Speed 2: Cruise Control Speed 2: Cruise Control Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 American action thriller film produced and directed by Jan de Bont, and written by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson. It is a sequel to "Speed" (1994). The film stars Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, and Sandra Bullock—the last reprising her role from "Speed". The film was released by 20th Century Fox on June 13, 1997. "Cruise Control" follows couple Annie (Bullock) and Alex (Patric) vacationing in the Caribbean aboard a luxury cruise ship, hijacked by a villain named Geiger (Dafoe). As they are trapped aboard the ship, Annie and Alex
The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man that Engels’ essay made “the best nineteenth-century case for gene-culture coevolution.” The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man "The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man" (German: "Anteil der Arbeit an der Menschwerdung des Affen") is an unfinished essay written by Friedrich Engels in spring of 1876. The essay forms the ninth chapter of "Dialectics of Nature", which proposes a unitary materialist paradigm of natural and human history. Though incomplete, the essay elucidates two aspects of materialist theory which had underpinned Marx and Engels’s thinking since the mid-1840s. First, it argues