Somersault

bruises and scars from the unforgiving platforms. After several practices, I slowly became comfortable with the five and seven meter platforms, however, there was one particular dive I could not bring myself to attempt: the inward one and one half somersault. I had mastered this dive on the springboard and had competed it for years, but completing the same dive on a platform

INTRODUCTION Francis Scott Fitzgerald is considered one of the most important exponents of the American Modernist Movement thanks to masterpieces like The Great Gatsby and short stories like Bernice Bobs Her Hair. Ranging from novels to short stories, its work mirrors the Jazz Age, its society and values and how they underwent important changes and developments that strongly influenced the lifestyle of people. After the Great War the US experienced an economic boom that favored the expansion of mass

electricity from her hands aiming them at the hunter. “I don’t think so ladies,” declares Youngblood leaps ten feet in the air. He throws his weapon striking the female in the chest. “My…what strength we have,” says Acnes performs several somersaults and strikes the hunter’s right arm with a steel dagger. “You bitch,” says Youngblood as the wound closes up in seconds. The hunter possesses superhuman strengths, enhanced senses, and injury resistant powers.

sideline conversion to split the two competition points in a 34-all stalemate. The Newcastle Knights snapped back into form with an emphatic 48-14 defeat of the Manly Sea Eagles. Nathan Ross was the hat-trick hero scoring three tries with a forward somersault to mark the after-try celebration. With just eight rounds remaining, the Sea Eagles have little time to move up the ladder. However, anything’s possible in rugby league and you can’t ever count anyone out. Round 18 is headlined by a sensational

David Ignatow's poem, “The Bagel", looks like an enjoyable piece of light reading. However, upon further investigation and analysis, he does a clever job of hiding an analogy for his childhood and a criticism of nostalgia. His poem expresses that nostalgia is pointless, and instead of sulking in the thought of the past, bring what you miss from the past into the present The poem starts out with a simple concept: "I stopped to pick up the bagel/rolling away in the wind,/annoyed with myself for

The Oppression of Women in Society as Reflected in “The Yellow Wallpaper” For centuries women have been overlooked by their male counterparts in society. They have been ignored, mistreated, and treated as second-class citizens by society. It seems to be never-ending, as women oppressed in their everyday lives in their homes, at work, and everywhere else in the world. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the wallpaper symbolically represents the oppression of women in society as

school called “Gym Club”. At my elementary school, there were clubs that you could go that cost £2 to It was a club that was there every week on Wednesday. To go, it was £2 to go every Wednesday. I went every time. It was mainly carting wheels, Somersaults, teddy bear rolls, and other different activities. The activities were really engaging to do, and were sometimes different. There wasn’t many people at the club, probably because the people who received weren’t that intent in physical activity

way up the beach, the sea polishes small stones, sloshes into and out of the tiny whorled and bivalved shells somersaulting in the undercurl of its waves,” (Hurd 6). The sea doesn’t really polish the stones as a human would. The shells also can’t somersault like a small child in a field. Even so, it’s possible to understand what the ocean and it’s components are doing. Cervantes details a similar process. Cervantes proposes, “As if they had created terrariums with their bodies On purpose; adding sprigs

sport and to separate from the entertainment. The competitive cheerleading is different from the animation that is usually seen in professional sports. The teams are valued for the skill they demonstrate in their choreography, in which they perform somersaults, pyramids, jumps and different types of acrobatics. There are different modalities and the execution combines elements of courage, physical exigency and, sometimes, risk. There is no way that anyone could be a cheerleader if they are not athletically

eardrums. As the dancer slipped on their tap shoes, I, of course, was prepared for an exciting adventure filled lesson with some of my closest friends by my side. The rush of adrenaline made my heart beat faster and faster. My stomach began doing somersaults as if I was still in acro class. My recital was only a week away and the