Long jump

from the jump to the surface of the water was forty feet. Logan advised us not to do pencil dive because straight down was a metal basket that held drift wood. He said, “There have been many people that landed on it and broken their legs.” This was a bit concerning because I am half blind without my glasses so I planned on a pencil dive to ensure that I could find my way back to the lighthouse instead of trying to scale the wall with no ladder to hold onto. I let my friend take a few jumps while…

Hey, I’m Gracie and I’m in 8th grade and I just got done reading about your story in the maze. I have many questions for you and about your decisions you made in the Glade and on the way out of the maze. When you first were in the box what were you thinking as you were rising? Knowing me, I would have been freaking out about not knowing anything and why I was even in there in the first place. You just seemed so calm and cool with it. Also, I think that figuring out everything about the Glade…

jumping height, force from takeoff, and the landing force. This way Mr. Smiley could go out and gather frogs and test them until he singled out the best frog for him to use in his bets. Mr. Smiley taught the frog that he caught in the story on how to jump higher, but if someone else were to have a more athletic frog than Mr. Smiley he could’ve easily been beaten because Smiley didn’t measure his frogs height from jumping and didn’t really know for a fact that he was the highest jumping frog in…

button up shirts. The story is based around a kid named Ponyboy who lives with his two other brothers since their parents died. One day Ponyboy and Johnny, who is a kid that hangs in the Greaser’s gang, go walking in the park until a group of Socs jumps them. A group of the Socs tried drowning Ponyboy, so Johnny kills one of the Socs for self defense. Johnny and Ponyboy then run away from the law and hide in an old abandoned church. One day they come back to the church and it was on fire, so…

“ You can’t define me” Beatrice Prior is a young girl in the book series Divergent written by Veronica Roth. The set is a dystopian society the novel Divergent takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago. The story follows Beatrice Prior as she finds her identity in a society that defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with five factions by taking the aptitude test, which exposes divergents who are a threat to the society. The focused main plot is a…

vaulters stance is the set up in preparation to begin accelerating towards the platform. The 40 meter dash while holding the large pole is a phase known as approach. The stance swing occurs during the pole plant which then leads to the jump and follow through. The jump follow through occurs when the pole vaulter lances themselves straight up in order to clear the bar. During the entire event the pole vaulters body is enticed in play by play action where every muscle takes…

sport. Show jumping is played when a rider is to jump a course of fences on horseback in an acute amount of time. The jumps can vary in size from one foot to five feet. The rules of show jumping are very strict and require a large amount of skill. Consequently, faults can be given to competitors for knocking down a pole, jumping over the time limit, or getting injured. Faults are categorized by 1 to 4 points depending on how well the rider jumps. If a rider gets more than 12 faults or 8…

can examine and find ways to successfully enhance performance, develop exercise programs and modify sporting techniques (Swedan, 2013). This paper will be analyzing and evaluating the athletic event of high jump. Biomechanics will be applied to critically examine the techniques used in high jump and improve upon them. With the application of biomechanics, any technique can be enhanced and new more effective skills can be created; thereby improving the execution of a sporting action. In…

For long positions, we enter a buy a tick above the high of the pin bar. 2. If the next bar to the pin bar doesn’t trigger the trade, we abandon the setup, because, may times, a break in momentum can lead to a consolidation or a reversal. Hence, we want to…

Water begins to spread across every continent, and the remaining humans are pushed higher and higher into the mountains. The novel is a satire that examines contemporary European politics, such as fascism and colonialism. At the end of the novel the long-term history of the Newts is mapped out. The Newts will all but destroy the Earth's landmass, leaving only a small amount of humans to work for them in their factories. Eventually they will form separate countries and destroy themselves by…