AirBorn By: Kenneth Oppel Summary: Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora‚ a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean‚ ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt’s always wanted; convinced he’s lighter than air‚ he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist’s granddaughter that he
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Gotta Love This American Ride Toby Keith is one of the best country singers of his generation and many would say one of the greatest of all time. Toby Keith has many notable awards some being‚ Entertainer of the Year‚ Album of the Year‚ Top Male Vocalist and also Video of the Year. This list keeps going on as he has won many of these awards in consecutive years. Keith started in 1993 and is still currently releasing songs today. One of Toby Keith’s song “American Ride” was released in October of
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Michelle Cronin Professor Radford English 101 8 October 2012 Begging for an Escape “Joy Ride” is a short story written by Richard Russo. It features a boy‚ John Dern‚ and his mother‚ who both long for an escape from their lives at the time. This story follows the theme that one key aspect the human condition is the search for an escape. At some point in life‚ most humans wish to escape their past and present state of living. There may be many motivating factors behind this. However‚ most attempt
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Rides and rollercoasters Many theme park rides use the transfer of gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy and kinetic energy to gravitational potential energy. A rollercoaster A rollercoaster car converts GPE to KE when it rolls down the track As the pirate ship falls‚ GPE is transferred into KE. At the bottom of the swing it’s travelling at its highest speed. As it swings back up the other side it slows down as its KE is transferred back into GPE. Rollercoasters use these energy
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happened during the civil war. Some include Glory and Gettysburg. One such movie is Ride with the Devil. It is a movie about the American Civil War along the Kansas- Missouri border. It was released in November of 1999. This film was based on a historical novel by Daniel Woodrell‚ Woe to Live On‚ published in 1987. The elements in this film are accurate and could have happened during the American Civil War era. Ride with the Devil‚ staring Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich‚ is an action packed movie about
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boat. The wind is blowing against your face in the middle of the ocean or lake. But where you feel free the most on a boat is in the middle of the ocean. One time in Florida I went on a boat ride with my family to look at real estate stuff. It wasn’t fun at all‚ the most fun part of the trip was the little boat ride with my driving it. I could feel the choppiness of the waves hit against the boat. There was lots of wind blowing against my face I didn’t feel sweaty anymore‚ I felt cool. The most fun
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The thesis of “Endless Streetcar Ride into the Night and the Tinfoil Noose” by Jean Shepard is the fact that perception can make you a different person than you are in reality. Throughout the entire essay Jean perceives himself to be this handsome guy who is able to seduce any girl. He is set up on a date with a random girl by his friend Swartz. Once told this by his friend‚ he immediately assumes the girl is unattractive or as he says‚ “…have a blind date with some no doubt skinny‚ pimply girl for
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Interviewing Kenneth Athol was rather easy and straight to the point. His interview was well said although not thought out straight. He fascinated me the most out of everyone because now after college‚ he works at a restaurant. He earns a high salary as well which is rather good. He only earned his associate degree but already earns a higher salary than most who didn’t even go to college. Going to college takes a lot of commitment and patience and i feel i may be ready for that when i really want
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the GET bus. The cost to use the GET bus is not a significant factor because she gets a free GET bus monthly voucher from a program at the local career services center. I interviewed a 22 year old Hispanic male student‚ named Joey. He regularly rides the GET bus on Mondays‚ Wednesdays‚ and Fridays to go to Bakersfield College. He finds the GET bus transportation system convenient because any other means of transportation (taxi‚ or carpooling) would be more expensive for him. He says he is able
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Randi Mitchell 5/1/13 Ride Along Paper I went on my ride along on Tuesday‚ April 30 with the NM State Police. I rode along with senior patrolman Israel Rodriguez. I had a lot of fun and think I learned a lot about how law enforcement actually works. The officer showed that he is always thinking about the law and how he has to be very careful in what he does so that he doesn’t get god evidence suppressed in court because he makes a small mistake. He said that it’s hard enough to get evidence admitted
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