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  1. The Story of My First Swimming Experience

    Pages: 1 (494 words) Views: 4327. Grade: 5. Download. As I reflect on my first swimming experience in this essay, I am filled with a sense of pride and accomplishment. The most memorable day for me would have to be the day I learned how to swim. Learning new things can be a challenging at times. As long as I could remember I have been afraid of ...

  2. Swimming: A Plan B Essay

    Swimming: A Plan B Essay. by. Lauren Groff. She swims in open water, the alternate self. There is no boat. She is alone. There is no predicting the conditions. Some days, the water is flat and still, her strokes pushing through a membrane of surface warmth and into a chill beneath. Some days, the waves are so vast they lift her high on their ...

  3. Learning to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained for

    The author (far right) in the early 1990s. Lorri Reid. "The Reluctant Swimmer" met twice a week, Monday and Friday, from 8 to 8:45 p.m., at a large, modernized Y.M.C.A. near Manhattan's ...

  4. 'Learning To Swim At 24 Taught Me An Important Life Lesson'

    There was a variety of ages in our adult-beginner course, which was made up of all Black women. Young 20-somethings, like myself, women in their 30s and 40s, and even a few Aunties—elders, often ...

  5. My First Day Of Swimming Experience

    Satisfactory Essays. 854 Words. 4 Pages. Open Document. I will never forget my first day at swim practice. When I was younger (around age three) I remember going to the YMCA for swim lessons, but my first day at practice wasn't anything like that. At they YMCA I got to take individual lessons that were not crowded at all, but at my first swim ...

  6. My Swimming Career: A Short Story

    Persuasive Essay About Swimming 1946 Words | 8 Pages. I turn my head up and take a breath." That is how Jenna Ward (November 8, 2016) described the feeling of swimming. Everyone should be able to feel the thrill of accomplishing something so important as swimming. Swimming is a life saving skill all people should learn to do.

  7. Descriptive Writing Swimming: [Essay Example], 639 words

    Descriptive Writing Swimming. Imagine yourself standing at the edge of a crystal-clear pool. The sun hangs high in the sky, casting its warm glow over the water. You can hear the gentle lapping of waves against the side of the pool, enticing you to take the plunge. As you lower yourself into the water, a rush of coolness envelops your body ...

  8. Personal Narrative: My Swimming Story

    Personal Narrative: My Swimming Story. My Swimming Story Swimming never fails to appeal to me. I grew up swimming and had continuous year-round swim workouts and competitions. Being born and raised in China, I started my swim career in an elementary school. Since then, I swam through elementary school, middle school, high school, and college.

  9. Swimming with My Daughters

    By Mary Grimm. May 11, 2024. Illustration by Grace J. Kim. I went swimming with my two daughters when they were both expecting babies. The three of us had gone away for the weekend, and were ...

  10. 8 Unique Essays on Swimming

    By Student essays November 26, 2021. Swimming is one of the best all-around exercises. It provides cardiovascular exercise, strength training and muscle toning, flexibility, range of motion and coordination. The fact that swimming can be done anywhere makes it a great workout option for people on the go or who may have injuries that limit their ...

  11. Swimming Lessons Critical Essays

    Critical Overview. Mistry's ''Swimming Lessons'' is the concluding story of Tales from Firozsha Baag, the collection that first brought him critical attention, but most commentators ...

  12. Personal Narrative Essay: A Secret Swimming Story

    Personal Narrative Essay: A Secret Swimming Story. Not long ago, I read a news on the internet. One summertime, two children played nearby a river, while divers were recovering a sunken automobile. Suddenly, the first child pushed the other one, who could not swim, into the river as a prank. Fortunately, one of the divers saved the drowned.

  13. The Swimmer By John Cheever English Literature Essay

    The Swimmer By John Cheever English Literature Essay. "The Swimmer" by John Cheever is a contemporary masterpiece that theatrically addresses the plights of man as he losses friends, respect, family and possessions while he is obsessed with his pleasurable hobbies. The author in this short story stage manages a seasonal time shift and shows ...

  14. Swimming: A Plan B Essay by Lauren Groff

    Swimming: A Plan B Essay by Lauren Groff. Lauren Groff. Published in Ploughshares 1 March 2012. Art. This issue, guest-edited by poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, contains a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories, from Eric Fair's essay Consequence, on being an interrogator at Abu Ghraib, to Major Jackson's list poem, "Why I Write Poetry."

  15. Swimming Essay & Paragraph in English for Students

    How to Swim. To keep the body afloat, one has to move the arms and legs in a special process. The water has to be pushed continuously downwards and backwards with the limbs. A little boy can easily learn to swim with a little effort. But if an adult wants to learn to swim, it seems difficult to him.

  16. Swimming

    swimming, in recreation and sports, the propulsion of the body through water by combined arm and leg motions and the natural flotation of the body. Swimming as an exercise is popular as an all-around body developer and is particularly useful in therapy and as exercise for physically handicapped persons. It is also taught for lifesaving purposes. For activities that involve swimming, see also ...

  17. A Short Summary Of The Short Story Swimming By Marryman

    The short story "Swimming" written by Marryman first published in 2011, in the short story we are following a women, told through a third person, she doesn't fully understand why she have not jet swum in the river yet, so the question is, why hasn't she swum before in the river? The themes of the short story "swimming" are growing ...

  18. SWIMMING: A Plan B Essay

    swimming. If I weren't a writer, I'd be an open-water swimmer. They are different modes of pushing toward the same purpose: those singu-lar moments of ecstasy, the gorgeous, the ungraspable, the letting go.-Lauren Groffis the author of The Monsters of Templeton, a novel , and Delicate Edible Birds, a story collection. Her work has won a Pushcart

  19. Essay on My Hobby Swimming for Class 4, Class 5 and Class6 6 students

    Essay on My Hobby - Swimming. by FLT 11 40. Activities which we like to do during our free time are called hobbies. Each person has each type of hobby. Whenever we do our hobby activity, we feel relaxed and fun-filled. My hobby is Swimming. There is a swimming pool in a Club near my house. My father is a member of that pool.

  20. Essay on Swimming

    Swimming has lot more advantages other than this. It is very healthy and it keeps the metabolism of body stable. It helps the people to remain healthy. It is very pleasing and a good experience. It makes people feel light and enables them to enjoy themselves. It is a very amazing way of exercise.

  21. Free Essay: The Swimming Pool

    It was so hot that day, when you stepped outside you instantly felt the heat and started to drip sweat. The sun was so hot you could feel the heat on your skin trying to turn it red. When we got to the swimming pool you could hear the children laughing and splashing in the water. You could smell the chlorine in the water from the parking lot.

  22. English professor's essay about swimming and borders published in Open

    On Nov. 2, 2019, Furman University's Melinda Menzer crossed the Amistad Reservoir on the Rio Grande from the U.S. side to the Mexico side in a 10-mile roundtrip swim. In the journal Open Rivers, Menzer, professor and chair of the English Department, wrote about her experience and why she made the watery trek. Originally, Menzer set out to ...