Introduction:
I. Attention Getter: When cruising down the highway, watch out! What was that? A bird, a plane, no it was a big boulder of coal falling from the coal truck onto the highway. What next? There went my headlight, and my quarter panel! Look out! Close the sunroof!
II. Thesis: My pet peeve coal truck drivers, they are everywhere. It’s not safe to drive on the roads anymore.
III. Preview: Every person in this room had to drive or is driven to get here. Did you pay attention to how many coal trucks you passed? Did you pay attention to the chunks of coal in the median?
IV. Preview Statement: I dislike coal trucks and their drivers they are my biggest worry when I am on the road. I am afraid that my windshield is going to be busted out or worse, I could swerve to miss a piece of coal and wreck and hurt someone else.
Body:
I. Over the last decade in Eastern, Kentucky it seems that coal trucks have taken over the roads. Its move over or be ran over. Coal trucks are not only hazardous because of how fast they drive but also because they are often overloaded.
II. Many times I have been driving down the highway listening to a song on the radio when all of a sudden I hear a loud crashing noise frightened I look to see if it was another car colliding into mine, but no I look up to see a huge coal truck. That is when I realize that a big lump of coal has hit, dented and scratched the glossy gold paint finish on my car.
III. Coal truck drivers assume that they are the “lords of the highway.” I often think that they have not came to the realization that the eighteen-wheelers they drive filled, over the top, with coal are an extreme danger to other drivers on the road. If they realized they would not drive so fast.
IV. Coal trucks are often seen without a cover tarp because their load exceeds the designated limit or the driver has been to careless and not strapped it down. This is when the problem begins. Coal falls off the bed and onto the highway or my car, possibly even yours. The coal truck driver does not seem to see that the coal is falling or just doesn’t care, because we the drivers of the damaged vehicles must pay for that damage.
Plato, having defined his perfect society, now seeks to compare contemporary 'imperfect' societies with his ideal standard. He initially criticises the imperfect society as a whole, before leading onto a criticism of any given individual within that society; the imperfect character. He has already dealt with the Oligarchic society and character and now moves onto Democracy and the democratic character.
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War is an idea that has existed since the dawn of humanity, and with every war there are goals and motives, the Cold War is no different. The turmoil of the first World War in set the global stage for the future of relations between the United States, Russia, Britain and other countries. As the Russian civil war grew fiercer, allied forces, including U.S. forces, laid foot on Russian soil, at which point things took a turn for the worst. The Cold War was a war of competition, in every sense of the word; and although both the United States and the Soviet Union were teetering-tottering on the brink of war for many years after the first World War, ultimately the United States is to blame for initiation of the Cold War, as the United States adjusted
Many people automatically associate race with genealogy, ancestry, or other sorts of biological factors. In the video, the Power of an Illusion-The difference Between Us, the students assumed that there will will be tons of differences genetically, because everyone looks so different. A scholar from the film says that, “Genetically we aren’t really different, we are among the most similar of all species. Only 1 in every 1000 nucleotides that make up our genetic code is different.” (8.35-8.50). All of students in the video expected to have the most commonalities in DNA with people that fit their race. For example, Marcus, an African-American male assumed he would have genetically more in common with Gorgeous, an African-American female. However,
... conclusion Plato's idea of the emergence of tyranny from democracy is true. Tyranny evolves from democracy because of the unequal ability to realize desires lawfully present in society. The idle envy the prosperous and invest their support in popular leaders to ensure their well being in other way. The popular leaders do so, and some commit acts of violence and injustice to do so better. This encourages them to commit further acts of violence for both their supporters interests and their own, until they reach a point where they must commit acts of violence purely out of the interest of self preservation. The live in constant fear of the world around then, ironically chained away from the pleasures they pursued by committing acts of tyranny. Democracies possess protection against tyranny chiefly bureaucracy and the ability to keep citizens informed and interested.
Trucking has been a relevant career in the United States ever since the 19th century during WWI the army used trucks to transport goods to the soldiers. People in the towns and cities saw they were good transporter so as roads were built and paved more people start owning them. The Interstate Highway System was a big movement for truckers now they could haul there companies goods farther to other cities. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 helped drivers who went on strike because of the price of gas to run and operate the trucks. Alex Debogorski was a long haul trucker introduced to trucking when he was looking to earn more money to do for his family. As he drove he realized how good the open road looks as the road meet the sky. Now he is on some of CMT’s episodes of Ice Road Truckers, he said If it wasn’t for his parents and wife he wouldn’t have made it. He also open the door for most of the truckers with criminal records. He helped pas the law that states if your drving record is good you can go in for the long haul.
