Problem: Article: One way of improving your swimming is by strengthening your technique. When you incorporate certain drills into your training, you'll benefit by strengthening your muscles and individual components of your stroke. Isolate your stroke to just one arm per lap. This will help keep your stroke symmetrical and balanced. Hold on to a kick-board if you are having trouble staying in a straight line. Keep your kick consistent and narrow throughout the drill. Keep one arm extended out in front of you while your body tilts onto its side, perpendicular to the water. Focus on maintaining a consistent kick. Your head will stay down in the water except when you rotate it to breathe. Switch arms after each lap. Practice your free stroke as you normally would, but keep your head extended out of the water, facing forward. This drill strengthens your kick, neck, and back muscles. Only practice this drill for shorts distances. There are plenty of pool exercises you can preform that don't require you to swim laps. Sometimes your gym or pool facility will have exercising equipment designed for the water like water gloves, paddles, or buoys. Position your legs in a wide stance in an upright position. Then bring your knees up to the surface and back to floor. While your knees are at the surface, plunge your hands down and scoop them up to the surface as your legs move back onto the ground. Position your legs in a wide stance and begin pumping them alternatively. Imagine you are doing high knees or squashing grapes. Extend your arms out away from you and bend them towards the bottom. As you are pumping your legs, do the same motion with your arms. Put one leg in front of the other in a plunge position, and keep your knee bent to a 90 degree angle. Hold your arms outwards, at the surface of the water, then bring them into your body. Use a buoy for increased tension. You may use a kickboard that you can purchase or borrow from pool or gym. Simply hold onto the kickboard and kick any kick you want. There are many different positions for your arms. Find whatever you like better. You can also put your arms in a streamline and kick on your back. Use a pull buoy that you can buy or borrow from your pool, gym, club, etc. Put the buoy between you ankles or thighs, which ever you prefer, and pull. Remember not to kick because it will make the pulling less effective. Instead of lifting your hand above the water, the swimmer drags his or her fingertips along the surface.
Summary: Train using swim drills. Practice the single arm drill. Use the side kick drill. Practice the Tarzan drill. Practice stationary water exercises. Do the jump and dig technique. Try the stomp and push exercise. Practice a scissor press. Work on kicking. Work on pull. Do the "fingertip drag" drill in freestyle.

Problem: Article: Fill the pot halfway full with water, or more if necessary to cover the burned area. Add a couple drops of dish soap. Turn on the heat until the water boils. Turn off the heat and let cool enough that you can safely touch the pan and water. You can replace the dish soap with a small spoonful (or crumbled tablet) of dishwasher detergent. This may discolor aluminum. Try a different method first when cleaning a cast iron pan, since soap will remove most of your hard work seasoning. If necessary, add more hot, soapy water whenever the old water cools down. Scrub using a tool that won't damage your pan's material: Enamel, anodized aluminum, or Teflon pan: Use a sponge, nylon brush, or Dobie pad (sponge with protective plastic netting). Stainless steel, copper, or non-anodized (shiny) aluminum pan: Start with gentle options above, then move on to a scouring pad or copper wool. Use a light touch and scrub under the water level to minimize scratches. If there's still burnt gunk in the pan, cover the pan with a layer of baking soda. Add just enough water to cover it and simmer for 1530 minutes. Let cool and scrub the stain away. Baking soda will react with and ruin aluminum. Because of its abrasive properties, it is not recommended for Teflon or other non-stick surfaces either. Boil white distilled vinegar in the pot. Let cool and scrub off the stain. Vinegar won't dissolve grease like soap does, but it's acidic properties can eat through some stains that the methods above won't remove. This will probably scratch your pan, but at this point you're running low on options. Pick up some cream of tartar from a grocery store's baking aisle if you don't have any. Sprinkle it over the pan and stir in a few drops of vinegar until you get a thick paste. Let sit for ten minutes. Scrub hard to remove the stain, or add more vinegar and bring it to a boil yet again. Many people use baking soda and vinegar for cleaning, but despite the dramatic fizz, this mixture quickly turns into neutral water. Cream of tartar has similar abrasive cleaning properties to baking soda, but stays stable in vinegar, letting you benefit from acidic cleaning as well. Make a thick paste as before, rub it on with a rag or sponge, and let it sit at least ten minutes. This one has been going around the internet for a long time, but actual results aren't always promising. It seems to get the best results on burned sugar, but this is only based on a few anecdotes.
Summary: Boil soapy water, then let cool. Scrub the pot. Repeat with baking soda. Try vinegar. Make a paste from cream of tartar and vinegar. Rub with hydrogen peroxide and baking soda.

Problem: Article: You should use your introduction to identify the major themes or ideas of the work and to state your reaction or reactions to these themes. For a four to five page paper, your introduction can extend to one or two paragraphs. For a shorter paper, though, restrict it to a short paragraph made up of three to five sentences. Introduce the work by describing how the work to which you are responding fits in within the broader topic it addresses. You could also introduce the work by explaining your own beliefs or assumptions about the topic the work agrees with before explaining how the work challenges or supports your beliefs. Your response paper should not focus on a summary of the work. There is some debate as to the proper length a summary should be for this type of paper, but as a general rule, the summary should only span half of the body paragraphs if not less. For a four to five page paper, this section should only take up about two to three paragraphs. Describe the content of the work and present the author's main arguments, especially as they affect your response. The summary should be somewhat analytical in nature instead of a strict retelling. As you present the details of the author's work and argument, you should use an analytical tone and discuss how well the author managed to get those points across. This is the point at which you must explain how you react, on an intellectual level, to the work you are responding to. You can include separate paragraphs explaining where you agree and where you disagree, or you can focus on agreement or disagreement alone, and write out as many paragraphs as needed to cover your response. Note that this response format is best to use when you are focusing on a single major theme or argument in a work. It does not work as well if you are discussing multiple ideas presented by a work. Back up your analysis with quotes and paraphrases. Make sure that each example is properly cited. If you took the time to find textual evidence to support your responses during the prewriting stage, this portion of your paper should be fairly easy. All you really need to do is arrange your argument in a coherent manner and write in the details of the support you have already gathered. At this point, you need to restate your stance to the reader and briefly defend the significance of your stance. Even for a four to five page paper, you only need one standard paragraph to accomplish this. For a shorter paper, make this paragraph only three to five sentences long. State how this work has a broader effect on you and to the genre or community in which it is a part.
Summary:
Write your introduction. Summarize the work. Present and discuss your organizing argument. Write your conclusion.