... a day for building and rebuilding nation's roads, and motor vehicles have much things to do with land loss, air pollution, global warming and ozone depletion (2). To solve this U.S. car culture problem, I have searched for solutions as follows. First, I will explain basic causes of environmental impacts. Second, I will examine constructive actions practiced by individual, environmental groups or ... grassroots groups. Finally I will think about some basic solutions that we can practice individually. [Basic causes of environmental impacts] I think that U.S. car culture is a result that s...

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... the single most polluting thing that most of us do." This is not a new problem. In the 1950's the Los Angeles smog made headline news. Car exhaust causes health problems. There are many solutions to the problem. Laws were enacted as long as twenty years ago to control pollution caused by cars. Since then laws have ... health of the people who live in the United States. Some solutions to the problem are: cutting down on the number of cars, traveling at steady speeds, and keeping your car in good shape. You should never over fill your gas tank. You should always use clean gas. People sho...

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Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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... racing team and in return can use their association with the team for commercial purposes. The most obvious examples of this relationship are company logos, which advertise the products of a car's sponsors and are commonly seen on the outside of vehicles during races, but companies also use racing as part of public relations, marketing, entertainment, and employee relations programs. ... and for sports cars. These competitions receive less attention in the United States, where the most important race series are those for Indy cars and for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (N...

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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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... it being set aside in someone's pocket and not going anywhere. One of the new industries that helped the boom is the car industry. Henry Ford had the idea to create a cheap car that people can afford and help create a cycle of prosperity. He used mass production techniques to be able to build the ... would be in charge of the wheels while another was in charge of the engine or another car part. It took less time than if each assembled the car piece by piece before starting on assembling another car. Since people needed to be trained in one aspect of the job, the workers were mostly ......

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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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... consequences of airbags, when people disregard the power of airbags. The first great step forward in preventing fatal and serious injuries with airbags is for car occupants to always wear a seat belt (Bourke). With seatbelts and airbags the chance of no injury is 80 percent. Passenger airbags have been ... to purchase the procession of products necessary for the safe transportation of children. Although children make up nearly 20 percent of the population, the car industry has yet to design and build cars that afford the same degree of crash protection for children as for adult's equipme...

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... be some type of skill and physical talent to what they are doing and NASCAR has both of those. These amazing drivers must know the inside of their car and how to control it, so they don't end up crashing into the wall and rolling all around the track. They must take tests to be ... football where there's a half time show and commercial breaks, the only thing a NASCAR driver gets are cautions and when they go into the pit to fix the car, that only lasts a couple seconds though. In sports like baseball, basketball, football, and hockey they all are competing for one thing and that is to w...

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... the United States, there would be no chance for an intoxicated driver to get behind the wheel. This will automatically prevent millions of drunken driving car accidents and thousands of deaths, creating safer roads for all citizens in our country. DUI's occur daily in the United States. A DUI is ... would save thousands of people from experiencing the inconvenient consequences that come from receiving a DUI ticket. Drunk driving is the leading cause of car accidents and fatalities in the United States. Every time drunk drivers get behind the wheel, they are not only putting themselves in...

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... fit through. This is because one, making sure that every driver and pedestrian could see the hologram clearly to stop in time, and two, a car or pedestrian needs to touch the hologram for the teleportation system to activate, so if they can squeeze through a hole, then the teleportation system would be ... meaningless. The teleportation system works when a car or person hits the hologram when it's red, so they will go back to the spot they came from to prevent an accident. However, if those ... are the only functions, then there would still be accidents from a car being teleported on a...

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... Gatsby symbolizes the American dream. In the 1920's, the American Dream was something that everyone struggled to have. A spouse, children, money, a big house and a car meant that someone had succeeded in life. A very important belief was that money could buy you anything. One look at Gatsby's past and it could be seen that ... it would lead to a better life. Jay Gatsby thinks money is the answer to anything he encounters. He has the best of everything. The nicest car, the largest house, and the finest clothes. Jay has everything except what he most desires, Daisy. Appearance is another ...

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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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... he told me. One night he and a few friends (who were also black) were just driving around in Hammond, Indiana when they pulled up next to a police car at a stop light. When the light changed he noticed that the officer proceeded to follow them for several miles which then was followed by the officer pulling them over. ... DeMico had no idea what he was being pulled over for (he knew there was a police car behind him so he was being very cautious) and when he asked the officer he got no response. Along with all of his friends he was asked to stand ... with his hands on the hood of the c...

