Harley Gilbert Research Paper

“Jeremy McGrath is an unlikely champion who became a legend in Supercross, and helped bring the sport out of the backyard and into your living room”. Wining 12 major championships is not the easiest thing ever. Having almost 3 perfect seasons is even harder. But Jeremy McGrath has accomplished almost all of these. He wants us to understand that the life of a professional rider is not all it is worked up to be, but

All in all John Muir and Chris McCandless had many things in common, but conquered

Knees weak from climbing a flight of stairs or the anticipation of meeting Brian, I walked into his office announcing my presence with a raspy, delayed voice. Upon flinging open the door, his face lifted of his desk and stared at me with a distant expression. My first take of Brian caught me off guard, with his apple red mohawk, wearing his branded castle racing jacket and pants. Looking at his appearance you just knew he was into racing. After building up the confidence to murmur good morning we left his office to his own personal race track he made at his house. “There is more to just sitting down on a vehicle and holding down the throttle. If it was that easy everyone would do it.” For Brian racing has come at a cost and has been through adversity on and off the track.

Vernon Wayne Howell was born in August 17, 1959 in Houston Texas. His mother was an unwead tennagaer when she had Howell. In his early childhood he claims he was abused by his mother's partner. When he was eighteen he dropped out of high school to pursue a career as a rock star. When he was in his twenties he caused his family to get kicked out of their church, the Seventh Day Advent, because he was questioning the way the leaders interpreted the Seven Seals of the bible. Soon after being kicked out of the church he found the Branch Davidians and joined the religious group. Once in the group he changed his name to David Koresh.

To David Barton, the biggest race he has won would be The GatorNationals. This was a significant moment to david because it was a start of a new era. In his words, “ To some people winning indie is the biggest thing, but it doesn't compare to the GatorNationals in Florida, because it was the beginning of a new era of muscle cars.” This accomplishment was achieved from experience at Ray Barton Racing engines. In other words, by working in his dad's business. Racing has always been what David does. It’s what he grew up around. David has done this job full time since 16 or 17. This job was also his father's, Ray Barton.

Benny Perkins, who finished third place in this years’ competition, won the competition in 1995, and was back to try and win another truck. This stirred some controversy because many people believed that it was unfair for Benny Perkins to have a chance at a second free truck. In this competition, Benny Perkins lasted over sixty hours, but that was only good enough for third place. Second place went to a woman named Norma Valverde.

The weekend I had been waiting for had finally come. We were off to the races on a Friday morning on our way to Clovis, New Mexico. I was racing in the Kicker Arenacross series. My races were not until Saturday, but it was mandatory for us racers to be there Friday night to see what the track looked like.

This excerpt called “Rodeo and Baseball” attempts to explain how much a rodeo is like baseball. The author starts off explaining how the sport of Rodeo has been around just as long as Baseball, yet it is not quite as popular. She states that it was originally created by a few ranchers daring a kid twenty-five dollars to ride “five outlaw horses.” Later on, in 1895, the first commercial rodeo was held in Lander, Wyoming in 1895. She claims that the two sports were just as popular in the other, yet there was hardly anyone on the East coast riding bulls for a living. The only main purpose of this sport was for competition and pride, because other than that, it was misunderstood. No one quite figured out why risking their life for a few dollars and eight seconds of fame was worth it, yet many did it anyways.

John William Gilbert was born at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1842. His parents were William James Gilbert and Eleanor Gilbert; both parents were born in England and they were married on 23rd April 1826. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert and their one-year-old daughter, Eleanor immigrated to Canada in 1830. His father’s occupation was described as 'labourer', as declared on his immigration application. John's only sister, Eleanor was born in England in 1829 and his four older brothers, William, Francis, James and Charles were born in Canada. On settling into Canadian life, John Gilbert's father commenced working on Public Projects as a contractor. Between 1837-1838, Canada experienced major unrest in many areas of the country which soon descended into

“The bulls started off the same as before, rising like rams before a head butt, but this time the older bull swung his head low and to the right under the younger one, digging his left horn under the younger hull's right leg. The younger bull had not anticipated this, overshot his mark, and was now off balance” (40).

On September 22nd, 1997 around 12:34, Victoria Rose Gaston was brought into this world. Born at Carle hospital in Urbana, Illinois nine minutes after my twin brother Tyler Daniel.

- When things started getting rough in the race some of the racers doubted they would make it to the finish especially

Right before Shelby woke up, Coach Benedetto came get me and Shelby so we could go eat a scrumptious breakfast with the team. I had a amusing breakfast with the boys and the coaches. I was sad after breakfast, because we had to leave. Wishing that we all could just stay there forever. We loaded the bus and left the Rushmore Hotel. That is when it hit me. My stomach felt like I had just ate a bunch of butterflies. This was the most nerve racking race ever.

They got up to the drag srip and did their burnouts and lined up. The light turned green and they were off. About halfway down the drag strip Bills engine started to rattle and loose power. He finished the race and his opponent won but Bill wanted a rematch later. Bill took his car and found a place to see what is wrong with it, and he opened up his engine and found the problem. There was nickles in hs carburetor.

Braaaaaap! Braaaaaaap! Ricky Charmichael takes the lead! He made the pass in the air over the 80 foot triple. Something that I love to do more than anything in the world is motocross. Motocross is racing over rough ground on specially strengthened motorcycles.