Explaining my interest in cars

Cars have always been an interest of mine. whether it was playing with toy cars when  was 4 or driving around in my car right now at 18, it is a topic i have always enjoyed. Cars are a great way to help me deal with stress. Just going out for a drive at night on a fun road can help you clear your mind of all the troubles in life. To me and to many others cars are like a pet. Car guys take care of their cars greatly. I remember doing research on different types of gas stations to make sure that i picked the best gas for my car. I have friends who have bought what others might view as "undesirable" and but a lot of time, money, and love into their cars and now drive something that they are proud of. The car community, for the most part, is a great community that appreciates the way everyone expresses their individuality through their cars. The amount of friendships that i have built over the years through our common interest in cars has been great. So, this is why I love cars. It might be an expensive hobby but its worth it.

The blackhawks might actually survive

After the Blackhawks lost game 4 to St Louis, I was pretty sure the season was over after that I did not expect the hawks to win the next game... but they did. My father and I, both huge Blackhawks fans, were very excited after game 5 when the hawks survived the Blues in St Louis. My father seemed a little more optimistic in the Hawks being able to make it out of round 1 while I thought the Blues would finish the Hawks in game 6. Yesterday while watching game 6 I was astonished at the way the Hawks were playing. It was like watching a different team all together. Throughout the whole season and playoffs, every game between the Blues and the Hawks was a very close game. The Hawks in game 6 obliterated the Blues 6-3. With the Hawks riding on the momentum of two huge wins and the Blues morale low after two huge losses I am very excited for game 7 and the rest of the playoffs.

Why i think Koenigsegg is an important company

For those who are not as interested in cars as others might be, then you probably have never heard of Koenigsegg. Koenigsegg is a small Swedish car manufacturer who produce extremely powerful vehicles. their newest addition to the line up is the Regera. The Regera is a beast of a vehicle that produces 1500hp from a twin turbo 5.0L V8 and three electric motors. Now, hybrid super cars are nothing new, we do have the Holy Trinity of course (Ferrari LaFerrari, Porsche 918 Spyder, McLaren P1), but what makes the Koenigsegg Regera so important is the new technology that it posses. Christian von Koenigsegg, founder and owner of Koenigsegg, invented the Koenigsegg Direct Drive system(KDD). This system was invented and developed for the Regera. The KDD is a new drive system that eliminates a standard transmission. This is what makes the Regera such an interesting car. When i first heard of this system I wondered to myself how they planned on getting the power from the engine to the wheels. It is actually quite simple. The Regera features a single gear near the rear axle which will allow the car to turn it wheels with power from the engine, but the gear is to small for the engine to put any decent power down at low speeds. Well Koenigsegg has got that covered. By adding three electric motors the Regera is able to propel itself at low speeds while a hydraulic coupling, placed in between the engine and the final gear, allows the two to slip so no power is given. At 30mph the hydraulic coupling locks and the engine begins to drive the wheels. What is cool about this is that the gear size that Koenigsegg chose allows for the engine RPM to match the wheel RPM after the coupling locks. This means that the car will reach its top speed when the engine reaches its max RPM. Koenigsegg as a company are finding new ways to differentiate between a car and a hyper car. Other hybrid super cars have similar power plant layouts to plain hybrid cars that people buy to save gas, while Koenigsegg stands out among them and is changing the hyper car game.

The Importance of Duncan Keith to the Blackhawks.

Nearing the end of the season Duncan Keith, one of the NHL's best defense men, was handed a six game suspension after he intentionally high-sticked Minnesota Wild forward  Charlie Coyle. This would mean that Duncan Keith would miss the first game of the playoffs. In this game the Blackhawks were able to hold off the St. Louis Blues until overtime in which the Hawks lost. There were some plays during this game that definitely got fans of the Blackhawks wondering "What is the defense doing?". In game 2 Duncan Keith and helped the team secure a big win on the road. Keith scored one goal and also assisted on another. Keith may only be one person but he makes a huge difference when it comes to the Blackhawks offense. Keith also put out a huge amount of play time with almost 31 minutes played. St Luis Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock said that Duncan Keith was just "another player on the other team" but clearly, and gladly, Duncan Keith proved him wrong. So how important is Duncan Keith to the Blackhawks' ? To answer simply, he is very important.

What do I love and what do I want to do?

Listening to Megan Schwarb's Ted talk raised to important questions that we should ask ourselves. Those to questions are: What do we love and what do we want to do? So, what I love or what brings me great joy is helping someone and putting a smile on peoples faces. You can build many long lasting connections when you help people. When someone is struggling and you aid them with whatever it is they are struggling with, you will always put a smile on their face. I believe that is the greatest reward you can receive, knowing that you made a positive change in someone's life. This leads into the second question, what do you want to do? What i have always wanted to do ever since i was a little kid was to go into a career as a law enforcement officer. It is one of the few jobs where you can go out everyday and make a difference in someone's life. Sure, their are times when you make a negative impact on someone, usually when you have to arrest them or write a ticket, but when you save someone who is being beaten by their spouse, that positive change out weighs the negative one.

My reflection of my paper and my outline

My final paper was actually very similar to my outline. Most of my body paragraphs were moved around but for the most part the content that intended on including was in my final paper. One of the paragraphs i decided to change the content of it from explaining why E85 is the future fuel that we will use to why it should be good news for car enthusiast because it confirms the survival of the internal combustion engine. The other thing that was different was that i planned on having a fourth paragraph but decided to split that paragraph among the three main body paragraphs. in that fourth paragraph i intended to summarize why the power plants that i explained in my first three paragraphs would be the future of cars. I later decided that the paper would flow much better if i just explained at the end of each body paragraph why that engine would be the future of cars. Overall i was surprised on how close my outline and my final paper was because usually they are not that similar when i finish writing papers.

Review on the writing process for the second writing project

The second writing project has started off fairly well. By generating ideas I came up with multiple topics that I would be able to write about. I picked a topic that I am very interested in so writing the paper and finding information for it was not boring at all, unlike other papers I have written before. When it came to the peer reviews of my paper i was able to get good feedback on what I should do to improve it. I have actually enjoyed writing this paper but writing in APA has been a bit weird since I have written a majority of my papers in MLA.