This document summarizes Erden Eruç's journey of human-powered circumnavigation and his efforts to inspire youth through storytelling. It describes how Eruç was inspired by stories of exploration as a child and decided to embark on an around-the-world journey himself. It outlines the obstacles he overcame through determination and commitment to his dream. It also discusses how he uses his experiences to motivate children and teach them life lessons about pursuing their goals despite fears or negative influences.
This PowerPoint shows a history of how hitchhiking has evolved for me. It begins with a kid who has an idea that hitchhiking can work and shows that indeed it does - with cars, motorcycles, limos, truckers, sailboats and more! This history of my hitchhiking spans seven years and covers over twenty countries. Overall, this work is an attempt to explain how hitchhiking works best, but I also share stories and try to explain that there is no typical situation on the road. While this is not everything you need to know, or that I do know, I consider it a good start and think that you will find inspiration in knowing that it's possible. Think of this an illustrated guide to hitchhiking.
Aaron Bell 4/2/2009
This document summarizes the author's experiences hitchhiking over several years and 20 countries. It begins with his early attempts learning how to hitchhike effectively, such as choosing high-traffic locations and using clear destination signs. Later, he refines his strategies, like traveling with props to start conversations, adding university names to signs, and even hitchhiking by sailboat. Through stories of memorable rides and kind strangers, the author illustrates how hitchhiking opened doors to unexpected adventures and connections around the world.
Central Secretariat Manual of e-office procedureConsultant
This document discusses the benefits of exercise for both physical and mental health. It states that exercise can improve cardiovascular health, reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, enhance mood, and reduce stress levels. The document recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week to gain these benefits.
The document discusses the vision and goals of an e-Post Office system. The system aims to modernize postal services and provide reliable delivery to rural areas with limited internet access. It will integrate postal offices online and automate processes like money transfers and bill payments. The e-Post Office will have four types of users - administrators, customers, employees, and e-mentors from industries. It will offer services like ordering stamps and envelopes, buying mobile recharge cards, and paying utilities online through a series of modules like administration, customer support, and reporting.
Este documento busca identificar los factores como la presión social, problemas familiares, económicos y psicológicos que afectan el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes, y proponer estrategias para mejorar la situación. Reconoce que al mejorar el rendimiento de los estudiantes, mejorará también el nivel de la institución educativa. Además, un alto rendimiento académico facilita el acceso al mundo laboral. El documento enfatiza la importancia de comprender cómo estas diferentes perspectivas convergen y de as
The document discusses the importance of production companies in filmmaking. Production companies are responsible for fundraising, budgeting, scheduling, scripting, finding directors and casting. They also supply resources for production and post-production activities like distribution, marketing, and addressing any problems that arise during production. Major production companies focus on revenue and promoting films to wider audiences to increase profits, while independent companies target specific niche audiences with one-off films. The document provides examples of production companies that have produced thriller films.
This PowerPoint shows a history of how hitchhiking has evolved for me. It begins with a kid who has an idea that hitchhiking can work and shows that indeed it does - with cars, motorcycles, limos, truckers, sailboats and more! This history of my hitchhiking spans seven years and covers over twenty countries. Overall, this work is an attempt to explain how hitchhiking works best, but I also share stories and try to explain that there is no typical situation on the road. While this is not everything you need to know, or that I do know, I consider it a good start and think that you will find inspiration in knowing that it's possible. Think of this an illustrated guide to hitchhiking.
Aaron Bell 4/2/2009
This document summarizes the author's experiences hitchhiking over several years and 20 countries. It begins with his early attempts learning how to hitchhike effectively, such as choosing high-traffic locations and using clear destination signs. Later, he refines his strategies, like traveling with props to start conversations, adding university names to signs, and even hitchhiking by sailboat. Through stories of memorable rides and kind strangers, the author illustrates how hitchhiking opened doors to unexpected adventures and connections around the world.
Central Secretariat Manual of e-office procedureConsultant
This document discusses the benefits of exercise for both physical and mental health. It states that exercise can improve cardiovascular health, reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, enhance mood, and reduce stress levels. The document recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week to gain these benefits.
The document discusses the vision and goals of an e-Post Office system. The system aims to modernize postal services and provide reliable delivery to rural areas with limited internet access. It will integrate postal offices online and automate processes like money transfers and bill payments. The e-Post Office will have four types of users - administrators, customers, employees, and e-mentors from industries. It will offer services like ordering stamps and envelopes, buying mobile recharge cards, and paying utilities online through a series of modules like administration, customer support, and reporting.
Este documento busca identificar los factores como la presión social, problemas familiares, económicos y psicológicos que afectan el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes, y proponer estrategias para mejorar la situación. Reconoce que al mejorar el rendimiento de los estudiantes, mejorará también el nivel de la institución educativa. Además, un alto rendimiento académico facilita el acceso al mundo laboral. El documento enfatiza la importancia de comprender cómo estas diferentes perspectivas convergen y de as
The document discusses the importance of production companies in filmmaking. Production companies are responsible for fundraising, budgeting, scheduling, scripting, finding directors and casting. They also supply resources for production and post-production activities like distribution, marketing, and addressing any problems that arise during production. Major production companies focus on revenue and promoting films to wider audiences to increase profits, while independent companies target specific niche audiences with one-off films. The document provides examples of production companies that have produced thriller films.
This document provides instructions for a molecular modeling game called Molecular Madness. Teams earn points by correctly assembling 3D molecular structures the fastest after each round. The winning team with the most points receives a prize. Molecular structures include examples of double bonds, subscripts, and color-coded atoms like carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen.
The group visited the beautiful landscape of Wilcacocha lake where they observed wild ducks and vegetation, had lunch while taking photos of the scenery, then returned to Huaraz with fond memories of the fun trip to the beautiful place.
