At a young age, I didn’t pay attention to my surroundings just the big entertainments like the castle, Mickey Mouse and his friends that are roaming around the theme park. Now, as we are older, we are more aware of the people surrounding us. The amusement park is packed with people in big groups which consists of tourists, people with year around passes, or kids in school field trips. These are the people that are constantly visiting Disneyland. There are multiple…
Etse Lossou 10424363 Topic: Impact of Traffic Congestion on Commuters; a case study of Accra-Kasoa Road Literature Review Road Traffic congestion has always been a major problem all over the world. Both the developed and developing countries are battling with the problem but with different degree of commitment. On the 14 of October 2014, a study from INRIX and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) revealed that the total cumulative cost of congestion in the UK’s economy is…
Jurassic Park Analysis In Michael Crichton’s novel “Jurassic Park”, he focuses a lot on what we, as readers, distinct the difference of what is natural, and what is artificial. He uses the idea of scientifically bringing back extinct dinosaurs, and creating a zoo for these reptiles. This fictional idea of bringing back prehistoric animals traps us in wondering the big question. Are these dinosaurs actually real, or are they just artificial beings used for science, and entertainment? These…
Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. Scouts taught me how to not only identify plants and animals, but how to enjoy the wilderness without leaving an impact on it. A passion grew in me to help the environment and love the land I stand on. Rangers of the many parks we visited presented an abundance of education…
Journal 5: Adulthood and Old Age Personal: Adulthood and old age, from this session I reflected deeply about my life how I got where I am today. I can describe my experience as being a roller coaster, sometimes I go up and then all of a sudden I am down fallen everyone goes through good/hard moments in his or her life. When hard moments come, everyone will want to wish to go back to the good old times this why I describe life as being a roller coaster. The lifeline exercise we did in class, I…
or how many people have died on a malfunctioning rollercoaster. According to A Pelletier, "Approximately four deaths annually in the United States are associated with roller coaster." For my twentieth birthday, I decided to go to Lagoon Amusement Park with my boyfriend, my best friend, and my best friend's boyfriend. I was extremely excited as it was my first time to Lagoon and I have been wanting to go for years. We had been planning the trip for months now and it was only a few days away. As…
The Brothers The brothers Warner had an interest in films since 1903. They were traveling exhibitors, moving throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania with their portable projector their sister Rose found in their attic. By 1907, the brothers had bought and were operating from a converted store in New Castle, Pennsylvania. They named it Cascade Theatre. Albert and Harry were selling tickets, Sam ran the hand-cranked projector, and Jack sang along to Rose’s piano playing during intermissions. Within that…
African-American activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama transport caused one of the biggest bus boycott controversy. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to withhold the law requiring isolation on city transports. Rosa Parks receive numerous honors among her lifetime, including the NAACP 's most female courage honor. Rosa Parks ' adolescence carried her initial encounters with racial…
A Seat on the Bus Power is a central dynamic in the writing of history. It influences the content of this history we know and the way it is delivered. Power dictates what is taught and what is silenced, what is available and what is erased (Martin & Nakayama, 2010). In 1955, the American South was run by strict laws called “Jim Crow”. These state and local laws enforced a system of white supremacy that discriminated against citizens of color in the southern United States. Jim Crow mandated…
The Bridge War of 1845 The first bridge the east side built spanned over into the west side of Chestnut Street; Kilbourntown would not take any part to help finance the construction of the bridge. The disgruntled east-siders felt that the best way to retaliate against Kilbourntown’s lack of funding was to produce the cheapest bridge possible. Yet, over the next few years, the bridge turned out to be exactly what they paid for. This led to a village meeting on May 7, 1845, where the two towns…