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... for they both began designing cars for the "common man." Porsche began designing cars in 1900 for Lohner, who wanted something other than a gasoline powered car. Porsche developed the Lohner "Electric Chaise" which had an electric motor on each of its front wheels. In doing that, it was the world's ... front wheel drive vehicle. Porsche also designed the first four-wheel drive vehicle when he added electric charged to each wheel. In 1902, Porsche developed a car that we are trying to build today, a hybrid. The vehicle had a engine in the front which would drive the batteries in the rear ...

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... have no way of finding this out. We find this out through the chatting in the car during the driving test between Marian and the driving instructor. Pg 116-17 The Car is the only main setting of the story. The car is firstly being driven to Marian to the driving test before she drives in the actual ... driving test. The car in my opinion is symbolic of slavery as strange as it may seem. ... Towards the middle of the story a description of Marian in the car is, "Marian's hands tightened on the wheel." (Pg 116) I thought it was like ... she was stuck in this car almost stuck in hell for ...

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... even short distances, can be extremely dangerous. You may be stuck at a party with no ride home, but be sure not to drive drunk or get in the car with a drunk driver. If you chose to ignore this advice, then you could be subjected to consequences like receiving DUI. In more severe cases, you may kill yourself ... drive yourself home. You are five minutes away from your house when you see the flashing red lights behind you. The police officer asks you to step out of the car and walk in a straight line. You fail to do so and you are arrested with the charge of a DUI. "DUI means "Driving un...

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... slowly edged toward the six-foot ditch on the side of the wet, saturated road. He suddenly awoke and swerved to the left. The car hydroplaned and flipped over. None of the passengers had on seatbelts. The car rolled twice and landed on its side; none of them survived. At 16 and 17 years of age, teenagers see driving as a "show and ... conducted by John Hopkins University, the crash rate for young drivers was about four times higher when they had three or more passengers in their car when driving alone. Teens are influenced by who is in the car with them. Cockiness overpowers a teen's co...

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... be in the automobile industry, when a new line of cars come out they have properties and characteristics of the older version. People would not exempt an entirely new style of car that was completely different than anything seen before. Thus, a car manufacturer keeps some of the old while building new cars. Then as change occurs over extended time, characteristics of the old ... car are completely gone. A similar approach must be taken with the introduction of a new and potentially abrasive historical fact. The scientific community must slowly introduce the ideal of a new history to .....

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... . Well there are a few laws and fines that the racers must pay for partipating in this illegal sport. One you can be arrested and have your car impounded for 30 days. If convicted of street racing or aiding and abetting a street race, you can be imprisoned for up to three months and fined ... up to $1,000. Spectators are subject to penalties as well. Your driver's license can be revoked. Your car insurance may be cancelled or the rates dramatically increased. And Cars in and around illegal street races are often issued equipment violations. There are a lot of ... different cars that are...

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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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... from sixteen to eighteen. In the past few years, especially in the spring and summer, we have been hearing more and more stories of the needless deaths of teenagers in car crashes. Frequently, the higher crash-rate is ascribed to factors associated with being young. A major part of the brain that is developing during adolescence is the part that deals with ... by certain social situations, such as pressure from peers. These youth-related factors presumably decrease in importance as the driver ages. It should be kept in mind, however, that driving a car is a complex skill requiring coord...

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... thirtieth birthday. Proprietor Michaelis that he had locked his wife up. Later, Myrtle runs in front of a car from the city, and is killed. Nick resumes his perspective as Tom's car pulls up to the commotion at the garage. It becomes clear that the "death car" was Gatsby's. Arriving back at the Buchanan's, Nick finds Gatsby keeping a watch for Daisy, worried about Tom ... . Nick gathers that Daisy was driving the car that Myrtle ran in front of because she probably believed that Tom was in it. Wilson then found out that Gatsby killed myrtle and shoots Gatsby. Later on nick sets ... ...

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... into the atmosphere. Using public transportation, walking or biking to school or work, or if you must drive, join a carpool and use a car that gets high mileage are suggested to lower carbon dioxide levels. The EDS also recommends using energy-efficient appliances in your house, weatherizing your ... oil and gasoline, and that we should still limit the burning of even natural gases. It is also suggested that the government should create car-less cities, where citizens can only walk, ride bikes or use public transportation to get around inside the city. Yet another suggestion is ... an af...

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... that hydrogen power has not taken off is that there are thousands of jobs in the petroleum and coalfields. Really who would want to own a car that requires about 20-30 cents per mile in gas expenses when you could basically pull up to the water hose every month and fill your tank ... 2000 or so miles? So demand for petroleum products would sky dive and thousands of jobs would be lost and no one except the Water Company, car Alternator/generator Company and the battery company would profit from it. People would also so angry about losing their jobs over such a change and boycott ... the a...

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