This is a story of a woman who has shown that being disabled does not inhibit her from achieving her goals. This is the story of a woman who shows up and shows that being divorced or being a single parent doesn’t hold her back from realizing her vision. The story of one woman shows that we can accomplish what ...
“I had nothing left in me. And I felt it toward the last minute, but I think I really gave everything I had.” Typically, gold medalists are the spotlights in Olympics. But back in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, a bronze medalist was highlighted for a legitimate reason. Sometimes life meets us with tragic turmoil. These are inevitable. But it ...
“When we all fall asleep, where do we go?” Sleep. One of biology’s most perplexing mysteries that has left scientists scratching their heads for centuries. And even more puzzling are those elusive streams of mental processes called dreams that make us want to sleep for eternity lost in its depths or wake up in a heartbeat. Historically, many have considered ...
“You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I have learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.” Olympics is not all about winning medals, the effort given is what literary matters. Victory can be what most people expect, but what is crucial is that ...
Fluid, lucid, ambiguous, and vague All at once mixed together. Time is rather a difficult concept To grasp and to comprehend. But, in its own way of telling Time will teach you a lot of things. It will teach you to love a bit more Even to the person whom you love most. And to gift a simple smile to ...
Derek Anthony Redmond is not a name that conjures up images of consecutive gold medals at the Olympics. Nor is it a name that will be remembered by hundreds of broken records. But much rather as a remembrance of true courage and one of the greatest moments in humanity throughout the history of sports. This particular mark in history dates ...
How long has it been? a day without a shield reminds me of days with muted sirens fading away as they cling to each other unseen tears 1 m apart miles away You never make a perfect tea in the limits of perfection and sugar isn’t sugar-coated to be lost somewhere in the galaxy not in the right mindset to ...
Once upon a time ago, we, humans lived in harmony with nature, satisfied with what we were offered and the actions of the Homo sapiens synchronizing to nature’s rhythm of life creating the ultimate ‘balance’, between man and the wild. But this so-called ‘life’ that humans lived wasn’t an easy one as it was nature that determined man’s sole survival. ...
“You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn’t be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Luz Long at the moment.” – Jesse Owens We can all agree that the patriotism of Olympic athletes is an ideal of the Games that never fails to inspire us. But, one Olympic Games became special ...
Imagine feeling the ambiance laden with the aroma of rich silt and salt while spume of while-veiled waves slowly making their way through obstacles to the shore. Those obstacles, the thick tangles of roots anchored to the muddy, water-logged soil belong to none other than the guardians of the coasts, the mangroves. These bountiful ecosystems lay along the coastlines within ...
Today’s speaker, Ms. Warunika Nishamini Karunasiri, graduated from the Zoology and Environment Sciences Department with first-class honors in Immunology and Integrative Molecular Biology (IIMB). She was born on 07th July 1992 as the youngest daughter of a family of five members and is 29 years old now. Ms. Warunika completed her school education at Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo 08. She ...
The Olympic Games, which originated in ancient Greece as many as 3,000 years ago, was revived in the late 19th century and have become the world’s preeminent sporting competition. From the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D., the Games were held every four years in Olympia, located in the western Peloponnese peninsula, in honor of the god Zeus. ...
