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    up, returns his cap to his head, and continues to skate with hardly any hesitation. Skating is not a safe and sheltered hobby like collecting stamps or baseball cards; it requires

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    _We loaded into his black car about a half an hour later. Will told me we were going to a fast food restaurant and then he’d improvise the rest of the day. I was kind of excited, but not really because I kind of wanted to go home._ _I got into the passenger side and decided to look at his nice car more. The entire interior was a dark grey and the car was super clean despite belonging to a teen who apparently drank all the time. Will started the car, but I barely noticed with how quiet the engine

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    How do I learn how to ride a skateboard. You need to wear padding when you first start riding. You need a friend to slowly push you. You need to put your bad foot on the board and use your good foot to push. When I ride my skateboard with my brother and his friends. We always go to the skate park. Some we take the bikes and scooter my sister does not know how to ride but when she want to learn she could just ask me or my brother we might teach her if we have the time. How do you teach a

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    ever have.” This quote certainly holds true for me. When I was in elementary school, a caring man changed my life without knowing it. In second grade, my mother signed me and my little sister up for ice skating class. For an extremely brief time period, I had visions of becoming a figure skating prodigy, but they immediately dissipated as soon as I stepped onto the ice. I couldn 't take a step without slipping, but I was terrified of falling. To get to the area of the arena where the class was taking

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    As I took my first step onto the ice, I slid and fell onto the hard icy cold floor, but that did not stop me from getting back up. I was 9 years old at the time and I had seen figure skating on T.V and I had fallen in love with it, so I decided to try it out myself! I was extremely elated as I woke up this morning because I knew that that was the day I was going to ice skate for the first time!I knew that it was going to be hard and that it was going to take some time to get it right but either way

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    When I was young, I fell in love with competitive figure skating. The ice was my second home, and every minute I spent on it was pure bliss. By the time I was ten, I had practices four times a week and several competitions a year. Unfortunately, my path to success did not leave me unscathed. I had many falls and accidents over the years, and getting back up was almost never easy. The worst accident occurred when I was first starting to skate. I was four years old, and it led to my parents almost

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    me take up skating lessons, promising to do extra chores around the house in exchange. It was a hard won battle, but a few weeks later, I came home from my first skating lesson. My jeans were completely

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    be mad about such a thrilling present? It was such an obvious stare, that it almost seemed like my Mom wanted to demolish my skating career before it even started. That had been two years

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    this is the ice skating scene.  Morrison uses this scene to represent the slow, but consistent, deterioration of the family living in 124 and to foreshadow the ultimate demise of the family unit.  Morrison writes repeatedly, “Nobody saw them falling,” yet in all reality they were falling, and falling fast (Morrison 174).  There are a number of details, including the setting, Sethe’s emotions, the choice of

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    major themes in the novel is portrayed with the falling of Beloved, Sethe, and Denver in the ice-skating scene.  In the second section of Beloved, Morrison uses the dramatic ice-skating scene to foreshadow the deterioration of the relationships with in the family that occurs with the loss of Sethe's job.      The ice-skating

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