Este documento describe cuatro etapas en la transformación de la conciencia desde una basada en el ego hacia una basada en el corazón. La primera etapa implica sentirse insatisfecho con lo que ofrece la conciencia del ego y anhelar "algo más". Luego, comienza el proceso de reconocer y liberar las emociones y pensamientos asociados con el ego. La tercera etapa involucra permitir que mueran las viejas energías del ego y emerger como un nuevo ser. Finalmente, la cuarta etapa es despertar a la conci
Dokumen tersebut berisi kritik terhadap tampilan dan fungsionalitas dari sebuah website e-commerce. Beberapa poin kritik mencakup gambar produk yang terlalu besar sehingga menutupi informasi, submenu kategori yang tidak berfungsi dengan baik, dan penulisan harga yang terbalik. Secara keseluruhan website dinilai sudah baik namun masih perlu perbaikan pada detail produk.
Dokumen tersebut membahas tentang desain dan struktur organisasi perusahaan. Terdapat empat desain keputusan yang menentukan struktur organisasi, yaitu pembagian kerja, pendelegasian kewenangan, pembagian departemen, dan rentang kendali. Dokumen juga membahas mengenai formalisasi, sentralisasi, departemenalisasi berdasarkan fungsi, wilayah, dan produk, serta model-model desain organisasi mekanistik dan organik.
This document outlines a community service project called Waste No More! that aims to reduce food waste in the United States by collecting excess food from grocery stores and food businesses and distributing it to food banks and charities. The project founder cites statistics on food waste and hunger in the US to demonstrate the problem. Phase I of the project would pilot food collection and delivery in Broward County, Florida, while Phase II envisions a larger national expansion with an online ordering system and multi-level marketing strategy. The document describes plans for volunteers, fundraising, and sponsorship opportunities to support the project.
Dave Parker is a VP at UP Global which runs programs like Startup Weekend and Startup America. He discusses global growth in entrepreneur education programs including 172 accelerators worldwide and expansion of Startup Weekend events to over 800 in 110 countries. Parker explains that entrepreneur education programs help teams through different stages from ideation to product market fit and obtaining results requires passing "startup gates".
La Web 2.0 permite a los usuarios interactuar y colaborar como creadores de contenido en una comunidad virtual, a diferencia de sitios estáticos. Ofrece herramientas como blogs, wikis, redes sociales y mundos virtuales que pueden aplicarse en procesos educativos para crear ambientes de aprendizaje participativos e interactivos. Aunque tiene ventajas como mejorar la comunicación y eficiencia del aprendizaje, también tiene desventajas como la calidad variable de la información y la necesidad de capacitación docente para su uso.
This Haiku Deck presentation contains 8 photos on various topics from different photographers. It concludes by inviting the viewer to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
The document provides instructions for a molecular modeling game. It includes:
- Guidelines for teamwork and taking turns during the game
- Examples of how to represent double bonds and subscripts in molecular structures
- Rules for building molecules, including disassembling before starting a new one and the winning team getting points
- A list of common molecules grouped into food/drink, girl stuff, home, first aid, and miscellaneous categories that can be modeled
Este documento analiza cómo algunas marcas han participado en proyectos de marketing social enfocados en la educación. Se mencionan dos ejemplos específicos: la compañía LEGO ha desarrollado productos y lecciones académicas para fomentar el aprendizaje creativo en los niños. YouTube también ha abierto espacios híbridos llamados YouTube Spaces para apoyar nuevos modelos de aprendizaje horizontal. El objetivo general es investigar al menos dos proyectos educativos liderados por marcas en Latinoamérica.
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The document provides a first-person narrative account of the narrator pausing midway through their life's journey to find themselves exhausted and distracted from work in a darkened office late at night. While gazing out the window, the narrator witnesses a suspicious figure fumbling between cars in the parking lot across the street. As the figure enters a car with blaring alarms, the narrator watches intently but does nothing, thinking it is too late to intervene by the time they consider calling for help. The narrator then lays their head down at their desk, briefly closing their eyes in fatigue.
The Way to Rainy Mountain1. In many ways, Momaday is writing .docxssusera34210
The Way to Rainy Mountain
1. In many ways, Momaday is writing a memoir of a people, the Kiowas, not just himself or his grandmother. How does he use events from his own life and his grandmother’s life as a lens through which he can talk about the Kiowas?
2. This memoir is filled with visual imagery. Find five places where Momaday uses detail, to heighten the reader’s experience with the text. Then find one place each in which he uses sound, touch, smell, and taste to describe the world he is remembering.
3. Nature itself is a character in this memoir. Where in this memoir does nature seem to be taking on a living role? In what ways does Momaday use nature to move the story in this memoir forward?
The College Hazing That Changed My Life
1. An effective memoir usually starts fast with a “lead” that draws the reader in and hints at the memoir’s overall meaning or “theme.” Sometimes, as in this case, it takes the reader right into heart of the main action before backing up and providing background. How effectively does this strategy work in this memoir?
2. Rogers sets the scene with rich and vivid details. He moves from various scenes, painting brief but compelling portraits of key people, from family members to his athletic team members. He also fills scenes with sensory details (sight, touch, sound, and smell). Find specific places where this variety and richness in detail make the memoir more powerful.
3. At the heart of any memoir (or story) is a complication that the author grapples with and needs to resolve. In this memoir, what is the conflict that draws readers in and makes this more than just a personal story? How does he resolve that conflict, and how would you describe his new understanding?
4. Memoirs usually conclude with a point or “implied thesis.” How would you describe the author’s new understanding? What general point (or points) does the author make?
The College Hazing That Changed My Life
I had no idea college was going to be so much like a gay porn movie. That’s what I kept thinking as I stood in the middle of a sun-dappled backyard, dressed in nothing but a spandex unitard and running shoes, preparing to have oil poured over my body. For the last two hours, 10 other young rowers and I had been undergoing “initiation” to my university’s varsity crew team. After two weeks of tryouts, we had finally made the grade, and this was our reward: An afternoon of embarrassing hazing activities, followed by a homoerotic climax that seemed to have come straight out of my 17-year-old gay subconscious.
Our team captain, a 200-pound hulk of a man, was walking from freshman to freshman with a large vat of vegetable oil, and letting it cascade all over them one by one. “Be prepared to have the worst acne of your lives over the next week,” he warned us. A tarp nearby had also been covered in oil, and other members of the team were streaming into the backyard with bottles of beer to watch what was about to happen. When my turn ...
