Tram Essays

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister examines the battle of good vs. evil and the deception of appearances. The novel contains the intertwined plots of a struggling mother fighting against poverty and her mission to find a husband for her most eligible daughter, and a struggling painter attempting to make a name for himself in the art world. Both plots are unified by their focus on beauty. The tale begins when Margarethe and her two daughters return to Holland after her husband is murdered by their

Room 101 Creative writing The thing that I sincerely believe should go into room 101 is plane flights. Plane flights vary in time from 47 seconds from two Orkney Islands just 1.7 miles apart to 22 hours and 50 minutes from London to Sydney (this is bad but it is worse if you sit next to my brother). The first reason why I believe that plane journeys should be in room 101 is when you occasionally get that child that sits behind you and constantly fidgets and kicks your chair. This is aggravating

Loss, pain, happiness. Three feelings that are not usually put together, but are portrayed in both the poem, “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, and the memoir Upon the Head of the Goat by Aranka Siegal. In the very beginning both families are a happy bunch until an unexpected change in events turned their lives around drastically. Each piece also demonstrates that each family lost someone, things went downhill fast, and both mothers were put into a situation where they were helpless. The poem

In Ann Hite's suspenseful masterpiece, Ghost on Black Mountain, five women become unknowingly connected by one man, Hobbs Pritchard. The story begins from the point of view of Nellie Pritchard, who gives up everything to move to her husband's home on Black Mountain. She quickly notices that Hobbs is not well liked on the mountain. Through Nellie's interactions and conversations with other characters, including several ghosts, readers uncover the reasons why Hobbs is hated and often avoided by the

There are many companies working on self driving cars, including Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Tesla. However, driverless cars have caused many accidents, some even end up fatal. Self driving cars are unsafe because they are at a high risk of being hacked, having an incident happen that the car cannot administer, and the cars are not predictable enough to put peoples lives in danger because of mistakes. Self driving cars are vulnerable to getting hacked. Everybody has heard of computers

It’s a pretty frightening statistic that about a quarter of speeding tickets in the US are issued in error. If you’ve ever been slapped with one of these fines, then, you may be wondering how many of them you could have actually dodged in the past. Shadowing, cosine angle faults and RFI interference are all common errors when it comes to traffic cops issuing speeding tickets. Whatever the problem was, the most important thing to you is probably how you can get off the violation! Here’s a brief guide

Years ago, one could get in a car and not worry about getting hit by a spectrum of distracted drivers. Distracted driving was not a problem, as cell phones were not as mainstream as they are today. The act of texting and driving has become so popular as the technological society evolves. Undoubtedly as phones become more mainstream more people will engage in the unsafe and hazardous conditions of texting and driving. The state of Florida knows just how immense this problem is, yet lack to put any

The movie is set in 1954 and begins with Ray Kroc, who is a salesman or a hustler, making a pitch to an owner of a drive-in about a milkshake machine. He and his wife Ethel live in a big house in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Ray is very committed to his job, which requires him to be on the road quite a lot; however this has created tension between Ray and Ethel as Ethel wishes that Ray would be as interested in her as he is in his job. Ray’s job involves him making pitches about new merchandise that

Have you ever been to a beach in Mexico?I have and the one that I went to was big and beautiful.It was a bright sunny morning and I was just waking up in our hotel.I realized today was our first day in Mexico.The rest of us were waking up and getting ready to eat our breakfast and start the day. When we were done eating our breakfast and we went to go walk on the sandy beach.When my family and I were down on the beach we started to collect sea shells.My grandpa and grandma were helping

Consumed with Vanity In the essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” (1983) by Alice Walker exhibits the effects vanity had on her from a young age until she became partially blind due to one of her brothers accidently shooting her eye with a BB gun. Because of this incident, Walker was forced to confront her fears—not being beautiful and never looking up—regarding her physical appearance using rhetorical strategies to help contribute to her struggles of becoming comfortable in her own skin

