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this is what a typical week looked like for me this summer regarding my workouts

Tuesday: work out 2 hrs in gym (attached), one hour on ice: focus was high tempo training camp style practice with lots of full ice drills and battle/compete mentality

Wednesday: work out 2 hrs in gym (attached), one hour on ice: focus was power skating, quick starts then condition(pushing tires, pulling partner....)

Thursday: work out 2 hrs in gym (attached), one hour one ice: focus of on ice individual skills ex: stick handling, shot development, edge work, with added conditioning through out

Friday: work out 2 hrs in gym (attached), one hour on ice: focus of on ice was a scrimmage

Saturday: rest recovery

Sunday: 2 mile conditioning run mile time 10:08 total 20:16

Monday: work out 2 hrs in gym, (attached), one hour on ice: basically a flow practice with finish of small area games

During my two years here at RNS, I have been a committed member of the RNS Varsity Boys Hockey Team. Being on the team has taught me many different skills. Skills I have worked on this year are a good gap when playing defense and a good first pass as both of these things are very important to success as a hockey player at this level. It has taught me how to plan and organize my studying around the busy schedule that is our season. I have learned how to adjust to the new level of play which was a lot faster and more physical than the level of play back home. BAck home you always had a lot of time and space with the puck and now at this level you have almost no time or space and so you have to adapt and learn how to play quicker and not think about decisions just know exactly where the puck is needed to go and just do it without thinking so much. Playing on the team had made me learn to overcome challenges and keep playing hard even when things don't go your way. Playing hockey has helped me grown as an athlete but also as a student helping my time management skills. Specific examples of this is I have to sometimes do homework during the afternoon instead of during study like everyone else because of how much we travel and all the challenges that come with missing school and then having practics during evening study

 

In the short story “The Huntsman” Chekhov demonstrate the extreme verbal and physical abuse men were able to inflict on women in 19th century Russia without any repercussions or batted eyes, in order to call out the wrong doings women were subjected too. In “The Huntsman” a husband, Yegor Vlasych, and wife, Pelageya, run into each other in the woods; Chekhov uses dialog between the two characters to underline the violent transgressions women face. Pelageya states, “you swore at me, beat me and left” an as if this is just a normal part of being married she instantly follows up this statement with, “I’ve been waiting and waiting… waiting for you” (Chekhov 10). Chekhov uses of dialog clearly depicts the horrible maltreatment women were objected too and how they had become accustom to the mistreatment and atrocities men were capable of. Pelageya is conditioned to think that this type of treatment is normal and justified because of the fact that Yegor is a man. Chekov also is able to reestablish the fact that women face countless acts of oppression. When Pelageya to claim she understands what Yegor is talking; when she does this Yegor exclaims “You don’t understand, stupid… In all your days born you’ve never understood and never will understand”, “you’re a woman, you don’t understand” (Chekhov 11). Yegor just dismisses every idea or concept she claims to have or understand, whenever Pelageya tries to take part in the conversation she is immediately met with immediate backlash and criticism. Yegor also continues to personally attack her calling her a “cow girl” (Chekhov 12) and “stupid” (Chekhov 11). Pelageya never seems fazed by any of this verbal or mentions of physical abuse, the fact that all of this abuse is seen as normal just reiterates Chekhov’s purpose of exposing the vast injustices vast women faced

 

The other day im sitting on the floor and i thought to my self th following questions here is my best answer to these questions enjoy

To what extent would you agree that the New Deal was responsible for ending the Great Depression in America?

Did it end the Great Depression?

Did it help everyone in ending the great depression?

The New Deal definately played a role in helping bring the United States out of the Great Depression by using a process called deficit spending. The United States government spent massive amounts of money on job programs in order to help employ millions of Americans. However the New Deal contained blatant racism and discrimination against African American people, so although the New Deal helped millions of Americans it mostly helped millions of white Americans, thus leaving their African American counterparts to fend for themself with little support from the government. The New Deal contained laws that would openly people of different races to be paid different amounts for the same amount of work. The New Deal was responsible for bringing some life back into the economy because the people who received jobs through the government work programs were now able to invest that money into other portions of the economy, such as buying groceries, or plates or even eventually bigger items such as a new car or nicer house. The New Deal which focuses on social benefits and direct hiring did not however lead to an increase in productivity. Without such a rise, fiscal spending can not permanently boost output. The hope with the job programs was that the money earned by the workers would then flow into other portions of the economy thus jump starting it out of the Great Depression. Although the New Deal definitely did help in some ways we did not see the number of investments added to the private economy equal those of before the Great Depression (1929) until the beginning of WWII (1941). WWII helped because the government spent a lot more money and effort on fundamental investment, which combined with the demands and importance of wartime production led to unprecedented leaps in productivity. Thus what truly brought the United States out of the Great Depression was WWII but to some extent the New Deal did help bring money back into the pockets of some Americans thus helping the American economy and slightly begin to help the United States out of the Great Depression, but to no extent would the New Deal alone have been able to bring the United States completely out of the Great Depression.

