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Do like speedy, exciting roller coasters? How about adventures and thrills? If so, come undergo our newest roller coaster, The Temple. The story of the temple is that there is an ancient, abandoned temple found in Mexico, a group of tourists goes out to tour the jungle. When they take a wrong turn, their tour heads for the worse. The Temple is a ride of adventure and thrills on a rapid roller coaster accelerating through the jungle, with spectacular twists, shocking turns, stunning scenery, and…

I have never really liked roller coasters. Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that life is very much like one. My first big scary time I rode a roller coaster, I was thirteen years old and I was anxiously excited. I lacked the precaution to give my phone to my grandma before boarding which was a silly mistake, especially considering the giant roller coaster in question is called “The Canyon Blaster,” a monstrous structure, as the name indicates, it loops up, down and upside-down and…

The origin of the roller coaster comes from Russia, in a particular area of what would later become St. Petersburg , where they sent sledders down 70-foot high slopes that were wood-framed ice slides. They have been doing this as early as the 16th century. The roller coasters were built out of wood with ice more than two but not a lot of inches thick covering the surface. There were stairs attached to the back of the slide that the riders climbed and then they sped down the fifty degree drop…

How many people die on a roller coaster each year? 50? 100? 200? Shockingly, only fifty-two deaths occurred between 1990 and 2004 (Inquisitr). Amusement parks are actually safer than we think. The chance of an injury or death at an amusement park is extremely low. In fact, according to the International Association of Amusement Park Attractions, only one in every 250 million riders experience a death caused by a ride at an amusement park. The International Association of Amusement Park…

Hyper coasters are taller than 200 feet on their first lift hill. The first ever hyper coaster was introduced at Cedar Point in Ohio as the Magnum XL-200 in 1989. It reaches up to seventy-two miles per hour. Another addition to the roller coaster world is the the inverted coaster. The inverted coaster allows riders to sit in a hanging position under the track. The…

On Thursday September 22, the entire class met at 9:30am in front of the windmill. There we were told the route through the Cedar Dell Pond we were heading in and shown naturally occurring jagged rocks from Professor Broadrose. While still standing by the windmill we were told to look over the pond area and imagine there were no trees, this would be a Tundra. This is what existed 9-11 thousand years BCE. The day was hot, at this time there were no clouds in the sky. To begin we did a survey…

When comes to the prejudice, “Snow Falling on Cedars” tells how the character evidence and the community and jury’s attitude toward a Japanese are misled by racial stereotype in the legal system. First off, Minamoto’s character evidence is misled by the racial discrimination. In the 1950s, prejudice retains a strong hold over the people of San Piedro Island. After World War II, the situation for the Japanese in America becomes worse. Many Americans are racist and display hatred toward the…

During my high school career, I have been volunteering my time at Cedar Mountain Fire Rescue as a junior firefighter. As a fourteen-year old junior, I could not take classes, participate in all of the firefighting activities, and had more restrictions than a regular firefighter. So for my first year of involvement with the department I was not very active, I only attended trainings on Thursdays and occasionally helped with extra fire department lead events. During those trainings though, I…

Gilgamesh a hero? According to Joseph Campbell, “[a hero] must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable,” as said in his classic book, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. As explained by Campbell, a hero usually begins with an adventure due to someone or something that has been taken from them, or feels that there is something missing in their normal life. Then that person takes off and goes on a journey full of adventures that are beyond the…

Psychological triggers and their role in self-discovery as examined in The Epic of Gilgamesh Epics are most often characterized by a flawed hero’s journey or quest to fulfill a fleshly desire, but instead, fulfills the hero’s need for wisdom. Likewise, The Epic of Gilgamesh can be characterized by Gilgamesh’s self-realization of humanity and mortality, discovered by both Gilgamesh and the reader through his quests for fame and immortality. He embarks on two separate journeys. The first journey,…