Belle Isle Park

When life becomes too much or I just want to have fun and relax my number one place to go is the ball fields. The field is where I go, because it is where my heart belongs. The ball field’s best feature is its green inner diamond shape, with grainy, brown dirt surrounding it, and the always freshly cut, stripped green grass making up the outfield. You’ll be able to smell the fresh cut grass and the cool breeze constantly flowing by to keep you calm and relaxed while you’re playing. When you…

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment is about a ‘Flock’ of six kids running for their lives. The group is continually fighting their way through life. They have no idea who their parents are, what state or city they are from, or why they were even experimented on. The group of kids is hidden in a remote mountain home. Maximum Ride is the main character in this story she is fourteen years old and the oldest out of the flock. She is the ’mother’ of the group because she is looked up to. All the…

William Cullen Bryant wrote thanatopsis in 1811, the events within this time period severely impacted the writing of this poem because at the time there was a lot of very violent deaths going on throughout america. Around the time that thanatopsis was written there was an uprising of slaves who broke free from their owners and ran to freedom., about 400 ran but 66 were captured, killed and their heads mounted on stakes along the streets of the town to warn other slaves of their place. The…

Halloween is approaching and is the time of year when theme parks compete against each other for visitors by preparing their most famous attractions and scarifying them. Each theme park has a different theme to their attractions. They want to attract visitors to come for the holidays. Six Flags’ Fright Fest is filled eye-catching attractions. Visitors are able to experience their thriller rides with the lights off! Along with frightening other events like Territory Twisted, Demos Door, Tatsu in…

Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman were two strong individuals who changed history for people fighting against slavery and segregation. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery and was sold as property but when she came of age she escaped but after she did she started thinking about how she’s now free and she wanted that for her family and other slaves, so she felt a duty to go back every time she went back she escaped with slaves who wanted to be free. Rosa parks was born in the time period of…

Coney Island, now often unnoticed by the public, was not only created for amusement but to make a major social change that had recently occurred easier. The famous amusement parks heyday coincided with a critical period in American History, when the nation came of age as an urban-industrial society. This new age came with major cultural, economic, and social changes that its citizens were having a hard time adjusting. Genteel reformers decided to attempt to control the growing population to…

On December 1, 1955, I was 27 years old. I rode the Cleveland Avenue bus home everyday after working at my job at Joe’s Motors. On this particular day though, a woman by the name of Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. I could understand where she was coming from, myself also being black. I was sitting next to her by the window and one white man was left standing up. The bus driver comes back to the row of seats I was sitting and tells us, “Let me have those front seats.” I looked…

Over the previous years, roller coasters have being one of my captivated enjoyment. It dates back all the way to 2014, when I was only an inexperienced 10 years old, that I began to develop strong enthusiasm for roller coasters. That summer, my dad and I paid a visit to Chimelong Paradise, GuangZhou, China, which is home to the most remarkable drop roller coasters throughout the entire southern China, the Drive Coaster. This roller coaster features a 90°, 197 foot vertical drop that exits into…

Statement of Facts Nick Spears, an attorney at Tapken & Tapken, was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated at the gated golf-community while at a party for one of the partners of the firm, Joyce Tapken. On September 21, 2014, Spears attended Joyce Tapken’s dinner party at her home located in the gated golf community called Havila Estates. Havila Estates is home to 200 single family residences. The area is surrounded by a fence and contains only one entrance into the community. A security guard…

Scared of a Roller Coaster Have you ever done something you’d think you would never do? It all started when I was going to the grand theme park Great America. When I was on the road all I can think about was the rollercoasters. How high were they? How many loops did that rollercoaster have? I was with my friends Randy, Gage, Roby, and Jove. Everybody was pumped to ride all the roller coasters and I was playing along, but inside I was terrified. When we arrived at Great America we got in line and…