Hurling

Spiral of death! Have you thought about a tornado thrashing at your house with excessive force and hurling chunks of debris at everything? Damaging, Destroying debris that could hurt or even kill you or your loved ones. When the warning comes be equipped after the warning comes and after the siren screeches through the air. It could be worse than ever expected. Tornados are awful spirals of death and more people should be prepare for when these twisters burst into the community. Tornadoes are…

There was that time in the living room when I watched him die, his pale lips interrupted by a horrible shade of red, and I got so close I could smell the cigarettes on his fading breath and everyone was yelling, but I was thinking that the road that ran past that living room was called Douglas Avenue and at 6 AM the garbage trucks speeding toward the dumps sound a lot like ambulances. In the end, our skin never touched. And then there was that time at the party when the boy with the wild…

lack of life experience, sometimes stating “you’re so ******* stupid” and “you’re too young/old to know anything” this type of insulting in a conversation about politics clearly violated the Civility of the conversation. The communicating bodies, by hurling insults at each other, did not even attempt to express themselves in a way that communicates respect for the other party (Lane…

Almost every discipline depicted in Inferno is planned to speak to a contrapasso, an impression of the wrongdoing being rebuffed. Dante first acquaints the peruser with the thought in the Vestibule, where the uncommitted are rebuffed. Since they were uncommitted in life, they are compelled to perpetually pursue, yet never find, a flag while being tormented by stinging creepy crawlies. What's more, since they never did extraordinary deeds for good or sick, their characters are difficult to…

Grant Alexander Pd#6 11 November 2016 Trebuchet Engineering A trebuchet is a machine used in medieval siege warfare for hurling large stones or other missiles. How this machine works is not to complex but is also fascinating. The object that is being shot is held in the sling, which is on a launch trough whose job is to make sure the shot is straight. Also the trough is there to prevent the sling getting caught in the framework of the trebuchet. When putting the arm of the trebuchet down,…

In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses strong characterization and instances of symbolism to help develop the story and reveal relevant themes on human nature and society. One example of this is the scene where Piggy is struck by the boulder to his fatal fall. As Piggy is hit, the conch that he held in his hands “exploded into a thousand white fragments.” Throughout the story, the conch represented order in the society of the boys, so this moment is symbolic in the sense that order no longer exists…

The rapid spread of mercury poisoning and the increase of whaling in Eastern Asia have a very evident positive correlation. Although the whaling of large whales has seen quite a dramatic drop since the boom in the 1950’s and early 1960’s right before the Marine Mammal Protection Act was enacted in 1972, there has been a significant increase in the amount of dolphins and small whales being killed and sold in Eastern Asian Countries. One sample of Dolphin meat can contain up to 10 times the…

Having courage is important to humans in everyday life. Courage helps humans through periods of inevitable difficulties during one’s life, requiring one to stand firmly and face challenges head on. In return, this nurtures and builds personal morality. W.H. Auden’s poem, “There Will Be No Peace”, exemplifies this, demonstrating that acts of strength in the face of pain or obstacles encourage the growth of personal integrity. Being strong and working through times of struggle is crucial to…

there which include The Quiet Man, My Left Foot, Michael Collins, The Commitments, and Walking Neal Devine. As stated in the book “Ireland” the author wrote, “Irish people love sports. Their two favorite sports are Indigenous Gaelic football and hurling”, which is when a ball the size of a hockey puck is pushed on the ground while two other people sweep right in front of it so the ball can get farther. Overall, it’s an Irish version of shuffle board. They also have cycling, aerobics and swimming…

Trebuchet: A machine used in medieval siege warfare for hurling large stones or other missiles. This is one of the most important and game changing weapon of all time. When the trebuchet is fired, the weight box falls and the force of gravity causes rotational acceleration of the attached throwing arm around the axle (the fulcrum of the lever). The throwing arm is usually four to six times the length of the counterweight portion. These factors multiply the acceleration transmitted to the…