Whiplash

Engineers found that a circular loop caused riders to experience the greatest force at the bottom of the loop, when the cars were moving fastest. This resulted in riders experiencing whiplash and neck injuries. This caused loops in roller coasters to be abandoned in 1901, but they were brought back with the clothnoid loop shape in Revolution in 1976 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. A clothoid loop has a radius that is constantly changing…

It’s a well-known fact that books have the power to transport you across time and space, but sometimes you finish a great read and you aren’t quite sure where it’s taken you. While this trippy sensation probably isn’t for the Jojo Moyes lovers out there, it is a thrill for readers who crave the bizarre, the outlandish and the flat-out confusing. If you’re all about absurdists like Beckett, Murakami and Pynchon, then you need to get to a bookstore (or open Amazon in a tab if that’s your…

It was the wee hours of the morning on a hot and scorching June 11th 2015 I had no idea that my life and perspective of life would be altered. I just sent a text message to my co-worker Sean about going to K-Mart Store in Bowling Green Kentucky to help out. I was hesitant to go because it was an hour away. He ended up miraculously persuaded me to pursue this paid adventure. It was around 5:00 I was changing and getting ready to go on this trip with my Co-workers Sean and Haley. I told my mother…

Rough Draft Claudia Rogers People enjoy good entertainment, especially when it comes to animals being involved. Not only can they be used for satisfying the public, but they can also be useful to human resources, such as to the blind, deaf, or disabled. If animals can be used properly in positive ways then why are people abusing and neglecting them? Animals deserve to have the same rights as humans. One way animals are taken advantage of is by experimentation. Many different experiments are…

"The most common form of a TBI is a concussion"(CDC). This can be caused by direct blows to the head, force from a whiplash injury, violent shaking of the head, or gunshot wounds. A concussion is caused when the brain receives trauma from an impact or sudden movement change. "Blood vessels may stretch in the brain and cranial nerves could be damaged"(KBK). When a person…

started to see, as though for the first time, the unique colors of every film: the reds and blacks of Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love”, the blues and grays of Milos Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, the grim yellows of Damien Chazelle’s “Whiplash”. Finally I understand why Zhang Yi Mou has past events in color and present events in black-and-white in “The Road Home”: as a subtle signal to the audience that past happenings will be the focus of his movie. Art imitates life: it’s the…

Nouveau which means New Art in French moved away from imitation of real subjects and moved towards the flowing and twisting lines and shapes of nature, art nouveau pieces are organic in their ornamentation featuring what many art historians call the whiplash curves, decorating every available…

Cities Racquet Club. In my family, we all play tennis. We were going to my tennis lesson, I was not excited. What is so great about hitting a ball back and forth over a net. Nothing, that’s what. Watching tennis is even worse, talk about getting whiplash.…

An audience attending a Hitchcock film is required to do much more than eat popcorn and drink soda! A Hitchcock film immerses the audience within the action of the film using stylistic and cinematic elements, such as: camera placement, editing, point of view, subjectivity and objectivity, all working together in ways that help to evoke certain emotions, while also provoking certain questions, making you wonder just what in the world Hitchcock is going to do next? In 39 Steps, one can see the…

When hearing the phrase drunk driving, one often thinks of despair, tragedy, even death. But what exactly factors into it? And why are drunk drivers still a problem if police know they are out there? What are authorities doing to try and end the epidemic that is drunk driving? The National Department of Transportation says that about one-third of drunk drivers arrested or convicted are repeat offenders. Considering that 1.1 Million people were arrested for driving under the influence in 2014,…