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Discussion: Creating a scene Detective Darrel Jones was driving past blocks of businesses on the main route into town and everything looked normal. Nothing big happens on day shift in this area of town but at night the reports start coming in. The temperature was warm 105 degrees and the clear blue sky made it a perfect day. Detective Jones plans to retire in 8 years when he is 51 years old and move to Florida with his wife. Their two kids should be in college or married and with the pension and…

America from after the Civil War up until the 1890’s is described as being the period of time that was golden on the outside, but if you scratch the surface corrupt underneath. This period is known as the Gilded Age, which is a term invented by a famous American author Mark Twain. During the Gilded Age, America was facing serious social problems. These problems were being masked by the advancements of the new modern nation it was turning into. This era is significant because there is no event…

lost, the disposal of the lead within the battery must be dealt with appropriately. An analysis by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon found that the mass production of electric cars using lead/acid battery packs would exponentially increase the public’s exposure to lead pollution (Peters, 1995). According to the study, electric cars would create more than 60 times the amount of lead pollution as compared to vehicles burning leaded gasoline (Peters, 1995). In addition to problems associated with lead…

Transportation in and around America has been ruined for years and with luck transportation planners will change the face of American transportation. In the 1860s the United States government approved the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, which became the first mass transit system in America and revolutionized the way Americans lived, transporting people, livestock as well as other cargo across America. Transportation is important to our society, how it changes the way we travel,…

The first railroad invented that traveled across the country was called the transcontinental railroad. It consisted of 1,907 miles of iron rails, stretching from the Mississippi River all the way to San Francisco by the Pacific Ocean. The railroads provided a way to transport goods quicker and cheaper. It gave states and western settlements more money to buy other things such as coal, or livestock. Those first railroads also opened up jobs for the unemployed living in the western plains. Before…

Transcontinental Railroad The Transcontinental Railroad was a legendary Civil Engineering feat that created an entirely new way of settlement and trade in the West that had hardly been imagined. The Railroad changed the life of the travelers and settlers in America. A trip from the East Coast to the West Coast that used to take six months then took a mere seven days. Without the intelligence of great men like Theodore Judah and Grenville Dodge, who were Chief Engineers of the Railroad, the…

In Railroaded, Richard White tells his version of how the transcontinental railroad affected America after the reconstruction. While it is obvious White has done wide-ranging research on the matter, the book is often tiresome, as he tells again and again of how everyone involved was a greedy crook. White’s goal in the book was to prove that building the Railroad when it was, came at too high a cost. Destroying the economy, corruption, destruction of land, Indians and buffalo was not worth it…

1. J.P. Morgan- He was a banker who brought stability and rationality to the national economy. He integrated railroads, insurance companies, and banks to make business run with more ease. John D. Rockefeller- He was a an oil tycoon who created his monopoly by taking control of all of his competition. Andrew Carnegie- He made his fortune by incorporating the Bessemer Steel Process into his steel manufacturing business. He donated a university, because he believed it…

road with them. One of the many issues revolving around self-driving cars is the question of safety. How much can we trust in computers to keep us safe? The main system that is used in self driving technology is a computer, and computers tend to have their moments of malfunction. For a piece of machinery…

powertrains and electric components. Tesla is a pioneer of electric technologies for cars as well. The company also owns their own service centers and supercharges stations. In addition to electric car manufacturing, the organization has designed and developed electric components for other car manufacturers. For example, Daimler AG, also known as Mercedes Benz, purchased electric methodologies for its sub-compact model the “Smart Car.” Tesla also develops charging technologies for home…