Car Crash While Hitchhiking In the story “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” by Denis Johnson wrote the story talking about a man who is a drug addict who soon recovers from the addiction after a car crash. The drug addict is also the narrator in the story and claims to be able to see the future‚ the story jumps from time to time talking about different days. When reading the story I found 2 themes in the story; death and love. The main characters in the story were the drug addict and the married man
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My Vacation Paradise My favorite place to go on vacation is Myrtle Beach. As soon as summer arrives I load up my car and begin my trip to the lovely east coast. I enjoy my time spent there with friends and family. It is such a wonderful place. If I could I would drive to Myrtle Beach every weekend just to enjoy myself. I am always anxious on the ride there. I pack my car packed tight with luggage’s‚ snacks‚ and of course friends. Before heading out on the long stretched I 20‚ we stop
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now self driving cars. Driverless cars should be on roads because they prevent car accidents‚ are self-evident and efficient. “Google has a fleet of driverless cars since 2009‚ and they’ve been driven over a half of a million miles without a crash” according to Jamie Page Deaton and Kristen Hall-Geisler in the article ‘Cars of tomorrow-still not fling.’ Humans get into an accident every a half a million miles‚ this shows that driverless cars are a safer alternative. These cars had a 3D model brain
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Descriptive Essay Hogwarts The most distinct setting of Harry Potter is Hogwarts. Hogwarts is a wondrous‚ magical building with many towers and turrets. It is home to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I find Hogwarts location‚ its castle‚ the grounds‚ and Quiddich fascinating. Hogwarts is built in a forested area said to be in Scotland. The castle is located atop a cliff overlooking a lake. The lake is south of the castle and the front entrance of the castle faces toward the
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get there if you didn’t have a car. First it would be the little green Volkswagen Beetle cab to the Metra train station. But we wouldn’t get on a train; instead we would take one of those 70’s-looking vans out of the city. After that long trip in a cramped van‚ we had to take a windowless green bus to some small‚ busy town in God knows where‚ and then finally finish off the trip with yet another little green cab. But it wasn’t over yet. The cab ride was about an hour‚ give or take. Under normal
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The staff ride was literally an educational tool for me. Unlike the classroom instruction‚ the staff ride put me on a actual piece of terrain‚ were I was able to have a visual of the past operational situation; as an effective stimuli. I was not very familiar with the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and its consequences prior to the trip‚ therefore visiting the military national park gave me the opportunity to reflect on the past. The trip met its purpose of providing me with professional development
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Stacie Golebiewski Title: Along For The Ride Author: Sarah Dessen Setting: A small beach town of Colby‚ North Carolina Characters: Auden West is the protagonist in the story. She was a quiet girl who didn’t know that she didn’t have the life a normal teenager should have until she met Eli Eli Stock starts out as a secretive outsider because his best friend Abe died in a car accident when a man ran a red light. He kept his feelings all to himself until he met Auden. Eli and Auden taught each
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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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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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4th period 12-13-2012 Police ride-along I did a Police ride-along with Sergeant Kota. Sergeant Kota was a very exciting and outgoing person. I could not have picked a better place to go for my community service. I made my way to the small Peoria Police station at 1 pm. I walked into the station‚ and Kota met me inside. We entered his police car and hit the streets. The first thing that we did was pull over speeders. Anybody who went over
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