Railway platform

Cities of San Pedro and Torrance The city of San Pedro is a coastal community located in the city of Los Angeles, covering 12.046 square miles. It is port city that is neighbors to the cities of Long Beach and Wilmington to its East, Harbor City to its North, and Ranchos Palos Verdes and Lomita to its West. Housing a portion of the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, is known as a blue collar town. With consideration to national averages the city of San Pedro is considerably high in both violent…

The article accurately recounts, and with much detail, the plight of German Jews between 1933-39. During the economic downturn of the 1930’s, countries around the world were turning increasingly inward, and were unwilling to welcome refugees of any sort. Jewish immigrants were at the bottom of the list of preferred immigrants prior to the Great Depression, and the few loopholes that allowed them to immigrate to Canada on special permits were systematically closed as the 1930’s progressed. In the…

referring to the political situation of this period. Daschuk asserts that the government refused to “help on the basis of the treaty assistance in crisis” as a strategy for accomplishing their own benefits such as the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The government used starvation and diseases as a tool for the control, assimilation, and elimination of Aboriginals: “[...] while the Indians were starving, in many cases to death, the authorities withheld food that was available”…

The South has a long and rich history. Without the south, the United States wouldn’t be the super power that it is today. The ideology of the “old” south was bound to clash with the ideology of the “new” south. The idea of change is difficult for anyone, let alone anyone who is successful. With change comes ideas and industries never thought possible. The entrepreneurship that Henry Grady, Henry Flagler, and William Chipley brought made industrialization in the south possible. These are just a…

watch the constant movement of people. It reminds her of the sea at high tide, when the waves are strong enough to knock you off your feet. At that moment Sarah is swept along, floating on the crest of the wave towards the train, bobbing along the platform buoyant with hope. Confusion, sadness and panic floating away with every wave she rides towards the train. Boarding the Grand Central train heading North on autopilot her head filled with anticipation and optimism. The train starts to move.…

previously stood where Flinders Street Station stands now today. The Terminus was officially opened on the 12th of September, 1854 and was the first city railway in Australia. By the 1880s these buildings were considered inadequate and a competition was held for the redesign of the station. The competition was won by James Fawcett and HPC Ashworth of the Railways Department who excelled over 17 other competition entries with their French Renaissance-styled design. Demolition of the original…

station in London. It was opened by the London and Greenwich Railway (LGR). To make money they decided to lease its line and terminus to other railway companies from the south east that wanted access to London. The London and Croydon Railway (LCR) was the first to reach an agreement with the LGR. They used the LGR tracks, however this ended in June 1839. When they opened a station building to the north of the LGR station. This led to more railways being authorised and built between London and…

opened in 1910, stands to be one of Melbourne’s major social and cultural landmarks and Australia’s busiest railway stations as it is one of the most heavily used public spaces in Melbourne. The very first railway line was constructed in 1854, after which saw further lines and platforms added that were also repositioned prior and after manufacture of the main building. An enthusiasm for railway development quickly sparked with the discovery of gold in Australia during the 1850s drew a wave of…

I was first intrigued by Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, due to the focus of the story being on the Thai-Burma Railway (or the Death Railway as it was also called) during World War II (WWII). This setting interested me as I have always had a curiosity about history and the study of history. Similarly I was also interested in the Thai-Burma Railway as last year I had done a project on it in my history class. However as I started reading the novel, the setting became less important…

TERM PAPER: DOT.COM BUBBLE vs RAILWAY MANIA INTRODUCTION Our world has suffered numerous economic crisis ever since we had a concept of money. One may argue that economic crisis and economic growth go hand-in-hand. A very frequent source of economic crisis are speculative bubbles which essentially tailspin our economy into a euphoric state. They fill our investors with irrational exuberance, and coax them to go on an expensive investing spree. This goes on until the speculative behaviour…