Diana Nyad Research Paper

In the article “Swimming for Her Life,” by Kristen Lewis, it describes the life of Yusra Mardini. When Yursa was 13 the civil war started. Yusra fled in 2015 when she was 18. Yusra faces many challenges. She faces being a refugee, crossing the Aegean sea and being smuggled into Germany and Greece. When the Civil war started it caused Yusra and Sarah to become refugees and get smuggled into Greece and Germany. They also were crossing the aegean sea when the mortar to their boat stopped and it started to fill with water. Yusra and sarah both hopped out of their boat and and swam for 3.5 hours saving 18 souls. Once Yusra made it to Germany she met a man named Sven Spannekerbs. She swam for him and he immediately recognized her talent for swimming.

Michaela DePrince was born in Sierra Leone when it was a war –torn country and she was orphaned at a young age. She was known as Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was told she was a “devil child” because she has vertigo a skin condition that causes her skin to appear spotted. At that same orphanage, Michaela found a picture in magazine of a ballerina in a pink tutu en pointe that caused her to see the world differently and it gave her hope to get adopted and make it to America to become a ballerina

In the article Swimming for her Life by Kristan Lewis Describes the life of Yusra Mardini. She is a refuge and is a talented swimmer. In 2015 when Yursa was 17 she had to flee her country, Syria. Syria broke out in war Yusra and her sister Sarah wanted to go the Germany but the contraries around Syria did not let people go into their country without knowing how you are. So they went by boat between to Turkey and Greece but the boat could only carry 6 people at a time but they crammed 18 people into the boat. The motor stopped and the boat started to flood. Yursa and her sister, Sarah both jumped in the water and pushed the boat to the shore they swam 3 and a half hours in the cold rushing waters of the sea. They saved 18 people. When they finally

When Johannes Lisiecki waded into the cold waters of Semiahmoo Bay on Saturday, no one was really sure what the outcome would be. Slapped by wakes of passing boats, tossed by rolling waves and sucked by strong channel currents, Johannes Lisiecki swam through international waters to raise awareness of children congenital heart disease (CHD).

Diana Nyad is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long- distance swimmer. Diana is also the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without getting injury, swimming one hundred and one miles in fifty- three hours. It was Diana fifth time standing on the Cuban shore, hoping that she will make it across that vast from Cuba to Florida. Not only has she tried four times but even the greatest swimmer in the world has been trying since 1950's and it hasn't been done yet. Knowing the risk of the dangerous wildness of an ocean, she still continues this great journey. Facing the sharks and box jellyfish, the deadliest venom are in these waters. From her previous attempt, she came close to dying. Diana team and her best friend

Having a coach will help your persevere life’s most difficult challenges. The inspiring theme of The Cuban Swimmer is the perseverance of Margarita Suarez as she swims from San Pedro to Catalina island. The source of her perseverance comes from her father, Eduardo. Margarita’s inspirational source is a integral part of the play, without it she wouldn’t have won the race and the play would have been undeniably hopeless. If it hadn’t had been for her perseverance she wouldn’t have overcome the challenge she faced during the turning point of the play.

In 1926 there was a woman who was the first woman to swim on the english channel and previously won the 1924 Olympics, her name was Gertrude Ederle.She was born October 23, 1906, she belongs to german immigrants who moved to New York City. Gertrude went the Olympics and got a gold medal in the 4x100 meter relay and a bronze 100 meter and 400 meter relay. June 1925 Gertrude was 19 years old when she beated the old swim record of swimming from New York Battery to Sand Hook, New Jersey.Gertrude’s first attempt to swim on the english channel was shot down because there was a technicality.Her first coach, the one that was with her the first time, told Gertrude to stop because there was too much salt water going into her mouth and he was worried

Alexis Janei Yancey died on friday 2080 in South Carolina at the age of 83. she spent most of her time finding a way to help her philadelphia community. Alexis Yancey was known to giving young people advice and comfort. everyone in her community respected and loved her. she was raised to only help people in her family but she didn’t believe that she was brought in world to do that . she felt she was here to help change the world. Her friends loved being around her. she was always the live of the party. even though she could be shy around people she didn’t know, she was only trying to see how they acted around people. she loved everyone around her.

“The Lady of The Lake,” also known as Marilyn Bell is a really important person to Canada. She was the first female Canadian to swim across Lake Ontario. When she was finished her swim across Lake Ontario lots of people came and gave her the name “The Lady of The Lake.” That’s how she got her name to be. She is a great influence for many people… The importance was not only her accomplishment, but also, the influence role she played for young people that followed her. This essay will talk about many of those accomplishments like her swims, before and aftermath, and her coach.

Michael Phelps wanted to face his fear and put his head under water and learn to swim. The narrator states, “Phelps undertook a mission since his childhood to become a champion swimmer”(Narrator para. 3), “Back then, he was a little nervous about putting his head underwater”(Narrator para. 2). By pursuing his goal and wanting to succeed, Michael Phelps is now known as a champion swimmer and the record holder for the most Olympic Medals won.The Narrator states, “Phelps set a world record in July 2012 for earning more medals than any other Olympic athlete” (Narrator para.

Hola Diana, it's mild here for the time of year but still cold to me, and it feels worse because it's very damp. That is the problem with radio this time of year, they play too many xmas songs, even on classical music stations. Part 4, amazing adventures in, "Running from Henry ". Not being able to get tickets on the Mayflower meant we had to change our tactics, skillfuly we just managed to evade Henry's secret police so we made our way to northern Wales. Monalisa proved harder to shake off and caught up to us at farmer Johns inn on the island of Anglesey. Luckily Monalisa's cousin was a fisherman who sailed out of Bull bay every day, she persuaded him to take us to Dublin, on the condition that she could come too, so we had to agree. But Mona

Diana Gabaldon is best known as an award winning author for her historical time-travel novels entitled Outlander. What started out as a writing exercise with no intention of being shared let alone published, Outlander became a number one New York Times-bestseller; which developed into a plethora of adventures involving the characters in the same eras.

From Nye’s birthday in March 12, 1952 to the present, Naomi Shihab Nye has survived the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and 9/11 Attacks of the twenty-first century. These modern struggles with the War on Terror impacted Nye all the more due to her close relations with her father, a Palestinian refugee. Because of her cultural background and wide variety in hometowns, Nye is known for her “sensitivity and cultural awareness” towards others (Poetry Foundation). For example, as Nye lives in San Antonio, Texas, many of her poems are spoken with the voices of her Mexican-American neighbors, which demonstrate her understanding and tolerance of people from different backgrounds and cultures. Then, upon the occurrence of the Twin Tower’s explosion in

First time I have been National Gallery of Art and this place was very gorgeous place, even one day not enough to see all the arts. I notice people coming from all the round the world just sees the arts. Another thing I notice college students taking pictures asking question about the pictures with guider. Then I realize how important this places. However, I spend more than couple hours to see some of the attractive arts. I wanted to spend more time see the all the geniuses’ artist, but my time is limited. Some time I cannot even say those are real arts because it is very similar to photograph. I want to draw arts like that when I see those arts. All the arts are attracted me, but I chose one art because I learn about this artist and it will be easier to describe.

This made my body less buoyant and my speed somewhat slow. There were two sixteen year old girls in the lanes on either side of me who swam with the agility of dolphins. These girls and everyone else beat me to the finish, which did not help my nineteen-year-old ego. I wanted to crawl away and hide but was determined not to let myself be outdone.