Swimming

This sport article called,"Michael Phelps: How swimming legend regained his 'immortality'" was written by Matt Majendie. Cnn news published this article on August 14. Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer, came out of retirement for the 2016 Rio Olympics and it is known that he changed the sport of swimming. After his final race in the 2016 Olympics,he earned 23 Olympic medals, yet most people say that is not his biggest accomplishment. Others say his biggest achievement is the people that he…

This paper will be comparing the theme of how directors Gus Van Sant and Russell Mulcahy use father figures as a tool for character development. This strategy is present in both good will hunting and swimming upstream. Both main characters in these films suffer from different types of abuse from their fathers and find different ways of coping with the damage done by the abusive childhoods that they had suffered from growing up in dysfunctional homes with horrible fathers. The following…

paragraph 5-10 sentences that summarizes or paraphrases what the article is about. It is safe to say that everyone has peed in the pool at least once in their life. However, very few people know how harmful peeing in the pool can be. Not only is swimming in pee gross, but it can turn into a long term health hazard. Most people tend to think that adding more chlorine to the pool will kill off all bacteria but what they don’t know is that when chlorine reacts with urine it forms hosts of toxic…

Throughout the course of history, mammals have evolved attempting to adapt to their changing environments. Since the world is continuingly changing, mammals needed to also change their habits and adjust so that they may continue to thrive and live. Three exemplary mammals that adapted so that they could exploit aquatic environments are the Orcinus orca, a cetacean, more commonly known as the killer whale, the Trichechus inunguis, a Sirenia, more commonly called the Amazonian manatee, and finally…

in some time of swim lessons or club. My love for swimming brought the desire to be a lifeguard into my life at a young age. Recently I have completed all necessary swimming credentials in order to apply for a lifeguarding position. I have been volunteering as an assistant swim instructor for about nine months now in hopes that the hours with not only contribute to obtaining a position but also to continue gaining experience with children. Swimming is an incredible skill that can be very…

Lidtke Mill Long, long time, ago there was a little girl named Lucy. Lucy was a short little girl with brown curly hair. She had to do her morning chores before they went to church. While she was doing that her purple polka dotted dress caught a gust of wind and blew up and got stuck on the nail that was sticking out of the wall. She was just dangling there because she couldn’t do anything to save herself. Well what would you do if you got caught on a nail? There was only one thing she could do…

don’t remember that that captivity is limiting the whale’s freedom and life. Captivity is not only taking away and damaging these animals mental and physical health, it is also playing a role in taking the lives of the trainers that risk their lives swimming with killer whales just to make a profit for SeaWorld. A very distinctive trait about all whales in captivity is that all adult male killer whales have collapsed dorsal fins. SeaWorld claimed that this is a very common condition, trying to…

Swimming is something that almost everyone loves to do. Whether it is in a pool or the ocean, there is a sense of freedom and weightlessness that we can't get anywhere else. As long as you can float in water you shouldn’t really have any fear or worry. If that water is thirty-two degrees on the other hand, then you might start to worry and panic. In the case of Lynne Cox, after the first page it kept me in suspense wondering, was she just going to die of hypothermia? I assumed the swim was going…

In the story “Through the Tunnel,” Jerry, the protagonist, undergoes challenges to test his maturity. During the introduction of the story, he begins as a young, immature boy, who is desperate to fit in and impress the older boys he meets, so he risks his life to gain the acceptance he seeks. After Jerry overcomes his challenges to prove himself to the other boys, he realizes that he no longer wants the older boys’ acceptance. Instead, overcoming the challenges pushes him into his journey to…

Dylan O’Brien come up to me and tell me to follow them. We go get smoothies all together and we get to know each other. After we finish our smoothies we go swimming in the resort pool. We had a crazy splash fight. Then we go swimming with dolphins and I am freaking out because I am not the biggest ocean person. But then they…