Multimedia presentationThe photo is showing an airp.docxroushhsiu
Multimedia presentation
The photo is showing an airplane traveling out of the United States and carrying 200 people.
The people on the plane are explores.
Some like traveling to other places to get samples of different cultures.
Others like to see monuments and historical sites.
The rest like to just have fun and spend time with friends.
Laura Fleita (LF) -
"Song of the Open Road"
"Song of the Open Road" is a poem by Walt Whitman from his 1856 collection Leaves of Grass.
The poem is describing how you can find love by traveling.
His passion and love for the road inspires him to the journey that awaits him.
He figures if he should travel for the rest of his life on the road and find love in it as he visits others places, sees history, culture, and business.
New Zealand volcano tragedy
travelers seeking adventures
“No matter what it is, adventure tourism is not without risk, so where do you draw the line?”
One day in New Zealand a terrible thing happen to the lives of 15 tourists.
The volcano on White Island is New Zealand’s largest and a major tourist attraction.
Meanwhile they were happily exploring, taking pictures, walking trails and viewing a volcano ...
A volcano erupted!
Some warning signs were reported, scientists familiar with the area say they were not enough to halt public tours.
They lives were taken as a result of the incident.
biBliography
Slide 1: Why Do people travel https://nomadsworld.com/why-people-travel/
Slide 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUTe1lWY6s
https://newsroom.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/best-time-book-travel-holidays.jpg/newsroom
Slide 3: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/194077065168828379//stephanie green
Slide 4:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/death-toll-rises-new-zealand-volcano-eruption-after-injured-person-n1102151 / Nicole Acevedo
Instructions:
The attached multimedia was added as an example of travel perspective . Using the power point presentation of travel write a reflexion of 300 words that presents a unique perspective on travel using attached power point.
In addition, share your thoughts on how this new piece (power point) could contribute to the overall portrayal of the travel experience given the two others written texts and one photo about travel as an example below.
Source #1
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Chapter 1” By: Robert M. Pirsig
You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it’s ...
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This document provides instructions for a molecular modeling game called Molecular Madness. Teams earn points by correctly assembling 3D molecular structures the fastest after each round. The winning team with the most points receives a prize. Molecular structures include examples of double bonds, subscripts, and color-coded atoms like carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen.
The group visited the beautiful landscape of Wilcacocha lake where they observed wild ducks and vegetation, had lunch while taking photos of the scenery, then returned to Huaraz with fond memories of the fun trip to the beautiful place.
Este documento describe cuatro etapas en la transformación de la conciencia desde una basada en el ego hacia una basada en el corazón. La primera etapa implica sentirse insatisfecho con lo que ofrece la conciencia del ego y anhelar "algo más". Luego, comienza el proceso de reconocer y liberar las emociones y pensamientos asociados con el ego. La tercera etapa involucra permitir que mueran las viejas energías del ego y emerger como un nuevo ser. Finalmente, la cuarta etapa es despertar a la conci
Dokumen tersebut berisi kritik terhadap tampilan dan fungsionalitas dari sebuah website e-commerce. Beberapa poin kritik mencakup gambar produk yang terlalu besar sehingga menutupi informasi, submenu kategori yang tidak berfungsi dengan baik, dan penulisan harga yang terbalik. Secara keseluruhan website dinilai sudah baik namun masih perlu perbaikan pada detail produk.
Dokumen tersebut membahas tentang desain dan struktur organisasi perusahaan. Terdapat empat desain keputusan yang menentukan struktur organisasi, yaitu pembagian kerja, pendelegasian kewenangan, pembagian departemen, dan rentang kendali. Dokumen juga membahas mengenai formalisasi, sentralisasi, departemenalisasi berdasarkan fungsi, wilayah, dan produk, serta model-model desain organisasi mekanistik dan organik.
This document outlines a community service project called Waste No More! that aims to reduce food waste in the United States by collecting excess food from grocery stores and food businesses and distributing it to food banks and charities. The project founder cites statistics on food waste and hunger in the US to demonstrate the problem. Phase I of the project would pilot food collection and delivery in Broward County, Florida, while Phase II envisions a larger national expansion with an online ordering system and multi-level marketing strategy. The document describes plans for volunteers, fundraising, and sponsorship opportunities to support the project.
Dave Parker is a VP at UP Global which runs programs like Startup Weekend and Startup America. He discusses global growth in entrepreneur education programs including 172 accelerators worldwide and expansion of Startup Weekend events to over 800 in 110 countries. Parker explains that entrepreneur education programs help teams through different stages from ideation to product market fit and obtaining results requires passing "startup gates".
La Web 2.0 permite a los usuarios interactuar y colaborar como creadores de contenido en una comunidad virtual, a diferencia de sitios estáticos. Ofrece herramientas como blogs, wikis, redes sociales y mundos virtuales que pueden aplicarse en procesos educativos para crear ambientes de aprendizaje participativos e interactivos. Aunque tiene ventajas como mejorar la comunicación y eficiencia del aprendizaje, también tiene desventajas como la calidad variable de la información y la necesidad de capacitación docente para su uso.
This Haiku Deck presentation contains 8 photos on various topics from different photographers. It concludes by inviting the viewer to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
The document provides instructions for a molecular modeling game. It includes:
- Guidelines for teamwork and taking turns during the game
- Examples of how to represent double bonds and subscripts in molecular structures
- Rules for building molecules, including disassembling before starting a new one and the winning team getting points
- A list of common molecules grouped into food/drink, girl stuff, home, first aid, and miscellaneous categories that can be modeled
Este documento analiza cómo algunas marcas han participado en proyectos de marketing social enfocados en la educación. Se mencionan dos ejemplos específicos: la compañía LEGO ha desarrollado productos y lecciones académicas para fomentar el aprendizaje creativo en los niños. YouTube también ha abierto espacios híbridos llamados YouTube Spaces para apoyar nuevos modelos de aprendizaje horizontal. El objetivo general es investigar al menos dos proyectos educativos liderados por marcas en Latinoamérica.
