On July 31, 2010, sergeant Chirstopher Siani (“Siani”) and officers Setephen Loud (“Loud”) and Kieran Kailer (“Kailer”), all of them high experienced Manhattan police officers that were patrolling in the vicinity of 124th Street and Lexington Avenue due to a spike in violent crimes in that area, stopped defendant Stanley Hardee for speeding and weaving through traffic without signaling (A76). The police officers had to pursue defendant’s vehicle for five to six blocks until he finally pulled over the car. Id. Officer Kailer and sergeant Siani approached to the defendant’s side of the vehicle and officer Loud to the passenger lateral (A78). Sergeant Siani and officer Loud testified that defendant Hardee was “wide-eyed”, appeared to be very nervous, moved around a lot and looked at Simmons and the backseat two or four times (A79, A81, A139, A142).…
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, at approximately 07:48AM, I was dispatched to Hooper and New Patient Tower Loop, in reference to a hit and run accident involving a pedestrian and a vehicle. While enroute to the scene, I was stopped by College Students standing under the NPT Loop awning saying that Ms. Hannah Miller was hit by a vehicle. I asked the College students where was Ms. Miller and they advised me that she was standing in front of me. I asked Ms. Miller what happened. Ms. Miller advised me that she was walking across the pedestrian crosswalk at Hooper and NPT Loop in the southbound lane of traffic underneath an umbrella with her friend Brooke Becker.…
About 37,461 deaths because one was walking while on a phone so, realize it could be anyone. Clyde Haberman is a writer for The New York Times and has been working for over 4o years. On March 17, 2018, Haberman writes “Do Not Read This Editorial While Walking” to express to young adults that deaths occur from one being on a phone while walking. Due to these deaths some states are making it illegal to walk while on a phone. Haberman wants to inform the readers that this action is dangerous and that life is at risk if one walks while on a phone.…
The article “Building the Troost Wall”, the film Do the Right Thing, and the film Our Divided City all share common issues and shows inequality. The main urban issue that these three share deals with racial inequality. These two films and article shows how different discourses affect each other. All of the rhetors in these examples have their own discourse, but they have similar forms of life which is an example of how these texts and images relate to each other. “Building the Troost Wall” explains how an imaginary wall was built on Troost to show the segregation in Southeast Kansas City.…
Response paper # 2 GEOG 473 SPRING 2016 Chad (Jong H) Lee I have never heard the term “Blockadia” before, but after reading her book, it makes sense to me now where the term came from. In my understanding, the term originally started by activists in fighting the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas, and people tried to stop it with their bodies, and their camp was called “Blockadia.”…
The 32114 area is outlined by four major streets: Beville Road is the farthest boundary to the south, Beach Street is the farthest to the east, Mason Avenue is the farthest to north, and Williamson Boulevard is the farthest to the west. The area is referred to by few as “The Front Porch”. The community has traffic signs that provide drivers with direction and warnings for travel. There is heavy construction being done in the area at the moment. Main roads (i.e. Mason, Ridgewood and International Speedway) as well as common side streets through neighborhoods (i.e. Orange Avenue and MLK Street) are occupied with construction during the morning and afternoon hours.…
Norton Reader, 96-102; bring your typed answer to No. 1, page 102. Brooklyn, New York, a vas city often compared to a labyrinth and for good reason, it is known to confuse those unfamiliar with its surroundings due to its magnitude. Frazier states that those native to Brooklyn, or Brooklynites, use the names of neighborhoods and subway lines to proclaim their current destination but he uses an alternative techniques that, while unique, would probable not better aid a person whom does not possess the knowledge of said other individuals. He uses people and their behaviors to better guess the terrain he presently occupies, he will even go so far to describe smells that can be found in certain places in Brooklyn. As examples of this unusual method,…
In “The Pedestrian,” Bradbury depicts a future society so obsessed with television, that those who are not are regarded as strange and even abnormal. The story is set 2053 and the majority of people stay in their homes and watch television, but one man, Leonard Mead, enjoys to take walks outside. In fact, he seems to be the only person who walks the streets, as in the ten years that he has taken walks, he has never seen another pedestrian. This shows how everyone has changed from being social to being isolated and glued to their television screens at home. On one walk, Mead is stopped by a police car which regards him as suspicious.…
