Polar Plunge Research Paper

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I remember each of them as if they were yesterday, the polar plunge Jack, Flynn, and I did barely a week after I made the list. Being the first week of March in the Midwest we froze our assess off. I immediately regretted showing Jack my list at that point. He saw polar plunge and immediately signed us up for the senior plunge. I swear, who ever thought jumping into a lake in freezing temperatures was absolutely positively insane, and the fact that we have kept this tradition for so many years makes the rest of us positively as insane as they were.
The funny part was that to make it fun and goofy we dressed up as Alvin and the chipmunks. Ok it wasn’t originally our idea to dress up, it was also part of the tradition to dress up or some something equally as funny. Most guys went in some form of drag and most girls wore anything that let them have on as much clothing as possible. After we made our jump we swore we would never in a million years, even in our lives depended on it would we ever and I mean ever do it again. To this day, we never have.
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Has no one come up with a better idea, or do we think that this is a good idea. Ok so it did seem like a good idea at the time, however after it seemed like it took us a month to thaw out, plus I ended up getting the flu and missing a few days of school. Half the senior class and me.
I did win a contest ironically, even though it was pretty silly I still count it as a win. That May the local radio station was giving tickets for a special viewing of Jurassic Park in June. It was a VIP pass that included four tickets, free pop corn, pop, a candy choice and a

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