Mikaele Oloa
1) He became the World Fire Knife Dance Champion in 2005-2006. He is the youngest competitor to have won the title.

2) He began training with his father at the age of five.

3) I think technology could have impacted this in the way that instead of knives being on fire they could be like glow sticks but then it honestly wouldn't be as cool.

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5) I think the life lessons we can learn from this is taking risks to achieve something great are definitely worth it.

                     Carl & Margaret Karcher

Carl and Margaret started their own restaurant business that sold hot dogs and tamales. They later founded Carl's Jr. Their restaurant quickly grew and they opened several more restaurants numbering 100 by 1974, 300 by 1981.

I think technology could have impacted this because what if there was a machine created to get the burgers done faster.


I think I'm grateful for this excellence because I love the spicy chicken burgers from Carl's Jr. The lesson of life that I learned from this example is that one can always turn something small into something bigger if you work hard to expand it.

Luke Aikins

1) Luke Aikins set the record for the highest jump in skydiving history by jumping from 25,000 feet.

2) He has completed more than 18,000 jumps since he started skydiving at the age of 12.

3) I think technology impacted his experience because he jumped from an aircraft that could have only been made with technology.

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5) I think that this excellence that was achieved would be the goal that everyone has so he was very fortunate to have been the first to do it. I think the most important lesson that I have learned from this example is that you can aim this big if you're determined and don't allow yourself to be controlled by your fears or anyone's words. If you do something 18,000 times you're going to be very good at it.

                           Marvin Goldstein 
1. Marvin Goldstein has been making music for over 50 years. He completed his education with Bachelor and Master of music degrees at Florida state university. Marvin has recorded 40 compact discs, released a grammy CD with Billy Dean, and has arranged 15 piano solo music books.

2. Marvin began musical training at the age of 9 and by 18 he was given a music scholarship to Tell Aviv University School of music. 

3. I think technology might have impacted this arete experience because without the use of technology we wouldn't have good quality music.


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5. I think that with the dedication and hard work he put into achieving his music dream, excellence was also achieved.