Parachute

Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy during the Renaissance period. His parents had him out-of-wedlock. He was raised primarily by his father and his stepmother. Though he obtained no formal education, he would eventually go on to apprentice under the famous painter Verrocchio. During the six years Leonardo would spend with Verrocchio, he would obtain some new skills such as metal work, carpentry, leather work, drawing and sculpting. In 1472, at the tender age of…

Gavin would parachute northeast of the 101st. The British 1st Airborne Division under the command of Major General Roy Urquhart and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Stanislaw Sosabowski would parachute in and seize the rail bridge of Oosterveek and the road bridge at Arnhem. Garden represented the ground forces under the command…

All the sudden, I feel like a million pounds is pressing on my back. I am surrounded by darkness and suffocating. I go to move my legs and find that I now have what feels like an additional fourteen. This isn't a big deal to me, after all, I do lucid dream often. This is just a dream of course. After squirming my way out of a tight spot, I notice that the darkness is simply the sheets covering my face.I can now breathe better. I can't help but laugh at my stupidity and I often enjoy controlling…

My heart was racing with excitement. The driver asked the other passengers to scoot down to make room for the for the others to sit, while Joe, Mia and I got onto the platform. The instructor hooked our harnesses onto the huge purple and yellow parachute that was attached to the boat. We were ready to take off! “Ready?” he asked. “Ready.” we replied. We went up and up until we reached the maximum of 750 feet. Our legs dangling from the harness. Was this safe? We were up 750 feet in the air…

beneath my feet. I saw a building in the distance. Then half of the first and second floor disappear, unnoticeable to the helicopters in air and hardly to the hovers on the ground. A Hover bursted through the roof behind me I jump off and deployed a parachute, only to have it blown up by the Hovers’ projectile, shaped like a little football but it is propelled through the air by a jet in the back. “Agh!” I yelled a fragment of the bomb hit me in the back. I reached back into my sheath. "Please…

One day each year, students of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Central Florida invite children with disabilities and their families to participate in Let’s Ignite at Memory Mall on April 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. DPT students are hosting the event for children, ages from 5 to 21, with physical and developmental issues. “My students, oh my goodness, they spend months planning [for the event]," said Jennifer Tucker, a member of the physical therapy program. "They get…

Scrap Drives During World War II During World War II a lot of materials were used at the same time to create equipment such as guns, tanks, gas masks, and parachutes, but the resources were disappearing because of the mass production of materials. So there must have been a way to get more materials to build the equipment. There were events known as scrap drives held around the United States, these were events where the community would bring scrap to donate it to the army to build more equipment.…

Can you imagine being stranded on an island alone only with a group of kids and no adults? What would you do if you were in that situation? Do you think you would stay calm and in control? Well, in The Lord of the Flies this is the reality of a group of boys, fighting for their lives and dealing with insanity. Their inner beast showed then and it was inevitable. What do you think? Do you think that there is a beast in all of us? Or do you think you could have kept yourself under control?…

Prong 2: The vast development of forensics since 1971 could now easily intimidate D.B. Cooper out of attempting this crime again. Technology back then was too underdeveloped to catch a calculated criminal like D.B. Cooper. DNA wouldn’t be used forensically for until nearly 15 years after the hijacking. Had this technology been around, D.B Cooper would be rotting in jail as we speak. Investigators have attempted to obtain DNA particles from evidence, like his tie, but nothing has come of it.…

The Beast The human mind can be used to create art, compose music and solve problems. It can also be used to cause arguments, create weapons, and support wars. In his book, Lord of the Flies, William Golding describes his experience with World War II. In the book, a plane carrying several boys who are trying to escape the war crashes on an island, and the boys struggle to find and kill the “beast.” The beast represents the loss of humanity, triggered by human fears, individual savagery, and…