It all happened when I looked at my dad. I was riding my four wheeler when my dad called my name he said “to go to the garage, and park the four wheeler” I told him I’ll park the four wheeler after one more lap. That was when I was too late to swerve out of the way and I hit my friend’s four wheeler. My friend wasn’t hurt, but I had a broken arm and a gash on my leg, so I had to have the gash stitched up, and a cast on my arm, but I saved my baby cousin from being hurt, that's how I got the broken
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A River Runs through It, by Norman Maclean, is the coming-of-age story of the author and his brother, Paul. Sons of a Scottish Presbyterian minister and his wife, the two boys grow up in a small town in western Montana at the turn of the last century. Born in 1902, Maclean wrote this story as part memoir, partly for his brother and a beautiful way of life in Montana, both of which are now lost. Written when Maclean was in his seventies, the novel attempts to immortalize a time, place, and people
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One experience that developed my character was hiking, and getting lost in one of the most rigorous mountain ranges in the country. In August of 2016, I had the opportunity to spend a month with my family friend Cheryl in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Cheryl is the toughest woman I have ever met, which is evident through her avid hunting, fishing, and any other action sport you can think of. As a kid whose greatest hike had been up his street prior to the trip, I felt a bit overwhelmed when she informed
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In terms of model selection, the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) was utilized to select between candidate models. In addition, the best model is the one which has the lowest AIC value. For this analysis, we considered the case that HOV lanes were degraded by the Federal standard for HOV degradation with 45 miles per hour threshold to see if there are some chances that the HOV still give benefit compare to regular lanes. Thus, the speed difference between the HOV lanes and interested regular lanes
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Some decisions are hard to make and to sign something that may bring good or bad is a tough decision, but should be signed for the greater good. This novel Lyddie by Katherine Paterson is about a farmgirl in Vermont named Lyddie who travels to Lowell to become a factory girl to earn money and pay off debts. After awhile of working in the factory Lyddie is given the option to sign a petition for better working conditions and has a tough time deciding whether if she should sign or not. While some people
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Billy and Ryan handled most of the deserted vehicles, popping them into neutral and getting the wheels straight so that Johnny could give them a shove out-of-the-way with the Black Beast’s massive bumper. Upon approaching a Mercury Sable that needed to be moved, Ryan noticed that its occupant also needed to be dispatched. A woman in her early twenties sat in its driver’s seat, held in place by the seatbelt. She struggled mightily to free herself of the restraints wanting to grant Ryan her
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Staring down two opposing tunnels, one of which strongly contradicted my upbringing, I am overwhelmed with an offensive odor I have not smelt before. Akin to a wrestling match taking place inside me, morals and direction are being pressed against the rubber, red ropes, in a tag-team match with curiosity and social-pressure. My parents and teachers disappear behind smoke at midnight. I had been in this place before. ‘The Lot’, my peers and I had affectionately declared it; this neighborhood shared
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driving, took a turn on to Murdle road. It was right at 1 am, and Arlo seemed a bit weary. Wesley asked him what was wrong. He was scared, with good reason. Arlo was a nervous person, so Wesley thought nothing of it and continued down the road. Murdle road was just a little country back-road that connected Macon and Fisherville. It doesn't see the amount of travel it did before Highway 192 was built connecting the two towns with a much faster and straighter path. Murdle road had a few residents most of
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Survival Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do fake names generate character of the man and the boy. In Cormac McCarthy the Road, the man and his son face infinite amount of obstacles throughout the novel in order to keep themselves alive. While reading the road, McCarthy wanted the figures in this book to be universal, so that the reader could imagine him or herself as the boy or man. Doing so allowed reader to have different perspective of being one of
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The setting starts sometime in the winter of 2006. It was around six o’clock and I (Miss Kayli Abel) had just gotten off of one of my after school classes and was riding the bus home. It was traditional for the kids on my bus to talk and play around so I usually did the same (-ish), except I normally would have just talked and doodled but this (er, that day) was different. This day I had decided to talk to others and jump seat to seat as I pretended to do things that regular, wacky kids in southern
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