My Obsession I remember back to when I was a child‚ in which I would constantly dream of flight and its characteristics of freedom and serenity. Throughout my younger years I collected miniature model airplanes of metal and plastic‚ longing to be the pilot of the real machine; this obsession continued until the day my grandfather introduced me to radio controlled flight. My grandfather and I visited his model airplane flying field where he effortlessly controlled a piece of machinery which my
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suicidal but Garros had put steel plates on the rear of the propeller blades to deflect any bullets. The unsuspecting Germans failed to evade the oncoming Garros and consequently within sixteen days he had taken down five German planes and became the first allied flying ace. This machine gun idea was later improved by Anthony Fokker‚ a Dutchman. He synchronized the propeller with the gun firing mechanisms so that the bullets would fire between the blades of the propeller. By the middle of W.W.I‚
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This material may be prOb0~ !x copyright law. (Title 17‚ US Code) JAMAICA KINCAID JAMAICA KINCAID 365 On Seeing England for the First Time of the most sinister sides of imperialism is the way it pfomotes the ruling nation S culture and rejects the colony ‘s. The effect of this on an impressionable young person is vividly a2xribed in Jamaica Kincaid’s sensitive and angry autobiographical essay about growing up in Antigua with the dark shadow of England continually looming over her
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The First Time I went to a College Football Game Vroom! Vroom! It was a cold and cloudy Saturday afternoon and me‚ my parents and my parents friends Alex and Vince were driving to a 7:00 Missouri Tiger football game. They were going to play the Texas A&M Aggies at home. Whoever wins is going to go to one of the biggest games of the year which is the SEC championship. We had just entered Missouri’s campus and it was packed with a bunch of Missouri fans. As we drove around for a little bit I could
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In our days‚ we used to travel a lot‚ most of the time we travel by airplane. If you really take the time to think about it‚ flying by plane seems to be now one of the best ways to travel. But does this mean that traveling by plane is the safest way? As time has passed‚ it has become necessary to travel on airplanes‚ yet in spite of many advancements remains a concern for passengers‚ because it has become common to hear about airplane crashes.The major causes of fallen aircraft are human mistakes
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Sre FYS 8 September 2014 My First Job I got my first job at sixteen because my parents required it. However‚ I had no intention of getting a job and wanted to continue being a teenager where I had little responsibility. As I looked around my hometown for a job‚ I found that there were not a lot available. I finally was able to find a job close to my house at a local Dairy Queen working for minimum wage. Now that I had a job I had to make decisions in time I spent between friends‚ athletics
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My First Marathon By the time I entered Tsinghua University in 2006‚ my life had been occupied by boring studying for several years. There were many things that I never believed I could do like being a monitor of class‚ getting into a fancy relationship or dancing on the stage. If those were things I had still imagined‚ marathon was one thing that I had never imagined. A distance of 42.195 kilometers (about 26.4 miles) was not kidding. In the first month I went to Tsinghua‚ the student union
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What was your first job like? When I was sixteen years old I thought my first job was going to be at Mc Donald’s or some type of fast food restaurant. My mother wasn’t really the type that forced me to work at a younger age. Usually a lot of teenagers don’t work until seventeen or eighteen years old. Some times when I was a child I always wanted to be more responsible by doing things on my own‚ working‚ and driving‚ but at sixteen what can I be responsible at. As a young teenager I always looked
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My First Job Experience For teenagers‚ having a job is a way of making money‚ just a way of having extra cash for movies or clothes. It makes one feel independent. Personally‚ it made me feel sort of like an adult. It taught me how to be responsible and to handle my finances. I had to learn how to take public transportation‚ how to interact with my coworkers‚ work with different types of people‚ and also learn punctuality. In a way‚ it was almost like I had learned real life skills in under 3 months
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A girl’s first kiss‚ whether good or bad‚ is an experience she never will never be able to forget. At age twelve I had never had a serious relationship with a guy‚ although it seemed as though every girl my age had already kissed several guys. It really hadn’t bothered me‚ because I really wasn’t interested in any of the guys I knew at that time. Then‚ when it seemed as though I would never find a guy I would be interested in‚ I met Blake Sadler. Blake and I first met through my cousin Amber. One
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