Rush hour

City Of Rush Hour: Multicultural Yet Dangerous Among the many California-related films on the list, I chose the “Rush Hour” because it was one of the series of movies I had enjoyed watching it when I was young. The film's main story is about the process of finding Chinese Consul’s kidnapped daughter by Detective Carter and Lee and incidents happening along the processes. Throughout the film, it suggested lots of different images about the California. Although there are lots of images that are shown in the film like there are lots of traffics in the city, LAPD’s are “most hated cops in all the free world,” (Rush Hour) as well as there are lots of tourists in the city. However, there are three images that I like to point out how the film the…

this study and the data sources are described in this section. We focus on the time period between 2013 July and 2016 May for data consistency. Figure 1. US Great Lakes Megaregion (source: http://www.america2050.org) 3.2.1. Traffic Congestion Measure Traditionally, two measures have been widely used for measuring traffic congestion. The first one is to use the average journey to work travel time, which is measured and provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Average travel time is a simple…

“Thud!” The car door slams shut, with me inside the vehicle. The engine revved as my dad and I pulled away from James S. Rickards Middle School. As we got on Interstate 95 we were disappointed as it was the peak of Monday afternoon rush hour traffic. Nevertheless my imagination still swirling as it was my first time traveling to this destination. The destination was Markham Park Shooting Range. As the car ride took about an hour, that alone gave enough time for my excitement to bloom. When we…

How does Rush Hour 3 use conventions of comedy to support Chinese cultures? Rush Hour 3 is a action, comedy and adventure movie released in 2007, directed by Bret Ratner and acted by Jackie Chen and Chris Tucker as protagonists. Conventions of comedy can be explained by setting, sound, lighting, character types and so on. The Chinese cultures that we often see in movies are Kung Fu, sword fighting, Chinese Buddhist temple and kids being toughed Kung Fu, etc. I will be describing how a scene from…

wants to be like California. There are literally thousands of books, songs, plays, museums, and monuments that show the many traits and characteristics of the Golden State, but out of all the things that portray California’s persona, nothing shows it better than movies. Throughout most of the 1900s, there have been lots of movies that portray California’s stereotypes, religious practices, race relations, and gender equality. One movie that shows a lot about the California culture is Rush Hour.…

The movie that is being critiqued is called Rush Hour. This will cover as many comedic devices that can be found. Some of the devices found were exaggeration, Obsession, Slapstick, contrast, transgression and language. It will also cover laughter needing an echo, the depending on comedy has an absence of feeling. Some examples of exaggeration in rush hour would be when he assumes Lee can’t speak English in their first meeting. It relates because of the way he raises his voice to the point…

Traffic In Jakarta Have you ever imagined being stuck in traffic worse than New York? If you haven’t, then you’ve never been to Jakarta. The capital city of Indonesia that is home to roughly ten million people has to endure in such distress in their daily commute that has to travel twice less of an average speed in New York said Greenfield. This traffic is greatly caused by the impacted population that the city has to accommodate, the lack of public transportation and the slow-growth of roads…

humidity and not because of the bad road conditions but Baton Rouge’s awful traffic. Every day for approximately 45 minutes to an hour I have no choice but to deal with the traffic, because I work in WBR and there’s only two ways to enter into EBR from WBR, the New Mississippi Bridge or as I know it the old bridge. It’s becoming one of the most frustrating issues for me and I'm pretty sure the rest of the city. Due to the traffic congestion consequently commuters suffer from this issue,…

On average it takes 9 minutes and 35 seconds for an ambulance in New York City to reach the caller. This is 4 minutes longer than the national average. New York’s congestion problem began in the 1930s, the depressed economy put thousands of people behind the wheels of taxi cabs. Thousands of drivers chasing after few fares congested the streets of the New York boroughs and forced the city to put a restriction on the number of cabs allowed on the streets at a time. Uber, an app that allows its…

Over the past years, traffic congestion has become a serious problem in Metro Manila, specifically the Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA). This results in loss of travel time, and huge economic and societal costs. "Traffic in the capital and its surroundings is already costing the country about P3 billion ($64 million) a day, or about 0.8% of gross domestic product, according to government figures" (Presse, 2016). The demand for transportation infrastracture has increased because they asociate…