Jennifer Armbruster is seven time Paralympic athlete at the age of 41 years old. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Her hometown is Portland, Ore. She trains in Birmingham, Ala. Where she works out twice a day once early in the morning, around 5 or 6 and then after work. She began losing her eyesight at the age of 14. The sport she plays is call Goalball which is a team sport designed specifically for blind athletes. Invented in 1946 by Austrian, Hanz Lorenzen, and German Sepp Reindle, in an effort to help in the rehabilitation of blinded war veterans. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball that has bells embedded in it into the opponents' goal. It is three different types of classifications B1 (is a disability sport classification for people who are considered blind), B2 …show more content…
Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, gold. Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, silver. Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, bronze. World Championship Experience Most recent: 2014 – gold Years of Participation: 2014, 2010, 2006, 2002, 1998 Medals: 5 (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze) Gold – 2014; 2002 Silver – 2010 Bronze – 2006; 1998 Other Career Highlights 2013 Parapan American Games – gold. The definition of goalball is that teams alternate throwing or rolling the ball from one end of the playing area to the other, and players remain in the area of their own goal in both defense and attack. Players must use the sound of the bell to judge the position and movement of the ball. Games consist of two 12-minute halves (formerly 10-minute halves). Eyeshades allow partially sighted players to compete on an equal footing with blind players. Eyepatches may be worn under eyeshades to ensure complete coverage of the eye, and prevent any vision should the eyeshades become
You’d be hard pressed to find one in a crowd. The average serial killer generally blends in with everyone else (Directory Journal, 2010). In fact, most are soft-spoken and even polite. Their monstrous nature only comes through when you dig deeper into their personalities, actions, and habits. Most seem to have come from dysfunctional family settings and were emotionally, sexually, or even verbally abused as children (Directory Journal, 2010). It is almost as if this background activates some psychological trigger that increases their feelings of inadequacy or worthlessness that led them to seek out their own heinous form of release.
Olivia Plamann is a fifteen year old sophomore at Sartell High School. Her friends call her Liv, and she was born on June 10th, 2001 in St. Cloud, Minnesota to her two parents, Pat and Joy Plamann. Olivia also has a younger sister, Ella, who attends the Sartell Middle School. Olivia is a very talented dancer, and she has been on the Sartell High School dance team for two years now. When she is not dancing, Olivia enjoys to play with her two dogs, named Packer and Baxter, and she also enjoys watching Netflix. Olivia’s favorite show to watch on Netflix is Glee. She also enjoys to listen to music, particularly of the pop genre. She cannot pinpoint her favorite artist, however, her current favorite song is Coffee by Miguel. Once Olivia graduates
Born and raised in Michigan, Debbie Stabenow has been one of Michigan’s senators for the past 16 years. She has been a helping hand not only for Michigan but for the whole United States, finding ways to create jobs, improve health care and protect the Great Lakes of Michigan. Stabenow’s role in the senate is crucial, being on the Senate Agriculture Committee, fighting for small business’ and manufacturing. Debbie Stabenow is a fighter for what she believes in for Michigan and for America.
Riding the Pale Horse of Death, Aileen Wuornos murdered seven men over a nineteen-month period from December 1989 until November 1990, along highways in the state of Florida. While working as a prostitute, Aileen would solicit her victims then murder them. Wuornos confessed to committing seven murders. Aileen Wuornos was found guilty and convicted of six murders. Aileen received the dubious honor of being named officially the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s first female serial killer. Aileen was given six death sentences, more than anyone else on Death Row at that time and maybe even to this day. Ms. Wuornos was
Angela is honored to serve as the representative of such an ethnically, economically, and individually diverse district. The sixth district populace is a vital contributor to the economy of New Jersey, generating revenue through tourism, fishing, light and heavy manufacturing, advanced research, and technological development. The sixth district’s urban centers, New Brunswick, Asbury Park, and Perth Amboy, and acclaimed universities, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and Monmouth, contribute to the vibrancy of life within the sixth district. The dedicated people of eastern New Jersey make the sixth district a wonderful place to live, as well as an esteemed region to represent.
In 1908 soccer was put in every summer Olympic Game. Since 1952 Hungary has won the most gold medals.
Last June in 2001, a 37-year-old lady by the name of Andrea Yates, was arrested for killing her five children. Most people like me would agree that she was sane, and the death penalty would have been the right punishment for Mrs. Andrea Yates.
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), the nation's largest not-for-profit organization supporting Hispanic American higher education. With honor awarding Alumni Izabella Anguiano Jacobs with a monument in the HSf hall of fame. Celebrating her work for her contribution to hsf as well as her mark in the animation industry.
Understanding her place in the creative realm of music as the intersection between classical instrumentation and modern lyric creation, Delaney Shay has recently recorded her second single in a Los Angeles studio and possesses numerous ideas concerning the expansion of her musical career—and she’s only seventeen.
Julie Taymor, a director and playwright, was the first women to a Tony Award. Her works in opera, theater, and film has gotten her many awards, including Academy awards, an Oliver award, and much more.
Kate Chastain is a reality star and stewardess who is known for her tenure as Chief Stewardess on the Bravo reality TV series Below Deck. She is also an American actress and film producer.
Flashes of World War II propaganda cartoons from Germany, Japan and the United States demonstrate how they were by picturing the other species as rats and snakes. Based on these cartoons and images, which have some same points such as visual metaphor and hostile cliches to characterize and dehumanize their enemies, Dr. Keen believes that they are drawn from the artists being at the same schools.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 15, 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky. She was discovered at 14 while vacationing in New York. She played different roles including Katniss Everdeen in the movies series The Hunger Games and Mystique in X-Men: First Class. Jennifer had several award nominations including a Golden Globe. In 2010 she received her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
Also, the environment represents the interpersonal distance between the two people. For those who are having a blind date, it is neither proper for them to stay closely like the official couples, nor to keep long distance like acquaintances. Sense of awkwardness can also appear when the two stay too close to each other at the first date. According to Expectancy Violations Theory by Judee Burgoon, a communication scholar at the University of Arizona, personal space is invisible and variable that defines people’s preferred distance from the others (Griffin, Ledbetter, Sparks, 2015). Edward Hall, an anthropologist at Illinois Institute of Technology attached great significance to respecting others’ personal space and adjusting nonverbal behavior
Media outlets have been used throughout the years as a way to communicate and maintain the world together. They were often seen as something positive because they were able to provide information from all around the world to a person’s home. Nowadays, the media have evolved to become an important role in society. As cited by Parsons, Reichl, and Pedersen (2017), while the media is often used as personal enjoyment and diversion it had grown to be a way in which individuals explore and expand their curiosity on subjects such as personal enrichment, self-awareness, and sexuality. However, negativity has also come with this popular trend. Since a young age, individuals are exposed to different messages through the media. The media have become a way to promote and incite stereotypes that might influence people into believing they must behave or look a certain way in order to be accepted into society. By promoting certain stereotypes, the media have also found a way to reinforce and reproduce certain gender norms. For instance, the role-learning theory supports this idea by mentioning that the images the media portrays eventually become the ideas that will influence individuals’ development of beliefs and self-concepts (Andersen, 2015). In other words, the media have developed the power to influence how people create their stereotypes about society. In brief, some of the media outlets that have had the greatest impact on influencing the perception of gender in society are