In the past year and a half, NASCAR has revamped its penalties and violation claims towards its drivers, racecars, and the pit crew teams themselves. The new 2014 NASCAR rule book will display a new structure of guidelines that will be easier to read by the drivers and crew members. The list of penalties begins with warnings and then includes six penalty levels: P1 being the least significant and P6 being the most significant. Before the modifications were made, NASCAR had been perceived as racers and team members who would try and play the rule book and thought nothing applied to them. This issue was clearly illustrated in the 1990 Tony Scott film, Days of Thunder starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. NASCAR has true rules and regulations for its racers and this movie falsely portrays the truth behind this. Days of Thunder, a box office hit and Hollywood money maker, captures a love story between wannabe NASCAR superstar Cole Trickle and Dr. Clair Lewicki, Trickle’s psychologist. Cole Trickle has his dreams of becoming a NASCAR superstar when he finds a racecar searching for a driver. He's a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other …show more content…
While Cole Trickle easily maneuvers his way through the rules and regulations, Mr. France ensured me that the loopholes in the rules have been filled with guidelines and more rules. According to Brian France, “Days of Thunder is a false portray of the image NASCAR has built for itself. Everyone on staff and even our racers and crew members know how seriously we take infractions to the rules and we take full responsibility when something goes wrong. The way we conduct ourselves in times of penalties and on race days is always 100% professional. Never once, since I’ve been chairman, have I ever worked with amateurs such as those shown in Days of
During the Talladega 500, Cal Naughton Jr., Ricky Bobby's former best friend, pulled ahead of Ricky, allowing him to slingshot around his car and pass Jean Girard. Though Cal and Girard were teammates at Dennit Racing, Cal disregarded this and jeopardized his team's success to aid Ricky in the movie Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. This moment was crucial to Ricky, he having fallen from grace, going from NASCAR's top driver to being let go by Dennit Racing. The love Cal exhibited was a selfless form of love that was centered entirely around Ricky's happiness, not his own. Because of this selflessness, Cal compromised his own agenda, winning for Dennit, and disregarded personal consequence in hopes that Ricky would win the race. If you truly love someone as Cal loved Ricky, you must sometimes compromise your own interests for their benefit.
The character of Speedway as a place is temporal and spatial; the street of Friday midnight is radically different from the street of Tuesday morning. Daytime drivers quickly change lanes in an attempt to find the one which will deliver them to their destinations the fastest. Speed and efficacy define the daytime Speedway. As the type of driver changes, so does the driver's reason for being there. The weekday commute is replaced by the weeknight cruise. The drivers also become, as a group, less diverse in terms of age and gender. The majority of cruisers appeared to be teenagers. Also, though I saw many young women, the majority of cruisers were male.
The first point I chose for the article is the four types of rage people have. The four types of rage, is Road rage or ‘’Mad driver disease”, Sky rage, Sideline rage, Line rage. In this essay I will explain just one of them and that is Road rage. Dianne Hales wrote in the article that American Automobile Association’s Foundation for Traffic Safety says that road rage or what they call “Mad diver disease” is getting more and more examples, as in the 1990’s the percentage increase 7 percent each year in that decade. Dianne Hales did not explain road rage in detail, so I wrote out the definition of it. This rage is a hostile or crazy action by a driver of a car or truck or other automobile on the road. This is when the driver does oral malign, intentionally driving dangerously and making warnings to hurt other drivers. Road rage can lead to assaults, and collisions that can guide to trauma to other divers and even death to those drivers. I agree with Dianne Hales that this case of rage is getting more common in drivers as I see it happen more often lately. I sometimes see people driving recklessly, like hooting the horn and diving people off the road. For example, I was with my family in
In this essay I will explain only one of them and that is Road rage. This rage is a hostile or crazy action by a driver of a car or truck or other automobile on the road and this includes oral malign, intentionally driving in a dangerous way, or making warnings to hurt other drivers. Road rage can lead to fights, assaults, and collisions that result in trauma to other divers and even death to those drivers. It can be conceived of as an extreme instance of aggressive driving. I agree with Dianne Hales that this case of rage can be called “mad driver disease” and that this type of rage do increase per year because I see it happen. For an example, I was with my family in our car and my dad was driving. It was a rainy day and people were driving really slow compared to sunny days. We were driving along the turnpike and out of know where there was traffic. There was a motor vehicle collision ahead of us and that caused the traffic. The car behind us started to honk the horn after minutes, sitting there waiting for the traffic to move. Then out of know where the driver got out the car and started to scream to move the car. It was a scary moment. Lucky for us a state police trooper seen him and told
In 1952, Ray Bradbury published the science fiction short story “A Sound Of Thunder.” The story was about a hunter named Eckels who goes to a company called Time Safari Inc, which allows hunters to travel back in time to hunt the Tyrannosaurus rex, while he back in time he steps on a butterfly which causes the present time to change. The film version of “A Sound Of Thunder” that came out in 2005 has a similar plot; a group of hunters go back in time at Time Safari Inc. which causes an unknown change in the present that Travis Ryer and Sonya Rand try to find the cause and fix.
