Snowboarding

It’s finally happening! Today's the day we will begin our adventure! You and your buds finally get to leave the cold and boulders of snow behind and go camping where it's warm and sunny. You guys and all packed up with shorts and tanktops. After five hours of driving, making four stops to ask for directions and buy snacks, your group finally reaches the destination and it's nothing you expected. Instead of the warm sunny place Alison from the grocery store told you she visited, there ended up being

If you have ever watched sports then you probably have seen someone gets injured. Imagine this a 13-year-old boy is skiing at Nordic Mountain a popular place for snow skiing and snowboarding in winter. He gets launched about 10 feet into the air spinning backward struggling to find his balance. Crashing into the snow head smacking the ground flowing the rest of his body. This was a real scare for the 3 others who witnessed the crash. Hearing this story most would think he was badly hurt, but the

Colorado Mesa University It was my first day of college and I rushed through the campus of Colorado Mesa University to get to my first class. Even though I was in a hurry, I couldn’t help but notice how lush and green the grass was and how clean everything looked. I began to slow my pace as I found my attention captivated by the campus around me. The buildings looked new, the benches looked clean, the grass wasn’t brown and dry. Everything seemed so organized and well maintained, unlike my high

From the Southwest to the Northeast There are many similarities between all of the fifty United States, however there are also many differences. This is especially true when comparing the states of New Mexico and Pennsylvania. Although these two states have many differences, it is clear to see through scenery, food, and tourism, they may be a little more similar than meets the eye. The United States is known for being a place of great beauty. Whether it is found in the lushly forested rolling

From the beginning of time man has had to deal with distractions of all shapes and sizes, but our current and future generations have a whole new and rather terrifying behemoth to deal with. In today’s world, it’s technology, namely cell phones and social media, that are front and center when you think of everyday distractions. For me however, this isn’t the case. It’s not that they aren’t a distraction, not by a long shot, but they are trumped by my own mind. I dont need any help getting distracted

so high they crest over parked cars; piercing icicles glinting for two full stories from gutters dammed with ice; coat-muffled people dwarfed by snow-walled corridors that once were sidewalks. You may have seen the funny images as well: the man snowboarding down an all-but-empty major boulevard, pulled by his friend’s snowmobile; drunk men diving out of second-floor windows into six-foot snowbanks; windows that merely frame a wall of snow. But for those of us living here, it’s not a pretty picture

game comes with some risks, according to Bleacher Report in a study of the top 10 most dangerous sports played these are the top 10 most dangerous. Coming in at number 10. is basketball, then at 9. X-games, number 8. was a combination of skiing, snowboarding and surfing, 7. is nascar, 6. soccer, 5. hockey, 4. Rugby, 3. football, 2. MMA, and number 1. is boxing. Did you happen to notice what ones weren’t on there? Baseball, tennis, volleyball did not appear on the list. So if you're a parent why put

Europe is the second smallest continent and though it is small it contains forty countries, it's heavily populated just under six hundred million people. Its countries have had and still have a major impact on world affairs, whether it's fashion industry, famous for their cuisines, and their advances in technology, and the way some of these European countries enjoy high level of development despite major physiographical challenges. Europe is rich for their resources like the cultivable soils which

Long Term Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury Concussions can seriously alter one’s life. Concussions are the result of moderate to severe impact to the head with another object. These impacts shake the brain, which is suspended in cerebral fluid, and cause it to scrape against the skull. Concussions can have mild to severe symptoms including insomnia, an inability to concentrate and headaches. Symptoms manifest both physically and mentally and may appear days after the initial trauma, with the possibility

conditions or pathologies. The patient experienced trauma to the thoracic spine approximately at the level of thoracic vertebrae three and seven, further identified during palpation and the localized nature of the pain. Trauma to T3 occurred from a snowboarding accident roughly one month prior to the beginning of treatment, when a snowboard fell across her shoulders, associated symptoms included mild tension headaches felt at the base of the occiput. Trauma, leading to pain at the level of T7 was