The Accident: A Short Story

A. The concept of Normal Accidents is as simple and as complex as the systems it describes. Bell relates to his readers a theory first presented by the sociologist Charles Perrow. The theory of Normal Accidents propose that today’s technologies have become both too complex and too intertwined for accidents to be avoided. As Bell points out, some systems, such as a nuclear power plant, are more complex than others, like a university. The complexity of the system depends upon how “coupled” each individual part is to one another, or in other words, how dependent or independent a component of a system is.

"Missy," someone yells as I run up the stairs into school. I turn around and see Julia, we haven't talked since the car accident, "Missy, wait can we please talk about what happened, you know I would never want to hurt your brother on purpose." I think, then say "Listen, you were the one driving, were you not?' She slowy nods her hed, " And you were also drunk with my brother and your sisiter in the car right?" "But Mi---" I cut her off, i don't want to hear all of her poor excuses trying to convince me that it wasn't her falt. "I don't want to hear any of it just... just get away from meI I don't want to speak to you aymore." I look and see the pain on her face. but I just can't I cant fall for it again. "Now if you'll excuse me, i

What do you get when you mix drugs, a man named Fuckhead, and drama? A Denis Johnson story. Drama is a prominent and key aspect that appears in all of Johnson’s work. Johnson’s work demonstrates various uses of multiple techniques and ideas that young writers can understand and apply to their own work.

Tyler, TX-The bigger piece of Texans will be incorporated into a car accident at any rate once in their lifetime. If they are blessed, the accident will be minor and they can leave with minor injuries, however again and again a car crash is completely serious. As opposed to leaving, the losses are hustled to the mending focus and face a staggering recovery. These losses will normally need to search for compensation from the individual who made their injuries so they require fathom the state's up close and personal harm laws.

We had just left his Dads house after driving there to look for his dad. We decided to take his truck instead of the BMW. It was horribly hot and humid. The humidity was almost palpable. It was as if you were wading through a hot, steaming bowl of soup. He had just turned 16 and was obviously inexperienced. We didn’t care though. We drove with the windows down jamming out to music. It didn’t matter how hot it was we were just enjoying our days of summer. Little did we know, we wouldn’t be relishing in this hot summer day much longer. We had just passed NAPA, the auto supply store, heading south for his mothers house. She lived down one block and two to the left. At the stop sign we stopped for a moment, changing the song to bruno mars’s “When I Was Your Man”. I leaned out the window, crooning out the lyrics. He accelerated and started to cross the highway.

In the fall semester of 2012, four teenagers at the high school I attend died tragically in automobile accidents. One of the students who lost their life was my cousin Acasia Lee. She neglected to wear her seatbelt while operating her vehicle and she died because she did not have it on.

Stereotypes are the organizational factors that virtually shape the way we think in 20th century America. They somehow manage to categorize some of life's most complex matters into nice distinct sections. Classifications and organization, at first glance seem to be useful in distinguishing various aspects of modern life. However, these grouping methods can be very inaccurate, leaving erroneous ideas in the minds of citizens on a global level. Stereotypes, though originating as convenient sorting mechanisms, instead, influence our thinking process. Crash depicts numerous characters and brings them together through carjacking, car accidents and shootings. The movie Crash represents the nature of race relations in America. Most of

In the recent years, the United States government has been enforcing stricter mandates on auto manufacturers to create safer vehicles, and on construction companies to create safer roadways. Matthew Jensen wrote a dissertation for the Graduate School of Clemson University titled, A Methodology for the Analysis of In-vehicle Operating Data and Design of Intelligent Vehicle Systems for Improved Automotive Safety. In his abstract, Jensen evaluated the future of vehicle manufacturing and traffic-related incidents. Of course, every year more vehicles are manufactured, which in theory means the number of miles driven in vehicles increases. He points out how the World Health Organization (WHO) found that automobile crashes was the ninth

After, reviewing the movie Crash. Crash, it shows how conflict can be created and how people can become connected by conflicts. In addition, there were a lot of examples that referenced in this week in class. There were a lot of conflicts, and interpersonal conflict. During week four we learned about empathy the texts reminds us that empathy is defined as putting yourself in another person's shoes or imagining another person's thoughts and feelings. When you feel empathy for another person, you began to identify with him or her and understand his or her thoughts and feelings; you are able to vicariously experience another's feelings and thoughts (Sole, 2011.Empathy was the main issue ,the people in the movie had their own problems and

Tires squealing, smoke streaming across the ground, and motors revving against the silent night. Two incomparable cars lined up against each other along a desolate stretch of roadway. The scent of burning rubber singed the night air, while the glare of the headlights lit the path that would soon become a motor warzone. I was sitting at the wheel of my car with my head sticking out of the window, gazing at the stars, and cringing my face at the rotten stench of my opponent's car. My adversary shouted at me, asking if I am ready to start this race or if I was afraid of losing to him. A silent smirk spread across my face, and forcing back laughter at his comment, I raised my thumb up in the air. I got back in my seat, and buckled my seatbelt, because if I was going to risk my life, I might as well be safe about it. I revved up

“We have to get them out of there!” I heard voices yelling out in the distance, but was to lightheaded to know where they were coming from.

Crash. One, two, no, three plates hit the floor. I could for all intents and purposes feel my spirit drain from my body as that sound rung throughout the restaurant. I paused for a moment to recollect my thoughts, looking up to see a collection of dirty plates, bowls, and pans stacked nearly a foot high on the shelf and beginning to collect around my feet as there was nowhere else to put them. With a stack of plates so tall, the grease had allowed a plate to slip and take several others with it to crash onto the stone floor. Ah yes, this was dinner hour, the busiest hour of the night, on Friday, the busiest day of the week in general, and it was my first week on the job. Straightaway came the manager, Rachel, as well as a few of my coworkers. She looked to see glass scattered

It’s a dark rainy night. You and your family are coming home from a late night family party. As a car is coming through an intersection another car cut in front of it. The driver decides to hit the brakes so you can avoid the car, but as he presses the brakes, the car loses control on the slick wet road. He is not able to gain control and at that point he has endangered the lives of himself and many others on the road. This is just one example of the many types of things that occur in our streets everyday. All that would have been needed to avoid this situation would have been a traction control system in his car, which would have detected that the car was skidding and would have applied the brakes to

Life is unpredictable and an accident can happen anytime. on our way back home from church my dad was driving a black 2012 Toyota Highlander, which is a family car that seven people can ride in it. My younger brother, Taw Nay Gay, and I were sitting on the seat behind the driver seat by the door. My other two younger brothers, Gay Nay Soe and Soe K Maw, sat in the seat behind me, and my mom sat in the front passenger seat. For the first time a nineteen year old girl like me started to believe that I had a reason to live and my life could be taken away anytime. This happened on October first 2017, 7:30 pm when we got into a car accident by the traffic lights intersection. Three cars were damaged, but everyone in the cars were fine.

Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime, anywhere. "According to the National Safety Council, which stated that more than 2.5 million collisions back every year, making it the most common type of car accidents, it is also known that the accident rear end as incidents of injury, because the nature of the collision leads often in whiplash injury the driver in the car in front and about 20% of people who participated in a rear collision injury symptoms of this kind. ", (NHTSA, auto-accident-resource.com). Among the car accidents, the teenage group is the only age group who is number of deaths is increasing instead of decreasing. Also, all the people are exposed to risk and actually every one of them has got car