London Gatwick Airport

Make Up Assignment Having lived in 4 continents and travelled to numerous others, I can safely say that from a very young age, I have spent a great deal of my life at the airport and on planes. I would always be thinking about how a plane at 3,500 feet of altitude with approximately an average weight of 877,000 lbs could manage to cruise with no worry. The curiosity was always present and just kept increasing. The four years I stayed in San Diego, CA my dad would religiously take me to the air…

the teen arrived in Toronto at 8pm, Air Canada rebooked him for another flight that would be leaving the next day at 6pm. The airline did not offer him any compensation for the mishap. Throughout the next 22 hour wait, Derrin was ‘trapped’ in the airport. He was a minor (meaning under age of responsibility; 18yrs) and was not allowed to leave the building or get an hotel in the city. Overnight he slept on the floor but regardless barely even slept as he was worried if he wasn’t alert, someone…

When my family was leaving for America, everyone was really sad. I understood that they were saddened because we were leaving, but I wasn’t. I was excited that we were about to go to the airport and actually go on an airplane. I knew that it was going to be a long time before I see my aunts, uncles, and cousins again, but I didn’t want my memory of my first flight to be filled me wiping tears from my eyes and worrying that I can’t find tissues for my running nose. I was instead very excited that…

As I exited the plane, I had come to the realization that I was about to accomplish a task that I had prepared for a year now. I was going to accomplish something that millions of people had done before me. My mom patted me on the shoulder to comfort me and said, “Don’t worry, you’ll do fine.” However, I was difficult to be comforted. I was doing my Bar Mitzvah, after all. We were exhausted after the nineteen-hour flight, so we immediately rushed into the hotel and collapsed on the bed. The…

It was a bright and early Halloween morning as I gear up to board the plane. I was about to leave on that cliché post college graduation trip to London. I left at 7:15pm from Boston. I ate half a bagel and I was ready to conquer the world, or at least London. I finally arrived across the pond and stepped my feet on the ground at 9 am. I hopped in my rental car and started towards my hotel, because I am ready to sleep. Jet lag had gotten to me. I finally arrived at Hostel 639. I decided…

the strong support of surgeons who had felt Simon would fulfill his duty as a Public health officer, on October 19, 1848 Simon was appointed the position. With his very strong writing skills he worked his way to improve the sanitation conditions of London. This job payed very little, but allowed Simon him to continue practicing medicine in his private…

In the nineteenth century, Paris became the epitome of the modern city, at least in the eyes of its upper class bourgeois elite and the tourists who visited the modern marvel. This “modern vision” of Paris was developed by people willing to look at and into their surroundings and themselves critically. In fact, it is those people looking at themselves and others in a critical sense and being conscious of the effect their way of seeing the world can have on others that drove who Parisian…

A poignant point that Lee explains is the concept of a generic city which was formulated by Rem Koolhaas (3). These generic cities are near warmer climates, skyscrapers abound, and feature “[an] airport, hotels, and shopping malls” (3). Another feature of these “generic cities” is that “history is meaningless” and “the past has become too small to be inhabited and shared by those alive” (3). By these definitions alone, it seems as though Hong Kong…

Copenhagen’s Nyhavn boasts one of the most picturesque places on Earth; colorful buildings line the canal, offering restaurants, bars, and cafes. But in crafting Nyhavn, we lost the beauty of the natural surroundings, for the buildings obstruct the canal from afar, and their tall facades curtain any form of nature except the sky directly above. Gary Snyder’s 1996 poem “Covers the Ground” focuses on similar environmental issues, juxtaposing man-made structures with nature. In the poem, imagery…

“Gender equality in Thimphu, Bhutan”. Thimphu is capital city of Bhutan dotted with tall buildings and architecture, streets noisily prowled by the crowd of people and vehicles. Hence, it triggered me to do my research on gender equality in this capital city with large population from every nook and cranny of the country so that I can authenticate and authorize my findings. So, my participated outcome of observations here unfurl on. “We don’t want even laws if we consider all of us are human…