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    Timing Belt Essay

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    The timing belt on your vehicle may seem insignificant. After all, most people don't think about replacing this belt until their car stalls in the middle of city traffic or a busy freeway. Some vehicle owners may never have even heard of a timing belt before. What is it exactly and what is it's purpose? Let's take a closer look and try to answer some of these questions. This notched synthetic rubber belt is reinforced with fiber cords. It is responsible for coordinating the operation of the crankshaft

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    Stitches: A Short Story

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    Stitches I was watching my uncle rebuild his dune buggy engine.I walked to the cooler to get a drink. I was walking to the camp fire. When all the sudden I was bit by a dog. I looked at my leg. Everyone was surrounding me around the campfire. It was bleeding there was a big gash in my leg. It hurt bad. I thought about other times that I was hurt like the time hit my knee well riding my bike. We bandaged and iced it. It was big. It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt. We were in the car my dad searched

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    drivers’ safety is absolutely positive and right. Maybe the researchers can create a tiny implant which is put into drivers’ brains that could force the drivers to use it all the time in the future, to achieve its aim of truly preventing drivers from accidents. Imagine how it looks like later, when you get to the car, it is already opened, and automatically closed when you leave them. Not only for cars, maybe they will also spread this technology on all the human devices like smartphone and computer.

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    Car crashes can be scary, even if you aren't involved in it. Car crashes can be an emotional wreck; one second you're perfectly fine and the next you are bumped up and in shock. What is something to do when you get in a car wreck? It would depend onwhat kind of wreck it is. If you have been in a wreck and someone is seriously hurt, youneed to wait until an ambulance gets there. If it is a wreck where no one is seriously injured, you can move the cars out of the land of traffic and

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    “I am truly sorry, Miss, but I was just…”Which sounded like bullshit when he said it. He knew it. He was wearing a brown raincoat, and a pair of muddy boots. A standard appearance of a vagrant. “Yea, you were just accidentally lying in front of my door and slept for an entire two hours? That is convincing.” The girl didn’t buy his apologize. She sniffed, folded her arms, with a disdainful expression on her pretty face. “Now, get lost!” She shouted. He looked up at the sky, it was completely dark

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    news that driverless cars are coming to our roads, should we be discussing what will happen when the cars has to choose between the safety of its occupant and the safety of the road users.” (Wise) Will the car drive itself off a bridge to avoid an accident? Or run into the side walk to avoid hitting a pedestrian are all the serious questions brought up by people. Self-driving cars have the potential to change transportation by “providing transportation options for the elderly

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    drove slowly they would be okay. The next morning, Sam’s parents woke up to an officer knocking on the front door. Sam’s car had crossed the margins in an area where there was no ditch and rolled the car down a hill. Sam was alive enough after the accident to call 911; all the boys were rushed to the hospital, but doctors did not hold high hopes for all the boys to survive. Bella had to rush to work Saturday morning because her boss was having a break down and threatened to fire her for no particular

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    people still do it. Statistics show “even as deaths from roadway accidents are in statistical decline, America wrestles with the epidemic of cell-phone-distracted drivers,” (Stuller Para 1). Police have been cracking down on drivers that use their cells phones during driving. Studies show that it only takes about four to six seconds for someone not to be paying close attention to their surroundings on the road to cause an accident. Studies show “In 2008, nearly 6,000 people died in crashes involving

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    by 40%. The GDL is available in all 50 states. Since the decrease of teenage accidents have been declining some states are making the GDL a law in the state. Car crashes are the number one death of teenagers, a lot of these deaths are by the use of technology and not buckling up. To begin, the National safety council reports that “28% of vehicle crashes”, are caused by the use of technology (Klass & Roney 5). Many accidents are caused by teens looking at their phones and the use of social media behind

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    experiencing what may be déjà vu, from the dream that she had earlier that day. The dream was about her being in a car drowning and she could not escape and her cellphone than began to ring. Which is what may be happening to her now, she is in a car accident after texting on the road and the phone that she was using to text get thrown into the backseat as if its trying to tell her that the text messages could have waited. A blank feeling also comes across to the audience because everything moves so fast

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