Toyota Camry

"I 'm going straight home," I said to my roommate, Alex. "I 'll see you there." I started the engine of my Toyota Camry. I put it in reverse and exited the parking lot. As hit the brake before getting on the main road, my car died. It had been doing that for a week now, I still hadn 't got it checked out. I started the engine once more, and continued driving. I was just leaving work and headed back to my dorm. I had class at nine the next morning, so I was in a rush to get home. I reached my…

“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861). Charles Dickens quote speaks on how one day in his life…

Owning a car is expensive. Between the price of the vehicle, financing costs, insurance, taxes, and maintenance, owning one —let alone two — cars can drain your bank account quickly. Paying close attention to how much your vehicle costs also presents an opportunity — buy and own a car the smart way and you could save a lot of money each year. Here, we look at how much a car really costs so you can compare your expenses to the average and find areas where you could try to save. And we settle an…

high tariffs protecting the motor vehicle markets of most Asian and Latin American countries obliged the major automakers to set up local assembly. [Table 4.12 about here] Different companies has pursued different internationalization strategies: Toyota and Honda had expanded throughout the world by establishing whollyowned greenfield plants. Ford, which had initially internationalized by creating wholly-owned subsidiaries throughout the world, extended its global reach during 1987-1999 by…

In the “The Land of Opportunity” by James W. Loewen in Chapter 8 in the textbook ‘From inquiry to Academic Writing’ it talks about how many American students and the American children base themselves off of others. In the first paragraph in “The Land of Opportunity” claims that many middle class student know little to none about how the American class structure works nor about how it has changed over time. They soon jump to the hypothesis that most high school students come out of high school…

We have all heard the saying “nobody is perfect” right? People say it repeatedly and famous entertainers, like Hannah Montana in her prime, sing about it in every other song. We hear the quote daily to cope with the mistakes we make, but do we fully understand the context of the phrase? I ask this because it is important to recognize that literally nobody is perfect. That means that Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, and Abraham Lincoln have all made millions of mistakes in their lifetime, yet we still…

advance the rights of “dangerous” and “scary” Black people was, to my parents, the equivalent of sneaking out to go to a booze-filled party to take shots and snort cocaine. After about a forty-minute drive in the passenger seat of a Toyota Camry, I arrived at my first destination outside of the Long Beach Police Department. My nervous teeth rattled as I stepped nervously out of the car, putting myself into unfamiliar territory. There I was, a five-foot-two spoiled little middle-class…

In “Save the Earth, Buy Less,” Jared Blumenfeld points out, “Americans have become deeply addicted to consuming. If it’s cool, if it’s trendy, if it’s shiny, we buy it” (par. 6). In today’s brand conscious world, everyone likes to buy new things in order to look modern and more fashioned. In my opinion, this concept is destroying society by increasing: personal debt, poverty, and unemployment. Furthermore, this concept is also time wasting because everyday people go to the stores and they spend…

I was sitting in the elementary school near my Blue Hill street apartment. It was period 8 and 9 language arts class, one of my favorite studies. Mr.Morrissey, my teacher was teaching us how to compose introductions. I was no longer sitting by the Other June, and I was gratified for that. And I was gratified for a surplus of things, but little did I know I was about to feel gratified for something much more imperative, my mother. With the events that took place, I thought my mother was going to…

That car was the Ford Taurus. But that feels like a lifetime of Camrys and Accords ago. Ford did not produce a competitive family sedan for years, and even briefly killed off the Taurus name. Now Ford is back with the redesigned for 2010 Fusion. The Fusion is a midsize family sedan, and thus the true successor to the…