Skids

ball and the defensive team could field more. Slow pitch is a much more safe game to play. When players are on the base and their teammates hit the ball and they run to the other base they don’t slide. If they don’t slide they won’t get injured from skid marks, any bones getting broke, and getting stepped on. Pitchers will pitch the ball slower. It’s pitched slower because they want the batter to hit and get on base (Women’s Sport Information). Adults are more common to play slow pitch.…

glass as we flew down the road. I can feel the tension of my hands griping the handle of the door and part of the seat. My heart was racing and my head started to hurt from the spinning. It happened in mere seconds but it felt so much longer. The car skid across the pavement and then stopped as we hit the fence, the one thing that kept us from flying off the edge. Emotions were flaring and my dad was trying to calm my mom. My brother was crying and my cousin was scared to death, but.....I was…

4. IMPACT OF SPEED ON CRASHES 4.1 Speed variance vs crashes Solomon (1964) describe the effect of speed vs crashes as a U shaped curve [9]. Solomon obtained the estimated speed of the vehicles suffered the crashes by tracing the police reports. The author compiled a “modus speed” which implies a safe speed for that particular stretch of road by driving with the traffic flow [45]. Solomon created a crash proportion per speed category, a comparison ratio using the crash vehicle speeds and the…

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why ~Mark Twain Finding the “why” was an extremely satisfying albeit painful experience. I've been there, done that…… The punch came out of nowhere early one day when I was 6500 miles from home, by myself. Inside, I died a thousand deaths. Courage to the sticking place they said. Did the courage come from the interdisciplinary teams that helped me? Did it come from the competent,…

I believe that immigration has affected us in many ways in positive ways and negative ways. Some of the things I will be talking about is how we as Americans are helping people in need of homes, I will also be talking about how the immigration status of our country has really screwing things up. During this paragraph I will be stating facts and my own opinions. Well to start out in some ways we are helping people from Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia, Colombia and many other places. We are…

Seattle has had a rough past, often by relying on only a single industry at a time and then rebounding with a new industry just as the previous is collapsing in on itself. In the fall of 1851, two courageous brothers landed at Alki Point on the west side of Elliot Bay. They spent a winter there before ultimately deciding to migrate to the east shores where they established what is now Seattle. The first major industry was logging. The timber trade proved to be the primary source of growth in…

I remember thinking, don’t put on the brake. I could hear the mechanic’s voice, I could hear him telling me, this car doesn’t have power steering, and don’t put the brake on if the car skids, but it was like my foot, I couldn’t control my foot and I slammed on the brake but the car... I lost control of the car. And then nothing. I don’t remember anything after that until someone, a woman, was standing next to me and telling me to open…

I feel, cold. I am swarmed by my surroundings. They pound away at my head and I can only sit here, helpless, unable to breathe, drowning. I wake up in bed. I have thin layers on but I am still scorching. A thick layer of sweat keeps me stuck to my bed sheet. A tear rolls down my face and drips from my face to the ground. It is so dark that I can’t tell whether my eyes are open or closed. My head swivels over to my alarm clock. It reads 12:04. I could’ve sworn it was morning. I lay there for what…

I found an online template and downloaded it onto my laptop. I then found a pad of paper and a pen and started to list off my skills. I started with the easy things; milk cows, feed cows, drive a tractor, drive a skid loader, etc…. I then decided to delve into my skills a bit more to set myself apart from other potential job seekers; ran my own dairy, can breed cows, hoof trimming, managed employees, etc…. The next step to my job hunt was to write a cover letter…

My Bio Note: I originally wrote this Bio for a web class I taught some years ago called Writing Fiction. I have continued to use it pretty much unchanged except for family updates, so if you have had me before you won’t find much new. It’s long for this assignment, not meant to be a model for yours. Make of it what you will; you deserve to know who your professor is. You may respond on the Biography Forum if you wish. I taught my first college English class in January of 1975 at Kent…