Life Is A Journey Essay
My Personal Journey Essays
The Educational Journey Essay
Journey Essay
My Journey Essay
The Journey Essay
Speech About Journey
Essay on The Journey of Human Life
My Life My Journey Essay
Essay on An Incredible Journey
My Writing Journey
The Importance of Journeys Essay
Journey Essay
The document provides a first-person narrative account of the narrator pausing midway through their life's journey to find themselves exhausted and distracted from work in a darkened office late at night. While gazing out the window, the narrator witnesses a suspicious figure fumbling between cars in the parking lot across the street. As the figure enters a car with blaring alarms, the narrator watches intently but does nothing, thinking it is too late to intervene by the time they consider calling for help. The narrator then lays their head down at their desk, briefly closing their eyes in fatigue.
The Way to Rainy Mountain1. In many ways, Momaday is writing .docxssusera34210
The Way to Rainy Mountain
1. In many ways, Momaday is writing a memoir of a people, the Kiowas, not just himself or his grandmother. How does he use events from his own life and his grandmother’s life as a lens through which he can talk about the Kiowas?
2. This memoir is filled with visual imagery. Find five places where Momaday uses detail, to heighten the reader’s experience with the text. Then find one place each in which he uses sound, touch, smell, and taste to describe the world he is remembering.
3. Nature itself is a character in this memoir. Where in this memoir does nature seem to be taking on a living role? In what ways does Momaday use nature to move the story in this memoir forward?
The College Hazing That Changed My Life
1. An effective memoir usually starts fast with a “lead” that draws the reader in and hints at the memoir’s overall meaning or “theme.” Sometimes, as in this case, it takes the reader right into heart of the main action before backing up and providing background. How effectively does this strategy work in this memoir?
2. Rogers sets the scene with rich and vivid details. He moves from various scenes, painting brief but compelling portraits of key people, from family members to his athletic team members. He also fills scenes with sensory details (sight, touch, sound, and smell). Find specific places where this variety and richness in detail make the memoir more powerful.
3. At the heart of any memoir (or story) is a complication that the author grapples with and needs to resolve. In this memoir, what is the conflict that draws readers in and makes this more than just a personal story? How does he resolve that conflict, and how would you describe his new understanding?
4. Memoirs usually conclude with a point or “implied thesis.” How would you describe the author’s new understanding? What general point (or points) does the author make?
The College Hazing That Changed My Life
I had no idea college was going to be so much like a gay porn movie. That’s what I kept thinking as I stood in the middle of a sun-dappled backyard, dressed in nothing but a spandex unitard and running shoes, preparing to have oil poured over my body. For the last two hours, 10 other young rowers and I had been undergoing “initiation” to my university’s varsity crew team. After two weeks of tryouts, we had finally made the grade, and this was our reward: An afternoon of embarrassing hazing activities, followed by a homoerotic climax that seemed to have come straight out of my 17-year-old gay subconscious.
Our team captain, a 200-pound hulk of a man, was walking from freshman to freshman with a large vat of vegetable oil, and letting it cascade all over them one by one. “Be prepared to have the worst acne of your lives over the next week,” he warned us. A tarp nearby had also been covered in oil, and other members of the team were streaming into the backyard with bottles of beer to watch what was about to happen. When my turn ...
Multimedia presentationThe photo is showing an airp.docxroushhsiu
Multimedia presentation
The photo is showing an airplane traveling out of the United States and carrying 200 people.
The people on the plane are explores.
Some like traveling to other places to get samples of different cultures.
Others like to see monuments and historical sites.
The rest like to just have fun and spend time with friends.
Laura Fleita (LF) -
"Song of the Open Road"
"Song of the Open Road" is a poem by Walt Whitman from his 1856 collection Leaves of Grass.
The poem is describing how you can find love by traveling.
His passion and love for the road inspires him to the journey that awaits him.
He figures if he should travel for the rest of his life on the road and find love in it as he visits others places, sees history, culture, and business.
New Zealand volcano tragedy
travelers seeking adventures
“No matter what it is, adventure tourism is not without risk, so where do you draw the line?”
One day in New Zealand a terrible thing happen to the lives of 15 tourists.
The volcano on White Island is New Zealand’s largest and a major tourist attraction.
Meanwhile they were happily exploring, taking pictures, walking trails and viewing a volcano ...
A volcano erupted!
Some warning signs were reported, scientists familiar with the area say they were not enough to halt public tours.
They lives were taken as a result of the incident.
biBliography
Slide 1: Why Do people travel https://nomadsworld.com/why-people-travel/
Slide 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUTe1lWY6s
https://newsroom.aaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/best-time-book-travel-holidays.jpg/newsroom
Slide 3: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/194077065168828379//stephanie green
Slide 4:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/death-toll-rises-new-zealand-volcano-eruption-after-injured-person-n1102151 / Nicole Acevedo
Instructions:
The attached multimedia was added as an example of travel perspective . Using the power point presentation of travel write a reflexion of 300 words that presents a unique perspective on travel using attached power point.
In addition, share your thoughts on how this new piece (power point) could contribute to the overall portrayal of the travel experience given the two others written texts and one photo about travel as an example below.
Source #1
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Chapter 1” By: Robert M. Pirsig
You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You’re completely in contact with it all. You’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it’s ...
Childhood Story Analysis
My Childhood Essay
Essay about Childhood
Childhood Memories Essay
Essay on History of Childhood
My Story Of My Childhood Essay
My Childhood Memory
College Application Essays that WorkedCaroleTrone2
This is an excerpt from Fair Opportunity Project's award-winning college application and financial aid guide. You can download the full guide at fairopportunityproject.org.
1. Sports, Stories and Social Responsibility1
by Erden Eruç — www.around-n-over.org
It is through stories that communities throughout history have engaged the minds of their youth.
Sports today can provide a wealth of instructive stories for life skills. Generations of youth can
be motivated to achieve their full potential. Creating value for society can be included among
performance criteria.
In February 2009 during my human powered circumnavigation, I landed on the shores of Papua
New Guinea. Upon my return there later, Philip would tell me: “now even the villagers on the
hills know about you, the man who came from the sea in a yellow boat.” On that February day,
Philip along with other villagers came out from shore in four dugout canoes, traditional vessels
with an outrigger on one side. A lone truck driver had spotted me at sea earlier from a dirt road
on a hill and had driven ahead to alert them in the Kamlawa village located a few miles north of
Finsch Harbor.
