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    others they were no more than ten to fifteen feet high. I was terrified. My dad, being the adrenaline junkie that he is, sprinted and leaped right off the cliffs into the murky water below. My sister followed; then my brother. My mother; however, showed no interest in jumping down like the rest of them, and instead sat towards the base of the cliff and watched. Before I knew it, it was my turn. I could hear the screams of joy coming from my siblings below me. I was standing in the middle of the…

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    Having left the waterfall we stopped at a shallow area of the river with a cliff great for jumping off of nearby. In about five steps from the gravel covered shallow end, I stepped onto a trail. My family sat patiently in their kayaks, waiting for me to make my ascend up to the top of the cliff, to then make my descent back down to the water. Unknowing the depth of the water below, I cautiously watched the few jump before me. My…

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    by J.D. Salinger is about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield who got kicked out of 4 different schools and now in New York to let his parents cool off from him getting recently kicked out of school. He is struggling in life by, “ falling down a cliff,” making decisions, and not getting support till he really needs it and when there is little time left. Holden wants to be the catcher in the rye because he values childhood, children never growing up, and family accidents. First, Holden wants…

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    The lower part of the ‘hourglass’ is the very clear and would basically have nothing else there. In the other hand, the upper part has a man, trying to cross between the rocks and with a rock barely hanging between the cliffs bellow him. This suggests that the man was struggling to not fall down, and fall onto the rock and then probably his death. This disturbance in the pattern can also be suggested that the man will fall down because the ‘sand’ is pulling him down and…

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    “Thousands of little kids, and nobody around- nobody big, I mean- except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they are going…. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all” (191). When Holden thinks this he is saying that the children are…

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    their daily work. It was unusual for a runner to come out in the middle of the day. Also, he acted like he was running for his life, almost like he find something peculiar. Cliff hangers are important to a story because they give the book more depth for the readers. I mostly like stories for their action and adventure and their cliff hangers. They keep me on the edge of my seat, and that’s when I can’t stop reading. It keeps me going until the very end. The book was so action based, that it…

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    waterfall and some cliffs around it.We…

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    During the time of the French and Indian war, this movie shows the main character, Hawkeye, a Mohican, who saves two daughters of the British commander, Colonel Munro. He does this when the British commander and his army are ambushed by a bunch of Indians that are on the French’s side. Hawkeye saves Munro’s two daughters and flees the danger of the attack with them. They run back to the British fort, and there Hawkeye is thrown in jail. Once the British march back out with Hawkeye as a…

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    “The Rattlesnake” will thrill the whole family throughout the entire ride as it includes sharp turns, heartline rolls, a corkscrew, and even a loop! The ride includes a tire propelled launch, which replaces the aged, repetitious chain lift with an exhilarating blast of speed! As the cart races through the jungle trying to escape from the rattlesnake himself everybody will experience the highest instantaneous speed right off the bat as the cart accelerates out of the log cabin. While the…

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    over the horizon as the Colorado sun began to set and wondered if his feeling of helplessness and lost hope would ever seize to exist. It was December 7th, 1997, “it has only been 7 months” he thought out loud to himself. Kobe sat on the ledge of the cliff, missing his father more and more each day, he missed his laugh and the way he smiled at his son every time Kobe scored in a basketball game, he missed fishing with his father, and watching football on Sunday afternoons, but most of all he…

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