... sex, the military or the combination thereof. These automobiles emerged in "full regalia of fantasy bullets and bombs, breasts, portholes and jets, spears and wings. "Assembly lines rolled off car after car with "frenched"" headlights and "toothy" chrome grilles "-- these "monsters with bedroom eyes "clearly exhibit the blending of the two design staples of sex and the military." American designers ... excess. These effects would fundamentally alter mainstream American culture in the three decades following the close of World War II. The Emerging American Obsession Through the tremendou...

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... that drains your phones battery life and also uses all of your mobile data. Other technology such as a premium audio system also makes a foreign car better than American. Foreign cars usually come with foreign sound systems; foreign sound systems are very crisp and clear because they use foreign speakers which are ... . Having 10 more miles per gallon will save the owner of the vehicle hundreds of dollars a year, which is a great benefit of having a foreign car. Having good performance is key when buying a new vehicle. People like cars that handle very smoothly and are comfortable to driv...

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... gain even better acceleration than using gasoline. The use of a smaller engine by hybrid cars saves space and significantly reduces the weight of the car allowing for better mileage while driving. While gasoline powered cars use twice the power and have twice the engine size of hybrid cars. People ... who drive gasoline powered cars can only gain good mileage from there cars by the manner which they drive their car. This is due to air drag and other technical issues that deal with cars but the thing is that hybrid cars already have this advantage due ... to the use of both batteries and...

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... dark and harmful results of not taking driving seriously. According to the website for National Highway Safety, over 30 thousand people were killed in car accidents in 2013 alone. If that fact is not enough to make us see that a change needs to be made to drastically reduce this ... or into the path of other vehicles. Lastly, speeding is also a big factor to take into consideration when thinking about the main causes of car accidents. A driver who is speeding puts themselves and other drivers in great danger by significantly reducing their reaction time even if they know they ... are abo...

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... current vehicles. Including installation, an after-market receiver is expected to retail for $400 to $500 - about double the cost of a conventional AM/FM system. While focusing on the car market, XM should also find secondary markets where they can also exploit their technology. With 100 million households in the U.S, XM should put emphasis on marketing their product to home ... and paid GM a % of subscription revenue earned from GM cars with pre-installed XM radios. Sony • Created a cradle-mounted version of XM radio that easily transferred from car to car or car to home. • XM issue...

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... Connery broke out of Alcatraz in the movie makes him almost a super hero type. Directly after Connery is cleaned up in the movie he escapes with one of the greatest car chase scenes ever. Connery gets to drive a hummer through downtown San Francisco demolishing everything insight while Nicholas Cage attempts to follow in an absolutely gorgeous canary yellow Ferrari. The entire ... car chase scene Connery is completely calm and looks like he is having fun. He is obviously a very important person to keep in custody and will not escape without an extreme ... a reflection of Travolta's im...

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... unlike foreign design, which should be a pedestal that American designers should strive to compete with. On the other hand, design is a matter of taste according to the buyer of the car. Another comparable difference between American and foreign cars is performance. American cars have been known to have bigger engines, which gives the cars a certain feel to the way it drives ... terms of handling, acceleration, and braking. In distinguishing between performance, foreign cars have higher standards then American made cars. In the point of view of Americans, a foreign car is more expensive...

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... drinking and driving which cause most accidents. Thinking upon this I decided to write about this subject. There have been countless deaths related to alcohol but car accidents while under the influence of alcohol is the top killer. In fact every 30 minutes someone in the U.S.A. dies from an alcohol related crash. ... Alcohol related accidents are also the leading cause of death among American teenagers. In the state of Utah there has been a total of 326 deaths from car accidents, and 26.3 percent of those 326 fatal crashes were alcohol related. Alcohol related traffic injuries cost U....

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... in the last one hundred years. Neither do they account for the fact that cars have been around for only a century. Imagine a day without a car resting just twenty feet away, and how different life would be. Life would be much slower; it would lack the extreme rapidity that exists today. If ... in the wake of our nation's tragedy, the stars and stripes has lost a large part of its symbolic qualities. America's fascination and subsequent need for the car has caused the automobile to become the one icon that has stood the test of time. On a typical afternoon back home, as mom cooks diligen...

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... from the school and hit the corner there was a bright light that we drove straight into. I screamed thinking it was about to be a head on collision with another car, instead we would be sucked into another universe. I turned to see what my father was doing our how he was reacting to our current predicament, but as I looked ... father. Once the bright light was over we went through a few seconds of darkness. The creature sitting next to me then motioned for me to get out of the car. I still sat frozen in my seat unsure of what my next move should be. The creature sat and stared at me wait...

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... multitudes of drivers diverge on the same roads. America has too many cars. In the twenty first century, it almost essential to own your own car to be able to get to work, school, or run errands. Americans have adopted an independent attitude in regards to the use of vehicles. ... or his different schedule, but they could plan around eachother as far as schedules and errands so that as many people could ride in one car as possible, saving them money and resources and clearing up the roads. Overall, Americans need to carpool more. USA Today reports that eighty-two ... to be efficent becau...

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... tools to work with, but they are the most rewarding, and they are the future. Future cars will all be run by computer. You will be able to talk to a car and it will take you to your destination. Telephones are technically computerized. You will soon be able to talk to a person on the telephone as well as look at the ... % more accurate than a doctor's own human skill, which allows for human error where computers are not human so this factor does not exist, hence making them that much more efficient. A car mechanic used to rely on an experienced ear to determine if a car was out of tune. ...

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... uncle and a cousin out of their vehicle and into the rain, for the purpose of searching the car for drugs. Wilkens recalls seeing a young white boy, about six years old, in a passing car with his face pressed against the window and he couldn't help but to think what image will forever be ... see his ID. When the policeman examined the ID he could not believe that Rep. Ford was a member of Congress and that he was driving such a nice car. At which point Rep. Ford told him, "If I was treated this way, I can't imagine how folks who don't have the access to the things I ... the Advancement ...

