the most difficult sports in my opinion is competitive swimming. Swimmers work against many forces as defined later in this paper to move their bodies through the water. The most common swimming techniques and or strokes include the: front crawl, back stroke, breaststroke, butterfly stroke, sidestroke and the dog paddle. Swimming isn’t exactly natural for humans with the exception of being in the womb. Humans aren’t supplied with aquatic features that allow us to move and breathe freely in the water
different strokes to swim an Individual Medley swimming event. Swimmers propel themselves through the water using four different arm strokes and four different kicks. Each arm stroke has a kick designed to meet the tempo of the swim. We refer to the strokes in the order in which they are performed, the butterfly stroke, the backstroke, the breaststroke, and the freestyle stroke. The four strokes are consistently swum in this order based on the rules that govern competitive swimming. Butterfly Stroke
Western has multiple sport programs that are compatible with this question. However I am going to discuss the swim team because of my connection I can easily see the connections with the sport product tonium. Tangibility it the first attribute to the spectrum. In regards to swimming there are multiple things that fall into this category. Their is the actually apparel on their body that is needed such as the swimsuit, the goggles, and the swim cap. Then there's the equipment that is used during practice
and it continues to be part of the summer Olympics. Currently, swimming is the second most popular exercise in the United States with millions of people partaking in it. Swimming is composed of many different strokes, one of them being the front crawl, also known as the freestyle. This stroke is very simple and good for swimmers that are just starting. The leg kick requires a simple flutter kick while the legs are going in an interchanging order. The knees are a little bent with the feet and ankles
Massive crowds and competition determined by the length of a fingernail separates swim meets into . Sporting events provide great entertainment for people, yet it provides challenges different from other types of events. In particular, swim meets stand as a lengthy yet fascinating process that most people do not realize encompasses so much detail. As a swimmer for the past fourteen years, I see the many different types of swim meets and how it requires so many different working parts to operate efficiently
medals and a world record at the last Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Ian trains 20 hours a week in the pool and three hours a week in the gym. His body fat levels are approx. 7% compared to an average of 15% for his age. Ian’s primary stroke is Freestyle, an event in which he excels, I will now explain the aspects of the skills which are used by Ian and other elite performers to achieve maximum efficiency in the water. Body Position- it is very important that the body is in the correct
breaststroke is the oldest known swimming stroke and is one of four strokes used in competitive swimming. This stroke is also very popular in leisure swimming because the head can be held up, making vision and breathing easy and because the swimmer can rest between strokes if needed. Swimmers can also use the breaststroke in survival swimming and in lifesaving situations. Since the breaststroke has many uses and is easy to learn, it is one of the best strokes to teach a beginning swimmer. When teaching
brain stem. Brain-stem strokes, accidents, extreme spinal-cord injuries, and neurological diseases are other main causes for the syndrome (5). Axons that carry brain signals leave the larger motor areas on the surface of the brain and direct their signals towards the brain stem. It is here where they converge linking one another to form a tightly packed bundle called the motor tract. The brain stem motor tract is extremely sensitive; thus even the slightest impact of a stroke can lead to destruction
Fantasy Dependence in David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly M. Butterfly, as its title suggests, is the reworking of Puccini’s opera, Madama Butterfly. In Puccini’s opera, Lieutenant Pinkerton, a United Sates Navy officer, purchases the conjugal rights to Cio-Cio-San, a fifteen-yrear-old Japanese Geisha girl, for one hundred yen, and marries her with the convenient provision that each contract can be annulled on a monthly notice. Meanwhile, Pinkerton leaves Cio-Cio-San for the United States to
In the closing lines of M. Butterfly, Gallimard, the hapless French diplomat/accountant turned spy, says, "I have a vision. Of the Orient" (92). At the moment he is speaking of his remaining belief that there are beautiful women, as he thought his "Butterfly" was, but it is indicative of the colonial impulse. Colonization becomes possible because a society can characterize another society in ways that make colonization seem like a positive endeavor. As Said notes, the characterization of other cultures