 

 

This summer I lived by myself for 8 weeks in an apartment in Vancouver. During this time I was responsible for cooking, cleaning and doing my own laundry and any other small task associated with living by my self. My host family would drop off food once a week to me so in order to be successful I would have to plan out not only what I would eat but how much food I would eat that week. This created a couple different challenges for me as it took time to get into a rhythm with how much food I would eat and what meals I liked and what meals I didn't like. As the summer went on I started finding success in different meals and would add those meals into my weekly diet. Living on my own taught me to be independent and gave me good skills in planning and organization. i Invented food

I decided to compare the American Mardi Gras party to the French holiday of All Saints. All Saints' Day is celebrated on November 1st. All Saints' Day is a celebration celebrated the day after Halloween. It is a celebration to celebrate all the saints of the world recognized and unrecognized. All Saints' Day is celebrated by many sections of the Christian religion. On All Saints Day, it is traditional to hold a grand feast to celebrate the saints. In France and in the French-speaking world, this day is known as La Toussaint. Flowers (especially in chrysanthemums) or crowns called crowns of all saints are placed on each grave or falls. Mardi Gras is a party the day before the night. Mardi Gras is a public holiday where people dress up in costumes and hold a grand parade in the street. The reason for this holiday is to indulge in something new because it is the day when everything is planned before the 40-day period during which you give up something. All Saints' Day is a much less important celebration, simply celebrating with a meal why Mardi Gras dresses with people who dress and who organize gigantic parades and hearty meals that day. Both holidays are religious holidays, although Mardi Gras is celebrated more widely and moves away from the religious atmosphere it has been in the past.

In the early nineteenth centenary Porfirio Diaz seized power of Mexico through a military coup. Using some legal means but a vast majority of illegal and manipulative ways Diaz consolidated the power in the Mexican government and brought it under his control. Diaz used his patronage system, edited the Mexican constitution and gave extreme power to the Catholic church. Using all of the techniques Diaz gained complete control of the country and turned a once function democracy into an oligarchy where less than one percent of the population controlled fifty percent of the land.

One of the many ways Diaz consolidated his power was through his patronage system. Diaz’s patronage system was a way to control the opposition groups in order to maintain power for a long time. One of the ways his system worked was Diaz had complete control over the media. Journalist could and were imprisoned for speaking out against him or publishing anything that he didn’t approve of. Diaz also had the government purchase about fifty percent of all the newspapers in Mexico in order to control the media by controlling the media in the country he could control what information was published or what was said giving him an extraordinary power. The second way his Patronage system was so successful was because he gave all of his oppositions or people he saw as threating government office so they would owe him personal favors and not try to take any of his power. By doing this Diaz was able to control the press and feed the public any lies he wanted, he also was able to keep any pressure from upcoming politicians or enemies off his back by making them owe him favors.

During Diaz’s time as ruler of Mexico the constitution of the country went under drastic changes; the changes changed Mexico from a democracy into an Oligarchy. The reform started with something simple as Diaz picking the members that filled congress and then gradually escalated until the entire congress was filled with only Diaz loyalists who blindly supported him voting yes on every bill he proposed due to the fact that they owed him for their seat in congress. After congress was completely under his control Diaz began to use congress to consolidate the reaming power he didn’t hold in the government. This included changing the constitution to allow re-election, then re-electing the president indefinitely and then extending any re-election period by two years. Diaz also used his power to get approval for anything he wanted such as building railroads even when the country was staving, he used money that could have been used for food to build railroads.

The Catholic church was a major voice in Mexico and played a crucial role in the opinions of the public. In order to maintain in good standing with the church Diaz allowed the church to be in control all of the education system of the country. In return for this huge favor and massive allocation of power the catholic church taught blind obedience to Diaz, in order to control the younger generations so that Diaz could stay in good favor and hold power.

Diaz seized control of Mexico through many illegal means and drove a once functioning economy in to shambles, where a country where seventy five percent of the workers worked in agriculture couldn’t feed them self. Diaz controlled all the power through rewarding his friends and opposition to eliminate political threats, rewriting the constitution and allowing the Catholic church to control the education of the country.

 

Last spring I interviewed to become a prefect at Rothesay Netherwood School. The area of interest I interviewed to be a prefect in was Interhouse, and I chose this because it was an area of the school I thought was important and helped bring the school community closer together. In the first few weeks of school Maddy and I planned Interhouse events that helped break the ice and bring people closer together. Since the first week of school there has not been much Interhouse activity, although Socktober was an that was about all the Interhouse-related things that have happened. I am thinking that I want to do something regarding the Christmas Exchange and tying it into Interhouse, most likely based on donations or other participation by the different houses.

I have manage to upload a few more photos to the photo gallery, feel free to stop by and have a look!!:P