I have been using Keaira LaShea’s dance work out videos to exercise. My sub-goal is to gradually increase my workouts with hopes of working out for at least an hour every day in the near future. Eating healthy and working out frequently will allow me to complete my second sub-goal of losing roughly ten pounds so I will get to a healthy weight according to BMI charts. Achieving these sub-goals will reduce my stress and increase my health because being overweight can increase stress levels and poor health conditions. This goal and sub-goals relate to the psychological concepts of affect and behavior, such as; stress, mood, happiness, and self-affirmation.…
I was also enrolled in many different extracurricular activities on top of my studies. As a result, piano, violin, swimming, tennis, key club (in high school), and powerlifting (in January 2016) were all part of my life while growing up and still am. During my life always being compared…
There have been multiple times when someone has shared a special accomplishment or achievement with me. One significant example of a time that someone has shared a special accomplishment with me was when the varsity girls cross country team was Northern Tier League champions. This accomplishment was shared with everyone that was on the varsity girls cross country team. This was a special accomplishment for everyone.…
There many efforts that are being done today to close the achievement gap, including raising students’ achievement gap across the board. Multicultural education is an instructive approach that empowers differences and correspondence (attention on human relations, different backgrounds, investigation on social and ethnic, and critical thinking skills). As achievement gaps view the differences between the majority and minority of how students’ learn, it weighs on the variances on systematics in education…
People are shaped by their surroundings. These influences come in the form of anything from elementary school teachers to religious awakenings, from mission trips to news articles. For me, these influences come in the form of dance, God, and opportunity. Unexpectedly, dance has made a major impact on who I am. Though I started at age three, I've been dancing at a Vaganova-style ballet academy for seven years.…
The achievement gap between rich and poor children extends little by little, and there is not an easy solution to close it. Our society sustains the idea that there must be a division of social classes. This is evident in the way the neighborhoods in large cities are constructed. The rich are secluded in the hills, while the poor live in the communities with factories and liquor stores on every corner. The social construct in the United States is to be blamed for this gap because it allows for children to receive different resources and quality of education, by allowing private education schools and not allowing children to attend schools that are not in their neighborhood of residence.…
The achievement gap in many schools today is not a new concept or concern. In recent years, school districts have worked aimlessly to narrow or eliminate achievement gaps in classrooms across America, yet are seeing little if any positive increase. There is a large achievement gap in the area of children of color and white children in many schools. Unfortunately, this educational concern dates back to World War I, and we still battle in equality and funding of schools. “Funding schools as if all populations face the same problems and had the same needs is an equally ineffective means of addressing the achievement gap” (Gardner, 2007, p. 543).…
It seemed as if I would cause mayhem every time I moved a muscle. I never could find a way to stay idle. Fortunately, my parents found a way to channel my excess energy; they enrolled me in taekwondo classes. This was the first step into my athletic history, from that point on I continued to participate in volleyball and basketball. Although I was given the opportunity to expose myself to different sports, there was also the issue of exposing myself to different injuries.…
My journey to success took a different path than most teenage girls. As Auditory Process disorder, a condition where the ears and brain do not fully coordinate with each other impacted my life in many ways. Dancing for thirteen years has also taught me a lot about success, work ethic and who I am as a person. In being born with APD I found my success through dance, and my dedication and hard work has shaped me into who I am today. I remember it so clearly.…
This is going to sound silly, I just know it. But I think this is important. My greatest accomplishment in the past two years is learning to dance. No, it’s not graduating high school, getting good test scores, or being in the top of my class.…
In dance, you learn quickly that without pure dedication and drive you will never be successful. While talent can come naturally, skill and technique only come with hard work. I spent countless hours in dance studios growing up, working tirelessly to hone these skills and perfect technique. A lifetime of dance taught me what it means to have discipline and dedication to a craft, values which I have also seen reflected in my clinical experiences. Medicine is a practice which calls for just as much discipline, dedication, and drive.…
I was always so exhausted after practice, and I felt as if I had been tortured. Now; however, I have come to realize how greatly exercising affects my mental health. After going to the gym it is as if not just my body, but also my mind has been cleansed. CREDITABILITY: Personally, I enjoy exercising…
I sat in the pew kicking my little legs back and forth I listened to the preacher talking about forgiveness. I especially enjoyed listening to this part because I did not understand it. People would yell at my grandmother and say many horrible things about her, and she always forgave them. If that were me, I would have erased them from my memory. I watched as people stood up one by one to make it down to the front of the church to pray for forgiveness.…
Inspiration Originally I set out to make some sort of online game. Then I realized that kids already spend too much time with their faces buried in iPads and iPhones. I decided that I wanted to create something that encouraged some sort of physical activity. The goal is to find something that can cut down on childhood obesity, an epidemic in The United States of America.…
I started my journey in health and fitness at a young age. I was always one of those kids who just could not sit still - so I was into everything, climbing trees, riding bikes, swimming, sports, you name it I was into it. However my discipline to this way of life came when I discovered basketball, it was when I was about 13/14 and shot up to practically the height I am now, so my teachers said why don't you try and develop your skills as a basketball player as I was taller than most of my teachers at 13 which lead them to think I'd grow to be some kind of 7 foot giant, but unfortunately that didn't happen, would've been cool though.…