Read this excerpt from "Heads Up on Sports Safety." Your neck can also get hurt while playing football, so many helmet designers are using materials that prevent neck injuries. One common injury is whiplash, which is a sudden hit to the head that moves the neck very quickly. Neck padding can help, but materials that prevent the head from turning can decrease athletic performance. One alternative is to use a thermoplastic material that responds differently to different kinds of pressure. This material is soft when moved or pressed slowly but stiffens into a hard version of its shape when hit quickly. It has been used in bulletproof vests for at least a decade. One problem and its solution presented in this article is

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

i wish you all a merry christmas!  

and or happy hanukkah

and a happy new year

since he could see color, and nobody else could, he didn't find it fair that everyone else in the utopia couldn't see color but him and the giver : d

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !