Grand Central Terminal

Grand Central terminal was originally created to be a train station and still serves that purpose today. Owned by the Vanderbilt’s, Grand Central Terminal earned its name as a terminal because all railways end there, it's always been referred to as Grand Central station. Grand Central Terminal is not only iconic structure in the middle of New York City, but is still a working train stain to help people on their daily commute to places inside the immediate tri-state area and the east coast. Grand Central has been open and running for a little over a hundred years, the complete building was designed by an architect named Whitney Warren, who wanted to bring his personal Parisian feeling to the city with his Beaux-Arts style. While all the inner workings of the terminal are hidden behind walls of limestone, doors, and shops. Grand Central is the train station located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The station assists traveler’s itinerant the Metro-North Railroad to several counties in New York…

Yesterday I visited Grand Central Station- or I should say terminal, the famous station as changed its names many times throughout the last hundred years. Grand Central’s birth was from a tragedy and underwent many changes from presidents, to abandoned tracks to restaurants, to rebuilding this station is an American Icon. The chief engineer was William J Wilgus and build two version of the terminal before the third and final station designed by Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore had been…

I always take the train into Penn Station and honestly never found the station to be appealing. Once we walked into Grand Central Station the first thing that came to my head was that this station makes Penn Station look like garbage. The station was absolutely beautiful. With high ceilings and high dome arched surround the entrance I couldn’t believe I haven’t visited it before. John B. Snook who had been commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt had built the station in the mid 19th century.…

to know the truth” (Salinger 133) and everything going even farther downhill for Holden. Later on that night he finds a bar he’s able to get drinks at and gets completely wasted which forces him to fumble home where he runs into his little sister, Phoebe, home alone because his parents are out. He explains with little detail what happened to him and why he’s home earlier than he should be when suddenly his parents return home and he has no choice but to leave out the window since he doesn’t want…

Increased Customer Trust/Satisfaction A mobile POS system will eliminate the tiring process of having to refer back to a stationary terminal to continually update inventory counts as they are tallied by hand or eye, then written down and logged for referral. An employee can use a mobile POS terminal with inventory reports to check the stock, then make any necessary changes right on the terminal, streamlining the process. This also eliminates fatigue, which can raise the likelihood of human…

The Memorial Union Bus Terminal From A Social Context Approach During these eleven weeks in LDA 01, we have discussed several approaches to the discipline of environmental design. Some, but not all of these approaches are the social context, ecological, participatory, artistic, and the cultural competency approach. For this project in specific, I decided to analyze a site using the social context approach. For me, this approach is the most interesting and crucial when planning a project. The…

continues to evolve leading to an increase in average lifespan, so why would anyone want to cut their time short? Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is a fairly new concept in medicine, it “Occurs when a physician facilitates a patient’s death by providing the necessary means and/or information to enable the patient to perform the life ending act” (Physician Assisted Suicide, 1995). Due to the nature of the act, there have been major ethical and social issues surrounding PAS. Many believe that it…

Throughout the world, many hundreds of people have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. Some of these illnesses are very painful and can cause suffering to those diagnosed until they eventually pass away. Today, a few countries have legalized a method to circumvent this suffering; it is known as physician/euthanasia assisted suicide (EAS). In America, a handful of states have legalized this new medical approach but there is still a lot of opposition for moral and religious reasons. Most…

Physician-Assisted Suicide is a very prominent current event being documented today as science and medicine continue to make advancements. However, this is a very misunderstood topic throughout social media and national news, causing many people to have various views on whether or not it should be allowed. Even though some people feel that PAS is unethical, because people are allowed to change their own fate, when people are diagnosed with incurable, terminal illnesses, they should be allowed…

individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don 't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life. '” (Toews). For many years, those dubbed with the burden of cancer and other terminal illnesses have to suffer through a slow and painful death in the end. However we respect animals with these illnesses more than our own kind by putting them out of their…