Fencing

Hamlet Hamlet is victorious because he did what his father wanted him to do, and that was to kill Claudius. On the other hand, he was also told not to kill or hurt the queen but she dies at the end because of Claudia's poisoning the drink that was meant for Hamlet. Before all of this happened Hamlet was spoken to by his father telling him that he wants Hamlet to get revenge on his killer; Claudia’s. As Hamlet was trying to get Claudia’s to confess to the murder he needed to do something crazy.…

Joseph Glidden (Barbed Wire) Glidden was an Englishmen that was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire. He was born on January 18, 1813. Shortly after he was born, him and his family moved to the City of Orleans County, New York. Joseph attended school just as a normal child during his young, adolescent years, but soon after, was needed at home for farming help so he only went during the winter months. When Glidden was a teenager, he discovered that he had an interest in teaching. He attended…

This case implicated a challenge brought by the Western Watersheds Project (“WWP”), in which the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) decided to grant a 10 -year grazing permit to LHS Spilt Rock Ranch, LLC (“Split Rock”), for four federal public land allotments in central Wyoming (“the Split Rock allotments”).1 The 102-page Environmental Assessment was published in 2009. Relying largely on the 2005 Rangeland Health Standards Assessment (RHS), it recognized significant ecological issues on the…

As silly as it sounds when broken down into its basic parts, fencing is a complex competitive sport that requires an equal amount of skill, physical ability, and tactics in order to succeed. The skill is gained mostly from experience and classes: knowing how far you can lunge, how to parry an attack, how to hold yourself…

on all who were his enemy. Laertes always followed loyalty, love and honor but at the death of his father his action of revenge was all he could think of. Rage was building inside him. He made a plan with Claudius to poison Hamlet during a fencing match, but before that match occurred his sister Ophelia suddenly drowns. King Claudius could no longer control Laertes rage and thinks he has become so unbalanced. He threatens a priest at his sister’s burial and then nearly strangles Hamlet…

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare is essentially the early version of modern day soap-operas, in the sense that characters form relationships, betray, and kill others so frequently that it can only be categorized as one royal disaster after another. Old Hamlet was murdered by his brother Claudius in an effort to still his kingdom and his wife. Old Hamlet the returns as a ghost to tell Hamlet to avenge his death against Claudius. Prince Hamlet spent the great…

Students were asked to create a dog pen with the biggest area. They had to make sure that they would have enough fencing material to cover a perimeter of 40 yards. With these 40 yards, students were asked to figure out the largest area for the dog to play in its pen. First, I know that we have 40 yards of fencing material. Our equation to finding out the perimeter of the the rectangle is 2W+2L=40. I also know that the formula for finding out the area is LW=A.The L variable stands for length and…

The story of a murder, a ghost, and revenge; Hamlet is one of Shakespears most read works. The story revolves around the murder of Hamlets father the king, and his quest for revenge. Quite naturally we side with Hamlet whose father, the king, was brutally murdered. But why? Do two murders really make it better than one? Are we just blood thirsty readers, or do we have some reason to believe that Hamlet should take revenge? We have a ghost word of course; what better reason do we need? The ghost…

The Catcher In The Rye: Why Ban Such A Great Book? Bad words, explicit content, a kid who is being viewed as a bad influence. These things all correlate to the concern surrounding the book The Catcher In The Rye. According to the About Banned and Challenged Books Article, “A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.” The article also tells us, “Books are usually challenged with the…

The Catcher In the Rye’ is a 1951 first person novel by J.D Salinger, depicting the life of Holden Caulfield. The protagonist Holden, became well known in the 1950’s as the majority of the audience could relate to his alienation and disillusionment. The book is based around a very short yet critical time in Holden’s life which mainly took place in New York, during a period of only three days. My interpretation of the book identifies Holden as a very confused sixteen year old boy, who doesn't…