Judi Lin is 19 year old former street racer. She used to tear up the streets of her hometown until she got torn up herself. "I ’ve been through six cars in the past five years‚" Lin admitted. "Two out of the six were (demolished) in street-racing accidents. Both of them were a total loss. The first one‚ I was street racing a Mustang on a rainy day and I broke my collarbone. On the second one‚ I was at the illegal street races and wasn ’t wearing my seatbelt. My forehead hit the (windshield)‚ and
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Response to Literary Text Grade 11 / Of Mice and Men 500 words Please include your name‚ grade‚ school name‚ and a title. 25 points total Prompt: Several of the characters in Of Mice and Men display physical and mental impairments. Identify and describe these characters. How do these impairments influence or reflect these characters’ roles in the novel? For example‚ Crooks and Candy are hunch-backed and lame‚ Curley’s hand is crushed‚ etc. Prewriting: (worth 5 points of your essay grade):
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energy. The maximum kinetic energy is at B. This is because as the cars lose height‚ they speed up (v=d/t). Therefore‚ most of their original potential energy (due to the height) is transformed into kinetic energy (due to the velocity) while some of the energy is turned into heat energy due to friction. Because the rollercoaster has just begun‚ the coaster has not yet lost a lot of energy due to friction and therefore most of
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me a ride to cheerleading practice. I was only fifteen and did not have a car‚ or even a driver’s license. When she arrived at my house in town‚ I climbed into her 1991 Chevrolet Monte Carlo‚ and we were on our way. On our way back home from practice‚ we decided we did not want to return home just yet‚ so we headed out of town. Chelsea turned on to an S-curve gravel road‚ and I told her to stop the vehicle to switch me places so I could drive. I wanted to show her how I could drift the car through
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Misérables‚ Jean Valjean is a self-made man who also values the principles of philanthropy because he understands the struggles of living on the streets. Victor Hugo portrays the importance of philanthropists in Les Misérables‚ such as Jean
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Denotation and Connotation A primary distinction between practical use of language and the literary use is that in literature‚ especially in poetry‚ a fuller use is made of individual words. To understand this‚ we need to examine the composition of a word. The average word has three component parts: sound‚ denotation‚ and connotation. It begins as a combination of tones and noises‚ uttered by the lips‚ tongue and throat‚ for which the written word is a notation. But it differs from a musical tone
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’ Case 10-2) 1 The Smart Car In 1991‚ Nicolas Hayek‚ chairman of Swatch‚ announced an agreement with Volkswagen to develop a battery-powered "Swatch car." At the time‚ Hayek said his goal was to build "an ecologically inoffensive‚ highquality city car for two people" that would sell for about $6‚400. The Swatchmobile concept was based on Hayek’s conviction that consumers become emotionally attached to cars just as they do to watches. Like the Swatch‚ the Swatchmobile (officially named
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I planned a quiet ride with just my horse‚ dog and I. It was expected it to be a normal ride until things went south. The plan was an evening ride with no other person just me and some animals. It was still light but the sun was setting so I should not have gone but did anyway. I went riding down country roads not expecting people to be there‚ but I was wrong. The ride was to escape family‚ I was really excited‚ but things did not end well I had planned to go on a short ride just the dog and I before
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The shepherd in Christopher Marlowe’s "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and the nymph in "The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh‚ have very differing ideas of love. Though both speakers have taken different paths down the journey of love‚ they both are very exaggerated. I like the Raleigh’s poem‚ due to the fact that she wants more then just beautiful things. The shepherd uses the beauty of nature to describe his love for the nymph‚ while the nymph uses nature’s impermanence
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What are cars? What are motor cycles? Briefly‚ how do they contrast? How do they compare? What are their prices at the surface level? Thesis Statement: This essay seeks the comparison of cars and motorcycles. II. DEVELOPMENT Comparison a) Both cars and motorcycles are vehicles for transporting one or more persons. b) Both cars and motorcycles need fuel. Fuel serves a vital art in both cases as it supplies the energy required are the engines to work properly. c) Both cars and motorcycle
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