Olympic weightlifting

The Titanic!! From Antonine Marie Mallet’s Point of view (1887-1974) Once, there was a ship, a very BIG ship, and it, was called, the TITANIC! The Titanic was one of the most famous boats out there, with a whopping 2,228 passengers! But, what they did not know, there was an iceberg, ready to STRIKE the Titanic! There were 2,228 people on the Titanic, but only an estimation of 705 people, made it out alive! But there is only one survivor we will look at today… Antonine Marie Mallet! She was…

The purpose of this essay is to explain the events that leads up to the Titanic sinking and the events after the sinking on April 14, 1912 the Titanic collided with a huge iceberg which resulted in the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic had 2,200 passengers and crew members aboard ready to go into the United States. Only 705 people survived. The builders of the Titanic said that even in the worst possible situation The Titanic should stay afloat up to three days. But, it did not it only stayed…

I chose to make a Clipper Ship because it was in my opinion the most interesting part of the book. When Nailer talks about how he would love to have one. I think having one would be pretty cool. Having a big ship to that you can say is yours is just awesome. The Clipper ship is a long narrow wooden vessel with lofty canvas sails, reigned as the world’s fastest oceangoing ships from about 1843 to 1868. To make my project everything I used on it was stuff that I could reuse. Recycling is an…

There were many interesting statues inside the several museums that we visited. This is the reason it was difficult for me to pick a sculpture that I really connected with. The one that I particularly enjoyed the most was the Charioteer of Delphi, which is located in the Delphi Archaeological Museum. It is a very famous statue from Greece. It is a sculpture that Rob seemed to be very enthusiastic about, so he passed the appreciation on to my classmates and I. The sculpture was set up at this…

The Ancient Olympics was the most religious festival in ancient times held in Olympia, Greece to honor the gods by sacrifice, dedication, and victory. The Olympic games were played to recognize and respect the gods that the Greeks worshipped and they did this by sacrificing their valuable possessions to the gods. On the first day of the Olympics, a sacrifice of one hundred oxen was made to start off the Olympics. Not only did the Greeks devote their lives to Olympic gods but worshipped their…

The goal of every taekwondo olympic fighter is to master a kick you know will knock out your opponent. The most common one and the I am testing is a Round kick, is a kick where the attacker swings their leg around in a semicircular motion, striking with the top of the foot. There is a lot more that goes into the perfect kick than most think. What is the perfect angle? What is the perfect distance away from the opponent? What is the perfect speed of the kick? These are all things that go into a…

Athletic tapes find an ubiquitous use and application If you take a look at the sports channels, you can be puzzled to think that the athletes may be falling apart as, suddenly, everybody from Andy Murray to Shane Watson is taped up. Are the complex weaves of multi-hued Kinesiology tape an indisputable forward leap in the handling of sports injuries? Or is it intended to be everywhere at the major sports? Kinesio tapes, the tough elasticized tapes, were developed over 30 years back by a…

Anshu Jamsenpa the first women to ever climb Mount Everest twice in 5 days! Mother of 2 and at the age of 38 she broke a world record and made global headlines. When she became the first woman to conquer the 29,028-feet-tall Mount. The first thing Anshu told everyone was "I always think that I am very close to god, I am getting a blessing, I only feel that whenever I am at the top." So that is the main reason why she loves climbing Mount Everest. To be able to climb Mount Everest there is a…

Two children from Tasmania were fishing with their dad Thursday when they each struck the tuna prize, linking at the same time and after that landing world-record southern bluefin tuna in their respective age divisions. Sam Nichols, 12, and Toby Nichols, 10, revealed world-record smiles as they postured with their prospective world-record tuna captures that even fishermen on the truth cable television series "Wicked Tuna" would require to port. "Wow. Wow. Wow. I am in awe of my kids," Stuart…

Even though people said the Titanic was unsinkable, it still sunk. The Titanic had about 2,208 people on board and 1,503 people died. When the Titanic was sinking 28 people got on a lifeboat and 63 could have fit on. The next morning 300 and more dead bodies were pulled out of the sea the next morning after the titanic sunk. Some people say the captain was turning and accidentally swiped against an iceberg and got hit and some other people say the captain got drunk and wasn't paying attention…