Personal Essay about car accident Essay

In Steve Almond’s essay taken from his book Against Football, he discusses the negative side effects that come with playing football. He shares how such a violent sport like football can go from good fun to a terrible tragedy in seconds. Using an early memory of Patriots’ wide receiver Darryl Stingley getting leveled by Jack Tatum of the Oakland Raiders, Almond plants his opinion of the hard hitting sport into readers heads. Watching a traumatic hit on public television has the potential to…

transport system is dominated by motorcycle. According to General Statistics Office of Vietnam (2013), the approximate population approximate of HCMC is 7.750.900. HCMC has a total administrative area of 2.095 km2. The average population density is about 3.699 in habitants per square km. HCMC population projected to reach ten million by 2020 (HOUTRANS, 2004). Besides, Statistics of the HCMC Road Traffic Police Department shown that, by the end of March 2013, the total number of motored vehicles…

This essay analyzes how Nietzsche’s and Epictetus’s work can be used to form a philosophical anecdote for the irrational rule of reasoning known as awfulizing. Awfulizing can be defined as perceiving a situation to be as bad as it possibly could be. Awfulizing can occur when a person begins to look at aspects of life in a negative way, which is considered an irrational way of thinking about a situation. For instance, when a friend or family member dies, theft, illness, injury, financial issues,…

or three channels, typewriters and a few of the lucky officers bought their own expensive word processors. Today the radios have banks of 50 channels or more, there are in-car computers, automated finger printers, body cameras, personal cell phones that are as robust as computers, eTickets that printout in an officers car to surveillance cameras that can turn complete darkness visible. In the last 20 years there have been more advances in law enforcement technology than in the prior 187 years…

spend a relaxing day at the mall together. We were driving down the street, listening to music, and having a great time. We were on a mission to buy a new pair of shoes. All of a sudden… BANG! A huge truck drove through the red light smashing into the car. My mom and I were flipping over and over, the glass was breaking, flying into my face, slicing into my body. I could not feel my face anymore. The next thing I knew, I was lying in a hospital bed, I could not feel my body. My ears were ringing…

neither side can be 100% right or 100% wrong. In my opinion, social media should be looked at as a good thing, for a various amount of reasons, which I will go over later on in this essay. There's a decent number of reasons why social media should be considered a good thing. One of those reasons, actually becoming personal to me; social media opens opportunities for you by showing your potential to a murch larger group of people, instead of a small group. For instance, a well-known bass fishing…

In my analysis, I will focus on the essay, “The flight from conversation” in the textbook “From Inquiry To Academic Writing” Which justifies Sherry Turkle 's argument about the use of electronic devices. In this writing, Turkle composes many claims about electronic devices taking over face-to-face communication. Turkle used her allegation on personal experiences and not factual claims. Turkle points out that “We have sacrificed conversation for mere connection (Paragraph 1).” This statement is…

towards science and technology. In this essay, I will discuss David Suzuki’s views in his essay: “ It Always Costs”. There are certain points that I agree with him, and some others, which I strongly disagree. Science and technology, just like everything in our lives, have costs. However, almost all people are so enthusiastic to celebrate every new invention regardless of their costs. I cannot imagine asking people to stop using their mobile phones, computers, cars and washing machines…etc.…

In Heather E. Douglas’s essay “The Dark Side of Science”, she mentioned that scientists should be responsible for their discoveries that are used to the awful advantages that they could be used for. Scientist who makes these discoveries may know what they can endure. Scientist usually knows how there discovers will end up, but mostly they do not think of the reproductions that could happen if they ended up being used for the wrong intended purposes for that particular discovery. Douglas writes…

Based on this statement, this essay will investigate the reliability of memory on eyewitness testimonies, considering points from both sides of the argument. This argument will be discussed by talking about two different studies related to the reliability of memory on eyewitness testimonies, where one supports the idea that eyewitness testimonies are reliable, while…