to getting up early for meets. I don’t know what I would be…

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    years has exposed me to meeting a lot of new people. My adult role models along with my closest friends are all apart of my swimming career in some way. I was honored enough to be named a captain of my high school swim team, a recognition only few receive as our team is 50 members large. Being a captain not only meant leading stretches and getting a cool award at the end of the year, it meant people looked up to me. When someone had a bad race or needed some encouragement, I was the person they…

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