Plato views the democratic state as a city “full of freedom and freedom of speech[,]” where its citizens “have the license to do [whatever they] want” and the right to self-determine. Plato however, sees this insatiable desire for freedom at the expense of neglecting everything else as the downfall of democracy. To clarify, a society that is staunchly protective of its equality and freedom will be particularly sensitive towards any oppositions that seem to limit them, to the point where it actively attempts to “avoid [obeying the law and] having any master at all.” Thus, “unless the rulers are very pliable and provide plenty of that freedom, they are punished by the city and accused of being oligarchs.” Since those in power fear the accusations of those being ruled, they become docile and submissive. On the other hand, those who are ruled are encouraged by their rulers’ meekness and, convinced of their inherent right to freedom, begin to behave as their own rulers. Thus, this blind chase for unconditional freedom will propagate disorder across the society, and eventually cause the people to see “anarchy [as] freedom, extravagance [as] magnificence, and shamelessness [as]
Simms believes that the SUV’s we’ve grown to love are dangerous and polluting. Simms describes just how damaging he believes SUV’s to be with a quote, set to become, “one of the world’s most common causes of death and disability-ahead of TB, HIV, and war” (qtd. in Simms 542). This is a very strong statement; so strong that it causes the reader to question the source. It also promotes an emotional appeal to the reader. Death, war, and HIV are very serious issues; comparing them to SUV’s causes a need for attention.
I. [Attention-Getter] Imagine waking up in a hospital. Without knowing why you are there or how you got there. Imagine your head being dizzy, having a very blurry vision and feeling as if you just finished two marathons.
Attention Getter: Imagine going on a trip to a foreign country and you do not know anyone and you know little to none of their language. When you arrive at the airport and you see a man standing there holding a sign with your name on it. You decide he seems friendly enough to go with him because you do not know anyone at this point and will be lucky to find your way out of the airport. You reach the parking lot and all of a sudden there is an intense pain in your head and you blackout.
Although much of what Plato says in this argument is logical, he once again is too brroad in his argument. Socrates says “I suppose that when a democratic city, once it’s thirsted for freedom, gets bad winebearers as its leaders and gets more drunk than it should on this unmixed draught, then, unless the rulers are very gentle and provide a great deal of freedom, it punishes them, charging them with being polluted and oligarchs.” Plato is arguing that within a democracy, hunger for freedom and unnecessary desires becomes so desperate great that people start to blame leaders for curtailing their freedom, they start to ignore the laws, and accuse leaders of being oligarchs, unless they grant an ultimate unlimited amount of freedom. This argument is fair in a sense, as it is true that within democracy freedom is constantly discussed and demanded by the population, and power can corrupt leaders for. However, where Plato’s argument becomes flawed looking at the proof of the thousands of years of democracy, tyranny has not been the outcome, and there are many successful democratic societies in today’s world. Of course, Plato did not have the luxury of seeing democracy play out over these thousands of years, howeve. r, hHis prediction that democracy turns into tyranny may havehas occurred a few times throughout history, for example in Nazi Germany where the democratic process was overturned, but it is far from a common occurrence. Even in Nazi Germany, democracy was restored after World War II. Modern democracies have checks and balances to protect the society from tyranny. Elected leaders are not all powerful – constitutions and elected government bodies like the House of Commons in Canada, prevent one leader from making all the decisions alone. Some countries, like the USA and South Africa, have limited terms of office for their leaders, so that leaders cannot govern
A democracy in Plato’s Republic is viewed as one of the lowest types of regimes a city could have because it can be the one that fails the easiest. There are five total regimes that Plato ranks having to do with how successful they can be. The best being a Aristocracy, then Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy and the worst being Tyranny. Each type of regime that fails degenerates into a worse regime. For example, if a Democracy fails then it later becomes a Tyranny.
The accidents involving machinery kill and/or hurt more coal miners in a year than any other mining accident. The machinery in mines are located in cramped spaces with little light, causing miners to have two times the chance of accidents. The accidents involving roof and rib failures can usually be averted if a mining company has a roof support plan. For a roof support plan to be made, information like entry widths, mine geometry, the number of pillars that must be left up right, and the number of bolts that must be used are needed (Cobb 3 of 5) Accumulations of gases in underground coal mines is another very serious hazard. If certain gases like methane and carbon monoxide are at or above 5% in the air they can cause violent explosions. Blasting in coal mines are the main cause for such dangerous levels of carbon monoxide.
Impacts of coal mining are visible by landscapes that lack the beauty of a mountainous backdrop and landscapes that are void of any trees or plants. These areas are left barren by the excavating of the earth in order to reveal the coal hidden underneath (Theilmann, 2015). In conjunction with the impact on the environment, various health issues have arisen, along with the heightened issues of safety. Black lung, a respiratory disease, and mine accidents are responsible for thousands of mine workers being injured or even killed every year. These deaths are a result of suffocation from poisonous gases found within the mines and explosions that lead to the collapsing of mines roofs. The mortality rates of workers in the coal mining industry has one of the highest ranks in the industrial sector of mining (Joyce, 1998). As evident, the destruction left behind by the mining of coal is detrimental to the environment and has a huge impact on the welfare of the mine workers employed by the coal mining
PURPOSE (state specific purpose, relate topic to audience and establish credibility): The cars we drive every day release toxic exhaust gases into the atmosphere that damage it. We should try to do better to reverse these effects now; otherwise, our world will continue to get filthier and eventually become uninhabitable.