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... an adult. Today's teachers have either forgotten or they ignore the fact that 16 year-old drivers show off as soon as they get in the car with their friends. Teen passengers can be a big distraction encouraging the driver to tailgate or pass inappropriately, increasing the chance of a crash. Raising ... much time as possible helping them to mature behind the wheel. Parents should discourage the teen from allowing friends to ride along in the car with them or limit the number aloud to ride until they have had enough supervised practice. Insist that they are to wear seat belts at ... the A...

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... a teenage terror behind the wheel is the road test. The main objectives of Pennsylvania's road test call for the driver to show their knowledge of the car's features (lights, signals, etc.), ability to parallel park, and last but certainly not difficult, a short drive around the block. This test contradicts the ... seriousness of driving with its simplicity. My driving examiner put Frank Sinatra on the radio and sung while having me engage all the safety features of my car. Then we moved on to parallel parking, which I never fully grasped, and should have caused me to fail. I forgot to ...

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... cars, yet most of us - a great many of us at least - do not know enough about a car to look in the gas tank when the motor fails. I observed this when my grandma's car broke down once. She had her car towed to the mechanic, and after about a week of it being examined, the mechanic called my grandma and told ... her that the only problem with the car was that it was out of gas. If we were living the ... American dream, would my grandma be so lazy as to have her car stop running and never look at the gas gauge? Would she have spent hundreds of dollars ... getting her car fixed when five ...

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... a teenage terror behind the wheel is the road test. The main objectives of Pennsylvania's road test call for the driver to show their knowledge of the car's features (lights, signals, etc.), ability to parallel park, and last but certainly not difficult, a short drive around the block. This test contradicts the ... seriousness of driving with its simplicity. My driving examiner put Frank Sinatra on the radio and sung while having me engage all the safety features of my car. Then we moved on to parallel parking, which I never fully grasped, and should have caused me to fail. I forgot to ...

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... "plays fair," there are always those instances when injustices may occur, either by accident or by choice. It may be a police officer wrongfully searching a car, or an unexpected visit from the police wanting to search your house on grounds that you are suspected of carrying contraband. The Fourth Amendment protects us of ... documentation. It is the same for when a police officer pulls you over: you must give permission for the law enforcer to search your car and personal belongings. Many people get themselves into trouble by giving the police consent. Once the cop receives permission h...

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... he wants to date or marry, he chooses the career for himself and therefore decides what classes to take at the university. He decides which car to buy, the number of kids to have, he makes the choice on what kind of property to make and what to tell his boss. ... biggest dream come true. The last part of the dream, less significant, although pretty important is having reliable personal transportation, in other words - personal expensive car. Every American kid in his childhood dreams about any type of transportation like bicycle, scooter or a moped. However, when he grows up and his age...

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... by then, we had enough money to move, and we moved to Connecticut. We lived on the south side of Hartford, on Flatbush Ave. That was where we got our car stolen. My dad got a job at a hotel, and he was going to work that day, and he went to his ... car, and it wasn't there. My dad didn't know what to do, because, you don't expect your car to be stolen, and it never happened to him before. So, he called the police, and they eventually found the culprits. After that, my ... parents decided to move to Manchester, Connecticut. Then, we got our car stolen, again. It was the same people from...

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... making the Forbes Fortune 500 or holding a sign on a street corner that says "will do research for food." As a buyer looking for a used car, you know the one you always dreamed of, the more information on that individual car the better you can decide how much your willing to pay for it. Lets say you find several that meet your fancy and ... about each one before you make the economic decision to go ahead with your dream purchase. Do you have and maintenance records to prove that the car has been maintained to the manufactures recommendations? Has the car ever been in an accident? Has th...

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... . I guess they figured putting them behind a desk was the justified punishment for killing an African-American. An example from my personal life comes in the form of a car search. While traveling back to school the Louisiana State Police pulled me over searched my car and told me, when he did not find anything, that he thought he smelled something funny in my ... car. I knew that I had nothing to hide and that there was nothing illegal in the car, but I did not have a choice. Well I did have the choice of telling no, but that could have led to myself and a pissed off officer alone on a d...

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... vehicle and he needs the company to build a safe vehicle. Ford violated the component of justice in need. Two, Ford violated equality. The public was entitled to have a safe car and each car the company produced some vehicles that were safe and some that weren't. All people are the same and therefore all of the cars should have been the same. Three ... a producer were outside their economic concerns and since the people of Ford wouldn't have wanted to be sold an unsafe car, so should the company not have sold an unsafe car. Five, Ford violated entitlement. Every citizen was entitled to ...

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... efficient than the larger models, and, also weren't that well made. Worst of all, American manufacturers, had recently invested money in large car plants, a fact that was almost the undoing of Chrysler. The oil shock had not lasted long, but long enough for America to rethink ... program was terminated in 1994. By limiting the supply of cars from Japan, the export restraints raised the prices of Japanese cars. This increased car sales by U.S. firms, thereby hiking their profits. All of this came chiefly at the expense of American auto consumers, particularly those who ... less Japanese ...

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... fact, in one story, a couple was driving down the lane in late evening and heard the sound of a loud speeding car getting closer and closer. They stopped their car. To their horror, they found themselves in a head-on collision with the speeding car. Horrific sounds of bending metal and breaking glass could be piercingly heard. After a few minutes of recovering from their shock ... , and to their amazement, they realized that they were alone on the road; there was no other car. They were both fine and ... their car was untouched. What an ironic story (Bachelor's grove). Formerly known as...

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