...Special Olympic Swimming Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about Special Olympic Swimming Thesis/Central Idea: Special Olympic swimming is something that people with intellectual disabilities can learn, love, and benefit from participating in with instruction and support. Organizational Pattern: Topical I. Introduction A.Attention Getter: Imagine yourself in an arena, surrounded by encouraging team mates, supportive coaches, and thousands of fans screaming your name. Imagine all stereotypes being broken down, and competing for the pure love of the sport. B.Relevance: Swimming is one of 32 sports offered in the Special Olympics, and one of the most popular sports in the world. From 1968 to today, the Special Olympics have provided a place for people with disabilities to thrive and compete in fairly. As stated in the article, Changing Attitudes, on the Special Olympics website, “They are often ignored, neglected and excluded from schools and society. Special Olympics may be the only place where people with intellectual disabilities get the chance to become part of their communities and develop belief in themselves.” From our high school sports and activities, to watching the Olympics on T.V., the Special Olympics is a unifying activity that we can all relate to in one way or another. C.Credibility: I myself am a swimmer, and have been competitively swimming for twelve years. I have also been teaching a recreational swim team for people with disabilities...
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...Loretta Claiborne Crystal Cobb Ross PSY/300 April 16, 2012 Dr. Liz West Loretta Claiborne "Find an opportunity and seize it. Be the best you can be, and never let anyone doubt you” “Loretta Claiborne has run 26 marathons, lobbied Congress, won the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, and is a fourth degree black belt in karate” (McCallum, 2008) and motivational speaker; while this may sound like any average athlete, Loretta is anything but average. Loretta Claiborne was born with a severe case of mental retardation or for better terms intellectual disability. Intellectual disability is “a condition that includes below-average general intellectual function and a lack of the skills necessary for daily living” (A.D.A.M., 2011). Loretta was born legally blind in one eye and did not speak or walk until she reached the age of four. Although I could not find much in writing on her background, I learned from the movie of her life entitled The Loretta Claiborne Story, that she was able to overcome here adversity with the love and support of family and through hard work and determination of not wanting to be “different”. Loretta was a bit of a handle full in school she was often very angry. She would often get into fights with her fellow classmates who relentlessly taunted and teased her. One day her teachers let her out of class so that she would not meet up with her bullies and she told Loretta to “runaway and run fast” and Loretta did just that. As result Loretta...
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...and other sleep related causes of infant death (NICHD, 2012) From Back to Sleep to Safe to Sleep: Educating parents and caregivers on the prevention of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep related causes of infant death (NICHD, 2012) Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Each Year in the United States, Thousands of babies die suddenly and unexpectedly. These deaths are called SUID, which stands for “Sudden Unexpected Infant Death.” Sleep-related causes of infant death are linked to how or where a baby sleeps. They are due to accidental causes. These deaths are not SIDS (NICHD, 2012). Stacy Garcia Stacy Garcia z z Put you baby safe to sleep Put you baby safe to sleep References: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of...
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...get his leg amputated. Your son would no longer be able to play sports, he would be absolutely devastated. Every year hundreds of thousands of kids are born with some kind of disability. In the early 1960s, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, “saw how unjustly and unfairly people with disabilities were treated. She also saw that many children with special needs didn’t even have a place to play” (specialolympics.org). Soon, her vision became a reality. Eunice held a summer day camp for young people with intellectual disabilities in her own backyard. Her goal was to “learn what these children could do in sports and other activities and not dwell on what they could not do” (specialolympics.org). Her vision eventually turned into the global Special Olympics movement. The Special Olympics’ Athlete oath, “Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt” (specialolympics.org). During the early 1960s, Eunice Kennedy Shriver noticed how unjustly people with disabilities were treated. These poor people were unable to participate in team sports let alone be able to contribute in individual sports all because they were born with a disability. However, thanks to the generosity of one by stander, she changed many lives forever. Eunice began a camp in her own backyard and eventually turned into a worldwide organization. The Special Olympics have been around since mid-1968. It is absolutely mind boggling how one person touched the hearts of...
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...Research Plan Rachel H. Johnson 504-699-5901 March 25, 2014 Research Proposal 1. Research Topic Introduction The purpose of my research topic Is descriptive .My descriptive research will allow me to identify and obtain information on social media and how it affects our youths. The research question I wish to answer is: Are children under the age of 18 mature enough to have unrestricted access to social media: As a community, how can we better protect our children who use social media? I have chosen this topic partly as a result of my interest in how we as a country are evolving so quickly with technology, but our children values and morals seem to be diminishing even quicker and social media has giving them the platform . Additionally, I recently was very disturbed when I viewed a program on Dr. Phil which profiled several families that were mourning the loss of their children and how the reckless use of social media was a culprit in the scheme of it all. I was intrigued by how the use of something so easily available, like social media, could cause a child to engage in risky behaviors or even kill oneself. When I was growing up, technology of a landline was a privilege in some homes and we only used it for educational purpose. Because there are so many children who use social media, I wanted to further investigate the pros and cons of it, so that whatever position I chose, it would be an informed one. 2. Current Review of Literature The advancement...
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...John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly known by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963. After military service as commander of Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated vice president and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. At age 43, he was the youngest to have been elected to the office,[2][a] the second-youngest president (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president.[3] To date, Kennedy has been the only Roman Catholic president and the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize.[4] Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race—by initiating Project Apollo (which would culminate in the moon landing), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested that afternoon and charged with the crime that night. Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald two days later...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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...FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing offlimits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and...
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...Titre de l’édition originale STEVE JOBS : A BIOGRAPHY publiée par Simon & Schuster, Inc. Maquette de couverture : Bleu T Photo de couverture : Albert Watson © 2011 by Walter Isaacson Tous droits réservés. © 2011, éditions Jean-Claude Lattès pour la traduction française. Première édition novembre 2011. ISBN : 978-2-7096-3882-1 « Seuls ceux qui sont assez fous pour penser qu’ils peuvent changer le monde y parviennent. » Publicité Apple « Think Different », 1997 Table des matières Les personnages Introduction : La genèse de ce livre 1- L’enfance : abandonné puis choisi 2- Un couple improbable : les deux Steve 3- Tout lâcher : harmonie, ouverture, détachement… 4- Atari et l’Inde : du zen et de l’art de concevoir des jeux 5- L’Apple I : allumage, démarrage, connexion 6- L’Apple II : l’aube d’une ère nouvelle 7- Chrisann et Lisa : celui qui a abandonné… 8- Xerox et Lisa : les interfaces graphiques 9- Passer en Bourse : vers la gloire et la fortune… 10- Le Mac est né : vous vouliez une révolution 11- Le champ de distorsion de la réalité : imposer ses propres règles du jeu 12- Le design : les vrais artistes simplifient 13- Fabriquer le Mac : le voyage est la récompense 14- Entrée en scène de Sculley : le défi Pepsi 15- Le lancement : changer le monde 16- Gates et Jobs : quand deux orbites se croisent 17- Icare : à monter trop haut… 18- NeXT : Prométhée délivré 19- Pixar : quand la technologie rencontre l’art 20- Un homme comme les autres...
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