“The Pedestrian” really shows Ray Bradbury’s skepticism of technology and progress it has made in "The Pedestrian." In this story, a popular way to help us pass time is shown through the perspective of it being regressive, outdated, and abnormal. Mr. Mead lives in a time in society when you are almost required to have a “viewing screen” in his house, Mr. Mead doesn’t do anything wrong by walking every night the authority in the story deems it as wrong and it will throw off the entire social stability of the community because the “viewing screen” is the only way for the government to distract the public and keep them under the microscope in a sense. So Mr. Mead is the off balance in the story because when he is not in front of his “viewing screen…
In the essay “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche” by Rebecca Solnit, she believes walking was so valuable in the past because “walking was a sort of sacrament and a routine recreation”. People would walk frequently and voluntarily for their own pleasure like by making a date for a walk. Solnit narrates how “urban innovations such as sidewalks and sewers were improving cities” however it had “not yet menaced by twentieth-century speedups”. Solnit calls this period the, “golden age of walking” that initiated in the eighteenth century and she fears that it has “expired some decades ago”, yet its significance is the “creation of places to walk and its valuation of recreational walking”. Unfortunately, the development of suburbanization which…
The apprehending of speeding on neighborhood streets are probably the most endless problem facing residents and traffic official. Although residential streets have the lowest traffic volume and suffer the fewest traffic crashes, they are the single largest consumer of a traffic engineer’s time and energy. As a resident and motorist, do you have what it takes to control and fight against motorist that speeding in our neighborhood or are you one of those speeders/neighborhood that does not even care? Drivers should be aware of speed limit in different areas/places and what consequences of crossing the constraints areas, because it puts our citizens’ fear for children, pedestrian and bicyclist safety. Here are some issues that need to look…
Would you rather be the only person outside in the world while everyone else is “locked” in, or be a living house that can function by yourself with no one living with you? No matter which one you choose their fates at the end both resemble dystopias. In both “There Will Come Soft Rains “ and “The Pedestrian”, the two stories go hand in hand by being alone by themselves, isolated from the “new world, and unfortunate ending fate’s, with how they're living in a dystopian world In the “Pedestrian” it gives us a glance into the future of 2053, as a man Leonard Mead is taking his nightly walk. He lives alone by himself, no wife or anything.…
I am in eighth grade. It is a sunny, warm Sunday in early fall at the St. Peter's Prep Open House. Shuffling behind colossal seniors leading the tour, scratching at my itchy dress shirt, and raiding the snack table are all included in the day’s festivities. Four years ago, I made the decision to attend St. Peter’s Prep, a school that is approximately 45 miles away from my house.…
Approximately 260 feet east of the crosswalk, there is a yellow pedestrian crossing sign, posted on the north shoulder of Fletcher Avenue. Approximately 157 feet east of the area of impact, there are white reflective roadway markings in both westbound lanes, indicating a pedestrian crossing. Approximately 44 feet east of the crosswalk, there is white, reflective stopbar across both westbound traffic lanes. Parallel with the east crosswalk line, on the north shoulder Fletcher Avenue as well as the center of the raised center median, there are poles with yellow pedestrian crossing signs, with arrows at the bottom of the signs, point down towards the crosswalk. The pole on the north shoulder, also has a bar extending from the top, over the westbound lanes.…
The evolution of crime has dramatically altered since the ancient times, when people would kill for pride, position, and power or steal to be able to survive. Now days there are millions of more people on the planet who have a million more ways of going about their everyday lives, fulfilling their everyday needs. Humans are obviously not perfect beings, everyone does something wrong once time in their life, some more than others. . The more laws our society creates, the more lawbreakers there will be. Criminologists have been trying to find out what the driving force behind human nature for the temptation to commit crimes.…