Amtrak

Valley. It was an express train running from Jersey City to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. But aside from the Queen of Valley, their most fame was from the Blue Comet. The Blue Comet train ran from Jersey City to Atlantic City, and had the features of an Amtrak Train today. The train ran from 1929 to 1940, and the use of the…

Art is something that has kept the city of Philadelphia such a huge tourist attraction. Besides the art museum steps that rocky runs up, and the fact that the Constitution and The Declaration of Independence were signed in the city, art from Philadelphia has had a huge impact on the art world. Graffiti, any writing or drawing that has been scratched or painted onto a wall or surface, usually in a public place, has been a large and long part of the art culture part of the art world in…

Transportation Safety Committee and they were giving an annual report. The report consisted mostly of letting everyone know what the committee has been up to the last year and what projects they have done and are still doing. Some of the topics included Amtrak, 50/50 mode share, and making Arcata a certified walk friendly city. The 50/50 mode share is something that they are continuing to work on. The main struggle right now seems to be how to measure who is using what form of transportation…

Tollway Fee Removal Many people in the United States use car transportation to travel throughout the country. The most common roadways traveled through are highways and along with highways comes a toll charge. Many states use tollways to refund to the damage done on roads throughout years, but this is also very expensive for travelers. As stated by the Illinois Toll Way “The average toll rate on the Illinois Tollway is 6 cents per mile. The typical rate for a passenger vehicle at a manned toll…

Bringing Back Trains This paper is focused on persuading the American voters to vote for leaders who want an increased spending budget for the American railways. There are big problems with our nation that can been fixed easily, but we keep looking the other way. Currently, there are millions of pounds of pollutants being released into our atmosphere by our cars and freight laden trucks. Not to mention our health, our money, and our countries independence are being neglected do to the overuse…

all day. A motorist, dead of exposure in a stranded car. A man, dead of a heart attack while shoveling snow; ambulance couldn’t reach him. Coat drive, shelters for the homeless. Check in on your elderly neighbors, folks. If you can get out, that is. Amtrak trains abandoned. Hundreds of cars lining the highway, buried by snow, white lumps pierced by antennas. Family of five, killed when their roof collapsed. We were a family of four, but with Mom far away, we were only three. I got out of the…

Thought-out history there has been many pioneers to law enforcement. From the Father of law enforcement August Vollmer and Jim Fisher, who created many criminal investigative techniques just to name a few. The different levels of law enforcement are very important aspect to consider, that being federal, state and local. Each level is just as important as the other is, but different at the same time. Nevertheless one cannot operate without the other which allows the criminal justice as a whole to…

Our day started every day around 4:00 – 5:00am with take down and folding the tent to carry in our backpack, filling 4-5 liters of water to prepare for the long hike during the day, putting all personal belongings in the backpack, cleaning the fire pit and the campsite using leave no trace techniques. We then hiked 4-12 miles every day depending on the itinerary. When we arrived at the campsite at the end of the day, we participated in the activities we had signed up for. We would then set up…

The Man in the Hoodie The woman boarded the silver Amtrak train bound for New York City in the wee hours of the morning. It was prior to rush hour, so the train was nearly empty, and she was the only person occupying the last car. The woman got on in Boston, and her car remained empty until Connecticut, when the man in the gray hoodie boarded. She was half asleep with headphones tucked in her ears when he entered the car and took the seat opposite hers. She straightened up in her seat and…

Purugganan, Jeff André C. BSE32 Professor Jesser Eullo Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is a fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology that can be dissected using Joseph Campbell’s Hero Myth. The Hero’s Journey in the story is the following: I. Separation/Departure A. Call to Adventure Percy Jackson’s mundane existence is a troublesome kid with a peculiar case of dyslexia and ADHD. He gets himself kicked out of every school he has ever been to.…