While bailing water from his own canoe with a tin can, Philip with a happy attitude said: “we
came to rescue you.” I was in a purpose built ocean rowing boat in which I had just spent 21
days on the Bismarck Sea and was not in any danger. With gratitude I thanked them then they
confirmed that a wharf was available in Finsch Harbor where I could tie my boat. I rowed my
boat to that wharf in the company of their four canoes. I could hear children from the Kamlawa
village screaming in joy as they ran along the waterfront weaving among shrubs and coconut
trees. A crowd gathered at the dockside then watched me patiently for three days; taking their
turns to intently observe my every move on the boat.
During the first two days, it was the men who formed a wall of flesh on the edge of the wharf
with their long bush knives, their universal farming tool, held firmly in their hands. If I didn't
know any better, I could have felt threatened. Later on, the women began to approach and with
them came children of various ages. The earlier stares with intent without saying a word, were
replaced with playtime and the wharf became their playground; I was amused to watch their
daring diving stunts.
It is a curious experience to have become part of a local legend in a faraway land. I wonder how
the story will differ after a few generations and what the children will hear from their elders
about my journey which touched their community. I also visited a primary school while in
Kamlawa; I don't know if any of my own stories were ever incorporated into the local version.
When asked to explain what I was doing, I told them that I was on a walkabout and that I was a
storyteller, that I visited different places on my journey and gathered stories. My job was to
become the best storyteller. I explained that I was going to tell about the kindness that I received
in Kamlawa for example, and the world was going to know.
In March 2003 while the Alaska Highway was still snow packed, I rode my bicycle through Fort
Nelson in British Columbia in Canada toward Alaska. Earlier while at Fort St. John also in
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2. British Columbia further south, a First Nations man had brought his two children to meet me for
breakfast, asking me to “tell them about my vision.” They perceived my journey as a vision
quest, a journey toward wisdom. They then had alerted the Fort Nelson First Nation of my arrival
unbeknownst to me. I was greeted on the highway at Fort Nelson before being invited to visit the
Chalo Elementary School in their village.
Though a common occurrence during the tourist season, I was the only bicyclist on the icy roads
at that time. I was on a bicycle with studded tires, carrying front and rear panniers and towing a
trailer loaded with my climbing gear for a climb of Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Wearing heavy
clothing to stay warm, keeping a water bladder next to my back to keep it from freezing, I was a
spectacle on the move. I have learned that everyone sees what I do through their own mind's eye,
and that their respective life experiences determine what they see in what I do. Children were no
different.
“Aren't you afraid?” they asked me, and when I enquired what I should fear, they would tell me
about their own fears. “Aren't you afraid of the bears?” “It is winter, they are asleep.” “Aren't
you afraid of the trucks?” “They change lanes.” “Aren't you afraid of loneliness?” “I got you”
and so on. I urged them to think that fear should not stop us from what we envision to do. We
usually fear what we don't know, but by seeking knowledge we can learn how to handle fear.
Without realizing, the children were telling me about their own fears and all the reasons for why
they would not attempt what I was doing. I demonstrated and told them that with proper
preparation and hard work, it is possible to accomplish our dreams. I would later realize that if I
slightly detached myself from the encounter, I could have taken on the role of a virtual mirror.
Questions asked about my journey would provide hints about the individuals asking them.
I always found the fourth through eighth grade students to be the best age group to address. I
could hold their attention through a structured presentation. For them anything was possible,
children of this age group were open minded and they appreciated that the world was a big place,
exciting adventure stories captivated them. With younger children I learned that the best
contribution I could make was to spend quality time together, talking about bugs and bears and
sharing pictures of the creatures of this world. I would play along, allow them to set the pace and
dwell on any image that entertained and intrigued them. The important thing was that each
student had an example or an idea about how a lifetime of involvement with sports could help
someone.
In all of my primary school level gatherings, I have been serving to create a series of learning
moments to grab their full attention, which could be used to deliver important messages to
remember. My messages are woven into my stories like the fables of La Fontaine; I touch on my
own mistakes which they should avoid, I regularly engage them in topics including wellness and
caring for the environment.
I am fifty years old now, and I like having children guess my age. I ask children about what one
needs to do to maintain a level of fitness for what I do. They usually offer ideas from good food
to sufficient sleep to regular exercise. My goal is to leave them with a nonsmoking message. If
they don't smoke they can play catch with their grandchildren, I tell them, knowing full well that
most grandparents are no longer physically active. These children crave such attention and my
message resonates with them so they will not forget.
3. Power of Dreams
Dreams are the fertile ground where the future is shaped. Beware what you think for you may
decide to act on it, I had read somewhere. From a young age I have been involved in various
sports and physical activities. At the age of 5, my father took me up Mt. Erciyes, an almost 4000
meter extinct volcano in south central Turkey. When I was in middle school, our teachers
brought a black and white television to the classroom then told us to pay attention. We watched
astronauts walk on the moon that day. I had read Jules Verne books, been watching Jacques
Cousteau documentaries, and I was ready for the obvious leap of imagination. I can be an
astronaut, I thought to myself. Given time though, I reasoned in my child's mind that all
astronauts were American but I was not, therefore I could not be, unaware of cosmonauts at the
time, and never pursued the thought from then on. No teacher was aware of my internal
processing; they had not done any follow up exercises after the events. My parents could not
have known; I was a boarding student.
When I was at the age of 15, I was in Belgium where I came across an issue of the National
Geographic magazine dedicated to the 1963 American first ascent of Everest. I had to look up
the word bivouac in the dictionary to understand the articles; I can climb Everest, I told myself.
Perhaps because I was older by then, that idea has never left me since.
In 1997 at age 36, I found myself standing often in front of a world map hanging on the wall of
our software development lab in Washington, DC in United States. I was pursuing a fairly
successful consultancy career, yet when I shifted my gaze out the window, I pictured myself on
the final steps of a difficult snowbound summit, or on a steep big wall climb. My dreams never
had any corner offices or worldly possessions. Visualization had been happening, wiring my
brain in different ways than required for a life in the office.