Drunk driving, or officially driving under the Influence (DUI) of alcohol, is a major cause of traffic accidents throughout the world. A report of Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India says during the year 2011, there were around 4.98 lakh road accidents, which killed 1.42 lakh people and injured more than 5 lakh persons, many of them are disabled for rest of their lives. Crashes due to drunk driving are serious danger not only to the drivers themselves but also to the public

Imagine driving the entire length of a football field at a speed of 55 miles per hour with your eyes closed. That is the equivalent of sending or reading a text that takes your eyes off the road for 5 seconds. While it may seem very minor to take your focus off of the road for only a matter of seconds, the consequences of distracted driving can result in devastating injuries or possibly even death. Distracted driving can range anywhere from texting, eating, putting on makeup, or even daydreaming

ABSTRACT: Driver impairment due to drowsiness is known to be a major contributing factor in many motor vehicle crashes. More than 30% of the road accidents are caused by the fatigue of the driver. At present, there are various drowsiness detection systems available in the market. These systems are implemented using any one of the various implementation techniques such as detection of any behavioral pattern, changes in physiological conditions, or vehicular motion. Consequently, the accuracy of such

Most teenagers look forward to getting their license and permit to be able to get behind the wheel of a car and drive without parents. The problem with this is many teenagers take advantage of that privilege and become reckless drivers. The government has put laws in place which prevents teenagers from driving alone for the first year and keeps laws in place so teenagers can’t abuse there laws. Meanwhile, many adults still argue the safety on the road even with restrictions in place. These laws

Reflecting on the advertisement by the U.S. Department of Transportation, there is much to aware of as a society, as the organization presentes distracted driving as a serious issue. The alarming advertisement, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration quotes a guilty driver, “I was looking out for other cars. I didn’t see the mother and child in the crosswalk” ( Pedestrian PSA ). Underneath the quote is a picture of a turned over, bent, and empty stroller on the crosswalk. By using this specific

On November 4th, 2008, Japanese conglomerate Honda Motor Co., Ltd. recalls 4,000 Accord and Civic automobiles due to the detection of a potential defect in their airbags, which were manufactured by automotive parts supplier Takata Corporation. Since then, over 31 millions automobiles containing Takata technology have been recalled (Timeline: Takata Air Bag Recalls). Over the last 9 years, there have been 11 deaths and around 180 injures attributed to the defects in Takata airbags (Takata Airbag Recall

A major character, Mr. Weems, in the book December Stillness by Mary Downing Hahn dies near the end of the book in what seems like a tragic accident but even though his death was tragic, it was not an accident. He intentionally walked out in front of the car which struck and killed him. December Stillness is a novel about a girl named Kelly who tries to get to know and understand a man named Mr. Weems, who is severely haunted by the acts which he and others committed in Vietnam and who would come

The way that society is in this generation makes people think that they are invincible and nothing can happen to them. Not wearing their seatbelts is one of the things that people believe they don’t have to do, and there will be no consequences. All it takes is one accident and all of those ideas and reasoning’s that people have will go out the window and reality sets in. Don’t be another statistic just put your seatbelt on and save everyone the headache. The law should always justify that seatbelts

Two opposite demographics statistically are the most dangerous on the road. New drivers are more prone to mistakes being inexperienced on the road. On the opposite end of life, as health problems and mental deficits appear in older age, the risk of accidents becomes higher. This is backed up by a study the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration did, which showed that among both genders the age groups 16 to 20 and over 65 had more crash fatalities than the other age groups (Chang). Therefore

The average car insurance premium for safe drivers is substantially lower than high risk drivers. If your car insurance premium has been increasing because of your driving history, it's never too late to reverse that trend by turning a new leaf with your driving habits. You will have to focus 100 percent on your driving, drive defensively, and obey the traffic laws. One of the most important of these laws is the one many drivers routinely violate: not speeding. Why is it routinely violated? Because