Legal Analysis Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company Facts In 1972 a Ford Pinto‚ purchased six months prior‚ unexpectedly stalled on the freeway in California. The Pinto was hit from behind by a Ford Galaxy‚ erupting into flames instantly. The driver of the car‚ Lilly Gray‚ suffered from fatal burns and died a few days later in the hospital. The passenger‚ a 13-year old boy named Richard Grimshaw‚ was also severely injured from burns‚ which caused his face and body to be permanently disfigured. After
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GORDON BENNETT Gordon Bennett was born on 8 October 1955 in Monto‚ Queensland of Aboriginal and English/Scottish heritage. Bennett enrolled as a mature–age student at Queensland College of Art in 1986 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) degree in 1988. Gordon Bennett is a contemporary artist and says his earlier art work where influenced by his personal experiences. Bennett’s work is defining Australian Culture and Aboriginal History‚ he wanted to change the way Australia and the
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Jules Bennett is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance. Bennett wrote her first novel in 2005 and has never looked back since going on to write more than 50 bestselling titles spread over several series. Writing for several publishing house such as Kensington and Harlequin and also self-publishing on Amazon‚ she has written the Hollywood‚ Royals‚ Mafia Moguls‚ Scandalous‚ The Monroes among several others series and freestanding novels. One of the most prolific of writers she writes
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The tradition to watching television cartoons is a child’s fantasy; a fantasy that was created hundreds of years ago from a man known as Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a famous artist and businessman who created the world of cartoons. Disney had a great passion in cartoons and children. He wanted children to have their imaginations lightened by magical characters that would inspire them. Disney‚ as a child‚ had once said‚ “Dad‚ I’m going to make the name Disney famous.” That is when his dreams came
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give a good point on the subject. Bennett does however give some
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Clint Eastwood’s contemporary film portrays Walt Kowalski‚ a former Korean War veteran and Ford auto worker‚ who lives in a rundown Hmong neighborhood in Detroit that previously was majority white. Walt is a racist who ends up taking Thao‚ his Korean neighbor‚ under his wing after he tried to steal Walt’s Gran Torino. While there friendship slowly develops‚ Walt teaches Thao how to become a man‚ takes on a gang that is a bad influence on Thao‚ overtime becomes close with his Korean neighbors‚ but
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bias was bases for the 2001 class action lawsuit of Streeter et al. vs. Ford Motor Co and Siegel et al. vs. Ford Motor Co. for possible age bias. The legal accusations of gender and race claims were dismissed in the Streeter lawsuit but age was still a legal accusation. Ford Motor Co. denied any legal accusations of wrong actions in either lawsuit (The Union Times‚ 2001). “The reverse-discrimination lawsuits claimed that Ford ’s employee evaluation system preferred candidates of diversity -- mainly
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singing classes for as long as I can remember and still do today‚ whether it’s choir at school‚ Indian classical music or singing with my vocal group in Seattle. Therefore‚ my personal interest is singing which led me to find the book Rival by Sara Bennett Wealer. When I read Rival‚ I compared it to how my interest of singing was approached in this book. There were similarities and differences‚ which can be good or bad for the novel because the way the novel had presented this interest may not have
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Artist: Gordon Bennett Gordon Bennett‚ born 1955‚ is an Australian artist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Gaelic descent. Born in Monto‚ Queensland‚ and now working in Brisbane‚ Bennett is a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art. Born in Monto‚ Queensland‚ of Anglo-Celtic and Aboriginal ancestry‚ Gordon Bennett grew up in Victoria from the age of four‚ when his family moved back to Queensland‚ to the town of Nambour. He attended high school in Brisbane‚ attending Brisbane State
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Unbecoming of Mara Dyer” by Michelle Hodkin is about a girl named Mara. Mara might look like your typical teenage girl that attends high school‚ but she is not anymore. Mara was involved in a horrible accident that left her as the only survivor while all of her friends died. Mara and her family relocate to Miami‚ FL. She has to begin school in the middle of the term while dealing with her post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Then‚ she meets Noah‚ and falls in love Mara Dyer doesn’t think life
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