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This year at Indy, Tony George and his Indy Car Racing League (IRL)) broke a long standing tradition at Indy and forced another race to occur on the same day. In Michigan the US 500 was raced on the same day by members of CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) in protest to the IRL. It was the first time another race was held opposite of the Indy 500. There were a record 17 rookies starting at Indy because many of the more experienced drivers were racing at Michigan. There was only one driver in the race who had won at Indy before. The IRL had dramatically changed the Indy 500. The IRL and CART are two racing leagues with opposing views on where the sport of auto racing is going. CART is supporting the way the sport has been progressing in recent years. That includes trying to increase the speed of the cars at whatever means possible. The IRL was formed a few years ago under the direction of Tony George. He is trying to make the sport less expensive and safer by using different motors/chassis and slowing down speeds.
In the short story called A Sound of Thunder there is this guy, and his name is Mr. Eckles. And he pays a 10 thousand dollar fee to go back in time to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. He is scared because he does not know if he will come back alive. And there are four other men with Eckles, and their names are Travis, the Safari Leader; his assistant, Lesperance; and two other hunters, Billings and Kramer. Throughout all of the time travel going on there happens to be a lot of foreshadowing in the story.
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The conflict in “Being Prey” and “A sound of Thunder” is different and similar in multiple ways. There are many differences and similarities that you can find in these stories. When you go hunting or exploring, you should know who you are going with, have experience, and know where you are. Here are some differences and similarities in these short stories.
The timeless film Crash, has been known for its substantial intensity and unforgettable actions. Many reviews on the film have been rather harsh because of the multiple narrative tactic, which jumps from scene to scene not allowing any development of theme or evolving characters. Others would argue that the multiple characters with different lives unknowingly crashing into each other helps develop the theme of the movie. The stories of the individuals are woven together and one can see how exactly we effect each other even though we have never met. The movie Crash greatly benefits from having a multiple narrative as it exposes much character development and essential themes.
Although this article appeals to common sense the most, Paul-Mark’s claims are obvious with very good example to back those claims up. Readers get the full picture of what is really going down in the street racing scene and how the dangers continue to exist. Paul-Mark has strong appeals and emotions throughout this paper that keeps readers hooked the entire time.
Written in 1952 by Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder” tells the story of how in 2055 a new technology was invented that could change the world. Safari Inc offers a trip to the past to hunt the big game dinosaurs. Eckles a big game hunter, signs on to go on an expedition. We have a feeling he is nervous. A 2005 adaptation of the film by director Peter Hyams, starring Ben Kingsley, as Charles Hatton, the owner of Time Safari Inc; Edward Burns, as Dr.Travis Ryer, a scientist and safari leader; and Catherine McCormack, as Sonia Rand, an evolutionary scientist and social activist, is similar to the original story. In the movie and the short story talks about how there are some similarities how they both started the same in the beginning. Meanwhile,
A thunderstorm that produces large amounts of precipitation which reaches the ground should have deep moisture stratums in unstable conditions, causing enough convection to be restricted to the electrification level of the atmosphere, or being lifted by orographic or frontal systems (Rorig and Ferguson, 1999). However, some thunderstorms produce small amounts of precipitation or none. Colson (1960) explained this phenomenon as a result of high-level thunderstorms with high cloud bases where the appropriate conditions for triggering lightning flashes accompanied by precipitation are situated in the upper levels. Rorig and Ferguson (1999) analysed the synoptic patterns of dry thunderstorms and concluded that low moisture levels in the inferior part of the atmosphere coupled with high instability, leads to the evaporation of precipitation prior to reaching the ground level, this way reducing the moisture content of the underlying surface.