Everything has a trade-off and opportunity cost. Electric cars are no exception. The first thing that caught my attention was the mileage. In the article and video‚ Rick Peters’ electric car only goes 25 miles per hour. You cannot get very far with that‚ especially since the farthest you can go in it is 30 miles per charge. I drive a Toyota Camry‚ and I drive 9.2 miles every day to school. It takes me 12-15 minutes to drive to school. If you ignore the speed limit on the roads (it is 55 mph)‚ it
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White Sweatshirt Red Bandana When I got out of the Army I took a job as a Security Officer at the Exeter Job Corps. The Job Corps is a place run by the state where young people ages 16 to 25 can go for their High School diploma‚ GED and vocational training. The Jobs Corps offered competitive wages‚ a great benefits package and gave troubled kids a second chance at doing something with their lives. What they failed to mention was the Exeter Job Corps was one of the most haunted places in Rhode
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An essay is a short piece of writing on a topic and presents the author’s point of view on the matter. It is a pure non-fiction presentation of the writer’s outlook on the topic that is the focus of the essay.1 An essay should be structured in different sections that make it easy for the readers to read and follow the author’s thoughts clearly. It is composed of the introductory paragraph‚ supporting paragraphs and the summary paragraph. The introductory paragraph is the first paragraph of
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individual and the community. In the essay “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ by Gloria Anzaldua‚ the author talks about her childhood in Texas and how she was restrained from speaking Spanish because it wasn’t seen as “American‚” instead she was told to speak English. We soon learn that her actual language is Chicano Spanish‚ which is a cross between Spanish and English and because of it she is looked down upon by both English and Spanish speakers. Throughout the essay she struggles with her own identity
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I don’t know what it is about racing‚ but I really enjoy going to the track. The combination of all the cars racing‚ the smell of the smoking tires in the burn out lane‚ and the adrenaline that flows through your body as the cars line up just does it for me. Watching the cars going down the quarter mile of black pavement at a high rate of speed simply amazes me. There are so many different cars at the track racing. From a 1970 Chevelle to a brand new 2003 Corvette‚ and sometimes if your lucky
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When I was younger‚ I used to always go to my grandparents house. Even though they haven’t lived in their old house in a while‚ I will always remember it. It is a place I loved and have many memories in. My grandparent’s house was my home away from home. They were very hardworking‚ caring‚ and strict and the way their house felt reflected their personalities. The house I will forever have embedded in my mind was located in the rural town of Bovina‚ Texas. This was the house my father and his twelve
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My favorite place is sitting on my back porch on an early summer morning. The small concrete back porch sits in the back of my home near the woods and the garden. The area is very isolated and peaceful. There are no sounds of human life‚ cars or anything to alter nature. After awakening in the mornings‚ I remove the everlasting sleep from my tired eyes and walk to the small warming porch. I enjoy this time alone to gather my thoughts and feelings for the day. The old iron furniture squeaks
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whole entire life and it is a boring city. There isn’t much someone could do. Downtown is small and we don’t have a lot of varieties of restaurants to choose from. Then are mall only has one floor and has a few stores to shop from and the only good about Sioux City was that there was hardly any traffic. I’ve always wanted to leave the city and go somewhere else in the united states and explore. Until one day my Uncle bought us plane tickets to Anaheim‚ California I was super excited to experience a
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The Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Merger Introduction HP (Hewlett-Packard) In 1938‚ two Stanford graduates in electrical engineering‚ William Hewlett and David Packard‚ started their own business in a garage behind Packard’s Palo Alto home. One year later‚ Hewlett and Packard formalized their business into a partnership called Hewlett-Packard. During the 1940s‚ HP’s products rapidly gained acceptance among engineers and scientists. HP’s growth was aided by heavy purchases made by the US government
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Hertin‚ Minna ENG 101-1 October 17‚ 2013 Car vs. Bicycle Have you decided about which transportation you want to ride on? In the world‚ the climate is getting warmer than before. People should decide which transportation they should get it. People now days know that the fossil fuel and burning gas can make the world to get warmer. We‚ the people know that the ozone layer. We know that burning fossil fuel can destroy the ozone layer. If the ozone layer destroys‚ the world will get warmer and
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