...Sohail Vakalia Professor Eric Fortier 24th November 2015 ‘Speed thrills but kills’ The increased volumes of traffic over the last decade have caused a tremendous increase in the ratio of accidents that take place on roads. Automobile development has allowed its consumer market to choose from a variety of super cars and bikes. Even though speed is one of the most contributing factors in accidents, it is not always the cause. Do certain modes of vehicles have more chances of getting into an accident compared to others? Studies have shown that those who prefer to ride motor cycles have a higher chance of getting involved into an accident. Throughout this article, we will analyse different reasons and statistics that support this notion. Motorcycles are often seen as a dangerous mode of transportation due to their less than safe structure. Unlike cars, a motorcycle requires immaculate balance and a sharp precision of senses. Due to its nature, small size and speed, motor cycles have a high probability of injuring its riders. The first really successful motorcycle was built in 1901. The people who built it were Michael and Eugene Werner. They adopted the classic style of motorcycle that is used today with the motor between your legs and underneath the gas tank. The word "motorcycle”, wasn't really even used until the end of the twentieth century. Motorcycle meant and bicycle or tricycle with an engine. Some of the kinds of motorcycles were two-wheeled bikes, three-wheeled bikes...
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...Romeo and Juliet is a play about a tragic love story between two lovers from two different families that dislike each other. They are described as “star-crossed lovers” and reference is made to their “death-marked lovers. While some may say it was fate because they didn't plan to meet, others believe it was their choice to die while some believe it was a combination. Juliet choosing to consume a potion to make her fake her death, Romeo choosing to drink a poison so he can die, and Juliet choosing to stab herself at the end. Juliet choosing to consume a potion. The potion was from a man named Friar Lawrence and which helped marry both Romeo and Juliet. Before Juliet drinks the potion she ,”Farwell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have...
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...Is Google making us stupid? ENG 111-29b Professor Ruth 09-10-2012 Davante Williams Once I read this article by Carr I began to think about what Carr was trying to say and explain to the reader this quote explains the idea that the Internet has not only completely changed our lives forever but that nobody really knows how the Internet is making and changing our world. I definitely believe that the Internet has changed my viewing of the world and made my life a whole lot easier. Along with the fact that the Internet has made my life easier, it has also made me a much lazier person just by the simple fact that I can type anything into any search engine, such as Google, and receive an answer just by a simple “click” of my mouse. It really has made me think and wonder what life would be like without Internet, I seriously cannot even imagine it. I have grown up with Internet and do not know life without it. I consider myself to be somewhat of a lazy person and tend to slack in some areas of my life, I have been seriously considering if I did not have Internet to simplify my life’s needs that maybe I would become an overall less lazy person. I think chances are high for that and that I definitely would become automatically less lazy. I definitely agree with the author in the sense that Google, along with everything on the Internet, has made the human race a much lazier group and rely on a piece of technology instead of relying on each other and trying to improve ourselves as...
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...* ------------------------------------------------- Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he doesn't drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize...
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...alive. For example, “Where the infectious pestilence did reign,/ Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth./ So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.”(5,6,10-12). In this scene Friar Lawrence is talking to Friar John about the letter he sent to Romeo explaining Juliet’s plan to drink “poison” so they could run off together. Coincidently, fates plan fell into play and made Friar John get held up resulting in Romeo not getting the letter and missing the fatal information he needed that would have kept him alive. Romeo getting the letter meant he would be aware of what was going on, and not freak out and take such drastic measures. Therefore, fate is a large factor in being responsible for the young...
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...progresses when you’re drinking. It stops when you stop drinking. And when you stop drinking, you can heal much of the damage from the disease if you change your diet. Alcoholism fits the definition of disease. Like other diseases, alcoholism impairs your health by damaging your cells. Like other diseases, it interrupts your body’s vital functions, causing specific symptoms. And like other diseases such as cancer, if it’s allowed to continue long enough, it’ll kill you. But as a disease, it has an ironic twist. The agent causing the disease acts like a medicine that cures the symptoms. Alcoholic drinkers actually feel healthier when they’re drinking. Pain and sickness seem to disappear. Unfortunately, the sense of health is artificial. When you drink, you relieve yourself of the symptoms only. Meanwhile, inside your body, a disease process rages. Drinking wears out your body and actually speeds up the aging process. Your cells live their lives in the fast lane of high blood-sugar and toxic invaders, grabbing a few thrills, but choking on the poisons. You get physically sick more often. Or you feel some slight sickness which lingers and is hard to pinpoint. When cells don’t get sufficient nutrients, or if the cells are harmed too often by toxins in the blood, they stop performing important functions. After a while, whole groups of cells begin giving out, and organs begin to...
