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The company General Motors was formed in 1908 in Flint, Michigan by William C. Durant with various brands of cars like Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac, but soon it transformed into a global corporate giant. The leadership of the renowned Alfred P. Sloan developed a brilliant strategy of offering "a car for every purse and purpose" along with establishing a ladder of brands in which customers could shift from driving Chevrolets to Cadillacs based on their increasing financial status. This innovation led to General Motors becoming the biggest producer of automobiles in the world by 1931, a position it maintained for seventy-seven years without interruption. GM was an embodiment of the success story of the United States through the entire middle of the 20th century, playing its part in mass production during World War II, serving as one of the "Arsenal of Democracy," and shaping the image of the American auto industry with classic car models of the 1950s and 1960s. Des...

 When the majority of us envision achievement, it is academy award winning, joyful, and proof that none of the things that we did were in vain. Achievement is fun, it forgives our toil. However, if we only want achievement, we exclude ourselves from the best teacher of life; failure. Failure is even more deserving in the long run than success because it makes us stretch, grow, and evolve. Failure strengthens. When we fail, we have ours options are only to give up or try again. With each second that we decide to stand up again, we are strengthened to withstand adversity. Strength is needed most in the later years of our lives when more adversity comes into our way. We would never be aware of overcoming adversity if we never failed. Failure also makes one a problem solver. Success would make one arrogant, but failure forces us to restrategize, be creative, and resourceful. Most of the world's greatest achievements, from scientific findings to inventions, were sparked by failed attemp...

Gender, as a construct, has traveled a very long distance from its traditional, binary, static nature to its modern, multidimensional, dynamic nature, far beyond the traditional Western view of gender as strictly related to biological sex assigned to an individual at birth. Sex refers to biological characteristics of the chromosomes and anatomy of the body, while gender, on the other hand, is a complex construct a complex interaction of the inner self-perception of the person and the outer self-perception of the person by the outside world. Gender identity has some association with the sex assigned to the individual, also known as cisgender. however, there has been an emergence of individuals whose gender identity is not the same as the sex assigned to the individual, also known as transgender and non-binary gender identity. Non-binary gender identity is an "umbrella term that refers to individuals whose gender identity is not exclusively 'man' or 'woman' including...

 Dodge is not just a car brand, but a high-octane dose of American industrial grit and grind. Founded in 1900 as a parts supplier for the growing auto scene in Motor City, Michigan, Dodge was originally started by the eponymous brothers, who sought to kit out the burgeoning auto culture with the parts necessary for its growth. Though it would go on to become a titan in the auto world, known for engineering cars that have a rebellious soul and "muscle" to plenty of its name, other companies began to drift toward efficiency and luxury over the HEMI-burning muscle car heritage that Dodge came to be associated with throughout its long history. Indeed, the legacy of the brand itself has been built on the capabilities that it has to deliver with its raw power and unique visual appeal. Iconic cars such as the Charger and Challenger have become synonymous with the smell of burnt rubber and the roar of a V-8 motor cropping a weary tail-light as it speeds down the highway. Furthermore,...

The Bui family’s transition from their daring escape from Vietnam to their difficult first years in America, showcasing the sheer physical and emotional upheaval of starting over as refugees. The narrative first picks up in Chapter 8 at the chaotic Pulau Besar refugee camp in Malaysia, which despite its harsh conditions and crowding, became the temporary "shore" of safety; here, Ma displayed her strength, restoring organization, securing better living conditions, and giving birth to the last child, Tam while simultaneously navigating the red tape of resettlement applications and securing sponsorship to the U.S. even as Bo faced a temporary medical delay due to old tuberculosis scars. Chapter 9 then documents their confusing arrival in Chicago and their immediate relocation to an incredibly packed house in Hammond, Indiana, where they experienced profound culture shock, realizing how different they were from their "Americanized" relatives; in response, Bo and Ma imme...

 The book starts with the author Thi Bui giving birth to her son, which instantly makes her think about her mother's past and the meaning of being a parent, so she starts looking backward in the story. Chapter 3 focuses on her difficult US childhood: at her family's small apartment in San Diego, which functioned as a "holding pen" of pain and fear for her immigrant parents, particularly from her father, Bo, an angry man telling her scary stories, while her mother, Ma , worked in a factory. For her father's fears to be understood, the action moves further into his youth in Vietnam during Chapter 4, unfolding his deep trauma from the difficult childhood he had marked by famine, abandonment by his father, and a massacre of local villagers by French soldiers at age seven, which explains his later paranoia. Chapter 5 was devoted to Ma’s story, which was far more comfortable: she grew up in a wealthy family, and was driven by an idea that education equaled freedom and t...