Michelle Obama Wants You to Move!

First Lady Michelle Obama believes your health is worth fighting for!  Visit her website, Let's Move, to learn more about why.  Also, discover ways in which you can embrace a more healthy lifestyle both at home and at school.

This I Believe: Accomplishing Big Things in Small Pieces ~ William Wissemann

Read or listen to the following essay found on the This I Believe website, "Growing up with dyslexia, William Wissemann learned how to break down words and sentences into smaller parts so he could understand them. As he got older, Wissemann found this skill useful for solving everything from Rubik's Cubes to life's tricky puzzles."  Dyslexia is a term for disorders that make it difficult to learn to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols.  How did Wissemann's success with the Rubik's Cube serve as an impetus to fight to attain his goals despite his learning disability?

This I Believe: I Am Still the Greatest ~ Muhammad Ali

Despite having won the heavyweight boxing championship three times, boxing extraordinaire, Muhammad Ali, is fighting his greatest opponent yet, Parkinson's disease.  A progressive disease of the nervous system, Parkinson's causes tremors (shaking) and muscular rigidity which makes movement slow and difficult to control.  Since his retirement from boxing in 1981, Ali has been fighting this disease's will to knock out the self-confidence Ali is so well-known for.  Read and listen to Ali's essay about how he fights to continue to live his life to the fullest despite the strength of the disease.

See the video of Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic torch at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games