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...months into 2015, this movie, Lucy has been hitting theater headlines across the world. It has consistently received diversified opinions from movie critics. From what I can see on the online reviews, it has received both positive and negative criticisms from all over the world. It leaves a lot of questions than answers as to why there is so much fuss around this particular film. Confused about what to believe in, I opted to watch the movie, albeit with an open mind. Lucy is a Sci-Fiction film, filled with some action and adventure. It is about a young girl, a student, who gets involved with a drug dealing boyfriend. Her boyfriend asks her to do a single drop inside a hotel while he waits outside. But the drug lord has other ideas, he kills the boyfriend and forces the girl to transit his drugs, hidden in her stomach. The drug bag busts open and she is exposed to the drug. The content of the drug sends her brain into unprecedented over-drive, manifesting the real powers of a human brain. She acquires enormous supernatural powers; she becomes a great warrior, able to understand everything around her, ranging from languages, medical conditions to mind reading. She is also able to travel through time, from the past to the present day. The movie is faced paced, quickly moving between time. The parallel transition between Lucy’s story and the simultaneous lecture in which the professor tells his class about how the brain operates is quite amazing. The directing is as fast...
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...Return to Neverland They say that Disneyland is a place where all your dreams come true and as a seven year old girl, my dreams did come true. One can never expect the sights and sounds that emanate from this massively giant unknown world I was about to enter. As I walked past the statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse and through the walkway of Cinderella’s castle, I could feel my heart pounding in my ears as if a bass drum was my brain and being pounded with excitement. Going back as a nineteen year old was just as exciting. In some ways it was better. I felt like a little girl again. I was able to remember a lot more. The scenery was much the same. The flower bed of Mickey’s face was just as beautiful as I remembered it to be. The crowds and the heat were about the same although I don’t remember it ever feeling like I was in a 105 degree sauna all day long. Both times that I went to Disneyland, I felt like royalty. I felt as if nothing in the world mattered except that I was with my family and I was having the time of my life. I don’t remember not liking any of the rides except Its A Small World. I couldn’t stand it. It is about a thirteen minute ride and I wanted to get off after the first five minutes. Being tall for my seven year old age, my knees hit the seat in front of me and I felt like I was being scrunched into the fetal position, with my knees up to my chest making it hard to breathe. The ride played the same music over and over again in different languages...
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...Poaching: The Storm of Extinction The epidemic of poaching has rocked the country of Africa. The generous profit of Ivory in Asia and lack of income opportunities is seemingly forcing innocent people, who are simply looking for a means of survival, to kill elephants for their tusks. In order for survival of families, elephant poaching has become a significant source of income in Africa. Because of this, total extinction of these majestic animals is becoming a very real possibility and studies show that sadly enough we are swiftly working towards that. Here we will discuss the scope of the issue (what, when, where and why), regulation efforts of the poaching and the projected future of the outcome of poaching. When I first heard about poaching...
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...while. Snatch captures the mood of Tarantino’s work but avoids the slickness of dialogue, the polished brattiness of the American’s self-conscious patter. In this film, Ritchie allows the camera itself to do all the truly cool stuff. The voices – deliberately roughened, broken, sometimes completely indecipherable – stammer and stagger and lurch their way between threat and crisis. It is the camerawork in this film, however, that is granted the smartest trickery, gets the best laughs, and the cleverest lines. Writer/Director Ritchie sets the pace fast, and the camera seems compelled to follow, dashing from character to character, updating narrative threads, eliding great slabs of time in glorious fast motion (Dennis Farina’s Avi manages to speed from New York to London and back in several hilarious seconds) and pausing only momentarily to catch a breath before launching helter-skelter into the next sequence. This pace, and this directorial flair for story telling, character and style are the film’s greatest assets. Snatch is a film to be ridden for the sheer joy of the ride. In a break from its ancestors, the emphasis is not on its cleverness, although the film does indeed possess such qualities. Ritchie for the most part avoids the sort of...
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...The American circus has a unique and often overlooked importance in American history. The first American circuses began shortly after the country was founded, and as the country’s population grew, moved West, went through the Industrial Revolution, and opened its gates to the world, the circus followed. Indeed, in many cases the circus provided people’s first view of new inventions, exotic animals and peoples, and popular entertainments. The history of the circus is in many ways a microcosm of the history of America. The history of a circus dates back to the ancient Roman period, when the first circus, or Circus Maximus, was founded. Soon after, Circus Flaminius and Circus Neronis also appeared. In Roman society, the circus was very different from how we may picture circuses today. It was used mainly for exhibitions for chariot and horse races, staged battles, displays featuring trained animals, jugglers and acrobats. The circus was important to Roman society as it was the only public event that did not separate men and women. Although the layout and the acts of this infant circus is much different than today, the circus still brought much joy to the public. The story of the first American circus begins with John Bill Ricketts, who set up a circus in America. Although his circus career only lasted seven years, he managed to befriend President George Washington, tour the East Coast, Canada, and the West Indies with his company, and present America a new type of entertainment...
