Bailey+Buckler

My name is Bailey Buckler, i am a student at the College of Southern Maryland. I have been attending English 1010 for the spring semester. In this class i have learned many things such as grammar among many others. this has helped me very much in writing a better paper for future english classes.

-__**POEM**__ Bailey Athletic, procrastinator, passionate, impatient Son of a mother who believes in me Who is known for traveling for baseball Who loves succeeding in sports and getting good grades Who feels like there is much more to see in life Who needs not to procrastinate and have fun with life Who fears failure, not succeeding in life Who gives his all to family and friends Who would like to finish school and not worry about failure Resident of Bushwood, surrounded by water and woods Buckler ** -Formal Essay-Definition Essay ** I choose this essay because; it was a favorite to write. Writing this essay was fun because I was able to perform research on something I actually liked. This may not be the best essay I have written, but it shows where I have come from. My Dream Car My dream car has been my dream car since I knew what a car was. It is powerful, has good handling, looks beautiful, and is all American muscle. My dream car is one of the most well known muscle cars on the planet. Although it is very well known you will not see this car every day on the streets because it is a limited production car. My dream car is a GT500 Mustang and always will be. The GT500 is an American icon from mid 60’s when it was the GT350. Today it is the GT500, has packages that can produce up to 750 horse power, only one could have dreamt of something like this in the 60’s. The GT500 started in the 60’s with Carrol Shelby when Ford and there SVT (special vehicle team) wanted a high performance mustang. So Carrol Shelby took a basic mustang and turned it into the GT500. The GT500 had a huge performance gains over the stock mustangs. It handles, more horsepower, and it also had subtle styling changes that can add to the aerodynamics. This changed everything for American muscle cars today and started the trend of performance. After several years of production with the GT500 they stopped production. During this time this made all the GT500’s produced in the 60’s and early 70’s very valuable. Since there were very few GT500’s made, they are very expensive today at auction where they can go from $50,000 all the way up to Hundreds of thousands for an all original GT500 mustang. Whether it has the options can also determine the price such as the 4 speed transmission and right color combination. There are many other factors that go into how much money you would get for a GT500 from the late 60’s and early 70’s. The production of the GT500 started again in 2007, and still with Carrol Shelby as the designer. It still took the stock mustang and changed it up but this time the GT500 has more power than before. It has a 5.4 liter engine with a super charger which upgrades you from the 4.6 liter V8 in the basic gt mustang which only produces 300 horsepower. The GT500 produces 500 horsepower from the bigger engine and supercharger. This is the biggest change to add to the styling and handling of the car. This raised the bar on the GT500’s status as one of the best muscle cars on the planet. In 2010, they stepped up the horsepower to 550 with the new look of the mustangs, which made me want one. The same happened again when the 2011 model came out a year later. Also there are many different types of GT500’s that were made that make them rarer to see and a delight to own. From 68 to 72 there was a GT500 KR or King of the Road edition this edition is the rarest GT500 and the most wanted; which makes it the most expensive also. In 2009 there was a new version of the KR and there were only around 550 made and they will be just as expensive in 40 years. To add to the performance Carrol Shelby had a shop to take your GT500 and take it to the next level if you had a 2007 or newer version. He would take it and add more body styling but the most important was the 250 horsepower he would give you. Your new GT500 would leave his shop with 750 horsepower but the disadvantage is you lose your warranty, which I think is worth it. These are all the reasons I love Ford GT500 mustangs I have loved them since I was a kid, because my dad has a ‘69 Mach 1 is where it all started. I don’t just love the GT500 but it is my favorite mustang I have a passion for all mustangs; I myself have a 2001 mustang. I will always own a mustang until the day I die. They will always be my favorite car and maybe even someday own my own GT500 mustang. A GT500 is more than just a car; it is a piece of history in American muscle and is one of the most famous cars to date. That is why a GT500 is my dream car. ** Journal Entry #1 ** ** I **** picked this essay because it was one of my favorite to write and also i got a good grade. This journal desribes addiction. A person can be addicted to many different things mine is being addicted to cars. i have a mustang and love to clean it and work on it, this will always be a hobby of mine ****. ** ** I am Addicted to Cars **

In life I am very glad I am not addicted to drugs because I see the hurt it puts on other families. I am not addicted to something that is not expensive at the moment. I am not addicted to anything dangerous but yet thrilling at the same time. What my addiction does is make me feel accomplished and good about myself. In a way that only people with the same addiction can relate to. I am addicted to my Ford Mustangs. I know everything about my mustang the engine, exhaust, and body. My car is my pride and joy, from stock to modified. My mustang started its life as a stock mustang. Which I thought was a boring looking car but that is what makes my car special to me. This is a reason I am addicted to cars you can customize it and make it your own. I have put a lot of time into my car to make it my own and look nice. My girlfriend doesn’t understand why I like to wash my car all the time and will never understand. I like to see it clean and get compliments in how it look don’t hurt either. I also just like washing my car it is relaxing to me, I just think about life when I clean it. I will always have that addiction to my cars to keep them clean and keep them looking nice no matter if it’s a mustang or a truck. When I see my car clean I feel satisfied that it is clean and happy to see it shine in the sunlight. That is my favorite feeling and why I think I am addicted to my car and cars in general. ** Journal Entry #2 ** I picked this journal because it is very true to the world of high school. high school students do this all the time. they get very wraped up in young love and start doing things they never normally would do. i think we alll can relate to this at one point in high school.

**  Watching Young Love   ** Young love is very different then long term love. In the first few months of my relationship with my girlfriend we couldn’t get enough of being with each other. And now 20 months later we do still love being with each other it is just a different love. I guess you could say our relationship has almost matured in a way. It is not that we don’t love each other as much it is that we love each other more for different reasons. In young love I didn’t really know why I loved her but I just did and now 20 months later I actually know all the reasons for loving her. In the essay he claims that when you are in young love you are out of control, you don’t make very good decisions for your future as partners. You are clouded by the love and don’t see the rational choice that should be made. I think this is why a lot of marriages do not last long because couples try to rush into love because they may not think they can get another shot at falling in love. This is why I think you should wait at least one year before you decided to get married, very few will last if you rush into marriage. One successful marriage is my girlfriends’ parents they were engaged after only five months and are still married over twenty years later. I think what the author is telling us in this reading could be wrong though. The doctors at the universities only studied 17 students which is a very small amount. The 17 that were tested could have an influence in a certain way and could be different in another state. I think they need to study more before coming to a conclusion