Taxicabs of the United States

This week I chose an article about how car services began to make their apps to go against Uber. Uber is an application that is used by individuals to request for a car service to appear wherever they are with a touch of a button. I personally believe that this is a great application to use for transportation. However, the yellow taxis, car services, or other transportation are not quite fond off this system. Other car services have been complaining about Uber and have become frustrated with this system getting involved. They have became learned helplessness because they thought their faith in being the best car service was over since Uber was built. For the car services and limousines to still stay in service and catch up to Uber is by keeping up with the technologies. Rather then using the two-way radio, they turned their ways into using color-coded letters and numbers that track their cars. Now, these cars have begun using an app that led them to the address of the customers. Since customers make fewer phone calls, the only way to reach out to them is threw apps. The high-class car services began to use smartphone apps since December and since then the number rides have increased. The yellow taxi owners and drivers see Uber as a threat to them because it is more convenient to customers and at a considerable cost. They noticed the Uber has ruined their reputation and they must do something about this. After years of independence, car service companies joined forces and…

While walking home from school in Jenison, Michigan the fear of being kidnapped is nonexistent. There have been a few terrorist attacks against the United States, but it's not an invaded country. There is no need for parents to check up on their kids after every explosion because there are no explosions happening in Jenison. We have all these safety drills in case of emergency threats, and every time we have one I can’t help the chuckle that escapes my mouth. However, in Iraq even elementary…

the country. Although spread out and mainly on the East Coast, the result is an “engaging work of popular history”. The year 1908 was filled with radical changes in the technology that changed the way of American life dramatically. The automobile, which was introduced by Henry Ford, known as the Model T, was barreling toward transit domination even in a time of financial clout swells. The first affordable automobile was a piece of technology viewed by Rasenberger as “unsurpassed in its impact on…

Population Growth Population growth rate on Earth is increasing exponentially; in fact, it is believed that the population will increase to more than 9 billion people by the middle of the century (United States Census Bureau, 2016). This is an unimaginable increase from the two and a half billion souls Earth had just in 1950 alone (Population Institute, 2016). The impact has raised serious concerns for the planet and it sustainability. The population increases in both developed countries and…

Babies Having Babies. Teenage pregnancy is a worldwide problem. While this is true, Megan Comlossy states that there are more teenage pregnancies in the United States than in any other industrialized country (1). According to Poverty and the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, teenage pregnancy is defined as women aging from 13-19 who give birth (1). Teen pregnancy can be caused by numerous factors. Some of these factors are one’s family background, cultural influence, and…

International terrorism involves any violent acts toward human life that violate federal or state law with a minimum sentence of twenty five years with labor. ISIS, a new terrorist group that stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, mimicked the name Isis the Egyptian goddess and ruler of the underworld. The organization started their attacks on Syria and Iraq to gain territory and independence, but later on they pushed their forces to many foreign countries. The organization films,…

In 1963, the streets of Saigon and the surrounding cities of Southern Vietnam were flooded with Viet Cong (VC). These were Vietnamese Communists who lived all throughout Vietnam. The towns became overrun and soon the South started to lose control. As a result, the United States sent around 16,000 military “advisers” to Southern Vietnam. Their job was to aid the South in their efforts to drive the VC out of their country. This, however, was rarely the case as there was a thin line between…

to write many things arose in my memory from my past. This paper has made me think a lot of how my culture has affected me not just in school, but also in my everyday living. I am originally from Guanajuato, Mexico but I have been in the United States for almost 16 years. During these 16 years coming and going from the United States to México I have been able to see a great deal of cultural diversity. Coming into the United States at an age of 5 was something that I was eye opening to me when I…

Just like any other person born and raised in Latin America, the biggest challenge I ever had was when I first came to the United States. Although the circumstances in which I came were different than many other people, it was definitely an experience I wouldn’t want anyone to live. Today, thousands of families decide to come to the United States in the search for a better quality of life. Unfortunately the American dream does not arrive from one day to another. In fact it requires a lot of…

3.The Great Awakening of the 1730s-1740s helped create a sense of rebellion. Assess the validity of this statement (might be more than 4 sentences) Even though some people at the time were embracing deism others embraced pietism which in turn led to a religious revival and the Great Awakening. Pietism sparked a “revival of religion” when the German migrants brought it to America. From there it spread to the Middle Colonies and New England. The Great Awakening occurred when George Whitfield…