The Galaxie had been traveling from 50 to 55 miles per hour but before the impact had been braked to a speed of from 28 to 37 miles per hour. At the moment of impact, the Pinto caught fire and its interior was engulfed in flames. According to plaintiffs' expert, the impact of the Galaxie had driven the Pinto's gas tank forward and caused it to be punctured by the flange or one of the bolts on the differential housing so that fuel sprayed from the punctured tank and entered the passenger compartment through gaps resulting from the separation of the rear wheel well sections from the floor pan. By the time the Pinto came to rest after the collision, both occupants had sustained serious burns. When they emerged from the vehicle, their clothing was almost completely burned off.
An accident happened on Pyramid Highway and it was a fatal one. According to a Trooper, Chuck Allen, an accident involved a 2004 Ford F-350 pick-up truck and a 2006 Subaru Outback wagon. Allen says it appears the accident was caused when the Subaru struck the pick-up, causing it to veer off the roadway and roll-over. The drivers of pick-up truck were not wearing seatbelts and were thrown from the truck. After hitting the truck, the Subaru traveled several hundred feet before it veered off the road, striking a rock, rolling over and then hitting a six-foot-tall fence.
Categorized | Feature Article A Critical Analysis: The Things They Carried Posted on 14 October 2008 by admin By Ronnie Wright In his short story The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien reveals the horrendous physical conditions and fears a man will subject himself to in order to save his reputation. The story takes place around 1968. It’s a story about an Infantry Platoon fighting in the jungles of Vietnam and the weight, both physical and emotional, that they must carry. These modern day warriors were equipped with every piece of equipment you could imagine. Most of what the soldiers carried was largely determined by necessity, such as can openers, pocketknives, helmets and flack jackets (O’Brien 281).
Gage was preparing for an explosion by compacting a bore with explosive powder using a tamping iron. While he was doing this, a spark from the tamping iron ignited the powder, causing the iron to be propelled at high speed straight through Gage’s skull. It entered under the left cheek bone and exited through the top of the head, and was later recovered some thirty yards from the site of the accident. The doctor who later attended to him, John Martin Harlow, later noted that the tamping iron was found “several rods behind him, where it was afterward picked up by his men smeared with blood and brain”. The tamping iron was 3 ft. 8 inches in length and 1.25 inches in diameter at one end, not 1.25 inches in circumference.
The Independent, in an article about a documentary on the Hindenburg airing on Britain's Channel 4 on Thursday, explains that Jem Stansfield, a British aeronautical engineer who led a team of researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, blew up and set fire to models of the dirigible to rule out possibilities including a bomb and exploding paint. They Independent reports that the actual chain of events, discovered by the scientists, unfolded as follows: The airship had become charged with static as a result of an electrical storm. A broken wire or sticking gas valve leaked hydrogen into the ventilation shafts, and when ground crew members ran to take the landing ropes they effectively "earthed" the airship. The fire appeared on the tail of the airship, igniting the leaking hydrogen. "I think the most likely mechanism for providing the spark is electrostatic," said Mr. Stansfield.
The title refers to Eckels encounter with the tyranosaurus, seen on p.232: “A sound of thunder. Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus rex" and in the final lines as well, when Travis, the timetravel guide, points his gun towards Eckels and the phrase is repeated. The very phenomenon "thunder" occurs when the sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning produces rapid expansion of the air and creates a sonic shock wave, which produces the sound of thunder. With this in mind, you could say that Eckels actions in the past, echoes in the present - the killing of the butterfly sends out waves of consequences and changes history - consequences that Eckels now have to aknowledge when he faces the modern day tyranosaurus rex, Travis and the sound of his thunder. Consequences is in fact the main theme of the story, and in relation to a matter of man and nature, you could say that Bradbury's short story, regardless of his intentions, can be used in a discussion of how we behave and
Several characters are introduced as caretakers who rush to find a cure. Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne), is a deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He sends Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet), out into the depressing population that is swarming with the dead people. A military presence increases and a medical SWAT team comes in made up of Ally Hextall (Jennifer Ehle) and David Eisenberg (Demetri Martin) and Leonora Orantes (Marion Cotillard) from the World Health Organization. Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) fills out the villain role as a San Fransisco
The Balkan Region of Europe entered the twentieth century much as she left it: a caldron of seething political intrigue needing only the slightest increase of heat to boil over into open conflict. The shots that day in Sarajevo pushed the caldron to the boiling point and beyond. When the car passed Gabrinovic, the compositor, he threw his grenade. It hit the side of the car, but Francis Ferdinand with presence of mind threw himself back and was uninjured. Several officers riding in his attendance were injured.
Following that, in a stormy night, van Garrett drives in his coach where his notices that his coach driver was just decapitated by an unknown. After noticing that, he jumps out of his coach, runs through a corn field where he eventually also gets decapitated. This opening scene is made mysterious and tense by adding key techniques to it such as music, camera shots/angles, lighting/color and the acting itself. First of all, and in my opinion the most important one, is the music that is being added to the scene. We can hear the music throughout the first part of the film the whole time.
The United States army’s chief of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie C. Groves, said that fluoride was essential in creating the atomic bomb (Bryson, 2004, p. 46). It was used to pull electrons off of Uranium to make it unstable, going from U238 to U235 (Murphy, 2008, p. 8). However, the staff of the Manhattan Project could not escape the toxicity of fluoride, and neither could neighboring communities. Farmers complained that “something is burning up the peach crops around here” and of poultry mysteriously dying after thunderstorms, of fields strewn with dead cattle, and of vomiting all night after eating produce they had picked (Bryson, 2004, p. 70). Thus was born General Groves’ biggest problem, which resulted in a solution that would soon become our biggest