Parks & Wreck About the Event Parks & Wreck is an outreach event hosted by the five Christian fraternities and sororities of Texas Tech University. The event was held on May 6th, 2016 in order to reach out and encourage students before finals started. Parks & Wreck featured free food including hot dogs, chips, bottled water, warm cookies, and Bahama Bucks snow cones. The event lasted from 5 pm to 9 pm with a DJ playing music the whole time. Attendees recieved free Finals Survival bags, which included pencils, scantrons, candy, and encouraging notes. The event also featured two guest speakers from Hillside Church who shared the Gospel and their testimonies. Parks & Wreck also had a total of twelve door prizes and two large inflatables.
Have you ever thought about driving over a suspension bridge held up by cables? That’s what the Mackinac Bridge is. With the building of the Mackinac Bridge there has been many positive effects that have come out of it.
“The Boat”, narrated by a Mid-western university professor, Alistar MacLeod, is a short story concerning a family and their different perspectives on freedom vs. tradition. The mother pushes the son to embrace more of a traditional lifestyle by taking over the fathers fishing business, while on the other hand the father pushes the son to live more autonomously in an unconstrained manner. “The Boat” focuses on the father and how his personality influences the son’s choice on how to live and how to make decisions that will ultimately affect his life. In Alistair MacLeod’s, “The Boat”, MacLeod suggest that although dreams and desires give people purpose, the nobility of accepting a life of discontentment out weighs the selfishness of following ones own true desires. In the story, the father is obligated to provide for his family as well as to continue the fishing tradition that was inherited from his own father. The mother emphasizes the boat and it’s significance when she consistently asked the father “ How did things go in the boat today” since tradition was paramount to the mother. H...
The emerald jewel of Brooklyn, Prospect Park is often called the borough’s backyard and has been a serene and idyllic retreat for Brooklynites for well over a century now. In fact, the park recently celebrated its 150th anniversary with great fanfare, attesting its historic importance and role it’s played in city life for generations. Few people, however, know the true history of the park, such as its connection to Central Park and the role it played in the development of Brooklyn real estate in the late 19th century. To that end, here’s a quick look at the hidden history of Prospect Park and the key role it’s played in the city’s history over the years.
University of Northern Iowa Dance Marathon is an organization that raises money for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Miracle Network. The organization aims to provide emotional and financial support for families with children facing life threatening illnesses by raising money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and organizing events that increase student and community awareness. This money then is put towards things like research, education, equipment and pediatric ward enhancements so the children and families can feel a little more comfortable during their stay at the hospital. The big event was on March 1, 2014, but the organization completes events throughout the year to fundraise as much money as possible for the Miracle Network kiddos, like a 5k color run on campus, trick-or-treating for kids who can’t, and selling grilled cheese at midnight during homecoming celebrations.
This passage defines the character of the narrators’ father as an intelligent man who wants a better life for his children, as well as establishes the narrators’ mothers’ stubbornness and strong opposition to change as key elements of the plot.
As a commuter to McDaniel College, I don’t spend much time on campus outside of classes. Therefore, the relevance of after school activities doesn’t apply to me as much. Keeping current with events happening on campus grounds, is often a daunting task. However in the spirit of class participation, I decided to create awareness that fall break is upon us.
John Jackson Riker was born on April 6th, 1858 in Newton, Long Island, New York, in what is now Elmhurst in the New York borough of Queens, New York. The Riker family ancestry extends back to the early Dutch settlers in New York, specifically of the old Van Rycken family of Amsterdam. Several members of the old Van Rycken family were successful in establishing Dutch independence alongside William I, Prince of Orange in the Dutch Revolt. The first American settler of the Rycken family was Abraham Rycken from Amsterdam to New Netherland in 1636. Later in 1654, Abraham would acquire a land in the Township of Newtown in present day Queens. On this land, the Riker family established the Riker Homestead and burial ground.
Starting in 1941, boxcars were so important to the Holocaust that 1.4 million workers were required to keep it up and running (Blohm). On the boxcars, the Jews were loaded 100 to 130 people per car, then transported to the labor camps and eventually death.Very few victims live to tell their stories of what it was like to travel on these boxcars, and the death that waited on the other side (Menszer).
In Shipwreck at the bottom of the world, Jennifer Armstrong tells the story of Ernest Shackleton and his crew's expedition to the South Pole which quickly goes awry, leaving the men with no ship and only the supplies that could be carried on one's back. One particularly intriguing passage occurs shortly after Shackleton gave the order to abandon ship and after he made the decision to try and reach Paulet Island on foot. In preparation for the journey, Shackleton dropped his heavy gold cigarette case and coins on the ice and then pulled out his Bible, ripped a page from the book of Job, and dropped the remainder of the Bible to rest on the frozen sea. He read an excerpt from that page before folding it and sliding it into his pocket: "Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of Heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, And the face of the deep is frozen." These words are from Job 29-30 and are spoken by God.
What is something you feel so passionate about that you want to dream about doing it one day? One thing that I hope to do in the future that I dream about is to make wreckless cars! You might be wondering what I mean by “wreckless cars” well you are just about to find out.
The Polaris Ranger is a UTV that is very simple to drive once you know how to do it. (You will need to have a Ranger and space to drive it to do this) This is a good thing to learn how to do if you have one or if you have farm because the Ranger is a necessity if you need to deliver feed or get something from the barn etc. Here are the simple steps to drive it.
Imagine feeling most of the bones in your torso breaking with a dry, ragged, SNAP while the sinew connecting them is torn apart with a terrible POP! Imagine the pain while bleeding internally for hours, lying in a twisted metal coffin. You have to assume that help will not arrive in time to save your life. Now imagine, what would you do?
By 1919, The roller coaster was first developed by John Miller. In 1927, A roller coaster was placed at an Amusement Park, the Cyclone was placed and the Coney Island. The roller coaster has a monumental ice slide, the height is 70 ft, it was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries in Russia. The first roller coaster(American) was the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway. It was built in the mid-1800’s in the mountains of Pennsylvania.
As I mentioned before, I didn't get to actually sit in on a class but the weekend that I was home the Rooster Buddies were holding a fund-raiser. At the annual City Series basketball game between my alma-mater Sacred Heart and SHS the Rooster Buddies were selling an assortment of baked goods. The Rooster Buddies is a student club that was started wit...
Escape from Wreck City is John Creary’s debut collection of poems. With content ranging from PG to R rated, these poems about sex, drugs, and family are best read aloud. Though you may be hard pressed to find perfect rhymes, Creary clearly has an ear for making speech pleasing to the ear, and this collection has mastered the rhythm and line breaks that make couplets powerful.