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Chris Hurst Professor Hayman Composition 1 12 Dec. 2015 How often do you see someone attempting a “kick flip,” a “pop-shuvit” or “grinding a longboard”? People often ask what the difference is between skateboarding and longboarding. Aren’t they the same? Isn’t one just a longer board that can’t do tricks? Skate- and longboards serve different purposes and those purposes affect the differences in designs. Skateboarding was very big in California and in Hawaii and started in the 1940s. At first…

9c 48.2f 282.15k Ice water 5 mins 3c 34.4f 276.15k Table 3. Mass Measurements Object Estimated Mass (g) Actual Mass (g) Actual Mass (kg) Pen/pencil 3g 4g .004kg 3 pennies 7.5g 8g .008kg 1 Quarter 8 7G .007kg 2 quarters, 3 dimes 20 21G .021kg 3 quarters 1 dime,5 pennies 25 32g .32kg key 6 7g .007kg Key,1 quarter,4 pennies 20 25g .025kg Exercise 2. Data Table…

popular choice, as they could buy six for only a penny (Milner 24). The people you watched the show with could change the experience- they added their own jokes and talked to the actors. They hissed at villains and laughed loudly at the right moments (Olsen 623). Comedies were loud and bubbly, while tragedies were quiet and solemn (624). Seats were optional, as the cheapest tickets were for the back where “groundlings” stood. Those tickets only cost a penny, so even the…

“The night draws down. The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket, it’s wool. It was my mother’s blanket―take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning―from ‘I’ to ‘we’” (152). This statement used by Steinbeck marks the transition from “I” to “we” in the novel, where people stop thinking about just themselves and start thinking about others in the exact same situation as them. They begin to learn that they’re not the only ones struggling to find jobs, earn money, and…

oher through school and with their support, he got through college at Ole Miss. He was a 16 year old when he was living in the Tuohys He was an all pro high school football player, and was All American in college. Imagine coming from having just pennies and only a few outfits to going through college and being an All-American football player. This is Just one of the many things that show how Oher persevered through his life. When Oher was 3 years in at Ole Miss after being first team…

Often times after a piece of literature is written, it gets turned into a movie. The epic poem, The Odyssey, written by Homer, was transformed into a modern movie called O Brother, Where Art Thou? In the greek poem, a king named Odysseus is on a quest back home, from the Trojan War, to be with his wife, Penelope. On his journey, he encounters heaps of surreal situations, in which he manages to get himself and his crew out of. After ten years of sailing, he finally finds himself in his homeland…

For years, society had been governed by sets of rules, which states what people can and cannot do. Even though apes are our closest evolutionary ancestors, they still do not have any rights that could help protect them. Countries, such as Spain, the U.K., Sweden, Austria, Belgium, and The Netherlands, have given some rights to gorillas. These rights are used to protect these primates from experimentation, torture, and medical testing. Sadly one of the countries that does not have rights for apes…

“The Magicians” is a book on an advanced student, Quentin, going into college. He was on his way to get interviewed for Princeton, but when he got there, the interviewer had died. On his way home, he felt drawn to a narrow orchard, which lead to a school. He went in, took a test, and had past. He got accepted into a school of sorcery, Brakebills. For all of Quentin’s life, he loved the book series, Fillory, about magic, and he always thought it was real. After graduating Brakebills, he found a…

Maricela had a hard life because she was a pregnant 16 year old girl. She didn’t want the baby but her parents did Marcela wanted a miscarriage. Another character, Penny, helped Marcela by getting her to go to the garden everyday, Penny wanted her to go because growing plants is like raising a baby and she hoped that Marcela would understand that and she did. Marcela liked the people and she wanted the baby because the plants made her happy, “I stared…

How could you not want your children to have money or stability first? The fact is, I do want my children to have money and stability, but I also want them to be good people and earn it. I want them to work hard for every penny they have so they appreciate every penny they have. I whole heartedly believe in the old saying "hard work pays off". I have never met a hard working person that wasn 't [3] completely satisfied with their lives. By hard work, I am referring to hard work in every aspect…