Gravity hills

Did you know that one of the first inventors of the snowboard was fourteen years old and now he is worth one hundred million dollars? Snowboarding on the half-pipe has become a very popular sport especially in the olympics.I will be presenting you with the history of snowboarding, halfpipe snowboarding in the olympics, and telling about two of the best half pipe snowboarders now: Shaun White and Stale Sandbech. Now I will be telling you the history of the snowboard and snowboarding. “While we…

the “father of the atomic bomb” (Hirtle, 42) because of his work as the director of the Manhattan project, which was a project to produce the first nuclear weapons. He was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation and “On 16 October, his last day on the “Hill,” Los Alamos held a farewell ceremony in Oppenheimer’s honor” (Ham, 2015). At the ceremony, he gave a speech about about the danger of atom…

Ynez mountain range, has been victim of landslides in the past. A notable example is the 1995 La Conchita landslide, which occurred due to El Nino rainfalls. It had rained eighteen inches that day; with water seeping into the cracks of the cliff and gravity pulling the water downward, the ground was eventually loosened and a rapid landslide was triggered. Geological analysis of the La Conchita cliff revealed that the upper portion of the cliff was less dense (made up of siliceous shale and…

Political and social activist Susan Sarandon said that “When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.” Sarandon understood that empathy is fundamental pro making sense of current social issues. The book Sold written by Patrick McCormick follows the journey of a young girl named Lakshmi that was sold into prostitution. This novel has assisted in shining a light on the overwhelming intensity of human trafficking as it exists today. Intellectual…

From the Bering Strait to the connection between the Hill Center and the Engineering Building, bridges have been used for thousands of years to connect people with places. As people began building bridges, they have to consider not only the structural integrity of the bridge for the safety of the passengers crossing the bridge. With the invention of cars, even more safety precautions must be enacted to keep everyone safe. A car is being driven on a windy day has a higher chance of turning over…

One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is…

The Love of a Mother: Amata’s Perverted Love for Turnus While love takes many forms, the love that a mother expresses is often viewed as sacred and cherished. However, in The Aeneid, Virgil highlights Amata’s perversion of maternal love into romantic love for Turnus. Throughout the course of Book VII continuing through Book XII, Amata acts as both a mother and a wife towards Turnus. Paul Burke in his work, “Virgil’s Amata” comments on how, “Virgil has combined in Amata the roles of the…

edge of it… he went down at my feet like an empty sack” Here, Christy’s language is limited: his storytelling is prosaic as he reduces the magnitude of his murder to an underwhelming loy that ‘just’ fell, as if it were a mere case of Newtonian gravity. Not only that, but the prose is shoddy: there is a lack of smoothness in his non-parallel…

The author of this essay Ernest Hemingway used a white elephant to make understand the gravity of the decision the girl had to make in regards to her relationship with the American man. The main focus of this essay involves the complications that arise when a relationship faces with an unexpected pregnancy, especially in the early twenty century. The term white elephant means a gift that is not necessary and unfortunately, it cost more to keep and maintain the gift. This essay will focus on the…

was removed by the sewage systems and released into nearby bodies of water, keeping the towns clean and free from noxious waste. Some aqueducts also served water for mining, processing, manufacturing, and agriculture. Aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, along a slight downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick or concrete. Most were buried beneath the ground, and followed its contours; obstructing peaks were circumvented or less often, tunneled through. Where valleys or lowlands…