collect data and information from various girls between the ages of 14-19‚ I will issue a survey to collect data on their opinion of lung capacity between swimmers and non-swimmers. In order to carry out the experiment‚ 10 swimmers between the ages of 14-19 and 10 non- swimmers between the ages of 14-19 will be used. All will be female. The non swimmers will do sports such as hockey‚ netball‚ rowing and athletics. 1. Each female will answer a survey to voice their opinion on the possibility of different
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In reading the story “The Swimmer”‚ the main character Neddy Merrill‚ takes his journey home through swimming pools of his neighborhood‚ which then progresses into a journey through the years of his life. This is showing that the passage of time is inevitable‚ and no matter how much one might ignore it‚ it still passes. It is shown in this story that Neddy has been in denial of reality the entire time as well. At the beginning of this story it states that Neddy is “far from young‚” but he does his
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“The Country Husband” is a story by John Cheever. The story begins with a middle- aged man (the main character) named Francis Weed experiencing an emergency plane landing into a crop field. The plane Francis was taking from Minneapolis to New York had entered a turbulent storm‚ thus resulting in the pilot to have to land. However‚ Francis Weed survives the plane crash. After Francis’s near death experience‚ he seeks to his true identity which had been lost in the social circle of his suburban life
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the story. Successful authors are able to blend grotesque‚ pathos‚ and humor so that the story is cohesive as well as responsive. In the short story “Reunion” by John Cheever‚ these elements are used to construct a story about a young boy and the relationship between him and his distant father. Although the story is short‚ Cheever incorporates humor‚ pathos‚ and grotesque into the dialogue and narration in order to uncover the reader’s emotions of frustration‚ pity‚ and comicality towards the protagonist
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Throughout the short story “The Swimmer”‚ the author makes it sound as if the main character Neddy Merrill is swimming home through pools. But‚ these pools are metaphors for different chapters of his life. In the beginning Neddy is portrayed as youthful and energetic‚ he is able to dive into the pool and he can lift himself out of the pool effortlessly. As the story goes on as Neddy goes through more pools we see that he’s getting older‚ he uses the ladder to get out of the pool and he is cold
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7 April 2014 In John Cheever’s short story “The Swimmer‚” a swimming pool represents much more than a fun summer afternoon. When Cheever’s main character‚ Ned Merrill‚ decides to take the long way home by swimming through every pool on his way home‚ he journeys through much more than swimming pools. As the story progresses‚ it becomes clear that a large amount of time has lapsed since the swimmer began his journey back home‚ and that his swims are interconnected with his life as an alcoholic
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The social status of Neddy in “The Swimmer” changes drastically as we move on in the story. The story at first starts reasonably enough‚ with Neddy the protagonist lounging about the swimming pool at the home of his friends the Westerhazys‚ which was fed by an artesian well when a thought occurs to him: there were many swimming pools between his current location and his home‚ so he could literally swim through them towards home. That’s when he starts his journey. His first stop is at the
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5 April 2006 John Cheever and the Suburban Life The average person from suburban America can be either valiant‚ pathetic‚ or both. This is the description of an American suburbanite according to John Cheever‚ an American novelist and short story writer during the fifties‚ sixties‚ and seventies. Cheever‚ an award winning writer‚ balances hope‚ uncertainty‚ and anxiety in his stories’ characters. In Cheever’s “The Swimmer”‚ the main character‚ Neddy Merrill‚ incorporates this description into his
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“The Swimmer” John Cheever’s short story “The Swimmer” was probably the most confusing story we have read in our class. When I read it the first time‚ the whole idea of “pool hopping” had stuck me as very odd. It also had a sort of sad mood throughout the whole story‚ and it was kind of a mystery because the neighbors were saying all these things about Neddy‚ but he had no idea what they were talking about. It was actually fun to read‚ and I liked the story‚ the theme and the whole concept of
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Olympic Swimmers Opinion Piece Four Olympic swimmers walked into a gas station bathroom after a night of drinking. They then kicked the bathroom door‚ pulled down a sign and returned to their taxi. Then an armed guard approached them and asked that they pay reparations. Allegedly the athletes handed over about fifty US dollars. When the swimmers returned to the place where they were staying they explained that they were late because they had been held up at gunpoint and robbed. According to Fox News
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