The Pike

This photo is of a Washington State Cheerleader performing a full basket. To perform this stunt, 3 bases interlock their arms while the top girl stands crouched down on their hands. The bases dip down and then throw the top girl as high as they can into the air in a straight line as the top girl stands up. She performs a stunt when she feels weightless at the top of the throw. In this photo, you can clearly see that she is twisting her body on two different axes, but I will only be talking about…

appears to be no significant difference in outcomes and recovery rates between these two treatments. However, when the two recovery strategies are compared in terms of their relapse rates, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy transcends over Individual Therapy; Pike et al. maintain that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is effective in relapse prevention (2048). This may be due to differences in the central ideologies of each treatment; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on cognitive restructuring;…

The writing program used by the teacher comes from Lucy Caulkins. After lunch every day, the class begins their one hour writing block. The block generally begins with a mini-lesson that takes up about 10-15 minutes. These lessons usually involve the teacher modeling for the students different skills and techniques that they will practice in their writer’s notebooks. For the first portion of the year, the class has been mainly working on three different writing skills: how to pick topics to…

Introduction The psychological illness which is associated with abnormal eating habits that may be excessive or inadequate intake of food for an individual is known as eating disorder. This disorder is a serious illness which is characterized by the habit of eating leads to unhealthy body weight and body shape. It is found that eating disorder is a choice of lifestyle which is increasing in number throughout the world. Most of the cases women are generally affected by eating disorder where as…

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crossings.” (Pederson). Battle after battle, Alex shows that he will do anything and everything to win. The mega phalanx he utilized and experimented with ended up being an impenetrable wall. Arrows flying at the soldiers and in unison raising their pikes to deflect the projectiles falling from the sky, would instill fear into even the fiercest and most experienced soldiers (Hyde). Alexander’s ability to understand his enemy and predicting their reactions is what set his empire apart. However,…

Since the beginning of the 12th century, the guitar has been noted as one of the most popular Western musical, string instrument; it is used in a wide variety of musical genres worldwide. However, on the other hand, most people cannot easily recognize the Western guitar’s Eastern counterpart – the Gu Zheng. Originally found during the Warring States Period in Ancient China (475 to 221 BC), the Gu Zheng gradually became a prominent musical instrument within Asian culture. However, though…

potential disappearance in prey may be the reason why the other salmon populations in the region remain strong, as Kings inhabit more northern environments in the ocean and eat prey on different organisms as a result. Furthermore, like the Northern Pike theory, the timeline also matches up with the disappearance of the Chinooks, with some small effects happening in the late twentieth century and increasing more and more into the twenty first. The main hole in the argument is the extreme…

Early studies on the lateral diffusion of rhodopsin in ROS membranes resulted in viewing this visual receptor as monomeric entity freely diffusing in a phospholipid bilayer (Calvert et al., 2001; Chabre et al., 2003; Liebman et al., 1982; Poo and Cone, 1974). However, it is important to stress that the movement of rhodopsin restricted to approximately two-dimensional environment of membranous phospholipid bilayer would rather reduce its dynamic freedom by orders of magnitude relative to soluble…

uncivilized and unpredictable. Entering the Cyclopes layer unannounced could have been the downfall for Odysseus, because the unruly Cyclops feasted on some of his crew as a repercussion, the brave warrior put forth a scheme to blind the Cyclopes' with a pike of an olive tree. "Straight forward they sprinted, lifting it, and rammed it deep in his crater eye." (IX, 414-415). Such a risk taken by Odysseus paid off in his favor, for if it had failed, he and his remaining crew would have been…