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Race car driver “King of the Track” Jeff Gordon was born on August 4, 1971 in Vallejo, California. He was not an overnight phenomenon in the world of auto racing, but his direction, if not his destiny, was determined early. As a child he was encouraged by his stepfather John Bickford where he started racing go-carts and quarter- midgets when he was just only five years old. He won often on the midget and open wheel racing circuit as a teen. He loved to compete and just got a kick out of going fast. By the age of twenty Jeff made a natural transition to National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). Then by 1986, he and his family moved to Pittsboro, Indiana, to be closer to the racing centers and Jeff’s destiny.

Jeff Gordon became the youngest driver ever to obtain a United States Auto Club license. He gained much experience by driving every kind of competitive vehicle, from dirt cars in Indiana to sprint cars in Australia. In the year 1990 he became the youngest Midget Series champion in USAC history. He also earned the Busch Grand National Rookie of the Year honors in 1991, winning the poles position eleven times. Jeff accomplished a lot of things in the minor league. He would soon leave the minor league of motorsports and aim a bit higher.

In the year of 1992, Jeff would sign a deal to drive a car for Hendricks Motorsports. He would then have his introduction to the Winston Cup circuit and the Hooters 500, the same race in which Richard Petty’s career ended. He was also a terrific NASCAR driver someone who Gordon looked up to. That season Jeff won Rookie of the Year on the Winston Cup circuit. In 1993 Gordon finished fifth at Daytona and second in the Coca-Cola 600 with capturing eight top ten finishes. I bet that year was a taste of fame and fortune for him. He won his first NASCAR race, the Coca-Cola 600, and the inaugural Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1994. Through out the years he continued to work harder and harder and would soon achieve more and more.

During the year 1998, Jeff would become the youngest driver to win Daytona 500 and was the first to win three consecutive Southern 500s, winning his fourth straight in 98. He tied the modern-era record with this win, by winning eight out of ten races for four months straight (June- September). NASCAR selected him as “Driver of the 90s,” edging out Dale Earnhardt. At one point of time Earnhardt was the focus of the NASCAR racing until Gordon showed him up. Due to the help of his determination and good driving team assistance built this major success.
Jeff Gordon is one of the greatest NASCAR drivers there will ever be. He achieved mostly all of his goals. Always having faith and giving determination to something that he really loves.

I researched Jeff Gordon because I’m also a person who has faith and determination to try my hardest and always give my best effort to strive for something I want to do and enjoy. That’s what kinder makes him one of my role models, because he never gave up and what ever he wanted to accomplish he gave a hundred/ten percent to get him there.

American Romanticism

2. Rip Van Winkle was a very kind hearted person. He'd tell different types of stories to the kids and let them just lay and play all over him. He helped everyone in the neighborhood before he even took care of his own business, like looking after his own farm. He felt that every time he wanted to attend to it a different reason woul come upone him to want to quit. He didn't start any trouble.
He did to hurt his family in many ways from being carelessness and he would soon ruin his family off these mistakes. After sleeping for a day (as he thought) but for twenty years, Rip return to his vilage were every thing had changed. He shared his story with the vilage and all vistors to try to let them see his long journy through his wordswithout physically being there. No one can just sleep for 220 years unless your in a comma.

3. I think the poem is saying that death is not somthing to be afraid of, accualy it could be a good thing. Because you would then be a common person and looked at the same not differnt from kings or queens. Whats romanticism about it is that it helps you set your imagination about what the poem is saying. Nature is accualy speaking in this poem and trying to allow you to communicate with death, to know that it's not such a bad thing. This a perfect excample, because we know that accualy talking to nature is not something that can be accomplished.

4. To show how you can use your imagination whenever. To imagine what you may be doing could be used to help others. When he says Like the port-holes of a hulk,Human spiders spin and spin,Backward down their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk. Its trying to make you imagine how the ropes were being created and how man made stuff can be compared to spiders. Because it helps you understand a way to set your imagination for what you are doing and what it may be used for. This is a excample because its trying to make you focus a little more on clearing your mind and seeing what he's saying.

5. The picture tries to help you set an imagination of what the artist is trying to say without using any words. They show that this a type of romantism because they have stuff going on that you know that doesn't really go on in a normal life and its sort of a way to set your imagination up to see what Van Winkle is coming from. To set your mind on something thats not real and make it become true.