Orienteering Essays

  • Algonquin Park

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    Algonquin before the group headed into Algonquins interior. Activities such as paddling, orienteering, and first aid were addressed for the first two days of the trip. ORIENTEERING One of the first aspects of canoeing that must be addressed when finding one's way through the wild is called orienteering. Orienteering is definitely essential when exploring Algonquin Park. The most important aids used in orienteering are a compass and map. "Compasses are useful for taking bearings and for orienting

  • Summer Camp Personal Statement

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    Having spent the better part of six summers hiking, cooking, orienteering, and practicing archery on the trails of Huddart Park, California, summer camp became a very precious time of my life. When I entered high school, I began working as a Unit Aide at my camp which meant I had the privilege to now teach young girls a whole slew of tasks such as survival skills, first aid, and knife skills. While attending Woodside Priory High School, I heard about similar activities such as archery and overnights

  • The Benefits of Wilderness Sports and Adventure Education

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    the 1940’s where the natural environment was used for youth development programs. An example of this would be boy scouts. They used orienteering, like using a map and compass, to navigate from point A to point B. A huge leap in history of wilderness sport and adventure education was Project Adventure. This program took Adventure Education away from the orienteering and remodeled it, and introduced ropes courses, and challenge courses. It kept the environment involved but made it a little more physically

  • Aeneas as a Reinvention of Homer's Achilles and Odysseus

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    “Even here, merit will have its true reward…even here, the world is a world of tears and the burdens of mortality touch the heart” (1:557-559). With these words, Aeneas contemplates his divine-fated destiny that finds its heroic beginning amongst the destruction of Troy. Aeneas, the classical hero who willfully submits to his purpose-filled fate, is created by Virgil in order to transcribe the foundational origins of Rome though the mutation of the Greek into the Roman, the Eastern cultural and

  • Application Essay: A Career As A Medical Assistant

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    I want to be nothing else but a doctor. I have a thirst for medical challenge, a blazing love for science and human body, and a burning passion to succeed. Most importantly, I have a strong eagerness to make remarkable changes to my life, and the lives of other people. Medicine is both dynamic and centred on a strong scientific background, allowing me to understand and apply medical findings to improve the lives of patients in my care. I believe there is no greater joy than managing to help an extremely

  • Informative Comparison Of English And Western Riding

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    trail riding. An english horse can be trained in dressage, english or english country pleasure, jumping, hunting, mounted games, polo, and hunter pace. Both horses can be trained in trail riding, endurance riding, competitive trail riding, mounted orienteering, and shown in open shows as an all around

  • A True Eagle Scout

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    needed. These skills and attributes will help you in earning your second and first class ranks. Second class and first class will teach you all of the major scout skills you will need to know. The main requirement groupings are on cooking, camping, orienteering, first aid, and survival; you will prove that you know these skills by completing tasks like cooking mouthwatering meals and successfully surviving in the out... ... middle of paper ... ...ompleted your Eagle Scout rank; but you are not done

  • Being Different

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    A few years ago I noticed I had something unusual which made me dissimilar to most people, in fact everybody. At this time it was depressing with everybody looking at you just staring, no considerations for your feelings. What got up my back was small minded people laughing at me or pointing at me as if I was an outcast of society. In the past I kept myself isolated because it was my breathing space and in that environment the world for me was less complicated than reality. I constantly wondered

  • west point

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    Point Military Academy, I had the opportunity to visit our country's most prestigious military museum. As a scout I attended West Point's Camporees and camped on the cadet’s training grounds at West Point's Lake Frederick. I also participated in an orienteering course at Trophy point, where I first saw the famous cannon exhibit, and numerous statues and monuments. However, during my visits, I never had the opportunity to visit the West Point Museum. On my first visit to West Point Military Academy, I

  • Adventure Education and Wilderness Sports

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    Are you ever satisfied when you do something and do not receive the results you want? I know you are not and nobody is. Everyone wants improvement in the world and people are happy and satisfied when everything is right. This concept can be applied to the world of physical education in today’s society. Obesity has slowly become one of the most problematic diseases that exist in the United States and the world today. The U.S. has been greatly impacted by this disease and more and more people in

