Letter of Recommendation—Roller Coaster
Roller Coaster was my biggest nightmare when I was young. Unlike other kids, I begged for not going to those amusement parks and my parents were surprised. I was afraid of sitting in an accelerating car at that time, so roller coaster wasn’t even an acceptable concept for me. I couldn’t imagine myself getting tortured by that flying machine, and I couldn’t understand why so many people waited in a queue measured in hours for it. My mother used to incite me to “be like a normal kid” by suggesting how enjoyable and somehow relaxing the experience is up there. Yeah, it must be really enjoyable that I could hear people screaming before entering the park! So what is a roller coaster? I personally have different ideas in different times. At first I got frightened by the …show more content…
And it turns out that the idea of roller coaster was originated in late 17th century, by someone untraceable. The world’s first roller coaster known shouldn’t be called a roller coaster by today’s definition because it just consists of a 70ft wooden slide covered with ice and the sleds which people sit on. It was as simple as that, but the speed could reach up to 50 MPH. Due to lack of safety equipment, there had been lots of accidents happening at first, which only made it more popular. Then 13 years late, other versions of roller coaster popped up in Europe, in which the most famous one was called “the Russian Mountains”. This time, the two parallel tracks could let two people ride at the same time; the sleds’ wheels were locked on an extra rail to make sure the safety. In addition, the idea of loops was introduced. The cars would go down through an 100 foot slope before entering a 13 foot loop; however, the loop was soon abandoned by the first builder because the huge gravity force made riders really
Roller Coaster was my biggest nightmare when I was young. Unlike other kids, I begged for not going to those amusement parks and my parents were surprised. I was afraid of sitting in an accelerating car at that time, so roller coaster wasn’t even an acceptable concept for me. I couldn’t imagine myself getting tortured by that flying machine, and I couldn’t understand why so many people waited in a queue measured in hours for it. My mother used to incite me to “be like a normal kid” by suggesting how enjoyable and somehow relaxing the experience is up there. Yeah, it must be really enjoyable that I could hear people screaming before entering the park! So what is a roller coaster? I personally have different ideas in different times. At first I got frightened by the …show more content…
And it turns out that the idea of roller coaster was originated in late 17th century, by someone untraceable. The world’s first roller coaster known shouldn’t be called a roller coaster by today’s definition because it just consists of a 70ft wooden slide covered with ice and the sleds which people sit on. It was as simple as that, but the speed could reach up to 50 MPH. Due to lack of safety equipment, there had been lots of accidents happening at first, which only made it more popular. Then 13 years late, other versions of roller coaster popped up in Europe, in which the most famous one was called “the Russian Mountains”. This time, the two parallel tracks could let two people ride at the same time; the sleds’ wheels were locked on an extra rail to make sure the safety. In addition, the idea of loops was introduced. The cars would go down through an 100 foot slope before entering a 13 foot loop; however, the loop was soon abandoned by the first builder because the huge gravity force made riders really