Parks

Hersheypark was an enjoyable experience. Since youth I have been in the Hershey area many times, playing in the Ice Rinks around the immediate vicinity of the park, yet actually going to the park as alluded me. The first ride was Skyrush. Traveling at speed of around 70 miles an hour it is an exhilarating ride. First, using power from electricity, gears and pulleys do work to move the full mass of the cars, in which the whole train has a mass of 13 tons, up a steep incline to increase the…

CLANG! The cell door slammed shut! Clink! The officer locked the door leaving Rosa Parks in the darkness of her cell. She had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, which led her to the big house. Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whom the United States Congress called “The First Lady” and “The Mother of the Freedom Movement.” Rosa achieved so much, but to fully realize what she did you have to know about her early life, her great accomplishments, and her later…

The ballpark opened in the spring of 2001 and has a capacity of 38,496 (PNC Park Overview, 2014). According to the Pirates, PNC Park combines the best features from historic ballparks with latest amenities and comforts for both players and fans. With its two-deck design, the furthest seat from the field is only 88 feet away (PNC Park Overview, 2014). The Pirates sell tickets through several different locations. The have a box office that is open daily at the ballpark and also opened before all…

overcome”(“Outstanding Women in History” 1). Rosa Parks had a pretty nice childhood, of course she had some difficult times in her life, but Rosa was smart enough to figure them out. Rosa was not a known person, the older she became the better her life became, of course she had struggles but without those struggles in her life Rosa would not of became the women she was. Rosa had difficult time when she was a child, but that turned her into what she was. When Rosa Parks was little her family…

today’s New York City with its 8.5 million citizens the only green that is left in the city are man-made parks. Frederick Olmstead, who created all 842 acres of Central Park, had amazing foresight into what the city would become. As Abraham Lincoln called for the emancipation of slaves in 1863, Olmstead expanded Lincoln’s vision planned the foundation for what will become the world’s first national park system. Olmstead, referring to the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address, that accesses to…

National Park Rangers have incredibly important jobs when it comes to the health of an environment. Park Rangers have the ability to cause considerable change to an environment in a positive or negative way. The role of the national park ranger is to “protect, conserve, and to provide for the enjoyment of our nation 's heritage” (Maciha). National Park Rangers know better than anyone that the most basic of changes can cause an environment, or more specifically an ecosystem to crumble. The most…

Rosa Parks and James Blake (bus driver) enter the scene. Many whites sit toward the front of the bus while blacks take the back due to laws supporting segregation. Because of this, quite a few Negros don’t ride the bus; they find it demeaning since the front of the bus has much more space and less heat compared to the back. Rosa is sitting down in her seat located in the fifth row, the “Colored section,” of the bus alongside three other Negros when a white man gets on, looking for an open seat.…

that were assigned for the black people on the bus. They are not sure, there is a dispute if there was an extra seat in the black section. Rosa Parks was located directly behind the whites. The driver requested that the black people that were directly behind the whites move further back, so that the white person that was being attended, had a seat. Rosa parks was then arrested for not listening to the orders of the bus drivers. After that, Martin Luther King used a non-violence approach to…

bathrooms or even drink out of the same water fountains. African American had to ride on the back of the bus where it said “colored’’ when the buses started to get full they would have to give up their seats to white people. On December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Alabama when she was asked to move out of her seat when she denied to move, a policeman came and placed her under arrest. She was arrested for violating the Alabama bus segregation laws, She was also fined fourteen dollars.…

2005, theme park industry in Hong Kong is dominated by Ocean Park Hong Kong. The opening of Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005 changed the market structure of Hong Kong’s theme park industry from a monopoly to a duopoly. Both parks provide elements of entertainment but position themselves differently in the market. The emergence of Hong Kong Disneyland has brought a great challenge to Ocean Park, a local theme park with less global recognition. Different strategies are implemented by Ocean Park to…