Collision

In the book “The Glass Cage How Our Computers Are Changing Us” by Nicholas Carr, discusses about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Automation has become a huge beneficial factor in the world as we know it. Everywhere we look computers and robots are slowly taking away certain jobs and tasks, but have substantially improved our lives. Without manufacturing…

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is the tragic story of a young Hmong girl named Lia who suffers from epilepsy and who was the victim of a cultural collision and misunderstanding between her Hmong parents and her American doctors in Merced, California. The story follows Lia’s family, the Lees, as they navigate the American culture and system while maintaining strong ties with their traditions, practices, and rituals. The author, Anne Fadiman, uses the battle between the doctors of Merced…

north and the south in the union. The presidential campaign of 1856 was an example of a country divided. The Democrats chose James Buchanan of Pennsylvania as their candidate, a minister to England who had been out of the country during previous collisions between the two main political parties, making him the ideal candidate for the Democrats. The Republicans chose John C. Frémont as their candidate but Frémont had no political record or experience. Buchanan won with a narrow victory over…

Hamilton, Ontario on October 5, 2017. It is believed that Nathan Wehrle not only kidnapped a girl, but caused a police chase by his refusal to cooperate. The vehicle driven, was stolen from a friend of his sister, and the chase resulted in a head-on collision with a transport truck, killing the teen couple instantly. Wehrle’s sister is not shocked by her brother’s thievery, but is by his “’killing and abducting people.”’ This article relates to Chapter One, of Deviance, Crime, and Control.…

instantly killed hundreds of people and trapped hundreds on the above floors. They began evacuation of both of the towers. Eighteen minutes into evacuating the towers a second plane came into sight and hit the south tower near the 60th floor. This collision caused a massive explosion which lead to the showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. While all of this was happening Flight 77 was flying over downtown Washington, D.C., and slammed into the west side of…

Death Over Water In the poem “Death Over Water” by Elizabeth Rhett Woods, a pair of male and female ice dancers are compared to birds. The use of an extended metaphor parallels ice dancers to the animalistic relationship of an eagle and the seagull that is its prey. Both characterize the same fluid movements, as a gull “swerves across/ the open water” (Line 5-6) similarly to skaters gliding smoothly across the ice. Furthermore, the eagle soars with the gull “always above and beyond it, parallel…

Home Insurance FAQs 1. What does home insurance cover? Farmers Insurance- Homeowners insurance covers your home from the top of the roof to the pipes right down into the slab. Insurance also covers the contents of your house. If you theoretically take your house and turn it upside down, anything that falls out is also included in your coverage. 2. Can you provide some tips for estimating the value of my home? One simple way to determine the value of your home is to take the square…

The Civil War was one of the greatest catastrophes that happened in America. For years the debate of abolishing slavery led the Northern abolitionists and Southern proslavery plantation owners to collide head on with each other. After the Civil War the nation suffered greatly in social and economic departments. America was moving downward as a nation. Many of the nation’s leaders tried to rebuild the nation as a whole which began the reconstruction period. Reconstruction was hard to accomplish…

causing death by careless driving, which has higher penalties, including mandatory disqualification and the option of a custodial sentence. With the less serious cases of careless driving where a collision was a result of an error of judgement by the driver because of the reporting requirements for collisions the police are involved, many police forces do offer the option of driver improvement training as an alternative to prosecution. Besides that, demerit points given to careless drivers.…

Many new drivers find car insurance impossibly expensive; this causes many people to not only have difficulty paying for it, but some also avoid purchasing car insurance all together. Young people driving without car insurance causes unnecessary dangers for all drivers. An inexperienced driver is more likely to get in, or cause, a car accident. If this individual does not have car insurance, they may accrue insurmountable debt. For this reason, finding a way to lower car insurance premiums…