Under Armour

Starting off with the chain bodysuits in medieval times, body armor has evolved through many technological advances. During current military operations, Soldiers are suited up with bulletproof vests, and outer tactical vests with ballistic material for bullet resistance. The progress of body armor over many many years has gone all the was from animal skins, to chains covering a knight's body, all the way to ballistic vests, fully bulletproof suits, military helmets with bullet proof technology…

The jeering crowd roars as they strike. The meat packing industry is appalling; poisoned rats and tuberculosis infected steer are thrown into the quality meat. People call to end these horrendous practices. Upton Sinclair wrote, The Jungle, in response to the alleged horrors and intriguing claims. To prepare himself for informing the world, studied, lived, and breathed in the meat packing industry for several weeks. There were many people that thought badly of him and opposed his efforts,…

Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore in 1878. His family lost their wealth and land due to the Civil War. At 10 years old, Sinclair’s family moved to New York City. Sinclair went to his primary schooling there and also college. He attended Columbia University, while he was there he started selling stories to magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1897 and married Meta Fuller and had a child three years later. Sinclair joined the Socialist Party in 1903 and started writing for…

Ice Ice Baby goes Under Pressure Hip-Hop star Vanilla Ice came out with a new album called To the Extreme in the 1990’s. Their biggest hit was Ice Ice Baby. It also was known for copying the song Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. Vanilla Ice took samples of the song without having permission and changed up the baseline beat a little thinking he would not have to give credit to the song Under Pressure the original song writers Queen and David Bowie. . . . . . . . . The way Vanilla Ice…

passengers are fighting for their life. If someone is drunk and they are about to drive, the best decision is taking away their keys. The person might be mad at the time, but that very well could have saved their life, or the lives of others. If you are under the influence, calling a taxi or asking a sober friend for a ride is your best option. Driving yourself is the worst thing you could do. Also if you are hosting a party, try and make sure all of your guests have a safe plan home. You should…

Like all road safety campaigns, Keep the Bromance Alive and Little Bit Dead have the purpose of making Australian roads safer and discouraging unsafe habits. Keep the Bromance Alive encourages positive peer pressure, by showing men encouraging mates to not drink drive, not to speed and encouraging seatbelts. Contrastingly, Little Bit Dead discourages negative behaviour by showing a potential catastrophic outcome of unsafe driving. Unlike Bromance, Little Bit Dead focuses solely on drink driving,…

don 't fully recognize the harm they could cause within drinking outside of an age that had already been set for consuming alcohol. In the U.S. there is no toleration in drinking under the age of 21, if caught doing so consequences can be range from expensive fines, loss of license, to even a full ride to jail. drinking under age is very destuctive when driving unknowing of…

Are you aware that approximately 25,000 people are killed due to drunk driving? In addition, alcohol is the number one factor in traffic deaths.(Gottfried 51) Not only teenagers, but adults, too, and even babies. Is drinking and driving still a problem for teenagers? That is a question most adults worry about, especially if their child(ren) is involved in a terrible car accident. That is one thing a parent does not want to go through. Many teens do not know how this effects people both…

and fatalities were all caused by a drunk driver. The Mothers Against Drunk Driving website also states that, "Americans take 233 billion trips in cars each year. Of those, about one out of every two thousand trips are taken by those who are driving under the influence of alcohol" (MADD). Most injuries or fatalities occur by a drunk driver hitting another car. But for most people, going through their everyday routine they do not realize that just by walking across the street, they could be hit a…

experience behind the wheel of a car. Adding alcohol to the equation is going to do nothing but make it worse. If you are under 21 years old and driving under the influence you are automatically twice as likely to be involved in a car accident and be seriously injured or killed. In the United States about 1.6 million people ages 12 through 20 report that they had driven under the influence within the last year. That is a very scary statistic and drinking and driving is something that should not…