â¢ Grab each handle as you would hold ski poles. â¢ Put one foot on the center of the rope and pull up on the handles. â¢ The handles should come to the center of your chest or no higher than your armpits. â¢ If it is too longâthe rope should be shortened for optimal jumping experience.
Larry McMurtry. Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American novelist, essayist and screenwriter. McMurtry is probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American novelist, essayist and screenwriter. McMurtry is probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, which was adapted into a hit television miniseries. Much of his fiction is set in the old west or contemporary Texas.
Elegy Moves Through the Centuries. In the mid- 1700s, British poet Thomas Gray wrote one of the most famous elegiac poems, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.' The following stanzas, written in iambic pentameter, demonstrate Gray's strong introspective mood, beginning on line 13: Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,