I will go to the amusement park.(simple past tense)

Read this excerpt from leah missbach day's foreword to wheels of change.bicycles have long played a role in my life. as a young woman, i rode one year-round before i had a car. but it was later in adulthood that the bicycle became more than a source of transportation for me. the bicycle actually began to truly shape the way i saw the world.what is the author's purpose for including this in the foreword?

What are the most plentiful organisms in an ecosystem

Thomas carefully ran on the dry, hard ground barefoot and then jumped quickly into the cold pool?