Devin is giving a speech about race car driving and would like to include a narrative to help his audience relate to his topic. Which of the following would be the least effective choice for Devin to include in his speech?
a. a story about when he raced pinewood derby cars with his Boyscout troop as a child and
first dreamed of racing cars in real life
b. a story about his passion for the street racing film series "The Fast and the Furious"
C. a story about how his favorite race car driver, Buddy Rice, won the Indianapolis 500 in 2004
d. a story about Dale Earnhardt's death at the Daytona 500 race in 2001 and how it affected him

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran

dr eric sanderson is a character from the book "a world without us". acording to this story dr sanderson's goal is to determine what manhattan island was in the past, before it became a city. sanderson is an ecologist who is interested in the way manhattan looked like in the 17th century.