Racing

became an escape from the past year. Purchasing the band's CD became my heart's only desire and money was no object; I'd listen to that one song over and over as it became the soundtrack to regaining control of my life. "From the backseat of my car, racing down the street, Feels like I'm moving backward," I sang loudly in my car matching the song's crescendo perfectly for the thousandth time. Alone, I sat in my garage letting the song finish, my Prius…

achieved through attempting to reconcile with “conflicts and contradictions inherent in contemporary girlhood” (Forman-Brunell and Eaton, 2009, 359). The Bonnie and Sam series comprises of four books: The Shadow Brumby (2007), The Circus Pony (2007), Racing the Tide (2008) and Saving Mr. Pinto (2008).…

purchase either an Audi or a BMW as their vehicle, is convinced to invest their money in Audi. Through a montage of videos, the advertisement shows that in every competition there must be a loser. The scenes include a father beating his son in toy-car racing, two colleagues facing off in…

steering wheel. As my car traveled another hundred feet, I noticed that my opponent slowed down very quickly, almost as if he slammed on the brake. Now for whatever reason he slammed on his breaks, it definitely wasn’t good. Two thoughts immediately came racing into my head: his car might have overheated, which was highly unlikely, or there was a cop shooting radar ahead and I just didn’t see it in time and was probably about to be busted. Now that seemed more likely and boy it was so true. The…

When we think about the word sport, should we think that it’s about physical involvement, athletes, teams, skill, or a goal? However, should it always have a physical activity in it or, does it have to be in the Olympics to be called a sport? Sports should not be thought to be only physical activities, but mind and skill as well. In seeing the training that goes on into any type of sport can be stressful, even in chess, and the effects of stress can exhaust a person, even when they aren’t doing…

with Bugatti at Mathis and Deutz and had followed him to the new venture at Molsheim. Friderich was a good engineer and a competent racing driver. The Bugatti T13 was entered into French Grand Prix at Le Mans in 1911. The tiny Bugatti driven by Friderich, looked out of place at the start of the race, but took first in class and second overall after seven hours of racing. Compared to Hémery's 6-Litre Fiat the Bugatti must have appeared half it's…

In the passage, “The Last children in the Woods,” Richard Louv describes how times have changed since he was an adolescent boy. Louv argues that modern technology has caused the youth population to become disengaged with the world and instead engaged with their screens. Louv employs first person, vivid diction, emotional appeal and anecdote to convince the reader to stop the madness that technology has done to the world and instead look towards nature and a more simplistic life. Louv…

Every festive season, there is an intense clamour, in the media and on the high street, in the bedrooms and living rooms of family homes over what the biggest and most in demand Xmas gifts will be. Many years it is the latest games console, with the Wii being extremely popular over the last two years and I remember when I was young (which isn't too long ago I assure you) one Christmas praying for a Tracey Island, from Thunderbirds, as my number one among the Xmas gifts I wished to receive that…

Human Threats: For both of these species the common habitat is the Marram grass and fresh water regions within the Nature Reserve. As there are many contributing factors to the loss and damage of both of these habitats, it is difficult to pinpoint which factor causes the most destruction. Habitat loss and fragmentation, an overall decline in groundwater quality, water pollution incidents, water shortages and predation from feral populations such as ducks and competition from introduced exotics…

Good, Ulrich thought, the fool believes I have put this feud to an end, perhaps when my men arrive we can lift the tree off him, then throw him down a very precipitous hillside, with his current injuries, it would kill him most definitely. Or maybe he will simply put a bullet in him and end his miserable life, he will not be to picky as to how his life ends, there is no need for me to scourge him, just as long as I know that it does. Now Ulrich would simply just wait, if his men come first I…