Grappling hook

Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was first published in 1904 and is a short story about a woman, named Georgiana, who finds herself transition from the ecstatic city of Boston, to the primitive Nebraska frontier. Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was inspired by Richard Wagner who was a German composer and conductor that lived from 1813 to 1883. He’s well known for his operas and his most famous work is that of “The Flying Dutchman”. Willa Cather, instead, wasn’t a musician but was an author of the…

then bring him here. I climbed out of the bath and put on a tunic and shorts, that should be enough for my trip to Bridgeport. I took a few daggers and knives so I would be able to make sure trouble wouldn’t come my way. I grabbed a big sack, a grappling hook and headed out the…

open, so he and the coach sprinted out the door and headed towards the stairs. They went down about thirty floors and found a window that was busted open. They looked out the window and found a grappling hook that the firefighters had shot up there. They swung down the the rope attached to the grappling hook and made it to safety about 3 minutes before the tower collapsed. Everyone on the team had safely escaped, including Kris and Coach Matheny. Nothing was worse than looking back at New York…

Unicorn Wars Our Story Begins on the frozen planet of Jeff, the toast alliance is fighting a desperate battle against the evil unicorn empire they have mastered the dark side of the rainbow. The empire has sent giant unicorn walkers to destroy the toast alliance, but they fight back. Princess toast ran through the ice tunnels with Ham solo behind her. Luke Skytoaster was in his toaster and was trying to by time for the alliance. The tunnels shook with the blast from a rainbow cannon. Ham…

As I stood in the darkness waiting. I was running over my plan in my head for the millionth time. Wondering if it would work. The time was slowly going down. Little did I know my life would never be the same… Before that it was January 2017 Trump had just been elected president. The wall was being constructed. He had gotten Mexico to pay for it by nuclear threats. The wall was 100ft tall and 10 feet wide on a 10 feet deep solid concrete based here was bared wire with 30,000 volts running…

“Now, today I will be teaching you all about the basics of grappling. We have some grappling hooks for all of you and we will begin to take turns scaling this large wall one at a time.” Goodfellow showed us how the hooks worked. They were made from heavy iron and braided fiber rope. We had to twirl them through the air to launch them up to the top of the wall. Then we had to place our feet against it and start climbing up. It took a few practices, but I began to pick up on it pretty quickly.…

Then there's the tether, a grappling hook modification that attaches 2 separate objects, and through tension, can pull them together with hilarious results. I like to reel in enemies toward explosive barrels, collapse watchtowers, and pull attack helicopters into a fiery demise. The game's…

give up My brother found a button hidden under the handle bars and when he pressed it the thing revved up. With renewed hope in our hearts we took the grappling hook attached to the front of the ATV and hooked it to a tree at the edge of the trail. Using the ATVs own engine it pulled itself up the cliff. Once at the top we hooked the grappling hook to the back of the other ATV and hauled it the last five feet back onto the trail. Physically and mentally exhausted we hopped back on and drove our…

Odysseus and Luke have is the ability to think quickly to form solutions. For example, in the novel when Odysseus quickly forms a plan to escape the cyclopes using the sheep to hide under. Similarly in the movie when Luke quickly thinks to use the grappling hook to swing across the chasm to save the princess and himself from the stormtroopers. Both Odysseus and Luke are good representations of the hero…

Finger Claws This alternative weapon is not exactly practical for humans outside of science fiction and fantasy but it is one of the most aesthetically pleasing weapons on the list. This weapon will likely never see a dip in popularity thanks to the awesome examples that some of the animal kingdoms give us for claws. Someone will always want tiger claws. You can find some pretty ornate claws throughout the internet, most notably etsy, which makes this weapon a fashion statement all on their…