The cars are able to reach top speed of over 200 miles per hour. The seats vibrate as the cars cross the finish line at top speed. ... Some cars are especially designed for drag racing and some are just normal cars that are fixed up so that they go faster. ... Models of the cars are available. ... The children get the chance to see the cars up close and personal. ...
It is a hobby for us; some people like to collect things; we like to build up our cars and race them. So Monday through Friday we work on our cars to get them ready for race night. ... Building up the cars and working on them is half the fun. We also wash are cars on Saturday; right before we go to the races. When I say races you might think I am talking about a track you go and run your car. ...
It was bright when I slumped into my car, parked in the garage of the hotel in which I was staying. ... Within half an hour my car was ripping along the roads at break neck speed. ... The car was parked and sleep was needed. ... He shouted "Good" luck before we got in the cars. ... Valious died almost instantly, his body crushed and cremated between the two cars. ...
You can also get your car impounded and a very big ticket. ... If you are a little unluckier, you will get your car impounded and you also get the ticket. They usually impound your car for thirty days. ... I lost my cousin to a car accident. ... Just go to the Sacramento raceway and don't risk your life or your car. ...
His voice is his job with calling the cars as they move down the line. ... One, to keep the cars and business moving quickly and two, for a source of entertainment for the buyers to keep them interested. ... Brian likes to race stock cars on the weekends at Concord Motor Speedway. ... He spends his Saturdays in the garage in Concord, NC working on his car and getting all the kinks out before the race on Sunday. Racing is a hobby that he said he will not give up for awhile, or at least as long as he can still drive a car. ...
In the short story "Child by Tiger," there are many different treatments of racial differences such as the treatment of the children, the car wreck, and the actions of the "mob." ... The next treatment of racial differences was made after the car wreck. ... Lon Everett, the drunken white man, got out of his car and went racing to Dick and started beating on him. ... The car wreck, the mob scene, and the treatment of the children were all actions of the racial differences that man had created for each other. ...
In the short story "Child by Tiger," there are many different treatments of racial differences such as the treatment of the children, the car wreck, and the actions of the "mob." ... The next treatment of racial differences was made after the car wreck. ... Lon Everett, the drunken white man, got out of his car and went racing to Dick and started beating on him. ... The car wreck, the mob scene, and the treatment of the children were all actions of the racial differences that man had created for each other. ...
A clear example of this is how the police dealt with Coalhouse's (an African-American) car. Not only did they make the car dirty and torn, they also defecated on it, too. Now, it is fairly obvious that only reason that the cops damaged Coalhouse's car like they did is because of his skin color. ... The reason Coalhouse had done this despicable deed is in protest of what had been done to his car and the murder of his fiancée. ... The police and Coalhouse and his gang have a bitter stand off that lasts until Coalhouse gives himself up on a few conditions: his followers (gang) ar...
We find this out through the chatting in the car during the driving test between Marian and the driving instructor. Pg 116-17 The Car is the only main setting of the story. The car is firstly being driven to Marian to the driving test before she drives in the actual driving test. The car in my opinion is symbolic of slavery as strange as it may seem. Towards the middle of the story a description of Marian in the car is, "Marian's hands tightened on the wheel." ...
The opening sequence begins with the camera slowly panning across to a city, it then moves into the town, and into the seat of a car. The car arrives to a house. ... A teenager looks outside the window, to see the car and some black people getting out of it. ...
Stealing the car from Walt was the Hmong's way to show the superiority of their race. At first, Thao believed that the car would prove his loyalty to the Hmong gang, but as he gets to know Walt and begins to understand Walt's values and beliefs, Thao learns that the car represents the integrity and respect that comes from those who earn it, not demand it. ... In the end, Walt showed Thao that he had fully achieved his idea of respect by granting Thao the car in his will. ...
