Broad Street

They 're going to brush off the dirt and the dust bunnies and the bits of hair and then place the snacks back on the plate as if nothing ever happened. I haul our grocery bags from the 2 train down Wall Street while Nadia complains about the gaggle of people who obstruct our path by the stock exchange. Metal barriers are aligned along the sidewalk, choking the pedestrians into a narrow walkway on the far edge of the street. On the other side, floor traders in matching blue jackets chain smoke cigarettes and casually discuss some matter of the day. NYPD officers in SWAT gear hold M-4 carbine assault weapons under the statue of George Washington on Federal Hall National Memorial: the site where our first president had taken his first oath of office. Washington’s right hand, with his fingers outstretched and palm facing the ground, seems to motion for the officers to lower their weapons, but they weren’t paying him any mind as they scanned the wandering tourists and brokers for any signs of terrorism. We walk past an officer’s indifferent gaze once we’ve broken through the hordes near Broad Street. His rifle flags a group of old women while he stares unmindfully at the cobblestone street and shifts his weight from one foot to the…

Situation Analysis Running for Glory (RfG) is a small running store in Seattle, WA that has been in business for 40 years. They specialize solely on the running community and have established a loyal follow over the years. They are owned and operated by four active partners. RfG has failed to keep up with technology and can only keep track of their inventory with help from suppliers. The only data collected from their point of sale (POS) system is total sales. They are looking into expanding but…

dominating style earned him the nickname The Hammer. He really hammered his opponents when necessary as well as when it was not so needed. During the 1974-75 season, David established an all-time record for the most penalty minutes (472 minutes). Andre Dupont was second in terms of having most penalty minutes in that season. During the 1974-75 season, the dominant stars of this team were involved in as much as 77 fights with different opponents. This clearly shows how aggressive and violent…

wealth and unhappiness? Interestingly, it is not materialism which causes unhappiness directly, but that unhappiness and materialism are mutually reinforcing mechanisms. He notes that people who have experienced true deprivation are those who, later in life, are the most materialistic -- for example, those who went through the Great Depression often were materialistic in later life. He then goes on to describe the evidence that insecurity breeds materialism, and that pursuit of…

The Ghost Map, written by Steven Johnson, follows two researchers, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, who are dedicated to solve the Cholera outbreak in London. The Cholera outbreak started in 1854 when a little girl was infected and her contents contaminated a water pump on Broad Street. Soon, London was filled with infected residents and no one could figure out what caused it. Thankfully, John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and other characters were able to understand and piece together how the Cholera…

authority in Anesthesia at the time he was one of the most powerful medical personnel in London. In fact he treated Queen Victoria with Chloroform during her 8th pregnancy to aid with the pain of childbirth. Now the real genius of John Snow is seen during the portrayal of him piecing together the clues. John Snow needs to find concrete evidence that the Cholera is spreading through consumption rather than the air. He needed to counter the idea of Miasmas. Miasmas were the ancient idea that…

In 1812 railroad technology and steam engine technology collided changing the known world which helped form the world we know today. The Middleton Railway in Leeds, United Kingdom was the first to use a steam powered locomotive to generate revenue and has been in operaton ever since. The creation of the railroad and how it has connected the world has left it never the same again (railserve.com, n.d.). The railroad soon came to America in 1820 and began to immediately impact society. The “golden…

In The Ghost Map author Steven Johnson illustrates an episodic saga as Dr. John Snow traces throughout London in order to solve one of the greatest epidemic of his time. As Steven Johnson creates the nauseating tale in the early parts of the novel as sanitation engineering was not at its best during the years of 1854, with John Snow enduring the sickening outbreak of diseases and his incentive to find out the causes and why this is happening to everyone around him. This day and age the role of…

Discussion The research methods in the studies reviewed improved in sophistication and clarity over time from 2011 to 2016. Three of the studies determined that antibiotics resulted in a risk for increased BMI in boys but not in girls (Ajslev et al., 2011; Azad et al., 2014; Murphy, et al., 2014). In general, repeated exposures to antibiotics (Saari et al., 2015; Schwartz et al., 2016; Scott et al., 2016) or broad-spectrum antibiotics (Bailey et al., 2014), in particular macrolides (Saari et…

by a Weather Channel Meteorologist. And I’ll be honest, at a times it has felt so much easier to just be black. Being a minority is hard enough, but being a minority of a minority? That 's simply too hard sometimes. Too much ignorant questions to answer to and too little time to educate that ignorance, and sometimes you can frankly tell that they genuinely don 't care enough to want to be educated. But I’ll take the time to do so today, because knowing about where I came from very much will…