Helmet

“We’re going green in 10, make sure you have the clutch dumped and stability control off.” , pit radio crackled into Mitty’s helmet. The cars shook on the grid, engines revved up to twenty thousand and fire spitting out of the exhausts. The engines crackled like fireworks, the cars grumbled in the heat as the lights dropped to green. Mitty dumped the clutch and sped off, with full control over his car. He shifted into second, then third, and fourth as he zoomed by other cars. “Seems like the…

Social Studies, Lesson 1. The topic that I chose for this assignment was the national Canadian summer sport, lacrosse. It is one of the oldest team sports in North America, being played as early as the year 1100 by First Nations peoples. The main objective of this sport is to score the most by shooting the ball into the opposing team’s goal. It’s important to note that there are differences between men’s lacrosse and women’s lacrosse. We will go over the basic rules and differences in this…

Has a loved one ever turned their back on you for another and you get so furious that you want vengeance not even on the person that left you but the that took her. Well this is the situation Menelaus is in right now. There is a war going on between the Greeks and the Trojans. This is no peaceful war, lots of death. Now that you know what the war is about you will see why Helen should go back with the Greeks. The only reason Helen is even with Paris is because the goddess Aphrodite promises him…

The futility of war and the horrors brought upon the landscape result in despair and Rationale - Bridget Whitaker destruction of the human condition. My idea stemmed from how war impacts on not just country’s vast environment but also human welfare. It also accentuates how soldiers are brought into horrific scenes of war and suppose to remain in the destructed surroundings until war ended. This is evident in Owen’s text ‘Futility’ and ‘Dolce Et Decorum Est’ along with my visual collage. My…

two questions is whether the long-term health of football players outweighs the staggering revenue flowed into the NFL every year. The NFL has adopted policies to limit head trauma such as, enforcing penalties and fines on players who commit helmet-to-helmet hits, and moving the kick-offs by five yards in hopes of reducing the speed of collisions (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sports/league-of-denial/timeline-the-nfls-concussion-crisis/).…

iron scales that were tied together and then tied onto iron plated with leather or silk cords. There was a five piece neck guard, and for parts of body armor. A knight only had a metal plates of armor on their body, they had metal shoes, helmets, gloves, and a helmet. The structure of the knights and the samurai’s armor was very different. There was more parts to a samurai armor than the knights. Samurai’s had armor that allowed them to be more agile while on horseback. The knights armor was…

Every country has a military that protects and defends its country. There are these people in the military that doesn’t always get credit. That’s the snipers. In Sniper by Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen they tell the real stories of real people in the military. These stories are all about the real work of snipers where they hide, how they talk, and the rifles they use to do their job. That's why in Sniper I believe that Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen use description to show the characters…

The Gladiator helmet was used from the Gladiators for a safety protection to keep them safe from any death, this was a major use in the Gladiator Contests. The small remaining piece of marble was most likely from the architecture of the Colosseum, however since destruction…

All the kids started hitting me on the helmet. Each time making a distinct sound of metal banging on plastic. Each hit makes my head spin faster. I couldn’t control where I was going anymore and I stumbled to the ground, I bit down hard Into my mouth guard and got the taste of squishy rubber…

All four nations were united once more. The West, a strong agriculture Kingdom that flourished in food and wealth; known for their unbreakable connections with Mother Nature. The East, a naval Kingdom that was located on a floating island; strong seamen, forged by the strong waves and salt. The North, the robust stronghold of the deathly cold; famous for their endurance and loyalty. Reginald stood behind the King as he scanned the room with a skeptic's eye. With all four nations together it was…