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Women in Law enforcement To be a law enforcement officer, a person must be mentally and physically tough. Officers have to have many virtues like being patient, compassionate, caring, strict, and fearless. Being an officer means a person is fully dedicated to the job and what it stands for, protecting the people. Law enforcement has been around since the beginning of time. Its purpose is to enforce laws and to protect the people from crime in this world. In the different societies there are…

Miller, P.A. article “Does Florida's Ban on Texting Work?”, as the years keep moving forward highways will become busier, due to the massive amount of motor vehicles that are being added to our highways. There weren’t many distractions in the past, but now we’re constantly producing new technology which has impacted our society dramatically. Texting while driving seems to be the distraction that…

hence to Bridging the Golden Gate Association. Did you know that Golden Gate Bridge’s name was first used in 1917 in project’s initial stages by Straussand M. O'Shaughnessy? But it was in 1932 that it got official status by Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District Act of state legislature. Having taken all the trouble, Strauss was rightful chief engineer of the project. Remember the Strauss’ first design? It was extended and a master architectural design was put forward by Leon Moisseiff; New…

(Kennedy, pg. 843). American families establish stability and protection within the suburban home. Suburbia flourished after WWII for the reason of favorable tax policies and government guarantees for mortgage lending, the baby doom, and new highways. Federal Housing…

apply to me that I have learned throughout this course is habituation, more about the Circadian Rhythm and how motivation effects me. After moving to further out of town right in front of a highway, I began to realize how noisy it was. We can also hear vehicles from the interstate as well. Semi’s go on the highway quite a bit. We would always complain about the noise. Then, nine years later we don’t notice it at all. I honestly don’t even think about it. There are plenty of other things that…

meant that Americans were more fascinated with the automobile than ever. Cars contributed to the growth of suburbs due to their sudden affordability and availability. The Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956 paved the way (quite literally) for constructing 41,000 miles of interstate highways across the U.S. These highways began to become a necessity for the ever growing car culture, so this act was a major step in the right direction for this point in history. Americans during the post-war era…

every state didn’t immediately lower their minimum alcohol age when the law was pass by Ronald Reagan proves that most people where oppose to it, and they only didn’t because they would have been penalize by a 10 percent reduction in their federal highway money if they didn’t…

The stories in this chapter are typical of the times and vividly portray the gradual, disarming, and even confusing nature of the transformation that took place shortly after the war as the Valley began to shed its agricultural roots. I was born in San Jose in 1947 (a third generation native), and started working on my grandfather’s ranch of apricots, prunes, and walnuts at the age of eight. Like the other younger children, I starting out picking up "ground fruit" from under the trees. I…

offices, bridges, schools, parks and highways. They also gave work to artists, writers and musicians. In July of 1935,…

Medina, Minnesota, “a prosperous, suburban edge City” is the place I call home. Now, living in the 82,575-person college town of Bloomington, Indiana, makes my quaint little hometown of 5,221 seem irrelevant. Being away from home for the first time in my life makes me appreciate the state of Minnesota more than I ever expected; I can even say that I miss my little area of the world, Medina. Initially when presented with this project I thought I would focus on Minneapolis, a city of 400,070,…