That world map had the Americas on the right, the Pacific Ocean in the middle and the Old
World on the left. I traced my finger over that map one day right to left from Washington, DC to
Turkey, and even gave it a name: “Journey Home.” What if, I asked, what if I could do it by
human power? That became a quiet obsession followed by numerous how-questions. How would
I find the time, how would I obtain the funding? Each how-question was a problem to be solved.
It was easy tracing paths on a map; maybe I would not stop in Turkey and I would keep going
until I returned back to DC. I would have to contend with crossing the Atlantic Ocean on my
way, which is when I discovered the Ocean Rowing Society in London. As an engineer I was
already wired as a problem solver, now I was on familiar turf.
Peer pressure
There is only one thing that is certain in life which holds true for all ages: if we believe that we
cannot be, then our subsequent actions ensure that outcome. However if we begin with the belief
that we can, our whole intention changes, we recompose to apply our time and resources toward
that positive goal, focusing our energies to make it happen. Our place in the world is the result of
consecutive decisions that we have made at critical junctions in our lives; those decisions were
necessarily aligned with our goals and the probability of success that we assigned the same.
Children don't know that yet, and I want them to catch each other whenever they utter the words
“I can't” -- an expression which comes so naturally to them.
4. Call me devious, I trick the students after I share my astronaut story, by asking them who wants
to be an astronaut. Many times it is something none of them had even considered. One or two
hands go up often with hesitation but invariably few others laugh at these future cadets. That
scenario never fails, always providing me with the opportunity to talk about negative peer
pressure.
In adults, this takes on a different form where cynicism is billed as critical thinking. When I
shared my thoughts with others about Journey Home early on, I quickly found that not everyone
needed to know. Have you done anything like that before, was a typical response. Books never
turned me down; one of the books that I read was titled Ultimate High about the Swede Göran
Kropp, who had bicycled from Sweden to Nepal towing his climbing gear on a trailer, and had
climbed Everest solo in 1996.
When I finally met Göran in person in Seattle during the summer of 2001, his first two questions
to me were: when are you starting, and, do you have sponsors. I then hesitated about whether to
begin my journey on account of the 9/11 events which provided yet another excuse to wait.
When I later met Göran in Ouray Ice Park in Colorado in the winter of 2002, he would ask me
“haven't you started yet?” – I remember feeling uncomfortable giving my excuses. That is an
example to positive peer pressure.
When I declared in 2003 that I was going to bicycle from Seattle to Alaska in winter conditions
to climb Mt. McKinley, I knew to ignore the cynicism. If I bicycled 50 miles a day, I knew I
could reach Alaska by mid-April before my team arrived for our scheduled climb in May. Those
who had asked whether I had bicycled that far before, did not bother showing up at the starting
line on February 1st. I would reach Anchorage on April 11th.
Children need to hear such stories often to learn to identify around them the few nurturing
individuals who will affirm their aspirations and to avoid those who will damage their self-
esteem. Our legal counsel Christopher Beer had told me when we were filing to establish
Around-n-Over as a nonprofit: “surround yourself with good people and the dream will take care
of itself” -- likewise we often tell children to choose their friends well, for good reason.
Willingness to commit
Dreams do not become reality without deliberate action. I remember myself uttering “a dream
without action is only a pipedream” during a presentation to students at the Hutch School in
Seattle for children of families with cancer.
Everything has a price, there is no free lunch. It is easy to remain in our comfort zone to avoid
the tough choices in fear of failure. I used to think that when I found sponsors I could begin my
journey. I had a career to advance and a job which paid the bills. Mortgage on a condo with a
lake view near downtown Seattle required a steady income. I was a creature of habits, wanting
certainty before action.
In September 2002, I received an email from Göran telling me that he was back at his home in
Issaquah east of Seattle after another successful ascent of Everest. We quickly made a plan to go
rock climbing for the first time together in eastern Washington State. Unfortunately Göran fell
that day on a relatively short pitch and died while on my belay. That event shook me deep
5. within, forced a reconsideration of my priorities. I was not one to hide in a corner feeling sorry
for myself. What came out of that accident was a firm belief that I was the chosen one, that there
was a reason for why I was there, and that life was short.
During the flight on the way back from Göran's funeral in November that year, I drew the world
map on a piece of paper and marked the highest summit on each continent except Mt. Vinson in
Antarctica. I would carry out my circumnavigation, and I would also reach each of these six
summits by human power to honor Göran's memory. First to reach was the highest summit in
North America, namely Mt. McKinley in Alaska.
When I contacted Göran's sponsors, I received a loud silence. Before the accident, that would
have been a valid excuse to postpone the journey. The time for excuses was over; no longer were
they going to dictate my destiny. With the blessing of Nancy, my then fiancée, I cashed out my
retirement funds and began pedaling north. Before my departure, the legal paperwork for
Around-n-Over was filed, my living will and powers of attorney left in Nancy's care. Our team
summited McKinley on 29 May, and Nancy married me in Alaska following my descent.
This was only the beginning. After my return, we sold our second car and the condo in favor of
lesser expenses. We rented first then bought a townhouse at half the mortgage obligation. We
took action to roll equity from another property that I had owned in Washington, DC into a
profitable rental unit. We took advantage of lower mortgage rates to reduce our monthly
expenses.
By the time I launched on the Pacific Ocean in 2007 to begin my westbound circumnavigation, I
had bought a rowboat and had used it once already for a solo practice row on the Atlantic Ocean
from the Canary Islands near northwestern Africa to the Caribbean Sea. Nancy and I had
rearranged our lives to survive on one salary, totally committing ourselves to the journey. I had
even gained Aktaş Holding from Turkey as a major sponsor. The departure became possible after
the tough choices we had made together with Nancy.
That day at the Hutch School, I was in front of children a family member of whom was under
treatment for cancer. I told them that death will happen around us in our lifetime. Rather than
death itself, we could focus on what to do with that experience. After Göran's death, I had
changed my own path drastically, yet they were still so young. Could they start by telling how
they loved the ailing one, or promise the same one that they will be strong, caring, honorable,
honest, hardworking individuals with integrity?
