World Marathon Majors

American rock climbing has undergone many changes, but the key aspects that have formed out of the popularizing of rock climbing have stayed the same. Lawrence C. Hamilton expresses that rock climbing is “characterized by (1) a motivation or reward structure that encourages the continual creation of new climbs, and (2) a finite and exhaustible medium in which to create them” (Hamilton 1979, 285). Rock climbing has become a new subculture and a lifestyle consisting of its own values, language,…

acquire certain achievements without trading off. Generally, good or better things do not just happen for free or come as given; there is usually a cost, either obvious or hidden, associates with the improvement of things, especially in our modern world of fast-paced technology. Although current technology has advanced our society in terms of educational, professional, and socio-economic development, technology has created a larger social inequality gap in our society and the Silicon …

Lost in Texas Has there ever been a time in your life where you felt that you could not ask for help and you had to face your fears all by yourself? You can prepare all your life trying to stay on the right path and telling yourself, “The only thing to be afraid of is fear itself.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt When that moment comes and you are frightened beyond belief, it tests your physical and mental strength. These moments in your life show your true colors.You have to learn to do things by…

The snowman is looking at the boy from a world outside of the warm house and is “…moved to see the youngster cry…” (L. 11). He has no wish of joining the child inside the house filled with deadly warmth ready to kill the snowman at the slightest contact., but lets out a drop “…of the purest rain…

As people grow older they start to lose their innocence. This usually starts to happen when you have witnessed your first death, or when you go your first funeral. In the short story “The Novitiate”, the main character loses her innocence, after realizing her brother had to kill an animal to get some money. Her heart had shattered into a thousand pieces. This is because in her eyes a gopher was like a puppy, and to see her brother brutally whip the gopher around must have been a very…

don’t know what is really going on. Some people think that if it's a good day for them, then the whole world is perfect. NEWS FLASH, it's not. I know that at least 35% of the people on Earth at least try to help the world out a little bit. I guess that is okay, but some people have no choice. For example a kid is forced by their parents because his/her parents are total nut jobs about the world being a safe place and all. Another example is.......... NAH I'll tell you how it really started.…

A legacy is your reputation, you build it up day by day so when you do leave or die everyone will remember you forever. Great legacies are hard to come by because one slip up here or there you have to start all over again. Sometimes if a slip up is bad enough there is no fixing your legacy. Like most people I hope my legacy will be of importance and make people want to be just like me and follow in my footsteps. There is one man that has strongly preached leaving a great legacy for myself.…

foregone conclusion that in a world of seven billion individuals, some are bound to be impoverished. A United Nations study conducted in 2014 found that approximately one half of the population of the world — upwards of 3 billion people — survive on less than $2.50 a day. More worrisome still, upwards of 1.3 billion live below the line of extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day. Such an egregious affront surely requires the co-operation of those more well off in the developed world in order to…

“...A hero means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes are always making a sacrifice.Heroes always take a risk.Heroes always doing something that most people don’t and we want to change.I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero”-Philip Zimbardo.In 2011 Fucson, Arizona, an act of heroism was happening in the parking lot of Safeway.A massive shooting was happening which resulted in 6 dead and 14 injured.The “bystanders” who were watching the…

correct hour, but at the exact minute each and every morning. Visualize commuting through a city: on the same time and train as every other day, while tuned in to dialogue on 'suicide camps' through the radio broadcast. Picture taking up residence in a world, where, one miniscule spurt of laughter will earn an employee the equivalent of demerit points, while on the job. This proves to be very existence, which, Caitlin R. Hiernan, in The Pearl Diver perpetually pits her protagonist against. As a…