First, Figure Skating is an Olympic sport.  It has both Technical and Artistic Components to it’s judging.  In a program you can earn points by doing a specific element you can add points to that base point by being ” artistic.

Skating jumps are argually the most exhilerating part of the sport, you can preform up as many as you want in a practice.

Skating jumps consist of two aspects, vertical jumps and horizontal distance.  You can increase verticality with force and distance with speed.

6:45:  Wake up

7:00: 845-  Aerobics and Stretching and Off ice Jumping

9:00- 10:00-  Stroking Class

10:00- 11:00-  Jump and Spin Class

11:15- 12:30-  Strength Training/ Off Ice Conditioning

1:00 – 2:00-  On Ice

2:00-3:00- Stetching and Core Conditioning

3:15- 5:15-  Practice On ICE

7:30  BED

I do this every week day

and then on Sunday

I just train off ice all day ( but I have not actually figured out the logistics of it)

I like food.

I like pizza with basil.

I like nightime.

I like hanging out with my friends at the ice house.

I like to go to Paris, because I like french food.

I like to go to London, to visit Big Ben.

I like to go to China, to see the Great Wall.

I like to go to Jordan, to see Petra.

I like to go to Washington D.C., to visit the Holocust musem.

I like to go to Washington, Seattle to skate.

I like to go to see my family in Flordia.

I like to go to the Ice House on sundays to practice my choreogrophy.

I like to go to Rome, to see the collosium.

I like to go to Las Vegas, and watch magic shows.

I like to go to Hati to visit Paradise Cove.

Figure Skating

I like the following jumps:  Axel, Salchow, Toe-Loop, Wally, Flip, Lutz, Toe Walley, Reverse double Lutz, Inside Axel

I like to try them both ways and backward!

Jumping is an exhilerating experience, at least when you don’t fall.  You feel like your floating throgh the air effortlessly and it is almost a euphoric sensation as you spin to the ground.

 I like to work.

I like to watch movies in my basement.

I like the Universe series.

 I like to take walks with my family.

I like to spend saturdays with a good book.

I like to eat pizza with extra cheese and Peperonni and bacon and sausege and meat.

I also enjoy limes with salt

I would prefer eating a lime with salt than having to eat Ice Cream

I absolutly love cereal

I would eat cereal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if I had to.

My favorite skater is Alexie Yagudin.

This was written, because I was trying to understand my self, values, feelings, and because I had to write it.

One of the most apparent and obvious advancement’s in human history is technology.   “In the modern world, people depend on the written word to communicate with one another” (Gibbon 6).  Technology comes in many different forms.  There are cars, ice skates, Spears, backpacks, computers!  But when one thinks of technology you probably don’t think of writing.  Writing is one of the most profound discoveries with an interesting background. 

This specific tool has many purposes.  From communications to record keeping, writing is a very important part of human history.  As a matter of fact all factual history is written history.  Writing can take you places, as in a fantasy book, or it can inform you like this paper!  Gibbon eloquently points out, “The time period before people could write is known as prehistory” (6).   The history and development of writing was an essential technological breakthrough for ancient civilizations, and had a tremendous effect on ancient people and societies!

Many great civilizations have used writing.  Written language is an expression of oral language in characters that pertain to a sound, noun, verb, idea, or an emotion.  In ancient times writing was primarily use for communication and record keeping.    One civilization had a great impact on writing.  They were the first people to settle down, from hunting and gathering, and start a domestic lifestyle, as eventually almost all humans did!

“The world’s first writing system was developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia” (Sherman 62-63). Over five thousand years ago the people of southern Mesopotamia, which in Greek Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers, developed a writing system to keep records on what had happened from year to year.  Mesopotamia is located between the Tigris and Euphrates River in west Asia.  They used it to keep track of how much grain each farmer had grown, how much grain people got as their shares, how many cattle they had, how many animals died and how many were born, and how much of everything was given to their respective gods.  “Farmers working the rich soil of the Euphrates and Tigris river valleys began to produce surplus produce, which was stored in temple warehouses”  (Sherman 62-63).  

They started out drawing little   pictures, then as time went on people started to shorten the pictures to write faster and eventually turned into symbols.  The style in which the Mesopotamians wrote is called cuneiform.  Cuneiform means wedge shaped.  The symbols are made up of wedge marks, because they used a tool called a stylus to write.  “To help track inventories, the priest first developed pictographs which later evolved into a writing system called cuneiform” (Gibbon 13). Styluses are cut from reeves that grow along the river.  These creative people wrote on clay tablets.  “Scribes wrote with a hollow-reed stylus on wet clay tablets” (Sherman 63).  First they pat and mold the clay into a tablet shape, then they write on it with the stylus, and after they finish writing they put it in the sun to dry and harden. 

Some kids went to writing school, where mostly boys trained, to become a scribe.  It took twelve years of training to become a scribe.  They learn the cuneiform characters by the scribe teacher giving the students proverbs and riddles to write.  Scribes in Mesopotamia, keep records of everything important that happens like how much tax everyone paid, when the traders leave and what they take with them, and they keep track of the religious community as well. 

The Mesopotamians also created laws on these tablets. 

Hindu Basics

• “Hindus share a common world view.  They see religion as a way of liberating the soul form the illusions, disappointments, and mistakes of everyday existence.”
• Between 750 B.C. and 550 B.C., Hindu teachers tried to interpret the Vedic Hymns.
• They asked profound questions, for i.e.

“What is the nature of reality?”

“What is morality?” 

“Is there eternal life?”

“What is the soul?”

• The interpretations of the Vedas are known as the Upanishads; both of these are counted among Hinduism’s sacred books.
• “The Upanishads are written as dialogues or discussions, between a student and a teacher, in these discussions the student and a teacher discusses how a person can achieve liberation from desires and suffering.  This is described as moksha, a state of perfect understanding of all things.”
• “The teacher distinguishes between atman, the individual soul of a living being, and Brahman, the world soul that contains and unites all atmans.”
• “The inter connectedness of all life is a basic concept in all Indian religions”
• When a person understands the relationship between atman and Brahman, that person achieves perfect understanding, moksha, and a release from life in this world.
• By the process of reincarnation (REBIRTH), an individual soul or spirit is born again and again until moksha is achieved.
• A soul’s karma, good or bad deeds, follows form one reincarnation to another and karma affects into what the person will be born into, poverty, richness, state of health.

and it sparkles with delight.

Like a tree, so sweet.

“Existence exist because we believe it to exist.” Maybe. Or maybe It is only perception.

Or maybe it’s not perception, not concept. What if existence itself is undefinable by the nature of definition.

What if the capability to understand this mindbogglingly concept is impossible.

But what if it’s not. What if the answers are simple.

Why does existence exist?

Answer: To exist?
Answer: To serve a deity?
Answer: To escape existence? (Moksha, Nirvana)

Other Answers by my people.

“That’s only a subjective viewpoint. Buddhist/Hindu philosophers would tell you that no objects have inherent existence. The notion that they exist at all is a personal delusion, or a delusion shared by many people.”

“That is a nonsense question. It is like asking why does redness red? Existence is the fundamental attribute that an object must have before it can have any other attributes. If you cannot verify that something exists, you cannot honestly talk about any of the supposed attributes that the supposed object might have.”

“Existence exists because it has always been in existence.”

“God”

You tell me. Please comment!!!!