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optimal fuel efficiency, as the article states, is just around forty-five miles per hour. A human driver will drive much faster than this, as they are limited to only about half a day before they must stop. Some might say that going only forty-five miles an hour would make these trucks terrible when it comes to delivery time, I would disagree. With only eleven hour days, a human driver would need to speed at roughly ninety miles per hour to arrive at the same time as a self-driving truck would…

Photography captures and preserves the significant and insignificant moments in life enabling mankind to broaden its understanding in a world where man regularly interacts with one another thousands of miles across an ocean. Nothing, however, can replicate the unfiltered, first-hand experience one undergoes, yet many forms of art, including photography, are conduits through which man may attempt to share such an experience. Each medium of art, consequently, is subject to the natural biases with…

Having to grow up in the American society during a period of changes and turmoil. Miles Davis was one of the African Americans who had the courage and willingness to stand up for what was right by fighting for equality. Being a man of music, Miles used his music to show people their desire for equality through his songs. Miles Davis’s music style reflects the civil rights movement through the changes, evolution, and presentation of his music. Jazz music had a specific standard to it, Davis…

Throughout the centuries, the Catholic Church was the subject to criticism for their flaw in their structure and system, and disappointments for their actions to common people. More and more people of Europe were beginning to lose their faith in the church 's leadership, and also believed that the Church was overly obsessed with money. One man by the name of Martin Luther ignited a group of people who believed that the Church had fallen away from the teachings of Jesus and their meanings. These…

The movie “Fruitvale Station” by Ryan Coogler was based on a true-life story. Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old black man that had lost his job and didn’t tell his girlfriend until two weeks later. Oscar was in prison before. The day of his death he decided to change. He gave away his weed to a friend and wanted to start over, but found it challenging. He cheated on his girlfriend, but loved her because he thought of proposing to her. He really loved his daughter and wanted the best for her. His…

Was Durkheim right in his analysis of suicide? Intro/ Definitions of suicide / Brief on Emile Durkheim/ Brief on his study in context, considering time period. Emile Durkheim was a French sociologists whom studied the rate of suicide. Durkheim selected three countries in particular, these countries were England; France and Denmark. In his studies he states that “suicide was a solidary act, the causes had significant links to various social factors.” Durkheim’s aim was to find similar social…

Emile Durkheim was an influential figure in the French school of Sociology. In his piece “The Elementary Forms of Religious life” (1912), Durkheim examines religion not exclusively as pertaining to church, but instead as an important societal function (Appelrouth and Edles 2016). “He sought to explain why the moral realm focused so much on religion” (Appelrouth and Edles 2016). In his book, Emile Durkheim uses concepts such as social facts, the moral code, symbols, and the distinction between…

OT2100-Week Three-Laws in Leviticus Paper According to Victor P. Hamilton (2015), “In Chs. 17-27 the primary focus is not so much on how God’s people are to worship as on how they are to live; those who worship a holy God will aspire to live holy lives and appropriate the resources that a holy God makes available to them to so order their lives” (p. 282). In Leviticus Chapter 19:19, recorded are laws against mixtures. It is not clear as to why this group of laws would appear here especially…

Article Summary Criminological research has a heavy presence of studies testing social bond theory. One such study, done by Michael Cretacci, tested religion as a social control. Throughout the article Cretacci claimed that Hirschi originally had data on adding religion as a social control, but for some unknown reason excluded it from the theory (Cretacci, 2003). Cretacci used that missing piece of history to see the effect that religion has on violence across developmental stages. In order to…

Parker's Ri Bop Boys which was recorded in November 26, 1945 at WOR studios in New York City. Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys consisted of Curly Russell on bass and Max Roach on drums. Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie played piano on most pieces while 19-year-old Miles Davis played trumpet. This song was in the Bebop genre which is part of jazz. The song I will be comparing it with, is “Take 5” composed by Paul Desmond and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded on July 1 1959, at Columbia…