The question perhaps all of us should ask ourselves is whether we should wait for a disruptive
event like death, or layoff, or divorce, or childbirth to shake our foundation before we take the
proverbial first step on a journey of a thousand miles.
Creating value for the society
When preparing for my journey in the aftermath of Göran's accident, I felt the need to
incorporate the venture. I was introduced to our legal counsel Christopher Beer with whom to
consider our options. A nonprofit corporation with a mission to educate and inspire children was
the outcome. I did not want my journey to turn into a chest beating exercise and I was passionate
about creating opportunities toward children's education.
6. Once we had a stable board of directors, our charitable work became better defined. We seized
opportunities to partner with another nonprofit called İLKYAR to help boarding school students
at primary school age in rural Turkey, and with African Environments in Arusha on the foothills
of Mt. Kilimanjaro to build additional classrooms at a local secondary school.
As athletes, we often receive generous support from the society; recognition is just one of the
rewards that come with success. We have a choice to handle that success responsibly and to pay
back the society for the privilege. When that any worthy endeavor can be leveraged to benefit the
society becomes our intention, we will find the ways. I was never invited to schools when I was
working as an engineer. Now that I am, influencing the next generation through my stories is just
one of the ways.
Motivation through goal setting
What if I cannot finish my circumnavigation, was one of my questions early on. It was such a
huge undertaking, daunting in scope and overwhelming in duration. In front of me was a typical
fishbone diagram which fed input from four distinct boxes into one which represented results and
success. The four boxes to populate had men, money, materials and methods as their respective
titles. But to what end? The final box contained the key... If I engaged as many children as
possible to broaden their horizons, ran an accountable nonprofit true to its mission, created as
much value as possible for my sponsors, and made as many friends as possible around the world
during my journey, then I would be in keeping with my intentions.
When I focused on our performance along the way rather than on the outcome at the end, the fog
lifted, I gained clarity of purpose. I could take this seemingly impossible goal, which was
literally as big as the world then divide it into tangible relevant bite-size intermediate goals.
Perhaps our team members could take on some of these tasks, and with their individual skills
could deliver better results. I certainly did not have the time to juggle all of the responsibilities.
My job was to improve the significance of our nonprofit programs, to better myself through the
wisdom gained during my journey, and to enhance the quality of my observations for better
storytelling. If world events got in the way, or an ailing family member became a priority in my
life, I could look back and say: “we've done well!”
The US Marines have coined the expression: “difficult we can do now; impossible will take
longer.” What they left out of “difficult” was whether it was realistic. Every step along the way
toward that long term goal has to consist of achievable short term goals. If dreams give us ideas,
it is the goals which provide us with the roadmap. If these goals are very specific and
performance can be measured upon their completion, we can then press ourselves for meeting
timelines. If we are falling short on resources such as time, money or talent, we can consider
prioritizing the tasks. Unless there are dependencies among the tasks where one cannot begin the
next step until completion of the previous, then prioritizing will relieve the pressure for
performance. At any given moment, the top three focus areas can be retired once addressed and a
new selection can replace them. It is the pursuit of excellence, not perfection which makes the
difference. And none of this is possible unless we can take a moment to think ahead and make a
plan.
I was able to overcome the inertia created by an unwieldy dream by breaking it down into stages.
7. Then by seeing progress as a result of my efforts, I was able to remain motivated and to maintain
my momentum.
Dream big
If we know how to handle big dreams by defining a long term goal and breaking it down to its
intermediate milestones, then we should not fear big dreams. In other terms, an insignificant
dream will mean underachievement of our potential.
Taking part in the Olympics is every athlete's dream, and why not? As long as the athlete and the
coaches and the administrators surrounding the athlete are all aware of the seriousness of the
undertaking, it can be a valid dream. Measuring our performance against others who are best in
their field will magically force us to set higher standards for ourselves. Other than nature versus
nurture debates which could be had at this point, limited time also has to be considered.
If we accept that we have a limited time to achieve our dreams, then big dreams will mean many
small steps or fewer more significant steps to achieve. My human powered circumnavigation can
be a good example.
This circumnavigation will be finished when I return to California hopefully in the summer of
2012, after a five year struggle. Yet just in the process of bringing my journey this far, I have
become the first person to have rowed three oceans and the first person to have rowed the Indian
Ocean mainland to mainland between Australia and Africa. I hold the Guinness World Record
for the longest time at sea by a solo rower by 312 days, and I remain the most experienced ocean
rower alive in total career days at sea by 655 days as of October 10, 2011.
I am writing this article on a small PDA while rowing across the South Atlantic from Lüderitz in
Namibia to Central America. By the time I am done, my total career days will probably exceed
800. I did not set out to gather all these specific records, yet I was reaching for such a big goal in
my circumnavigation that they had to happen along the way.
Manage the dream
The beauty of intermediate goals is that they provide milestones toward success. Each milestone
achieved is a taste of success. Repeated often times, success becomes a habit, it becomes an
acquired skill, it is not accidental. We build on past successes as well as failures to learn from
our mistakes.
Wearing a typical project manager's hat, I divide my journey into stages, and those into phases.
Each stage requires planning, then preparation, then execution then an evaluation phase. US
Rangers have their 6P's: “prior planning prevents piss poor performance.” Based on my plans, I
then have to prepare myself. Preparations may include physical fitness, gaining the additional
skills as necessary, gathering the equipment and supplies, prepositioning them for logistical ease,
getting visas or permits and finding funding. When I execute the plan I use the fruits of these
preparations to move my journey forward. Evaluation is a time when I reflect on the phase I just
completed, learn from my mistakes, and identify weaknesses or areas to improve, then
acknowledge and reinforce the good parts. The cycle is complete when I am ready to incorporate
these in the planning phase of the next stage.