They were pulled from their car, cuffed, and separated into two patrol cars while their vehicle was searched. ... He was pulled from his car, thrown to the ground, pepper sprayed and arrested. ... Items such as nervousness, out of state plates, rental cars, inability to make eye contact, lack of drivers license or insurance information, fast food wrappers, plates from key border states like Arizona and New Mexico, conflicting answers to questions involving origin and destination and maps. ...
Rabinowitz believed that because of these actions, separate schools for blacks were created, poorhouse facilities were provided, and the Nashville Street Railway even started running a separate car for them. ... Rabinowitz stated that when blacks wanted to ride the train, they were forced into the dirty smoking cars with a rough class of whites. Rabinowitz felt that the law that provided separate cars and equal accommodations was right. ... "In their homes and in ordinary employment," as one observer noted, "they meet as master and servant; but in the street cars the...
The mayor's wife, Miss Millie, lived a different lifestyle than Celie which did not require her to work and allowed her to have maids and fancy cars, yet she was still controlled by her husband who refused to teach her how to drive. ... "Mayor _______ bought Miz Millie a new car cause she said if colored [people] could have cars then one for her was passed due. So he bought her a car, only he refused to teach her how to drive it" (Walker 102). ...
American History X Imagine this, you are lying in your bed trying to fall asleep when you hear a sound as if a window just got shattered, you look out your window to see a black man breaking into your brother's car. ... He draws his gun and proceeds out the front door gunning down the look out guy and wounding the man that was breaking into his car. The perpetrators get away car screams down the street at the same time as your brother is firing at it. ...
In the 1980's, American cars were marked with a distinction of poor quality. Since then, our cars have vastly improved, but the distinction is still planted in many people's minds. If we lower our standards in the white collar force, we may develop the same distinction in our corporate businesses as we have in our cars. ...
Racial profiling is being a set on many young blacks and Hispanic males being stop due to the smuggling of drugs, driving fancy high priced cars with fashionable accessories, or being a suspect of criminal encounters. ... Consequently a majority of males who drive nice, exorbitant cars are not gang bangers, drug dealers, and thieves. ... As a result, Mayor Greg Nickels states in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that he plans to address racial profiling by adding video cameras in every squad car, holding quarterly community forums and improving police training. ...
They see these athletes and rappers with this incredible amount of cash, big houses, nice cars, and all the girls they want. ... A black kid thinks a drug dealer successful since he is making bank and has these nice things that white people has, as a car. ...
"Attaining the street-car conductor's job becomes not only a victory for civil rights, as a result, but also a personal victory for Maya's sense of self" (Walker). ... Anyone can have the cars, the big house with the white picket fence but all of that means nothing if you are not at good terms with yourself. ...
Courtney and his friends " people of mixed European and African blood" were riding on a train to a wedding, when they were approached by twelve white men with revolvers, One told Courtnet: "Say, you look like an intelligent nigger, Don't you know any better than to ride in a first class car?" For the rest of the trip Courtney's group had to ride in the "Jim Crow's car reserved for people of colors. ...
Although the Civil Rights Movement happened over 50 yr. ago, racial harassment is still predominant today. Usually when people think of racism, they tend to think of white on black, or vice versa. However, Indians have their fair share of discrimination as well, as displayed in "Pow Wow Highway". ...
For our final dramatic criticism, I chose the film, Monster's Ball. This film illustrates the joining of two races and cultures in a small segregated town. The plot revolves around a white racist police officer, Hank (Billy Bob Thorton), and a black, soon-to-be widow of a death row inmate, Laticia (...
Rodney King's Question In Allan Johnson's book, "Privilege, Power, and Difference," Rodney King's question he asked was, "Can we all just get along?" In all actuality, I do not believe that this world will be able to get along with one another. There is still slavery, discrimination, p...
Tim Mclauren's except from Keeper of the Moon, depicts the joy and sadness of interracial friendship. These kind of friendships are normally good depending on the kind of bond between the friends. Friends that have grown up with each other and have been together for a long time, like Tim and LJ in ...
