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    Each day had its own new challenges it liked to throw at me. From irresponsible adults who try to drop their kids off at the pool and leave to kids who couldn’t swim and jump into the deep end, to even families who lacked at least one family member could speak English. My pool was a single guard pool with approximately two guards. Two guards to switch on and off all summer. With that being said, my biggest challenge there was giving up my entire summer for this…

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    exercise that will still make you sweat! You may think that swimming in a pool is all it takes for water aerobics. But this is not true! Water aerobics is a full body workout, using every muscle from your legs to your shoulders. After an hour doing water aerobics you are sure to feel the burn! So how can one get started? Surprisingly, many local pools offer a form of water aerobics, and usually for a very low cost. Check your local pool, or local gym to see if they are offering a water…

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    Hi Journal, Since it is the summer time I am having a blast swimming in my pool, but with one exception I am swimming in my new mermaid tale. Today was my first day swimming in it because it took the past couple months to perfect. While I am swimming in it I hear this simple melody which is at odds with the strength I feel in my lower body. Whenever I swim I feel so powerful as if there are no limits to what I can do. When I was still recovering from my depression, art became a visual way for…

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    The drop slide By: Maggie Emma and I were walking up the stairs to get to the water slide we wanted to ride on at Zehnders. Zehnders was very big. It had an inside part of it with a bunch of baby slides, and an outside part that was very tall and was covered in kind of clear glass, and had all of the fun rides, and the drop slide was at the very top of it. The slide went super fast, it dropped you straight down about 20 feet. The ride was…

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    Hallucination In Film

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    Table 6.0 Dreams & hallucinations, and it’s Signification in TV Chandran Films Film Dream (with screen time/scene no :) Signification 1 Ponthan Mada The climax sequence where Mada plunges into water,sheds his working cap, and swims across the water body to reach the other side, where his wife Karthu, and Sheema Thampuran are waiting for him ( 01:45:48 to 01:47:43) This signifies a kind of liberation, which never happened in his life, and finally he realizes his identity and becomes…

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    everything seems normal then the main character Neddy thought that perhaps a long swim might celebrate its beauty. So Neddy Merrill decided that he is going to go home from the Westerhazy’s to his home on the other side of the county by a streamline of swimming pools that he named Lucinda, after his wife. During the long trip across the county the reader is left thinking about what they are actually reading, is it reality or just an illusion? Neddy’s trip consists of him…

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    Hardworking Application

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    then, I was determined to be an excellent swimmer and to transfer this passion to others. I want to help instill my love for swimming in younger kids and dedicate my time towards ensuring that they have the skills to be a good swimmer. Every summer since I was old enough, I have been a lifeguard at the Metrowest YMCA in Hopkinton. Here, I hold a crucial role by monitoring the pool activities and guaranteeing member safety. As a lifeguard you must take responsibility to help prevent incidents,…

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    Lifeguard: A Short Story

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    concrete. Suddenly, I heard the creak of the slide and watched as a guest plunged into the water. I instinctively moved towards the struggling older guest with my safety tube outstretched, but to my relief, she emerged from the water and exited the pool. Whew! I headed back to my stand until I heard the whining of the other slide. This time the water seemed to be moving faster and a young girl was flailing her arms as she tried to surface above the water. Within seconds I jumped in with pure…

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    could hardly swim one lap at the time. Somehow in all of my dying fish-like swimming I had managed to hold first place all the way up until the last few yards where I choked on water and nearly drowned. The second buzzer signals the swimmers to mount the starting block. I climb the first rung. A thought of failure flashes in my mind, my gasping for breath during my 100-meter fly,…

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    Edwardsville Case Study

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    will provide locals with two new water features this summer, a community pool and “spray and play park.” These two projects happened separately, but combined they will give people two new ways to cool off during the heat of summer. Community pool In the fall of 2015, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville reached out to Edwardsville Mayor Hal Patton about the city’s interest in taking over Cougar Lake Pool. The outdoor pool, located at 88 Recreation Drive at SIU Edwardsville, had seen a…

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