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    The pounding of my heart was inevitable as I looked up at the coaster. Standing 420 feet tall The Top Thrill Dragster was staring me down. Watching it in action was a sight to see. Reaching top speeds of 120 mile per hour was the fastest I would have ever gone in my life by far. I have never had a fear of coasters but this one was a different story. Cedar Point is home to the fastest roller coaster in the world. On this trip this ride was the focal point of the trip. No one realized how imposing this ride was until we came face to face with it. However, its fury was determined to be conquered by the family of four. Little did we know what the day had in store for us. Since this was one of the biggest amusement parks in the world we knew it would be a long wait for anything. It took around two hours to get in the park. Already the trip was…

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    amount of money that goes into a professional athlete. For instance, Matt Hagan was the 2011 and 2014 NHRA Funny Car World Champion. Funny Car is a specific racing class for dragsters. The cars that race in this class have fiberglass bodies and custom chassis. Matt Hagan is an athlete because drag racing is not something anyone can start overnight and he is always equipping new equipment. With any sport an athlete cannot start on the top. Growing up, the term “practice makes perfect” always…

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    Tank Top Research Paper

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    How to Get the Prefix Tank Top before Your Name Step 1: Be a fat kid, get bullied, and avoid tank tops To a fat kid, wearing a tank top is like sticking a note on your own back that says kick me. You’re a target. Kids would make fun of the rolls that weren’t hidden by cloth. Although no matter what clothing you have on you’re a target. When you put your hands up and your shirt follows exposing the fleshy mounds that is your stomach you my dear reader is a target for bullying by kids. Have you…

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    At the top of the article it does state the author is a writer and has had some television experience, however it does not go into details. Anthony Bourdain is the author of at least eight books according to a quick internet search. According to Biography.com, he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978 (Biography.com Editors). He has since worked in and ran many New York kitchens, thus giving him the experience needed to provide the examples in his article. He has been on many…

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    Characterization of Toby If asked, most people would describe getting a ticket as, for instance a speed ticket; a ticket you got for driving too fast. Tickets are given to us by our higher authorities if we do not follow the law. However, for Toby Heckler, that is not the case. Toby is a socially handicapped male, with a rather childish appearance. (Page 37, ‘’On the yellow paper Toby had printed in red ink ‘PRAKING MISTEAK’ and signed his name ‘TOBY’ in a childish-looking hand.’’) The fact that…

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    During my final semester in graphic design class, I created the design for a cat in a shirt pocket. Although it was for a class project, I instantly knew I wanted to offer my shirt design to others by making an online store. I named it Poco Pets and have been dreaming up, drawing, and planning it for the past year. Now I have come to Kickstarter to make the shirts a reality. Poco Pets shirts are pocketed tees with a variety of lovable pets chilling in the pockets. Each shirt is…

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    visitors at Bard’s Graduate Center in New York, the highest attendance to date (Bard Graduate Center, 2012). I will conclude my paper with information about Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones. The exhibition displayed more than 300 hats personal chosen by the world’s foremost hat designer, Mr. Jones. The hats on the display range from an Egyptian Anubis dating from 600BC to a 1950s Balenciaga hat and creations by Stephen and his contemporaries. As stated before the styles of the hats variety…

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    Creative Writing: Birdie

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    there mottled black and brown and yellow, responded with a less-than-toothy grin. His hair was the same way as Edie, blond-turned-brown with dirt and grease, hacked away like someone had went at them with an axe. “Sure, why not?” he asked, tilting his head to the side like a dog. They both smelled atrocious. Edie started to trot off, the boy following, and Birdie and Albert trailed behind. They weaved through foot traffic for a couple of blocks when they found an especially thick crowd of…

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    2009. She later signed a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment in 2009. In 2010, Nicki Minaj released Pink Friday and it reached number one on the US Billboard 200. Everyone may think Nicki Minaj is the most weird, non-humble person ever. I truly believe Nicki Minaj is the Queen of rap because she’s an outstanding rapper, she stands for all women across the world, and she remembers where it all started. Onika Maraj accomplishments show that she is the greatest female rapper alive.…

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    Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) are also involved, in a great way, in the naming system. In fact, when the US government surrendered control of the root, she handed it over to ICANN. The stakeholders involved in the control of Internet Naming systems can be well present in a pyramid like structure where the apex of the pyramid represents the root. Among all the stakeholders in this context, the ICANN is the body which is involved with the formulation of the…

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