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    put me in swimming class. I went to my swimming class for multiple years and i hated it because i wasn't the best. Then about 6 years ago i quit because i joined guitar, taekwondo and a lot of other classes. After that i felt that i never needed to finish my swimming because you won't need it in the future but my mother always wanted me to become a lifeguard because she doesn't know how to swim. I personally think she just wanted me to become a lifeguard so i get comfortable swimming and teach…

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    My heart was racing while I was standing behind the one of the blocks at Lasalle. My coach said you will do fine but I wasn’t positive about it. I mean this was only my first time swimming at champs. I looked over at the other kids they looked good but I have been practicing all summer. Then, I looked around the pool and see hundreds of people there watching me. I had butterflies in stomach when I stepped up on the block but I was feeling confident. I can smell the yucky chlorine from the cold…

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    Attention Getter: “I have a gut feeling you want to swim in college”, my coach says to me as he pulls me out of practice to yell at me...again. As he is waiting for my response, I start wondering: Do I actually want to swim in college? Will things be different while being a NCAA athlete? Are there any extra opportunities or money besides scholarships for student athletes? As I turned and looked at him, my reply came out of my mouth before I even knew what it was. “Yes, I think so.” As soon as I…

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    Personal Narrative-Racism

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    felt as if were in slow-motion. Everything had gone fine until my body hit the water and my goggles rolled off my face and onto my forehead. I remembered what the coach told me two nights before, If your goggles ever fall off in a race, don’t stop swimming,That’ll end the momentum of your dive. The familiar salty flavor and rush of cold water arose as I kicked with all my might. Never had I raced…

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    will be the consumption of ice cream. The amount of time spent after consuming X amount of ice cream can also be a determining factor. Any third variables can be also be age, experience in swimming, the activities while in the pool, for example if you are just relaxing, diving, exercising, and underwater swimming. The dependent variable will be the rate of drowning deaths of children between the age of 13-19. Everyone will be given two scoops of ice cream and they will go…

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    mainly the one I work at, is a place that I found myself gravitating towards as the pressure of senior year at school and fall basketball grew. Suspending underwater, everything seemed crystal clear—no sounds, no worries, and no responsibilities. Swimming creates a feeling unlike anything else, even if it is only for seconds at a time. When cleaning the pool, I hold in as much air as possible with each dive to make the calming feeling last as long as…

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    you ever seen someone dive off the diving board? Do you enjoy swimming? Well now I’m going to give you a little more information on swimming and what the physics of it is. You will see swimming in a whole different way. Gravity is always affecting you while swimming. Even you don’t think it is. Force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies fall toward the center of the earth. Newton’s first law of motion has a part to do with swimming. An object in motion stays in motion until another…

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    Figueroa's Framework

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    the differences of functions that reinforce, create, remove and eliminate barriers and inequities within sport and physical activity. Figueroa’s Framework also relates to me, as an athlete, towards swimming. The two most important levels that help make my own personal participation and enjoyment in swimming is Individual and Interpersonal.…

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    lifeguards where they can eat, take their breaks, and also they have their first aid kits available and other medical supplies in case of emergencies. Social issues in the lives of the population: There are too many people that come in to this swimming park that we do not know how healthy and sanitize they are, but there is a wide spread of people from ages to as young as a 1 year old to 85 years of age that can and possibly get sick. Even if the water is filtered, there is still a mass of…

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    Early Modern Era Swimming

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    Swimming has become an extremely popular and well-enjoyed sport or activity. But what most people do not know is the origin of this unique sport. Swimming can be dated all the way back to ancient times as prehistoric men had to swim in order to cross large bodies of water, but there were also many written works related swimming in the Early Modern Era and moreover, swimming eventually became a competitive sport during the 19th century. The competitiveness of swimming has translated into…

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