school. So the night afore we had to pack our book bags and pick out habiliments, get yare with lunch and breakfast all that jazz. Mind you, I have never caught the “yellow school bus” afore, I’ve aurally perceived lots of stories about how the bus drivers are conventionally mean, and the seats have slimy-icky purple and greenish goo…
the ground. Soon enough he moved back to Colorado with his parents. He drifted around for a little while going from California and Texas. He had become strangely obsessed with an actor named Jodie Foster. She portrayed a prostitute in the film Taxi Driver. Around this time he started taking antidepressants. ‘My nervous is shot’ is what he wrote his sister. (Biography.com Editors). Hinckley tried several attempts to contact Miss. Foster but she never replied to his letters. He tried calling her…
“Where’s my mother?! I can’t see her!” I hysterically shouted to the clueless chinese taxi driver. I tried to comfort both my sisters by gently telling them everything was going to be fine. I clenched my fists as anxiety washed over me. “Don 't worry,” I whispered in a shaky voice “I 'm sure we are almost there.” It was 1:00 am and the outside world was dark and blinded by fog. After driving through a dark alleyway the taxi came to a halt. Looking around I saw our hotel; The filthy hotel had…
I did not always want to become a director. But I have always tried to be creative. Growing up in different countries formed my mind so that I tried to look at things from every perspective I could imagine. This imagination brought me to different ideas that I expressed in different ways when I was a kid. I used to be obsessed with stories. I remember my mother used to drop dozens of books in my bed and I would just stare into them, not knowing how to read yet, I would just imagine and invent…
Taxi Driver is a 1976 movie directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Julia and Michael Phillips, music by Bernard Hermann. With a great plot and engage music Travis Bickle the main character of story, a , is a lonely and a depressed 26-year-old living in New York City. He is a taxi driver with his chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the city. Travis feel in love with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. Travis succeeds in…
Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. He served two terms for a total of 8 years. In those years he overcame many things. He passed many surprising and impressive bills and laws. He ended the Cold War and confronted the War on Illegal Drugs head on. But, during his first 4 years in office, he was almost assassinated by a delusional man by the name of, John Hinckley. The Jodie Foster fanatic planned the attack for many months, and during those months his thoughts became…
Abu Laila; the main character in the film. Previously, he was a judge, and because of the lack of government funding to him and to his family, he was forced to work as a taxi driver (which the taxi belongs to his brother - in- law) to cover the expenses of his family; And which consists of his wife and only the daughter Leila. In her seventh birthday, Abu Laila take us in a tour in the Palestinian streets in his taxi. And we have seen some of the scenes that reflect the status of the country…
While viewing the video “Uber and the Great Taxicab Collapse”, some conclusions are easily drawn by comparing Uber and Lyft to a Taxi Cab Company. Immediately the regulation placed on the Taxi Cab Company places the business at a serious disadvantage, because it must follow the local and state law to operate the business. Consequently, the Taxi Cab Company has a physical presence and location, while Uber and Lyft do not. In comparison Uber and Lyft are not required to follow the same…
This chapter will throw light on such essentials as Uber driver pay, hourly and weekly guarantees, taxes and insurance that every driver should know about to plan how to make the most money with rideshare driving. Part 1: Uber Driver Pay The one thing you might be most curious about is how you get paid when you drive for Uber. As you may know, Uber is cashless and checkless, so all trip fare transactions are handled with credit cards and driver pay transactions are direct deposits. When you…
does not hire drivers. (4). Yet, Uber drivers must complete Uber’s application process that requires drivers to upload their driver’s license information and vehicle registration and insurance (12). Drivers must also pass a background check and a “city knowledge test,”(12). The plaintiffs should be considered employees because they provide a service for Uber. If Uber shifts its focus to what the company actually does, the jury will see Uber is a transportation company that employs drivers to…