Scott Rosenmerkel is a 46-year-old man from Sioux City, IA. He currently resides in Sinking Spring, PA with his wife Antonette Rosenmerkel and three children. Scott’s father, Jim Rosenmerkel, had a job that forced him and his family to move a lot when Scott was younger. Scott moved 7 times as while he still lived with his parents. When asked about his first few moves, he told me, “I don’t recall those moves as much because I was so young, about 7-12 years old.” These moves didn’t have as much
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CHAPTER EIGHT Centaur Mind Readers I discovered that there was an assortment of paths that led up and into the mountain. Some were dead ends and others were misleading routes that continue on into nothingness. Several were riddled with wicked ogres who had long ago declared their loyalty to Gordok and now were under his control. But Aragon was clever and knew the mountain trails and led me to the right path. And we carefully stomped side-by-side up the steep twisted path and around the sharp windy
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy is about a man and his son walking the roads of America in post-apocalyptic times. The man and this son are faced with many issues. One of the main issues is that it is them two versus the evil of the world that remains. People eating people, death everywhere, and plenty of evil people to look out for. His main goal is to look out and care for his son. Throughout the book you can gather one main point from the events and character development. Even when America is burnt
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Walking the halls of my school can be uncomfortable for me sometimes. I always see all the people that I used to talk or even hung out with. As I was making my way to my navy blue locker, I felt a pair of cold hands cover my eyes. “Guess who,” someone saying in a raspy voice “Hmm, let me guess my overprotective, drunk brother,” replying back with a bit of a giggle to my voice “Nope not even close June-Bug,” someone said back with a hint of a voice crack in there Thinking to myself I knew right at
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rates would go down due to people not having to worry about disobeying the law. Roads would be smoother, for reason that cars traveling at higher rates of speed require safer and smoother surfaces for safer travel. And with safer travel we will have faster travel In the article, “Raise the Speed Limit” the author speaks about a certain highway in Texas that has the highest marked speed limit in the entire country. The road is marked at 85 miles per hour, which saves a total of nine minutes in between
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According to the Federal Highway Administration,Nearly 70 percent of the U.S. population lives in regions of annual snowfall.As a result, over 1,300 people are killed and more than 116,800 people are injured in vehicle crashes on icy roads covered in snow,sleet,or hail every year.7 To alleviate the risk factors, City officials use Sodium chloride,rock salt, to assist in the melting process of ice to reassure safe environmental driving conditions. Is Sodium Chloride(NaCl) the best? Recent studies
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[5]Crash! I fell out of my bed. It was the first day of school after a long enjoyable summer, I dragged my cold lifeless body across the room to my dresser. I reached my hand into the dresser and grabbed a new pair of clothes, I picked up my backpack and carried it down the stairs. My mom handed me my lunch boxs and said “have a terrific day at school sweaty” I gave her a half nod and went outside to wait for the buss. The houl town smelled like depression but I think I was the most discourage because
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I close my eyes. The noise around me continues. I hear the cars blasting through a yellow light in a flash to get to their destination, at a market place trying to talk over other peoples voice, people walking through me looking ahead as I try to figure around. The lights coming from different direction is so strong that the tree is hardly been seen but I can hear the leaves brushing against each other. In the last 5 seconds I paused about 15 people passed by me on a steady pace, annoyed at the
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I hear someone behind me as I walk home from cheerleading practice. Oh man, it’s so late. It’s fine, it’s fine, I’m just being paranoid. I'm I being paranoid if I turn around and acknowledge I’m scared that those footsteps might belong to a mugger? I suppose it’s fine if he’s white, because if I turn around and he’s black. I’ll sneak a quick peek. Oh God. It’s a black guy. Ever since my old school integrated with black students from a nearby school, there have been black people walking around everywhere
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It is the end of August. A light breeze is blowing in South Dakota; it is sunny and there is not a cloud to be seen. It is the perfect day to go to The Corn Palace. Some people might wonder how was this built or how did this idea even cross one's mind. The city of Mitchell, South Dakota has really been thinking because the Corn Palace in is one the most visited places in the western United States. What is the Corn Palace? It is a building that they made out of corn in Mitchell, South Dakota. The
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