Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) Why are they Used is Heavy Vehicles? ABS is used to prevent car and truck accidents on our roads. Looking at statistics‚ it can be said that the introduction of ABS has reduced the amount of accidents involving heavy vehicles on our roads‚ decreasing the number of fatalities. If we are able to prevent crashes‚ this will save a lot of people’s money on repairs. Another reason that ABS is good on heavy vehicles is the saving in tyre wear. It is estimated that ABS
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Chapter Four ABS Training 4.1 What is ABS? Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) is a combination of vehicle hardware and software that work together to maintain steering control and vehicle stability during hard braking. Initially developed as a special option for topof-the-line models‚ today’s ABS units are compact‚ easy to service‚ inexpensive and widely available. Now every major automotive manufacturer offers some form of ABS vehicle control that provides safe‚ maximum braking under all weather conditions
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Steinbeck‚ John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Penguin Books‚ 1965‚ 107 pages This is a novel that takes place during the latter stages of prohibition and the depression era. It centers on the pursuit of the American dream. There were many who dreamed of possessing it‚ but only two men dared to embark on the journey. The two farm workers seemed to be on a lifelong mission to possess the goal of many others‚ during that era. As‚ the men navigate through the affairs of life‚ the pursuit of the
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Blackbird; The Silver Beetles: “ Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free.” Relates to Tom Robinson’s trial and how he only wants to be free but he can’t because of his skin color‚ and the racial prejudices people have within the 1930s. Strange Fruit; Billie Holiday: Relates to the Lynch Mob and the ultimate fate of Tom Robinson’s life. To Kill a Mockingbird Suite; Elmer Bernstein: A musical suite
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Tarring and feathering is a type of open mortification‚ used to authorize informal equity or retribution. It was utilized as a part of medieval Europe and its provinces in the early cutting edge period‚ and also the early American boondocks‚ for the most part as a sort of crowd retaliation (look at Lynch law). In a run of the mill tar-and-quills assault‚ the swarm’s casualty was stripped to their waist. Fluid tar was either poured or painted onto the individual while they were immobilized. At that
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Daniel Sou Strange Fruit “Strange Fruit” is one of the best poems written around the topic of segregation and racism. “Strange Fruit” was produced in the late 1930s‚ the same time that African Americans in the South were being lynched by white supremacist groups in the days of America’s Abolition movement. Throughout the movement‚ the stress on seeing no evil and hearing no evil at this time was strongly enforced. Yet‚ Abel Meeropol expressed the horrors that African Americans experienced throughout
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What were lynchings in the South‚ and how did the southern police deal with it? Lynching was a way to kill those who were not white and those who opposed white supremacist views. It was a means to kill someone (mostly by hanging) for an alleged offense with/ without a legal trial. The points that will be addressed include facts about lynching in the south‚ crimes that led to being lynched‚ and what southern police did about it. When the South lost to the Norht during the Civil War‚ lynching became a
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unspeakable practice of lynching in America. The time period (mostly between 1880 and 1940) where lynching of African Americans took place was one of the darkest and most sinister times in American history. Thousands upon thousands of innocent people were murdered and disgustingly toyed with at the hands of Whites for no reason other than sick‚ twisted amusement and to keep the belief of White Supremacy alive. When I looked at those photos in both the article titled “Lynching in America‚ Confronting
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Article Critique The Southern Roots of Ida B Wells-Barnett’s Revolutionary Activism By Rychetta N. Watkins Before Ida B Wells-Barnett expanded her revolutionary essence to the north‚ and even all the way to places like Britain; she began her long journey to activism deep in the heart of her southern roots‚ in Memphis. In the article‚ The Southern Roots of Ida B Wells-Barnett’s Revolutionary Activism‚ by Rychetta N. Watkins‚ Watkins reconstructs Ida B Wells’ life of activism‚ feminism‚ and leadership
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decisive explanation to the past multiple acts of lynching in America. In the past‚ Caucasians were seen as superior to African Americans. Lynching was one of the many acts that gave whites this superiority. The gruesome act of lynching was overlooked by the nation as a whole. People didn’t think anything of it and some seen it as entertainment. At the Hands of Persons Unknown could be seen as a tool to open up the eyes of people and show how serious lynching was in its time. The historical question that
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