These shreds belong to cars-- the Honda EVs (electric vehicles)‚ to be exact. In the thought-provoking documentary‚ Who Killed the Electric Car?‚ director Chris Paine looks into the birth‚ rise‚ and fall of the electric car. This 2006 documentary explores this issue in an almost story-like way‚ a suspenseful murder thriller. With twists and turns at every corner‚ it is hard to see who is the real killer. Chris Paine uses humor and sadness‚ real-life accounts‚ and hardcore statistics and clear sequential
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Who Killed the Electric Car? Out of the many different kind of cars on the road today‚ one car stands above the rest. With its zero emissions and sleek design‚ the General Mortars EV 1 was unstoppable. This car runs entirely without gas or oil of any kind. It runs only on electric power which makes it very eco-friendly. This car was the answer to the smog problem in California and would soon be able to help stop global warming and more of our planets environmental issues. So‚ why are there none
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Who Killed The King Of Spain? (By:Mikha During May 1527 – the year of 1598 Phillip II was the ruler of Spain and also other regions because of his marriage to Queen Mary I. While Spain was under the ruling of King Phillip he died on September 13‚ 1598. After his death no one was able to label the cause of it‚ even now people are still not sure how the king of Spain died. There are many possibilities like murder or even illness but between the two it would be more appropriate to state that King
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Millions of people worldwide take part as spectators to the sport of prize fighting: better known as boxing. In a 1962 essay entitled “Who Killed Benny Paret?” the author‚ Norman Cousins‚ writes about the dangers that come with the sport of boxing. He especially talks about a match that resulted in the death of a boxer named Benny Paret. Cousins argues that boxing is just a show of violence and that boxers put themselves in the ring just for the simple purpose of entertaining a crowd. Even though
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum opus‚ The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence‚ idealism‚ resistance to change‚ social upheaval
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The Great Gatsby SS Questions 1. A tragic hero contains a fatal flaw‚ and is responsible for their own downfall. Jay Gatsby reflects a tragic hero as in loving Daisy he causes his own downfall. Gatsby continually loves Daisy for five years. Gatsby and Daisy fell in love before he left for the war‚ and vowed to wait for each other. Circumstances arise and Jay is unable to return from the war as soon as he had hoped. During this time Daisy meets Tom Buchanan‚ and marries him; however‚ Gatsby does not
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made him ill‚ but again and again‚ Bravo stuck to his story about taking the laudanum to treat his toothache before going to bed. Laudanum was commonly used in the 19th century for pain relieving effect (Jones‚ 2006). It was very strange for someone who is dying to be so calm and collected so the police concluded that Bravo indeed had committed suicide. However‚ a hundred years later‚ it was uncovered that tartar emetic could cause a person to be in a tranquil state (Henderson & Johnson‚ 2009). That
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Oswald: Lone Assassin I believe Lee Harvey Oswald worked alone when he killed John Kennedy. According to Biography.com‚ Oswald was on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository when he shot Kennedy. There were many eyewitnesses that could identify Oswald. There was also evidence of Oswald’s rifle he used that had empty bullet shells next to the gun. Oswald was an outsider and a loner and had an admiration for Kennedy. I know Oswald was the lone assassin because there were eyewitnesses
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Nick Carraway- He is the narrator and main character of the novel The Great Gatsby. After Nick graduated from Yale and served in World War I‚ he moved to New York City to learn how to sell bonds. He then moved to West egg‚ which is a fictional area in Long Island to sell bonds. He soon becomes friends with his neighbor‚ Gatsby. Jay Gatsby- He is the character that the novel is titled after. He is a wealthy young man who lives in a mansion in West Egg. He is well known for the parties he throws every
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hit the USA harder than expected. President Lincoln made a plan to save our country called REconstruction‚ he wanted 10% of white southern men to take an oath of loyalty and they were off the hook for almost destroying the country. North or South: Who killed Reconstruction? The definition of reconstruction is the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed. Both Southern resistance and Northern neglect contributed to the death of Reconstruction. However‚ Northern neglect was the greater
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