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101: Down On The River
... paddling with every bit of force they could muster, but the current was too overwhelming. The tail end of our raft whipped around forcefully, we braced for impact and WHAM! We collided with the enormous rock like a freight train hitting a mountain. The raft buckled under the force, and all of the sudden I was the only one left aboard, because everyone else was thrown out at impact. With my ... in The Powerhouse was The Corkscrew, aptly named for the small and twisting shoot one is allowed to go through, and pass safely. We spiraled down corkscrew with a vengeance, knocking into every boulder and rock possible it seemed, and suddenly when it was over we had to prepare for our next challenge, Bulldozer. Bulldozer was a difficult rapid in that when you are negotiating it, you must go down a narrow slit between two huge rocks. In order to not get stuck in the first rocks wash, you must be almost grazing the second rock, hence the name “bulldozer”. Our guide was one of the best, we were told. He was the kind of guy who grew up on this river and had been rafting ever since he was ...
102: Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry There is a wide variety of books to choose from to enjoy reading and read for a specific reason. One book that I feel would be a good choice is Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. This book is mainly about the racism and prejudice that went on in 1933 and around that time. It focuses on a family and the hardships they faced everyday of ...
103: History Of Punk Rock
... The concerts would be over by a reasonable time so kids could get home to eat dinner with their parents. In this paper we will take a look at some history and aspects of punk rock over the years. Slam Dancing Slam dancing has been popular through the history of punk. You may have heard of called "mashing" or "stage diving." Mashing is just a big game of bumper cars like ... is also related to Hard-Core and Ska. Hard-Core is usually heavier and more upbeat the regular punk. Ska is punk with some trumpets or saxophones playing along. Punk Is Still Going Strong Drugs, rock star ego's, and in some cases death ruined the development of punk bands back around 1980 like the Sex Pistols, Black Flag, and The Germs. It made a recent comeback in the early nineties ...
104: A Rock Concert
A Rock Concert Have you ever experienced an overload of every sense at once? Well, rock concerts can almost take you there. I went to see AC/DC in the spring of 1991, and it was truly a festival of sensory overloads. My body felt as if they stimulated it in ...
105: The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository
... be the Amargosa Valley, where dairy farms supply Las Vegas and Los Angeles with milk. DOE and USGS scientists say there's also a good chance most of the water that flows through the spongy rock above the dense "tuff" planned for the repository will stop at the "tuff" layer and flow off it like a roof without soaking in. For the next year, the burning question at Yucca Mountain involves heat. Specifically, what will the 428 degree temperatures generated by thousands of nuclear waste canisters buried inside the mountain do to the surrounding rock? To find out, scientists created simulated disposal tunnels nearly 800 feet below ground. Using electric heating elements, they began heating the rock last December. John McNeely, a mining engineer overseeing the construction and testing in Yucca Mountain, said the heaters will be on four years before the temperature is brought down slowly to mimic the declining ...
106: Dysfunctional Families In Cana
... aunt and uncle are dysfunctional because Teddy’s aunt constantly orders him around, his uncle teases him, and neither grown-up trusts him. In “The Sound of Hollyhocks” there is a dysfunctional maternal relationship. Firstly, Rock’s mother is very controlling towards her son. When Rock’s parents visit him in the hospital, his mother says, If you ask me you’re completely recovered now from your breakdown, and I’m sure you’ll be much better off at home, where ... to have been misdiagnosed (pg. 17), his mother wants him to be at home so she can dominate him more easily. This need to control her son indicates the extent of their dysfunctional relationship. Secondly, Rock’s mother does not respect her son’s wife and this places a great strain on her relationship with Rock. After her first meeting with her mother-in-law, “...Sandra was never again invited ...
107: Stephen King
... the library. The library was dedicated in his honor (Beahm 81). In addition to the library, King found a way to give back to the community by using his other two loves, baseball, and classic rock music. Ever since King was little he enjoyed baseball. He played little league. So what better to do than build a stadium. He forked over one point two million dollars for the stadium that measures ... three-hundred and thirty feet down the foul lines. The park has the attributes of a major league ballpark (Beahm 69-70). The next way to give back was by using his love for classic rock. King was driving in his car one day and he found out that the only classic rock radio station was going bankrupt. He was appalled. So he drove down to the radio station and he bought it right then and there. The station is WZON and is still on the air ...
108: Concretions
... the Latin "con"-- meaning "together" -- and "cresco" -- meaning "to grow."” Concretions are hard compact accumulations of mineral matter and are found inside sedimentary rocks. Some examples of this are Sandstone and in some weathered volcanic rock. Concretions come in many different shapes and the most common of the shapes is spherical or disk shaped. Concretions are the most varied-shaped rocks of the sedimentary world. The way concretions come to be is the mineral matter concentrates around the nucleus of a host rock. The nucleus is often organic such as a tooth or leaf or shell or fossil. As the mineral matter concentrates around the nucleus it forms harder zones known as nodules. Concretions are very odd in ... way a sandstone or shale bed breaks up due to the action of weathering into regular blocks of various sizes. The way in which this separation takes place along natural planes of weakness in a rock such as a horizontal bedding surface and vertical joints. Before this process of separation, as well as during the separation ground water soaks into the rock and circulates through the planes of weakness making ...
109: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
"Jeremy Simms & TJ Avery are two relativly minor characters in the story ROTHMC. However, they both reinforce the themes." Discuss Aprox 1000 words There are many important Themes in the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. These themes include: racial prejudice, loyalty, honesty, friendship, personal integrity and respect for others. Although Jeremy Simms and TJ Avery are fairly minor people in the book, their characters are ...
110: Creative Story: Racing Along Walls
... used earlier to wipe off my sweat, I wrapped my hand to stop the bleeding and continued on my work not knowing that this first injury would foreshadow future events. "Hey, I just checked your roll cage, and it's a lot more solid than mine. Is the roll cage on my car tight enough or do we have to take it to a welding shop before they close?" asked Joe. "It'll be fine. Plus I seriously doubt you'll need it. If you're really worried about it, I think the roll cage bolts use a 22 mm. socket so go tighten it." I replied in the middle of tightening another chassis bolt. It was July and we were preparing our cars for the Battle of ...


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