Breaking Through The Ice Palace

History has framed the Miracle On Ice as one of those rare sporting achievements that transcend sport. The two hockey games that comprise the “miracle” – the 4-3 win over the mighty Soviets and the 4-2 gold medal clincher against Finland – are credited with lifting Americans from a decade of gloom and despair, reviving patriotism and foreshadowing a national renewal.

Relationships can be like a pack of wolves. There is an alpha and an omega, always a type of power structure. Jane Kenyon explores about this in her poem with the different roles the male and female take within in their relationship. She reveals how a power shift come about and the way in which each person in the relationship acts to accommodate it. “Surprise” In her poem “Surprise”, Jane Kenyon uses yonic and phallic symbols, regression, and the double to reveal the power dynamics within the relationship.

The “Miracle on Ice,” where the United States defeated the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York will forever be known as one of the greatest moments in American sports history. This game was about more than just sports though, it signified American strength, even when faced the greatest adversities. The United States was suffering through Vietnam, Watergate, and the wrenching upheavals of the 1960s. Many believe this game was even the beginning of the end for the Cold War. The Soviet Union had won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Winter Olympic Games, and were the favorites to win once more in Lake Placid. The team consisted primarily of professional players with significant experience

     As the book moves through the plot and is approaching it’s climax you can only wonder if Good can prevail through unimaginable odds or if Evil will conquer.

Chasing Ice The documentary is Chasing Ice made in 2009, directed by James Balog tries to convince the viewers that global warming is a growing problem in the world and one way to show people are glaciers. Taking pictures or videos of them and having visual evidence of global warming will hopefully convince viewers that global warming is true. What the director does is go to different countries and plants cameras of certain glaciers and hopefully catch them receding on camera. The three different places are Alaska, Iceland, and Greenland.

The Ice House and The Alchemist In the books,The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Who Owns the Ice House? by Clifton Taulbert and Gary Schoeniger, both books have key connections that readers are able to use and apply to their own lives. In the book Who Owns the Ice House?, it teaches life lessons from the eyes of Clifton Taulbert and Uncle Cleve, everything from the choices we make, to having the persistence to chase that one dream we always have had. In the book The Alchemist, the book shows the life of a shepherd and how he overcame the obstacles of traveling through Africa and Egypt, to get back to his hometown “Spain”.

Ex Olympic ice hockey champion from America, Angela Ruggiero is set to steer the International Olympic Committee's athletes' commission following the Rio de Janeiro Olympics evevt. She will replace Claudia Bokel of Germany.

In the story “The Student’s Wife” written Raymond Carver tells about the difficulties and problem in the relationship between Nan and Mike. Carson descriptively describes Nan, who is the wife of Mike, and a mother that is full of responsibilities to taking care of her family and be the financial supporter in the family, and Mike who is the husband of Nan and a college student that is in need of receiving enough sleep for the next day. The author explained that the characters are facing their own difficulties because Nan is going through a rough time and stressing about life since she wants a luxurious, easy going life; meanwhile Mike is trying to his best to satisfy his wife and be there for her, but at

The concept of holism allows researchers to learn more about the history in regards to human existence. This allows researchers to reconstruct past human experiences and discover more in regards to the development in human health and nutritional habits. One can notice aspects of holism in BBC’s documentary, Death of the Iceman, regarding the investigation of the Iceman, Ötzi. Many different theories were made when analyzing the Iceman, Ötzi, regarding his lifestyle and journey during his last few days alive. According to New Tattoos Found on Oetzi the Iceman, posted by Rossella Lorenzi, the tattoos found on Ötzi’s body have a few different denotations. The tattoos are believed to be signs of acupuncture as they were found on acupuncture meridians.

Many of the couples in the books worked through their problems by talking to each other and admitting the problem. From there they talked about how they may not feel loved by the way their partner is expressing it. Co-workers in the book also benefitted from communication with each other. One co-worker felt that a lady in her workplace did not like her. Through talking with her they realized one felt loved through acts of service and the other through words of affirmation.

Sally Carrol Happer is destined to find a life outside of the South, where she lives in Tarleton, Georgia. Not just any life though. Sally Carrol is looking for knowledge, understanding, and to progress in society. She meets and becomes engaged to Harry Bellamy who is from an unnamed town in the Northern United States. Harry is educated and wealthy and this is what she has been looking for; a way to progress in life.

Many authors like to write fantasy novels, stories that detached themselves from reality, novels that tell us about magic, parallel dimensions, between others. But even in these fictional stories there is still the presence of the universal themes that can be touched not only in this kind of novels but also in the simpler ones, themes like the fight between good and evil, love, between others.

The overall impotence in each of these novels brings the question of new life and therefore hope. If impotence and the circular patterns of violence that continue from one generation to the next, what hope is there that future generations will be able to move on, and save

Throughout the novels there are several leitmotive that conduct the two protagonists to a complete estrangement,

Frozen is a must see film about two delightful sisters on a quest to save one another. It is one of the best films by Disney productions since Tangled in 2010. It is craftily animated with catchy songs for all ages to enjoy. I really liked how they made the main point of the movie based around two sisters bond with one another. They also steered away from the typical Disney happily ever after and lastly, it also empowered girls to be critical thinkers of who they meet and trust.