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    Wakeboarding Strapped in floating helplessly in the water I wondered what is going to happen. The engine starts and I start to get nervous with jitters, the same question repeating in my mind what is going to happen.” It was my first time attempting to wakeboard. I had learned how to kneeboard years before and loved to tube but the wakeboard was different. It needed talent not something you could just do. The kneeboard had one strap that goes around my knee not restraining me in anyway. I can swim with the kneeboard because it is not attached to my body. Wakeboard on the other hand makes it arduous to swim or even float in the water. The board was bright red and yellow with a black strip going down the middle that read in fancy letters “Hydroslide.” The booties of the board were black that tightened by a push of a button that was secured by an ankle strap. I strapped myself into the board, secured my life vest and grabbed the light purple ski rope thinking to myself if I fall which way do I want to go; face plant or sprained ankles. I guess face plant would not be so horrible. I jumped off the side of our Glastron speed boat to figure out I could not do anything in a wakeboard expect float and attempt to tread water though that did not matter I was so excited about trying wakeboard I felt like I could fly. The breeze made me chilly and caused my burnet color hair to move in the wind. Once positioned into the water I was ready or so…

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    Four Winns Research Paper

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    Know About The Four Winns Boats Four Winns is known for making fabulous boats. They have been recognized for their expertise in the deck boat and circle categories. The deck and runabout boats are simply perfect for water skiing and wake up boarding because of their easy maneuverability and high engine performance. Four Winns has been given the Marine Industry Excellence in Client Satisfaction Awards for three separate years. Discussing find out why they are acquiring so much acclaim. The boat…

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    The Small Engine Mechanic

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    As motorized power equipment becomes more sophisticated, employers increasingly prefer to hire mechanics who have completed postsecondary education programs. Motorboat and outdoor power equipment mechanics typically begin work with a high school diploma and learn on the job, although some of them seek postsecondary education. High School or vocational school courses in small engine repair and automobile mechanics are often helpful or useful. Trainees work closely with experienced mechanics…

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    take the “Ladybug” out but since Gram’s brother was the head counselor he made an exception for us. Once we got out the with no problems it was not smooth sailing. Out of nowhere dark clouds started to roll in and waves started growing larger and larger. Soon water was coming into our boat and we started to panic, thinking we would die. The counselors on the motorboat came by to see how we where doing but it was not good. They decided to bring us on the boat and Grams brother would take our…

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    Abigail Taylor Essay

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    She drops the gun and get on a skateboard. 2.After she gets off the skateboard, she reaches the ocean. She pickes up the skateboard and takes it with her. There was a motorboat just sitting in the ocean where Abigail could get in and drive off. The motorboat accelerates uniformly from a velocity of 1.6m/s to the east. If its acceleration was 5.7m/s^2 to the west. Abigail traveled 3.48m during the acceleration. 3.She had a little time to get away It was a skateboard she had 3.5m/s and it was…

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    Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. The Nazis sent out paratroopers over the larger countries. Though the Dutch fought hard, after the bombing of the city of Rotterdam left 80,000 homeless, the Dutch surrendered to the Reich. Even with the strategic fortress of Eben-Emael the Belgians still could not fight off the Nazis. After the Nazis defeated the 630 soldiers defending the fort on the border of The Netherlands there was little to stop the fall of Brussels. The Netherlands surrendered after…

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    Whale Ride Analysis

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    Whale Ride is a significant movie because through Paikea fixing Koro’s motor, winning the speech contest, and helping the beached whale to escape, it helps to show that the old, traditional way of things is not necessarily the right way of things. When Paikea and Koro are on the beach trying to fix the motor of their motorboat, we see Koro try to use a stick to jump start it with a rope. The rope breaks. But then when Paikea tries to start the motor, she takes the broken rope, tries it back…

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    “... I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the sound, drawing aquaplanes over contracts of foam” Fitzgerald Chapter 3. Fitzgerald uses vivid imagery to describe in detail the views of people diving into the water, or party goers driving Gatsby’s motor boats and how they “slit the waters of sound.” “On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against…

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    middle of the book, Kien tells about the time his mother left to Saigon to retrieve goods and was gone for many. During the time she was gone, Kien had to take care of both his younger siblings all by himself, and when they had ran out of food Kien had no choice but to ask his aunt. “Auntie I want to borrow some money, my mother is missing and we have run out of food” (158). To be able to face the people that dislike you the most and knowing that they would rather not help you is one way to see…

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    France’s Commander of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), General Viscount Gort, knew this and thus ordered an evacuation on May 23, 1940. Boats came to the rescue on the 26th through June 4th, and hundreds of thousands were saved and brought to the port of Dunkirk, which was closeby. This occurrence turned out to be noteworthy in the progression of World War II. One reason that the evacuation to Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo, stood-out amongst other events was because of the mass…

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