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--Pick any two students or parents and compare and contrast the ways that they deal with the stress of competition?--

At the 2009 National Spelling Bee competition in Washington DC, over 200 students compete to take the title of national spelling bee champion. Two students that are followed and reported on in the fild Spellbound are Neil and April. They are two very differnt people along with their parents. Neil is a very confident and reserved speller, and April is very shy and pessimistic. Although, these two differ greatly they are both very dedicated to their spelling and spend many hours studing their words and spelling them. Both of the students parents are very supporitve of their children, they just show it in very diferent ways. Neils' family paid people in India a great deal of money to be praying for him duing the spelling bee. His greandfather also said that id he wins he is going to feed 5,000 people in India. Aprils parents are very optimistic and are very involved. In the audiance you can see her dad paceing around and her mother's hands sweating. Competition is very stiff at the 1999 National Spelling Bee, so the 200 plus students have to be on top of their spelling.