Please rate my english paper. I just would like to get some opinions?

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Clyde

Its suppose to be a paper about a place that has defined me. Its for an english-101.

Throughout my life there have been places that defined me as a person. The house I lived in during my childhood is an example of one of these locations. I lived in the suburbs in a house with a giant backyard. The backyard was roughly an acre. It has so much clarity in my mind; itâs very easy to remember the long days I spent in that giant backyard as I was growing up. As a youngster this backyard had many effects on me. I formed strong family morals and values as well as enjoying many different influential events.
So many memories stem from this one location. I first learned to ride my bike in this backyard. The entire backyard was one giant slopping hill, and I would climb, with my bike to the top, and roll down. Although for no particular reason I was scared to put my feet down on the pedals. If you happened to catch me riding my bike down the hill at that time you would see a child with a big helmet on, speeding down the hill, with his heels high in the air and braking sharply before he reached the fence. It was quite a humorous site according to my mother.
I was very content with just gliding down this hill. It was rather bumpy as I remember, and one would get a sore bottom after a long day of riding bike. Eventually I learned the art of riding a bicycle (pedaling and all) thanks to a very perseverant dad. My father spent many evenings with me in the back throwing a football back and forth until the sun was barely breaking the horizon and the sky was turning orange. I was the quarterback on the team that he coached, so it was a very nice bonding experience.
He also constructed a tree house for my sister and I to use up all our energy playing with. My sister and I also had many bonding moments associated with this tree house. We would spend long days playing in it with friends and family. Every boy needs his own tree house; a place where he can escape and go to his own world. There was plenty of that when neighborhood friends would come over and we would pretend that we were firefighters.
My dad had put in a long firefighter pole for us to slide down. Any given evening you could look out and see kids running around in their own world dousing the raging fires in the backyard. Along with the tree house there was a giant limestone rock in the backyard. This giant limestone rock contained fossils of small crustaceans and plants. It was always a baffled me. I perhaps played more on this giant rock than I did in the tree house.
That backyard and the experiences that come with it mean a lot to me. I forged good family values and morals along with memories that I constantly find myself daydreaming and reminiscing about. I learned to ride a bike, made many lifelong friends, and spent a lot of time with family in this backyard. All these different experiences helped define me as a person. I drive by that old house every once in awhile on my way to a friendâs house. The tree house is gone but I always have a spark of emotions and a flood of memories every time I see it.

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What do you mean by rate it?
Out of ten or something?
Or do you want actual english grammar and proof-reading feedback?
Or our personal opinion about whether this story is boring or interesting?

Is it just me or has supercross lost it's meaning?

Ben

Is it just me or does "the greatest season in supercross" seem like they just had a crowd of 2nd rate guys racing eachother and James Stewart crashing? Stewart is way faster than any of the other riders out there. I am so tired of the AMA and the sissie riders that refuse to go to motorcycle dealerships to sign posters for kids.

Maybe it's just me but when I was a kid Jeff Stanton, Jeremy McGrath, Larry Ward, Steve Lamson, Ezra Lusk, Damon Huffman, Damon Bradshaw, Mike Keidrowski, Robbie Reynard, Jeff Emig, John Dowd, Greg Albertin, Doug Henry, Mike Metzger, Jimmy Gaddis, Mike Jones, and all those other riders that I can't think of weren't as arrogant as the riders of today. They used to give their helmets, jerseys, goggles and all kinds of stuff away after finishing a race, even if they lost.

Today a "rider" walks out of the semi just to go strait to the track and right back. There is no Hi-5ing the crowd or tossing your helmet in the stands anymore. What happened to Supercross and Motocross being a family sport?

I still have Jimmy Gaddis's goggles and a signed poster from Ezra Lusk...
John Ramos #127?

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The sport is definitely different.

I was never a national champion, but I gave a way jerseys, stickers and autographs to anyone who asked.

When I was racing 1980-1983, Hannah, Sun, Glover, Breaker, LaPorte, Howerton were better than the rest of the field, but they weren't arrogant. They would talk to the fans, sign autographs and were nice guys (except on the track...Howerton and Hannah, really didn't get along...lol...and still don't)

Now Supercross is all about "show". The racing has been cut down dramatically. Now it's all about theatrics. It's cheap and glitzy now, It's sad. The sport is about riding fast over difficult terrain, not about fireworks. They are treating motocross racing like wrestling events. All show, no go.

The other problem I now have with pro motocross is the 4-stroke rule. A privateer doesn't have a chance now, unless he is rich. Titanium and carbon fiber are nothing for a pro team, but a privateer can't afford the prices they are getting for that technology. It has become a race of the wallets. On a 2-stroke you could get a half of season out of a set of piston rings and piston. The price was usually under $200.00 for the season. On a 4-stroke your top end rebuild is going to cost you a grand and most top pro racers rebuild 4 times a year minimum. Not to mention the cost of the bike. The average open class 4-stroke is gonna cost you $8,000 - not pro race ready. You are going to need to spend another $4,000 to $10,000 to get the bikes power to weight ratio close to the top fours pro bikes. The way this was taken care of in the past was the "claiming rule". The claiming rule needs to be brought back. (the younger people won't remember, but a privateer won Marty
Tripes's factory Honda. The claiming rule allowed another competeror to put in a bid on the winner's motorcycle. This kept the factories from getting carried away with exotic materials. A guy put in for Tripe's factory Honda. The rest of the teams also put in for the bike. The AMA drew the name of the winner out of a hat and the privateer won. He had to pay $3,500 cash for the bike back then-average motocross bike prices were around $1,200, but it was to keep the guys with the fat wallets in check)

http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-811503.html

I paid $10,500 for the new Chevy car I drive to work with! The AMA also needs to change back to the rules for a higher minimum weight limit and allow 2-strokes of the same engine size to compete against the 4-strokes. This would give privateers a fighting chance. The major four threatened the AMA and the AMA knuckled under. The AMA needs to get some balls and a backbone and stand up to the major four. The AMA needs to put racing first and not cater to the top four's bottom line.

Here is Supercross the way it used to be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Sgof7j8YM

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