Swing Time

up at four o’clock every morning to work out at what is essentially cross fit for middle age adults. He has completed triathlons and was in an adult baseball league until he had his accident. While up to bat for his team the follow through of his swing decided that it would defy the standards of biomechanics. His Achilles tendon tore like a piece of string cheese. He works a forty-hour a week job as and electrical engineer, while also running our family’s small vending business. Transitioning…

The frantic scrambling of pencils on paper, and fingers on the keyboard are in pursuit of receiving full credit. That moment when time seems to move faster than I ever thought possible. If only I could squeeze a few more ounces of time out of what little I have left. These are the thoughts that surface in my mind on quite a routine basis. These thoughts are brought upon by an all too stressful reality that I for whatever reason am too stubborn to avoid. No matter how great of an attempt I make…

Since the start of time, people have entertained the world through different activities. The professional athletes have entertained us with their athletic prowess. Actors portray characters on a big screen to make us laugh and cry. Musicians produce good music that brightens the day. Without any entertainers the world would be dull and uninteresting. These people are paid very well. Some, agree talented entertainers should have a salary larger than the average person because they work harder…

Often times people tend to focus more on achieving rapid results or working extra hard to reach their goal, that they tend to neglect the long term effects associated with putting excessive strain on their bodies. Throughout Susan Bordo’s “Reading the Slender Body”, and Greg Garber’s “ESPN Sports Injury Series”, we will explore the numerous ways in which our vision of the good life can become tainted or damaged due to the effects associated with repetitive harmful behavior. This includes,…

players can ram into the opposing team as hard as possible. This in-turn can cause very mild to severe cases of concussions in the players. The injuries can go unnoticed or be diagnosed. However, in both cases there can be effects that develop after time has passed. According to a study done by Cornelius Van-Neil, there are many long-term effects that are associated with minor brain traumas (1). A group of 186 children who had a minor brain trauma were studied under an MRI, and the image showed…

Optional: compare and contrast Zimmerman’s response with Markosian’s response. Zimmerman defends the A-theory of time against allegations of B-theorists that it is in conflict with the Special Theory of Relativity (STR) and the General Theory of Relativity (GTR). He agrees that if there is conflict between the two, then it does indeed cause trouble for the A-theory. The B-Theory of time, holds that the past, present, and future all exist, and are equally real, and there is nothing…

DAILY ACTIVITIES Daily, the claimant spends a lot of his time sitting. He sometimes will visit with his mother when his stepfather is not around. He tries to find places to go, so that he can watch television and get warm. He tries to eat regular meals. He says that he socializes, most days. He socializes with family members, AA/NA members and other friends. He goes to AA/NA meetings, visits his mother and visits his brother. He is responsible for cooking his own meals. His mother is…

the stanza. To connect the two stanzas that do not share a rhyme scheme, Clare uses enjambment. “I Am!” flows in event, with all of the stanzas existing together. “Disabled,” on the other hand, spans a period of time, with past, present, and future all out of order. The division in time requires the division of the stanza, but in order for the tone to continue across past, present, and future, the stanzas must have some connection. The only two stanzas that are not connected by a rhyme are…

The disco era, which spanned from the late 1970s through the early 1980s, was defined by heavy drug use, in particular cocaine. The “hair bands” of the 1980s, such as Van Halen and Guns N’ Roses, became notorious for their execissive aclochol and drug abuse. Many of the 1990s’ most promising musicians’ lives were cut short by drug induced deaths. Although the most famous musician death of the decade was the suicide of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobaine, it has been widely reported that he was using…

chemicals in your brain, and the “high” you get from smoking marijuana is due to a certain part in your brain with the most of these THC like chemicals getting overstimulated. The short term effects you feel include, altered senses, slowed sense of time, changed mood, impaired body movement, challenged problem solving, and impaired memory. When you take an edible the effects are noticeably different, it takes 30 minutes to an hour for the THC to take effect (instead of the almost immediate…