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    As a student studying business and communication, The Pony Express is a piece of history in the United States before 1877 that is important and sometimes overlooked. It was a short lived service that was created during the Civil War aimed to make communication to the West faster and easier. This service relied on the use of horses and lightweight riders to bring mail back and forth across more than 100 stations 24 hours a day. The Pony Express riders used a 2,000 mile trial that stretched from Missouri

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    Wiki) Which just means the Challenger wasn’t even a pony car anymore just a family car. “Despite being sportier than the Mitsubishi model it did not live up to its Pony car status.” (Challenger Wiki) These were family cars that didn’t have anything to do with the Challenger namesake. In 1984 the Challenger siezed production again.

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    We all drive; some of us tend to stand out more. Pure exhilaration, the Shelby GT350 is engineered for adrenaline-pumping performance. Its 5.2L V8 with flat-plane crank kicks out 526 hp and 429 lb.-ft. of torque and is one of four Mustang engine choices - all designed to overwhelm the senses with pulse-raising torque and a legendary roar. So buckle in and put your hands on the wheel of a Mustang and you will feel one thing above everything else: pure exhilaration, it is ok to stare. We warn you.

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    Notes On The Pony Express

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    pg.1 The Pony Express The Pony Express was an extremely important event in history for three profoundly good reasons. All together, it helped the farther east states to keep in contact with the West, news of what was happening, important documents, sometimes small packages and family letters were being sent to different states, and it helped for new and more improved ideas of how could the spreading of news could be spread faster and safer. The good reason of keeping all the states in

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    Westward Expansion During the westward expansion many important events happened. The Pony express was one of them it was a mail delivery system. Another very important event was the Transcontinental railroad, it was the first train track ever made! Both of these events were very hard to accomplish but we did accomplish them so that was good. Pony Express The Pony express was a mail delivery system, that started in April, 1860 and used a team of a person and a horse to deliver

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    Good Overcomes Evil “I remember that the Gabilan Mountains to the east of the valley were light gay mountains full of sun and loveliness and a kind of invitation… The Santa Lucias stood up against the sky to the west and kept the valley from the open sea, and they were dark and brooding” (Steinbeck 3). John Steinbeck was born in the Salinas, California and wrote a number of stories about Cali. The setting in this novel takes place in ---- and the trask family lives in Connecticut at the beginning

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    Over the course of the novel, John Steinbeck beautifully describes nature through symbolism to help the reader understand the striking, strong story line. For example, at the beginning of the story, he gives us a description of the setting. "Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of 'coons', and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, and with the split-wedge tracks of the deer come to drink in  dark."(1) When reading

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    A Lot of people argue about what car is better the Ford Mustang or the Chevy Camaro. To a lot of people the Camero is better but not to me. The Ford Mustang has a lot of features better than the camaro. In the first place, I think a mustang is better because it's been around for 11 years longer than the camaro. Plus as far as the new ones go they're more visually appealing with curves and soft lines while the new camaros are very square with hard lines. Especially the dashboard is a little too

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    The Rare Packard Caribbean Convertible Put the Top Down and Cruise in a Packard Caribbean Convertible Packard only built the Caribbean model for a total of four years. Although it wasn't as popular as [the Tri Five Chevrolet Bel Air] or [the Ford Fairlane Skyliner], it certainly did a good job of representing the iconic 50s convertible street cruiser. Here we'll talk about the launch of the first model in 1953 and highlight some rare options available throughout the build. Production ceased in

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    Cisko Kid

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    O Henry's "A Caballero's Way" features people's interest for a postal service in order to get to its needs. People's interest goes back when the Cisko Kid was around in the Valley. Unfortunately back then there was a horrible postal service. Poor Tonia that sent that letter to the Lieutenant Sandridge in regards of the Cisko kid. Back then she could not send it to an actual true and known service, instead she had to send to some ordinary kid not an expert on the system. The service that the little

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