Swimming at the Olympics

Coming into college, I had incredibly high hopes for how I thought things were going to pan out during my college career. Socially, I thought I was going to make this huge group of amazing friends who would never leave my side, and they would be the truest friends that I could ever imagine meeting. While I do see some of my friendships going that way, some of the friends that I met at the beginning of the year turned out to be the kind of friends that I wasn’t interested in keeping. I also…

What is humor? Humor can be someone or something that is funny. What is funny can depend on someone’s sense of humor. Humor can be offensive at times by hurting one’s religion, race, sex, and other things to laugh at the expense of others. Despite that there are many television programs and cartoons that make funs of people being in a certain kind of group. Has society fallen so low that we like to hurt each other’s feelings? Bottom line is there are many different types of humor like flavors of…

Thames Water, as the biggest water company in England and Wales, has made unacceptable failure to control water leakages just months after pouring raw sewage into London’s main river. The companies’ behaviors bring a set of moral issues and is a right/wrong conflict. The most important moral challenge in this case is that Thames Water made profit at the cost of environment and public health while its primary obligation is to protect public health. Thames Water is being investigated by regulator…

What Affects Sexual Performance Sexual performance is a broad term that encompasses many issues and conditions that affects sexual health life. This is a reduction in sexual performance as a result of external problems that interfere with sustained erection ability (impotency). Numerous Psychological and physiological conditions leads to erectile dysfunction. Physical stress increase, either at home or workplace is the main cause of inability to keep up a steady erection during…

TRAINING FOR DIVING MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND SPECIAL AMPHIBIOUS RECONNAISSANCE CORPSMAN Currently, the U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman (HM) Divers do not possess adequate fitness levels to support the full spectrum of Special Operation’s diverse and expanding support roles. This deficit affects the medical support to joint Special Operations, ranging from Naval Special Warfare, Army Special Forces, Marine Corps Special Operations, and to the combat ground forces. Without a physical training program…

"How come education and intelligence of a character must always be offset by his social ineptitude, or condescending attitude toward his 'techno babble?' How come being above the average in some area is so often portrayed as some sort of socially undesirable eccentricity?" (Maciac) Today's television bolsters the idea that individuals who are viewed as "smart" are lesser class citizens. Children's shows on Disney Channel portray an inaccurate view of intellectuals to viewers causing school…

Less than one percent of all the water on Earth is drinkable to humans. Considering, then, that the Earth itself is about seventy percent water, even less than one percent is still quite a bit of water to work with; however, it does mean that humans are working with a very limited amount of drinkable water. It is very understandable, then, that contamination of that water should be a cause for concern. It has been found that pharmaceuticals are entering the water as pollutant, and there has been…

in general. The fight against it is almost being lost rather than being won even after improved detection methods are being introduced to help curb the practice. The use of performance enhancing drugs dates back to 1904 when a St. Louis winner in Olympic marathon was administered strychnine and brandy during the race. Many years later the use of these drugs does not seem to end with even new previously unknown steroids being discovered for example tetrahydrogestrinone in 2003 by United Stated…

30-m cliff, a proper dryland program can aid performance. I remember as a child learning how to dive at my local summer league team. Being able to catapult myself off the diving board gave me great thrills and was far from other sports I had done (swimming, basketball, soccer). As a high school swimmer, I still dove in the summer to help the summer league team score points in the championship meet. I remember my coach (who was younger than me, Mr. Chris Heaton) teaching me tricks on how to…

power and make almost everything, including, cars, aeroplanes, power plants, medicine, toothpaste, plastic and cosmetics. In the US alone they consume on average of about 19.4 million barrels per day, or 3.7 billion liters, which fills 1481 Olympic sized swimming pools. [U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2015]. However, the benefits of fossil fuels don’t reciprocate to the cons. Earth now warms at an alarming rate. In the last century the temperature has risen 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly…