The Walking Dead

On a blistering cold Saturday morning in November, my parents and I traveled north to see the 150th meeting between Lehigh and Lafayette at Yankee Stadium. My sister, a Lehigh freshman at the time and already in The Big Apple for the weekend, was texting pictures of the excitement. The NYSE, the Empire State Building, and the subway crowds all sporting brown and white. How could this small university from Bethlehem capture the attention of the greatest city in the world? Then it hit me… it was…

The day is nice, warm and sunny. A young man walks along a path in the park, spotting a small bundle of people. The people are chatting to themselves as the young man approaches them. He talks to the group, getting along with them perfectly. However, this man has never before talked to or even seen these people. This describes a character in the movie With Honors. This film features roommates in Harvard who end up taking in a bum during their senior year. Even though some of the…

Tom’s the Fiddler Crab Catcher One late afternoon as I look out from a large window where I work, I saw this raggedy white van pulling into the parking lot, as It park towards the north side of the lot I noticed the AC unit protruding from the back door. I changed my attention as a customer came in, I greet him and as usual with his nasty attitude Newport’s one hundred, a blue game and the rest on pump 5. He swayed the bundle up twenty- dollar bill on the counter, rotated around and walk away…

"Hey sis. Uhh do you and Luke want to go out with Jay and I tonight? Yah know since Mikey and Calum stole you two girls from us last night." Ash asks as I pack my bags for the next month. I guess I should probably mention that this is Jay and I's last day before we and out to Perth. "Of course we would, Ash. Luke said he just planned on us watching movies all night, and by that we all know he means watch 'Mean Girls' and fall asleep halfway through." I respond placing my final pair of Nike pros…

Labor costs were the transit operators’ biggest single cost. Up until the advent of the Birney Safety car in 1915, nearly every mass transit vehicle regardless of traction type had a crew of two men; a motorman and a conductor. The motorman operated the car, the conductor was responsible for passenger safety, collecting fares and all other aspects of customer service. Eliminating one man cut labor costs in half on the cars. The Birney Safety car introduced automatic interlocks that prevent the…

sleep due to the pain of the frostbite. I woke up and didn’t see my dad by my side. But then I realized there was a “pack” of people in front of me you couldn’t really tell if they were alive or dead. I shouted “who’s there!” nobody responded other than the crickets.…

The day began as Maya, Tasmeem, Hannah, Mary, Sadie, and I got into my car and jammed out to music all the way to St. Louis. As we approached the Loop, I could definitely tell we were in a very wealthy neighborhood which was indicated by the humongous mansions we saw. After parking at Starbucks Sarah and I went to the farmer's market in search of food. Since neither of us had been to the Loop and were in the spirit of trying new things, we purchased Chili Pumpkin Seed Chocolate to eat, and the…

On Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 2330 hours while I was sitting stationairy on the unit block of W. Centre St. near the Lyric the COMPLAINANT walked to my patrol car and advised me there is a physical fight in progress in front of the Mexican Bar. I advised the COMPLAINANT I am going there now and told the COMPLAINANT to walk back over to the Mexican Bar so I can get his information. I arrived at the Mexican Bar located at 8. E. Centre St. and activated the emergency lights on my patrol…

The car moved down the empty riverbed streets and off away, leaving the empty streets with the empty sidewalks and no sound and no motion all the rest of chilly November night. Mr. Mead saw all the country houses past and he wondered where the cop was going to take him. Mr. Mead asked the cop “where we were going” The cop mumbled “to the desert haha” Mr. Mead couldn’t hear him because the muffler of the car was too loud. Mr. Mead asked “Could you repeat that?” The cop shouted at the top of…

Autonomous Cars: The Next Frontier The idea of an autonomous car has fascinated the world ever since the invention of the automobile in the late 1800s. Unfortunately, the technology needed for such a car was just not there. Recently, many car companies have released driver-assisting technologies to make the roads safer, such as cruise control, a system that keeps the speed of a car constant, and lane departure warning systems, systems that warn the driver that he or she is drifting out of a lane…