Figure Skating

(Guilherme de Carvalho Barbosa)

Rhea Schwartz fell in love with skating when someone wanted her to ice skate for the first time when she was 30. She wanted to take more and more lessons to get better. She realized that not that much adults was around her skating. She started the U.S Adult Figure Skating Championships. She is now 63 and still skating.

This made me think how brave Schwartz must have been. She saw that the hobby she loved did not have that much women her age. She started the U.S Adult Figure Skating Championships 20 years ago and has grown to 600 skaters! That is incredible that she did that with one little idea. This is a great example to not give up on just a little idea. Ideas can become reality. They will work. We have read a lot of books about people not given up.

Everyone should become something. Everyone has a purpose. So many people have a feeling that they are missing something in their life. If you are, go find it.

Guilherme de Carvalho Barbosa, João. “56th World Championships Artistic Roller Figure Skating

2011.” Flickr. Yahoo. 22 Nov. 2011. Photograph. 28 Feb. 2014. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/59814880@N00/6385649077>

Pham, Sherisse. “Adult Figure Skating advocate, now skating into her 60s.” CNN. Turner Broadcasting

System, Inc. 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 28 Feb. 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/25/living/adult-figure-skaters/index.html?iref=allsearch>

Caretaker arraigned in connection with brutal death of 4-year-old New York boy

4-year-old Myls Dobson died Janurary 8, 2014. His father, Okee Wade, died when he went to jail a few years earlier. Wade left Myls in 27-year-old Kryzie King's care. King starved, beat, and burned Myls. She has been to court and charges have been made against her. During the medical exam of the body, they found marks and prints that matched belts with a metal end, wires, a George Foreman grill, and an oven rack. 

I have not saw something this cruel in a long time. I have had family members with a problem like this. So many kids are getting abused these days. It is sad to see little kids getting killed by their parents or guardian. Parents take the phrase, "I brought you into theses world and I can take you out of it." Kids need time to develop and learn what they are doing wrong.

I have studied and researched cases similar to this in my topic for assisted suicide. This world is, honestly, falling apart. This is not the world that I grew up in thinking that everything is safe. People get stressed, or anything else, and freak out. I have saw babysitters in videos that would slap babies for crying too much. This is a problem that people do not realize. People in this world need to stop this nonsense. Make the world a better place.

<http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/justice/new-york-boy-death/index.html?hpt=us_c2>