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Diesel Engines Sports Cars
1,107 words... With the new diesel engine in production, trucks were able to be built bigger and have more horsepower. As a result the semi-truck was born. The semi truck became a substitute to the train. The semi was the largest production truck built for heavy-duty trailer pulling truck. The semi would tow a large trailer on the back. The trailer would be filled with what ever item that need to be transported in mass quantity to areas that a train could not reach. The semi became the king of the road bec...
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Drug Addict Fire Department
823 wordsHero Worship When asked to conjure up descriptions of a hero or heroism, many people would imagine similar scenes. The firefighters pulling a family from a burning building, a soldier saving his platoon from certain death, rescue workers pulling a stranded mountain climber from a precarious ledge, and the Knights of the Round Table saving a damsel in distress, are all examples of the common hero. Many people display heroism in everyday life but are rarely recognized either by their peers or by t...
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Johnny Stecchino Dante Meets Maria
688 wordsRobert Benigni is one of Italy's top movie stars, on the order of Harrison Ford or Steve Martin; he is called The Clown Prince. In this 1991 comedy classic, Benigni plays Dante, a sweet school bus driver who talks about as fast as fast can get. He also happens to be an exact replica of Johnny Stecchino, a tough-talking gangster whos on the run after squealing on the other Mafiosos in power. Unfortunately for Dante, he bumps into Johnny's gorgeous wife Maria as she almost runs him over. She not o...
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Walk Her Home Hale Bopp Logic
710 wordsLOGIC IS NOT PRACTICAL Who needs logic? Logic is but an entrapment? a false sense of security to let us rest easy at night. Countless numbers take solace in the world in which we live, a world we know virtually nothing about, by forcing themselves to believe that if something is intangible, or unimaginable, it is impossible. The Spanish told Christopher Columbus in 1492 that he was setting sail on suicide mission when he discovered North America. Logic had told them, from the beginning of time, ...
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Categorical Imperative Rational Beings
1,766 wordsWhat makes an action moral? Is it the action itself or its consequences? These are questions that are not new to me, I have been asking myself that ever since I thought I knew what good is. Two separate views have been brought to my attention lately, two different philosophies, the Kantian philosophy, and the Utilitarian point of view. And the only way I could think of to decide which of the two I agree with, is to integrate each of them into an example, a situation, and see how they hold out. T...
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Pied Piper Narrative Voice
1,137 wordsThe Sweet Hereafter Novel compared to the Movie The Sweet Hereafter is a gripping tale of a small U. S town and the people who dwell in it. A saga of four vivid, sensitive souls linked in a school bus tragedy: the bus driver, the widowed Vietnam Veteran, the lawyer who tries to shape the heartaches of the towns people into a winning case, and the beauty queen, Nichole, who was left crippled by the crash. The novel was written by critically acclaimed author Russell Banks, from which spawned the O...
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