Miles Franklin

Cerro Alto is the name of both the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) campground and the hike to one of the highest spots in San Luis Obispo County. This lovely, wooded campground is on Highway 41, in a shaded canyon, seven miles from Morro Bay. It is a place I have camped often when visiting the area. It has twenty-two sites, pit toilets and water. It is also scenic, green and quiet. The campground is at 1,000 feet, and Cerro Also Peak is 2,624 feet, a 1,600-foot climb, quite strenuous in places

precisely how I felt after completing the second of three 16.67 miles loops during a 50-mile ultra-marathon in Tulsa this past 4th of July. After seven hours and 33 miles, I was soaked to the bone after hours of running in a constant rain, which began with a full-fledged thunderstorm at midnight. I was hungry and weary from lack of sleep. My legs were cramping, my energy level had waned, and the proposition of running one more 16 mile loop seemed insurmountable. I’ve been in this spot before - in

Another good day gone bad I slowly pressed my foot down on the accelerator as I approached the passing lane. I was tired of following the old man in his beat up, red station wagon at 25 miles per hour. I needed to get to school! I was right behind him when I topped the little hill and entered the passing zone. Such a relief. That 's when I saw it... The warm September Monday morning was just what I needed to refresh my mind. I had been stressed about schoolwork and was trying to keep up with

the guide track causing friction, maglev vehicles can be designed to travel at extremely high speeds, 500 kilometers per hour (300 miles per hour), or more!      Americans traveled 3.2 trillion passenger kilometers (2 trillion passenger miles) by car, truck, bus, and public transit, and 9.8 billion passenger kilometers (6.1 billion passenger miles) on Amtrak. As populations have grown the traditional systems have

It was a sunny day in the summer before my senior year and I was with two of my best friends, Dallas and Bryce. We had been gathering wood skids for our bonfire later that night. We got done around 3 in the afternoon and we had nothing to do, so we played video games for a little while. We soon became tired of playing video games, so we decided to go work on Dallas’s old 1984 Chevy pickup truck. Shortly after installing new parts, we decided to ride his dirt bike. Little did we know, this would soon

lined the sides of the highways. The second attention grabber was how fast everybody moved. From the people running late to work to the cars going eighty miles an hour, it was super overwhelming for Jim. He was used to easygoing and slow moving days and driving on roads with either no speed limit (because it wasn't a problem) or a twenty miles per hour limit. Despite the chaos, Jim made it to the conference center without any problems along the way. He met Edward and chatted for a few minutes until

Tony Bennett: Collaborator and Mentor Over the past couple decades Tony Bennett has become a household name for his role in the jazz music world. His tenor voice is timeless and his performances of jazz standards are held to the highest regard. However, in recent years, Bennett’s presence in the world of jazz has expanded into the realm of popular music. Bennett has released individual songs and entire albums with popular music stars that solely consist of traditional jazz standards. Over the past

Introduction to character- First line- Has anyone told you the story about how someone named Ryan Williams moved the nitro circus stands? Problem- Ryan Williams was riding his scooter at nitro circus. The ramp was almost straight down during this time. So he had to start very slow otherwise he drop straight down. The moved slowly but when he got level with the ramp his foot slipped and pushed him faster. The moment that his scooter started to roll down the ramp he started going about 2,000 mph

four lap race of hell, the mile. Throughout the course of my high school career, this exciting scene became very familiar to me. I always look forward to track season, and running the mile is by far my favorite event. To me, there is something about the event that makes it magical. While running the mile, to achieve my goals, I always focused on a strategy my coach told me before my first ever mile race. He called the strategy the four P’s of the mile. To run a successful mile, one must follow the four

The Electric Miles Davis Born in Alton, Illinois, Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school bandand playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Davis