Time of the Butterflies “Life is what you make out of it: one can go through it and let things pass them by, or a person can actually go out and get what he or she wants in that life.” These are common words repeatedly embedded into my head by my father, as maybe the same from one of your parent’s. In the Time of the Butterflies is a book about sisters that fight to take their god-given right of freedom in the Dominican Republic. To win this freedom, the Mirabal sisters had to give up their
that just is, Plato's beauty, you know? And I don't know why or how but when I saw her I got a feeling like when you know something's going to happen but you don't know what but you can just tell but it wasn't love. Sorta like butterflies but higher and stronger. Maybe butterflies on steroids. And the feeling stayed, sort of an anticipation. And she went away and I went to work, but I happened to look across the store towards the milk, and she was there. And she looked at me. No, not at me. It was
who had no family and no one to love her. One day, feeling exceptionally sad and lonely, she was walking through the meadow when she noticed a small butterfly caught unmercifully in a thornbush. The more the butterfly struggled to free itself, the deeper the thorns cut into the butterfly from its captivity. Instead of flying away, the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy. The young girl rubbed her eyes in disbelief. 'For your wonderful kindness,' the good fairy said to the girl, 'I will
Weekly Assignment 1. It was difficult to find out who was the narrator of In The Time Of The Butterflies was, seeing as how the book kept switching from the viewpoints of each of the Mirabal sisters. Although the Mirabal sisters spoke firsthand of what happened, it seemed as if we were being told how they felt, but not from the directly from the sister. Finally, I thought back to the very beginning of the story and realized that the narrator of the book was the reporter who went to Dede's house
Caterpillar/this deep in fall/still not a butterfly.” (Basho/Trans. Hass, 1-3) When reading this haiku, I had to sit on its meaning a couple of times and noticed that there were words used in this translation that referred to time like “still” and “fall.” I imagined the caterpillar dangling from a branch eating a leaf. There are two contrasting themes in this poem, which is a signature feature of a haiku. This caterpillar does not reach the transformation of becoming a butterfly. The transformation signifies
The Ideal Woman Henry David Hwang’s M. Butterfly highlights the stereotypical woman and draws a picture of the “perfect woman.” The perfect woman’s character traits include submissiveness, passiveness, modesty, beauty, dislike for sex, gentleness, and quietness, according to Hwang’s characters. These traits are shown in Song, labeling her as a perfect woman. The reader later finds out that Song is not a woman at all; she is a man. This challenges the image of the ideal woman. All of the female
Butterflies are established all over the world and in all sorts of environments: cold and hot, moist and dry, high in the mountains and at sea level. The largest parts of butterfly species are found in tropical areas, in particular tropical rainforests. There is a variety of sizes butterflies come in. The worlds smallest known butterflies, the blue pygmy found in southern California, has a wing span of just over half an inch. The largest species, New Guinea’s QueenAlexandras birdwing, can measure
Designing a Butterfly Garden for the Blind The research and preparation for this essay have made me realize not only how interesting and unique this project is, but also how useful and valuable such a “Garden for the Blind” could really be. The blindfolded Butterfly Garden experience specifically helped me realize to a great extent how much we as humans greatly overemphasize our sense of sight, and do not take full advantage of all the senses most of us have been blessed with to use and appreciate
characters to be butterflies with the exception of Blanche Dubois. Blanche, I made into a small white moth, as I felt this fit her character best, which was a flitty, frail, middle aged woman. Tennessee Williams chose the character's names specifically and I wanted to highlight that. Blanche, the name, suggests the color white, she is a character who blends into the background, nervous, lying , so I choose a white moth. Stella suggests a star, yellow, shining bright hence a yellow butterfly. And the other
“You do have an advantage, the greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph”, indicated by Mr. Mendez to Will in The Butterfly Circus. The Butterfly Circus is a short independent film directed by Joshua Weigel. The story of the film is, based upon a, sometimes free, circus brightening up their audience and bringing hope during The Great Depression. The circus soon inspired many jobless, homeless, and disabled individuals with a man named Will. Will, played by Nick Vujicic, is a man with no