Paul Walker Research Paper

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On The 30th of November in 2013, Paul Walker’s publicist Ann Van Iden, confirmed his fast and fiery death. Paul Walker was well known on the big screens. He was a Hollywood actor from 1986 to 2013. Walker started out his acting career by debuting in Monster in Your Closet. He also starred appeared on The Young and the Restless, Who’s the Boss and Charles in Charge. Walker had appearances in teen movies, but he would eventually move on to The Fast and the Furious movie series with actor Vin Diesel. Articles on Paul Walker’s death has led fans to believe that he was as good of a person as they said. Paul Walker was born on September 12th, 1973 in Glendale California. As he got recognized for his role in The Fast and the Furious, a racing movie, he created a charity for the disaster in Haiti in 2010 called Reach Out Worldwide. After a Reach Out Worldwide charity event is when the devastation …show more content…
Fitzsimmons, author of a NY Times article on Paul Walker, stated, “speed was a factor in the accident,” which is popularly, said the cause of the accident (1). However, most that did not know Walker personally would say that he was racing since the accident took place in a perfect drift road. Some would think of this accident as ironic because The Fast and the Furious movies were about racing and top speeds and the car he was in was going at top speeds. In the New York Daily News, author Nancy Dillon wrote about how the Porsche was going more than 100 miles per hour. The police at the crash believed that “Rodas, 38, was driving approximately 100 mph when he lost control” (6). With how the crash site looked after the accident, this information is believable. However, in another article by LA Times that was published almost four months later, it was said that the widow of Rodas filed a lawsuit that the car was going 55 mph rather than over 100. Both articles explained the accident the way it happened, but have a hard time finding the speed at the time of the

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