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...IIBM Institute of Business Management Subject Code- SAFETY MANAGEMENT Reg. No. P13/12/DL7450 Answers: Section A: Part 1: Q.No.1. Ans: c. Sweep. Q.No.2. Ans: b. Overtaking on the left. Q.No.3. Ans: c. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Q.No.4. Ans: a. Loss of Production Q.No.5. Ans: Behavioral Based Safety Q.No.6. Ans: Personal Protective Equipments Q.No.7. Ans: c. Executing Q.No.8. Ans: c. Both a and b Q.No.9. Ans: d. All of the above Q.No.10. Ans: c. Attitude behaviour culture Part Two: Q.No.1. Ans: The 5 E’S for accident prevention are: 1. Engineering: Higher level of safety could be achieved through engineering controls only. Safety should be integrated with engineering from the stage only. 2. Education: By providing proper education the accident rate can be reduced / prevented. 3. Enforcement: In some instances drastic measures or penalties may become necessary to prevent the spread of unsafe practices. 4. Enthusiasm: All kinds of motivational techniques like individual safety awards, departmental safety contests, safety slogan, safety poster, safety essay, spot he hazard contest etc goes a long way to motivate the workers. 5. Evaluation: Continuous evaluation of programs, procedure and performance is a must for improvement in safety. Q.No.2. Ans: With the development in technology, safety is an integral part of each element of operation and any training in operations must include instructions...
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...Abstract This paper explores six articles from the Wall Street Journal about issues in human resources in some organizations. “GM Nears Pact to Cut Hours at German Plants” is co-written by Jeff Bennett and Nico Schmidt. It is about the American automotive corporation General Motors that is in the process of reaching an agreement with labor representatives to shorten the workdays at some of its German plants. The article discusses the impact of this decision on the company and its employees. “Google to Slice Motorola Mobility’s Staff” written by Drew Fitzgerald is about Google’s discusses the downsizing that Motorola Mobility Inc.’s workforce suffered. “Groupon Staff Feel the Heat” written by Shira Ovide is about Groupon’s employees suffering from increasing demands, tougher compensation calculations and a lack of opportunities for promotions. The article analyzes Groupon’s high turnover rate. In recent years, frauds and financial crises have tarnished the public’s faith in business all across the United States. The business world seems to have a “crisis of trust.” HR decisions should result in the greatest good for the largest number of people. The general public is in a constant trust battle with American businesses. With trust being a critical element in boosting and helping restart our economy, business leaders and HR managers should understand what trust is, how to create it, and how to maintain it. Bass Pro Shops is a well-known shopping outlet for rods and reels, camping...
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...The Use of Animals for Human Entertainment Adults take children to the circus, zoo, rodeos, movies, and marine parks to see different kinds of animals quite frequently. When people are young, they grow accustomed to seeing animals in these different environments and do not think of the harm it is potentially causing the animals. People do not typically know the habitats and conditions in which the animals live; they just see charming animals. Animals are being removed from their natural habitats to be placed into captivity for human enjoyment. Numerous animals in entertainment are being treated in barbaric and harsh ways. The use of animals for human amusement certainly involves removing animals from their habitats and putting them into inhumane conditions. Numerous laws prohibit the use of animals in entertainment. Since animals are abused and exported for a few moments of human entertainment, laws must be implemented to protect animals from abuse and exportation for the selfish entertainment of people. The owners of animals in entertainment are often not willing to pay for the costs of large cages or are unable to have large cages for the animals. When these animals are enclosed in small and overcrowded spaces, it often leads to filthy living conditions and animals’ fighting for their territory. Fighting can cause physical injury and weakness to the animals. “A negative side-effect associated with the physical environment provided to dolphins in captivity has been...
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...Hunting Hunting has been around since before man was even thought of and has evolved ever since. Now only a sport, ounce was a skill used to survive. “Hunting is a natural, ethical, and healthy undertaking” (“History”, par1). Hunting is a way of life without hunting nothing would live that’s why we have a food chain. Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat herbivores and bigger carnivores eat other carnivores. “Perhaps one of the eldest activities on the face of the planet is hunting” (“History of hunting”, par 1). Hunting has been one of the oldest activities known to mankind. During the first era of hunting men were to learn how to hunt so they could hunt daily and bring food home every night to eat. The women had the roll of staying home and preparing any meal brought in by the men. Unlike today hunting was used as a key to survival, and wasn’t used for sport. Every piece of the animal that was killed was used and nothing was wasted. The men also used hunting to prove who the bravest warrior was. The better of the warriors would hunt the ferocious animals that were found by their home. Several weapons where used from slings to spears made from wood and stone. To hunt bigger prey they would hunt in packs and the only trophies kept where antlers and teeth. And sometimes the skulls where kept for decoration or as symbols of a clan or family. In the second era which was the growth of civilization the roles of men as hunters started to change. Hunting became a task for...
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