Light rail

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, is a large company that manages railways all across the country. In 1970, President Nixon signed the Rail Passenger Service Act created by Congress, which started Amtrak. Since the beginning of operations in 1971, Amtrak has been delivering thousands to their destinations every single day, with 15 main national network routes and many other routes that reach over 500 communities nationwide. Amtrak, like other transportation…

Two British examples of old, antique railway structures built prior to 1840, a tunnel and a bridge, now have protected status. This is thanks to a recent decision in the country by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In 2014, the Guinness Book of Records named the Fritchely Tunnel one of the globe’s oldest railroad tunnels still left in existence. Built in 1793, the Fritchley Tunnel is 25 meters long and is constructed of sandstone blocks. It was built to be a section of the Butterley…

continue to play a major role in the U.S. economy. Therefore, I agree with fact that the US railroad industry has made a profit since deregulation, and seemingly has been rescued from bankruptcy with the continuous improvement in freight transport by rail after deregulation as per statistics shown in following bar…

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Introduction Interior design is an exciting and rewarding occupation. It revolves around creativity, intellectual fulfillment, and also provides a lifetime of personal appeal. Interior design is vital, vibrant, and dynamic, meaning that as the world changes so does life around us, and design keeps up with the pace. Since we are also evolving and advancing into the future with new technology and ideas, the interior of a space is never truly finished, because it can always be enhanced by the…

in the universe: a black hole. Black holes interact with light, reflecting so little, that they do not let any escape. That is dark but the intense energies created by black holes in the process of eating stars is anything but dark. The level of complexity of light and dark that we see in the universe can also be seen in James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues”. In “Sonny’s Blues”, James Baldwin looks past the normal literary uses of light and dark imagery as representing good and bad, but…

Taking a walk in Tate Modern I noticed that the light intensity as well as the light distribution is different in each space: the galleries from the Turbine Hall and the halls. In the galleries there are glowing light boxes displayed on the ceilings. The boxes are made out of glass and a steel frame. In addition to these there are also attached movable light bulbs on the steel skeleton of the boxes. In his article, John Hirst describes the inside of a light box: ‘Internally the boxes have…

Effects of Social Media Before social media existed the way people met each other was through face to face communication. Now when walking down the sidewalk people pretend to be on their phones so they do not have to talk or acknowledge each other. People now days lack social/people skills. Social media over the past couple of years have taken control of people’s lives. Social media is not just taking over people’s lives it is also effecting people’s brains, behavior and thinking. Social…

iii) Light intensity, cm-2 Formula of light intensity = (1/distance2) = cm-2 Eg : for 10cm = 1/((10.00cm)²) = 1/(100 cm²) =0.0100 cm-2 Distance of leaf discs from the light source (±0.05) cm Light intensity (cm-2) 10.00 0.0100 15.00 0.0044 20.00 0.0025 25.00 0.0016 30.00 0.0011 35.00 0.0008 Table 6: The table shows the…

As clearly seen in the beginning of the documentary we see the phone box, shrouded in darkness with only one very faint source of light. This immediately provokes the audience to question: Why? What’s happening? And thus get the audience to truly become curious as to what they are looking at and to what might happen next. This technique of using the darkness rather than avoiding it…