Invention Process

Invention Process

Part One)

•1991 Birth

•1992 Hurricane Andrew

•1993 Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States

•1994 Death of former President Richard Nixon

•1995 O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder

•1996 Bill Clinton wins his second term for presidency

•1997 Death of Princess Diana of Wales

•1998 New York Yankees Win the World Series

•1999 Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour De France

•2000 Y2K Concerns

•2001 Attacks on the World Trade Center

•2002 The Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah

•2003 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers win Super Bowl XXXVII

•2004 Death of Christopher Reeve

•2005 Hurricane Katrina

•2006 The Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii are released

•2007 Virginia Tech Massacre

•2008 Barack Obama is elected President of the United States

•2009 Present

Sources:

http://www.historycentral.com/dates/

http://www.worldeventsguide.com/

http://www.cnn.com/

Part Two)

1. Death of Close Friend Joshua Timothy Persichilli: July 16^th, 2006

2. When I won my first motocross race: 2004

3. When I set my back yard on fire: 1998

Part Three)

1. This personal memoir would focus on the death of my close friend Josh Persichilli. He died 3 days after his 14^th birthday in a motocross race in Waldo, FL. His accident occurred during the “Florida Motocross Series”, which was my first 125cc C class championship series; I was 7^th place in the points standings. It happened the first lap of the race and I was right behind him when he crashed. This occurred during the first of a two-race format; the race was immediately halted once the severity of the crash became clear, but was later restarted. I forfeited the restarted first race as well as the second race.

2. This memory would be about my very first motocross race ever. I heard about racing from one of my father’s friends whose son raced in Dade City, FL and decided that it was something I was interested in. I was a young daredevil who wanted to go high and fast, and convinced my dad to take me there to ride the motocross school in the morning and attend the races that night. During the morning school I was taught the basics of body positioning and skills and then the rain began to pour. It was my first race as well as my first mud race. I was the only rider to make it across the finish line.

3. When I was in elementary school, there was a lice outbreak at my school and the administrators encouraged parents to routinely check their children’s head for lice. After school one day, I went home and jumped into the arms of my grandma, who was visiting from North Carolina. Once my grandma and my parents started into a conversation, I ventured off into the garage. I came upon a packet of matches by my father’s grill and soon found that I was a pyromaniac. I made my way towards my back yard where I came upon a dry patch of grass and decided to test my fire-making abilities. The entire back yard was soon on fire. I ran back inside my house acting as if nothing had happened. My grandma told me to come to her immediately; she wanted to check my hair for lice. She quickly commented that my head smelled of smoke and I was soon in trouble.

Part Four)

1. The death of a close friend impacted my life in an enormous way. It was the first of three that I was forced to endure. It taught me to cherish the one’s that I love; it taught me to live for the moment and to never think twice about doing something; it taught me to reach out for every opportunity and to try my best experience what others do not get the chance to; it taught me the value of family; it taught me the value of friends; it taught me the importance of life. When I sit on the starting line for a race, I no longer pray for victory, but for safety. I turn to my opponents next to me and wish them good luck. I try my hardest in school so that I may have a bright future, one that Josh never had the chance to experience. His life was taken from him, and if mine may be taken from me, I would like to be able to think that I “went out swinging”.

2. My very first race taught me the value of hard work, guts, and determination. I learned that day that if you work hard and listen, absorbing as much information as you can, then you have a greater chance of success. That day I paid attention to every word in the morning motocross school, and held onto what I had learned until later that night when I was able to regurgitate it. It was something I was passionate about it, which I learned is crucial when attempting to retain information. I learned that there is so much more to a learning process than just memorization, and that you have to care about what you are hearing in order to learn it. I realized what I love doing and what I have to do in order to do it well. Most importantly, however, I learned that this race reflected a larger picture. The lessons that I learned that day were not only applicable in motocross, but could be utilized in life. Utilizing all of my resources and retaining all of my given information in my personal race for the checkered flag. This is also known as the pursuit of happiness. This is also known as life.

3. This childish anecdote serves as a simple memory that other’s may easily relate to. This reflects the childish ways that punishment forces away through maturity. This taught me the simplest of all life’s lessons, the workings of karma. If you do bad things, bad things will happen to you; and if you do good things, good things will come your way. This led me to understand the principles of religion and how I needed to live my life. This lesson gave me desire for a good karma, which could only come from living a healthy, courteous, and hard-working lifestyle. To this very day I work and live on the principles of karma, and my grandmother and parents are finally proud of their once trouble-starting child.