Ladder

After crossing the second trampoline, it was time to climb back up another slanted wall with a rope ladder attached to it and then back down a final ladder wall and off the Antigravity obstacle. The course continued on a very brief distance and up next was “The Warped Wall” obstacle, which was a very challenging warped wall. I was able to make it up the wall on both days without assistance, but the volunteers where awesome and very quick to offer any racers assistance if they needed help with getting up the warped wall. Once on top of the warped wall, the next obstacle was “Mount Maniac”, which was literally attached to the warped wall and was a rope net that racers climbed across. This was a cool section of the course because the rope net was suspended over the entrance to the spectator/festival area so racers where literally climbing just above people coming and going to the event. Once passed the net, there was a very short ladder wall climb and it was now time for the last obstacle of the course, the “Accelerator” which is a massive water ramp slide down in to a few feet deep pool of water. I asked the volunteer if I could slide head first on my stomach and he said yes, so that is what I did both days. The funny part is the same kid was at this obstacle…

approximately fifteen feet in length with a base circumference of about twelve inches. The darn thing ended up weighing more than 350 lbs! They didn’t know that before the accident. Unfortunately, with his wife holding the ladder, and while he was balancing himself to cut the limb with a borrowed chainsaw, the most unexpected thing…

For the assessment of skilled locomotor function, the horizontal ladder task is one of the most commonly used methods in behavioral neuroscience. The horizontal ladder detects fine impairments in both forelimb and hindlimb function following lesions in the sensorimotor cortex (Antonow-Schlorke, Ehrhardt, & Knieling, 2013; Soblosky, Colgin, Chorney-Lane, Davidson, & Carey, 1997), rhizotomies (Liu et al., 2016; Wieseler et al., 2010), and spinal cord injuries (SCIs) (Bolton, Tse, Ballermann,…

The Accountability Ladder The purpose of the accountability ladder aids us in understanding the reasons behind why we may not be achieving the results we would like in either our personal or professional lives or both. It helps us identify how we view the world, and our attitude towards it, and how things react in response to our individual viewpoints. There are multiple steps included in the accountability ladder. Starting with step one, becoming aware of reality, and pin-pointing what’s…

Human is social animal, which formed society and study of their social behavior. Social class is a large group of people who rank closely to one another in property, power and prestige (Heslin, ). On the Social Class Ladder that introduced by Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahls, there are six classes in total, the capitalist class, the upper middle class, the lower middle class, the working class, the working poor and the underclass, and listed in ascending order. There are different conditions to…

The film Jacob’s Ladder describes a time during Jacob Singer’s life in which he is being put through Hell. Whether this Hell is an actual, spiritual place, or a space within his own mind is unknown. Either way, Jacob’s life is falling apart and he is seeing demons and other terrible sights that cannot be real. Firstly, Jacob’s youngest son, Gabe, has died after being hit by a car. Secondly, Jacob has served in Vietnam and experienced a horrific night that he can not remember the details of. Both…

For example, one theory is that the five children tragically died in the fire, and another one is that they could have gotten kidnapped. To begin, in the early morning of December 25th, 1945 Jennie Sodder, the mother, recalls a “heavy object” hitting the roof (Newton 361). Then, thirty minutes later she smelt smoke and called for the family to exit the house (Newton 361). However, only four of the nine children escape, but when George goes to retrieve his ladder to try and save the rest, it was…

have different and fixed migration pathways making it impossible for them to find another migration passage (Fukushima). Migration is an important part of the life-cycle of the Siamese Mud Carp and by restricting their migration the life-cycle is disturbed and they are not able to reproduce, decreasing the overall population. Some fish, such as the whisker sheatfish, will migrate in the opposite direction, but this will negatively impact the fish as the new migration location does not have the…

When one is trying to climb out of their economic circumstance, their geographical location is a large determinant of their success. In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters David Leonhardt (2013) reviews the different factors that can affect one's ability to climb this metaphorical ladder. Leonhardt also addresses the very upper class and how there tends to be no fluctuation in their average earnings. The article starts out by giving the reader insight into Stacey Calvin’s daily life as…

The title of this essay makes sure to give nothing way into regards to what the article is about. When I saw the title “The Crooked Ladder,” I didn’t know what to expect from the reading. I certainly didn’t jump the topic upward mobility in capitalist criminal trade, or what it means to be a criminal with modern day law enforcement. This is an instance that the title of the essay perhaps left me to anticipate some sort of personal narrative, but instead this piece of creative nonfiction uses the…