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    In the article “Do What You Love”, the author Tony Hawk claims that we should listen to our inner desires and has faith in it, even when it is not accepted bases on what is called normal by numerous people. To begin with, Tony says that he is an avid skateboarder for 24 years and people loath that job in personal levels followed by lots of unaccepted names which were set. He mentions that his job often conceives as a childish, time-consuming, critical and lawless job. He states that, by the time he was 17, after mastering skateboard, his teacher told him that he will fail in workplace and he will never earn money as a skateboarder. The writer asserts that during those terrible years, he always tries to improve his skill and he also admits that…

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    Skateboarding Rolling down a hill, vision blurred so that I saw only streaks of blue sky before I saw the brown leaves on the ground. Pain shoots through every part of me that hit the hillside covered in sharp, pointed sticks, and large, uneven rocks. Finally, the rolling stops my face planted in the dirt, as I pushed myself upward, my family was already at the top of the hill screaming at me “ARE YOU ALRIGHT, HE DEFINITELY BROKE SOMETHING.” There voices sounded like I was underwater. Only one…

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    up every few years. Skateparks.org have the same thought process when it comes to skate parks needing no maintenance for years: “When a skate park is built correctly it will require virtually NO structural maintenance for years.” Once a skate park is built, it provides a perfect facility for all types of people to learn how to skate or even just hang out. My third paragraph is about how professional skateboarders should put money back into the industry where they got it from, to help provide…

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    Tony Hawk Research Paper

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    Tony Hawk is an extremely talented skateboarder that changed the world forever by teaching and spreading positive values such as responsibility, individuality and creativity through skateboarding to all people of all generations. Tony Hawk first found skateboarding as a platform for expression and he used it as such. Hawk spent most of his time in the skatepark creating new and crazy tricks such as the kickflip McTwist and the frontside 540. Hawk’s new tricks quickly spread throughout the sport…

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    Skateboard Research Paper

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    kickflips, and of course the boardercross event which was a grueling two laps both up and down hill. Congratulations to all of the contestants who entered because win or lose you made this contest HAPPEN. Thank You to Marc, Russ, Lenny, NCDSA, and all of the skaters who showed up and the families who support them. Without you we are on our own. Positive Vibes and Good Times sum up take on this one. Can't wait to do it again. When Tony Hawk's Pro skater series first released in 1999, it was…

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    has become indifferent. His brothers footsteps are no longer ones he wishes to follow in. As terrible as this event was It forced him to mature and understand that the life he chooses will be one unlike any of his family members. However, what really changed Antonio for good was not the moment he viewed his brother as unfaithful, but the moment that Ultima breathed her last words. When Ultima died she spoke her last words to Antonio, but unlike the other last words he had heard hers were not a…

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    Bringing Up Baby Themes

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    As we move through our lives, experiences can cause our perception of our lives to change. Sometimes exposure to a different lifestyle can reveal that the life we were living was missing something. In Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (1938), the carefree Susan (Katharine Hepburn), tears David (Cary Grant) away from his mundane life of working on a brontosaurus reconstruction, and takes him on a wild adventure across the countryside. David’s glimpse into Susan’s chaotic lifestyle helps him to…

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    People have known that people who are rich can do whatever they want. All that money they have, they can spend as much as they want with no complaint. Especially that power they have which makes it easier for them to enjoy life. While the poor have no power so they can’t do whatever they mostly want. They also can’t spend a lot since they don’t earn as much as a rich person. We don’t have much of a choice to obey so we can earn money. But the rich abuse their power and use the poor people like…

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    Power In Silver Sparrow

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    Secrecy and Power Hidden in the Silver Sparrow. Silver Sparrow is a novel based on lies, secrecy, and bigamy. Intertwined in this is the legitimate family to the character James Witherspoon, his wife Laverne and daughter Chaurisse. On the other hand is his illegal wife Gwendolyn and illegitimate daughter Dana. These individuals are all intertwined within each other’s life, some of them know about the others and some are simply unknown. There is a certain power that lies within individuals who…

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    Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe also wrote the musical's book together. The musical opened in London's West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988. It won the 1986 Olivier Award and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role) won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. It is the longest running show in Broadway history by a wide margin, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11 February 2012, the first production ever to do…

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