  • Personal Narrative: My Involvement In High School Activities

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    People ask me how am I so involved in high school activities, have a job, and maintain my grades. It’s not as hard as people think. In order to do that you have to have strong time management and be organized. This can be difficult when you have a lot of responsibilities. I have been involved in activities since my seventh grade year and each year I have increased the amount of involvement. The clubs that I am currently in are Key Club, Mu Alpha Theta, National Honors Society, BETA, DECA, Yearbook

  • Life In Medieval China

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    Not everyone in Medieval China sported the same lifestyle. The Peasant class, for example, spent much of their day in the fields. They harvested crops with their bare hands, and often persevered regardless of the weather. Their lives were difficult, as they were frequently impoverished and could not afford any luxuries. Similarly, the merchants’ lives were also strenuous. They, however, faced a different problem: constant stigmatization and disrespect. Although they were generally penniless, the

  • My First Experience of Camp - Original Writing

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    winning poster was held up and it was not ours. My heart sank and my face dropped. I felt sick. I turned to my friends and they did not seem bothered; that made me feel worse. The next two days were action packed. In the mornings, we went orienteering, and the evenings were spent round the campfire drinking sweet hot chocolate from the plastic mugs we had brought from home. By this time, everyone had got used to camp life and needless to say I had put the two unfortunate incidents (getting

  • Ernest Hemingway Healing Of Nature

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    Wesley Huang Instructor: Caroline Burke WRT 102 Sec. 46 01 May 2014 Healing of Nature: “Big Two-Hearted River,” by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway once said “I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world-or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out thin.” I believe this quote can be interpreted as the writer attempts to put all the passionate thought his pure and full of descriptive words to make the reader reveals a true world

  • Development Of Ancient Chinese Civilizations

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    ANICENT CHINESE CONTRIBUTIONS TO MODERN SOCIETY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The Ancient Chinese civilizations have played a significant role in the developments of culture and technology that has been expanded and advanced throughout the centuries of time. Ancient China has heavily influenced modern society in a variety of ways. In my opinion, the most important attribute of Ancient Chinese civilizations is writing. They are also the creators of many other commonly used advances in our society such

  • Boy Scouts Of Americ The Boy Scout Movement

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    participate in many activities like staff vs. camper dodgeball, frog calls, archery, and many more. The merit badge sessions, or classes as some say, can teach the scouts skills that will live with them for the rest of their lives like cooking, orienteering, fishing, camping, swimming, and much more. Although those are skills that they can also learn outside of scouts, the way that the program has it set up, you learn a lot more than you would of if you just teach your child the

  • Am I Volunteer

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    As I walked back down the narrow lanes, I glanced at the rows of houses that lined the streets in my neighbourhood. The cut grass and the friendly neighbours were always present and the neighbour shone in bright sunlight. Where I live, everyone is connected to each other and cares for each other's wellbeing. That connection is extremely important in our world and community. It is a privilege to be able to assist ones community and work with community members for the betterment of the world. This

  • Personal Essay: Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

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    No longer than 120 eighty-character lines of text (including spaces and blank lines) Describe a setting in which you have collaborated or interacted with people whose experiences and/or beliefs differ from yours. Address your initial feelings, and how those feelings were or were not changed by this experience. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a Air Force auxiliary comprised of cadets from the ages of 12-18. Each year every CAP region has what is known as an encampment. This is a week long military style

  • A Visit to Rural Areas in the UK

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    likely be motivate to take a rural excursion to the countryside in order to seek this adventure. The countryside of the UK will motivate families who are looking for adventure as there are many outdoors activities possible and available such as orienteering and adventure walks. Novelty- The novelty of a family holiday to the countryside is almost always there anyway, some families may prefer to take this type of holiday in the countryside as it would be much cheaper than taking a novelty holiday