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Living in Baton Rouge is a daily struggle for me and I'm pretty sure a lot of other people from early morning and especially late afternoon, not because of the 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…

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…

Sugar Rush It was a foggy Halloween night and I had just finished putting on my zombie costume. I was a zombie from The Walking Dead. The smell of rubber filled my nostrils as I put my mask on. A realistic scar stretched from my chin to my eye! I wore teared brown rags for my costume. Fake blood was splattered across the rags. Last, I wore torn darn blue jeans with some fake blood on them. “AH!” I screamed in horror as I saw my reflection in the mirror. What a frightening costume! I grabbed my…

In Rush Limbaugh’s "Condoms: The New Diploma", Limbaugh claims students are being encouraged to have sex through the mass distribution of condoms during school. Limbaugh aims to sway our opinion on this topic. Emphasizing the point that students should be taught abstinence by the schools instead of the distribution of condoms. Therefore he claims that his opponents, condom distributors, argue that teens are going to have sex anyway so why not give them protection. Thus encouraging them to by…

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…

Vehicles and transportation play a significant role owing to the increase in the development rate of our country. An efficient transport network is essential for a developing nation as economic activities apart from others are dependent on it. Ample accessibility and efficient transport systems can increase the productivity, social opportunities, as well as provide economic benefits through better accessibility to markets, additional investments and employment. Traffic congestion, however, is…

Etse Lossou 10424363 Topic: Impact of Traffic Congestion on Commuters; a case study of Accra-Kasoa Road Literature Review Road Traffic congestion has always been a major problem all over the world. Both the developed and developing countries are battling with the problem but with different degree of commitment. On the 14 of October 2014, a study from INRIX and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) revealed that the total cumulative cost of congestion in the UK’s economy is…

By now we are familiar with Charlie Chaplin’s silent films and his talents; not only as a pantomime actor but also as a writer and director. Certainty, his 1931 silent film “City Lights” is a proof of his talent as an actor, writer, chorographer and director (Kamin) . The film gave Chaplin the opportunity to display his creative talents within the silent film industry. Although, Chaplin’s talents are numerous we are going to concentrate on his acting performance in the “City Lights” film. In…

TIME RICHNESS (Quantity with Quality vs. Rush with Stress) Fact: We rush through life with no time for our own health, for no time with parents, children nor even with our God-given companion: our spouse. What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? To marvel at Gods creations? To visit Natures Bounty, beautiful places and diverse people who we watch only on discovery Channel? Do we today have a choice wrt the time we get up in the morning, the time we sleep, the time…

myself in looking back upon the ocean which I have passed, and now and then find myself surprised by a tear in reflecting upon the friends I have lost, and the scenes of distress that I have witnessed, and which I was unable to relieve.- Dr. Benjamin Rush” It is now 1809 and the day of Thanksgiving. Mother Smith and Eliza got up very early to prepare for dinner and to greet us at the wagon when we arrive. Nathaniel and I got our kids ready to catch a wagon to Philadelphia. It was about 5…