8. To move my journey across PNG (Papua New Guinea) for example, I had to plan and prepare for
beach walking, sea kayaking, hiking through tropical mountain paths then rowing. Before
departure for PNG, I had to arrange for the delivery of my rowboat to Port Moresby which is
PNG's capital city on the Coral Sea, and my cycling rig to Australia, each ahead of my arrival. I
had to locate a pair of sea kayaks to borrow in PNG, no easy task in itself. I had to practice my
Eskimo rolls for kayaking, gather all the specific items required for these mutually exclusive
disciplines, and really think ahead. It was challenging times indeed...
I often chuckle that I have created a monster and I have to feed it now. By thinking like the
ultimate project manager, I am able to take apart that ominous unwieldy challenge and address
each of its parts in the order that they deserve respectively. I am able to learn from a previous
stage and to carry those learnings into the next stage. This becomes an uplifting process which
strengthens my hand over time.
How can sports help?
A well-structured sports program will necessarily have athletes of different disciplines, their
coaches, administrators and its sponsors. The general population could be described as the
consumer of the value created by these additional stakeholders, and it is also the source which
provides the raw talent. Just as a parent delivers her child to primary school in care of instructors,
with hopes for that child to become a learned productive adult, the society submits its children to
a sports program in care of coaches and its administrators.
Athletes, a term I will use to represent anyone practicing a sports discipline whether
competitively or not, derive more satisfaction and become progressively more successful as they
learn to set goals. All athletes engage in sports for a reason; some would like to lose weight,
some to have fun in the company of like-minded individuals, some to become champions. Each
one of these reasons is a dream yet to be realized, and those dreams do not become reality until
the same athletes set goals then intermediate goals, commit for the duration with intent,
persevere past the tough sessions or injuries, and carry the weight of the season.
Coaches provide the guidance and the structured environment to channel the enthusiasm of their
athletes. From well-planned practice sessions laid out in annual, weekly and daily increments,
the athletes learn discipline and self-control as a value. Coaches act as teachers, psychologists,
mentors and role models. While athletes mature, simple details like timeliness at practice,
avoiding heavy food three hours before a practice session or learning to manage their time to get
enough sleep and study, become engrained in their psyche as building blocks toward achievable
results.
The athletes who learn to love the sport, who look forward to the next practice session as a
chance to improve themselves, and who see a life with sports as a journey, remain engaged.
Those who learn to measure their own success against their own performance will always have a
well-defined challenge to motivate them. Learning to measure performance internally builds
motivated individuals committed to the sport who may become a resource for the next generation
of athletes. On the other hand, measuring success only by the outcome with an emphasis on
results may create unnecessary stress in the athletes. Those who cannot produce results will leave
the program – there are only so many medals to go around... Coaches are the crucial link here
9. who can redirect an athlete's internal agony to show results toward performance.
Administrators are responsible for providing the facilities and the tangible resources to keep a
sports program running. Finding capable coaches and providing timely transportation for the
athletes from the surrounding communities can be among their tasks. They can be the
matchmakers to connect sponsors with programs, teams or specific athletes. These sponsors can
vary from government institutions to corporations to private individuals. To paraphrase Joseph
Campbell, administrators can become the invisible hands that open doors ahead of athletes who
follow their own bliss.
I may be an idealist when I say this: the product of a sports program is not medals, but it is
motivated individuals capable of taking action to accomplish goals of their own choosing. Such
individuals groomed for success with the life skills that sports can provide, supply the general
population with productive members who have served their “rites of passage.” This was the same
source population which provided the raw talent, which is typically the real sponsor: the
taxpayers who pay for the sports programs funded by the government. The corporate sponsors
also try to impress the same population by associating themselves with the “success” of athletes
in these same programs. Therefore, the entire operation of sports programs has to be a structured
transformational education process, where raw talent in youth enters and motivated individuals
exit back to society, ready to leave their mark.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a well-coordinated team in creating successful
sports programs. This may be an area for experts; however I have to reiterate the fact that the
intention of all stakeholders has to be to create value for the society, the general source
population in this case. Athletes, coaches and administrators all have dreams to manage and
goals to achieve, to which I eluded earlier. And if our product is a transformed youth, then we
can smile when we proudly declare that “it takes a village to raise a child.”
Conclusion
A lifetime of involvement with sports has given me the confidence to consider geographical feats
as a challenge. Climbing has been a constant pursuit in my life, though lately I have been
focusing on advancing a human powered circumnavigation of the world, and managing a
nonprofit organization to provide educational benefits for the youth based on the same journey.
I was blessed with well-meaning parents who encouraged me to try sports at an early age. In
middle school, I had elder students from high school who taught me how to throw the discus.
With his cross country, wrestling and track & field programs, my high school coach Al Rosner
oversaw my transformation from an adolescent into a young man, chiseling me into a confident
individual with a positive self-image. Skills that I gained from my high school years kept me
actively engaged in sports throughout my university years. Time management was one of these
skills, which to this day remains an important asset in my life.
Generations of youth will benefit from a well-rounded sports program in learning life skills to
reach their full potential. Each one among our youth deserves to gain a positive self-image and
the necessary self-confidence to express a realistic dream and to pursue it.
Coaches in sports programs not only need to provide skills in specific sports disciplines, but also
10. life skills which will have transformational effects on the athletes.
I provided examples in stories to the far reaching effects that a sports program can have in an
individual's life. Our place in the world is the result of consecutive decisions that we have made
at critical junctions in our lives. Joining a good sports program is one of these decisions which
may provide the tools for a youth to flourish beyond our expectations.
Throughout my endeavors, I have looked for ways to create value for the society and to find
ways to serve the common good. These were the values I had learned from my parents and my
coach. As athletes we receive recognition and visibility which can be leveraged to benefit the
society. One way to achieve this could be by sharing how we managed our respective journeys to
success in our own individual disciplines, which could prove instructive to children and adults
alike.
Erden Eruç is the founder and President of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Around-n-Over
based in Seattle, also a member of the prestigious Explorer Club and the American Alpine
Club. He holds a Masters degree in business administration, mechanical engineering and
engineering mechanics. He has climbed big walls and mountains, run marathons, wrestled and
played judo. He is currently on a journey around the world to complete a human powered
circumnavigation by bicycle, rowboat, sea kayak and on foot.
Erden Eruç For further information please see: www.around-n-over.org