Union Station

busy walkway opens before our eyes. The clacking of women’s heels, the hushed conversations of business men, the different languages being spokes, suite cases being rolled on the tiled ground, and people embracing each other for the first times in years, make up Union Station. Being one of Los Angeles’ central points, it unites people and takes them on new adventures daily. Now on its 75th anniversary, Union Station is looking into the future planning on expanding and growing, by still keeping its old time charm. Liz Swanson’s article “Architecture, Experience and Meaning” analyzes how space is created to make people feel a certain way. Union…

We interact and experience architecture every day. It is physically impossible not to and because of this, it is incredibly easy to take it for granted and to forget about all the thought and care that was taken to create such huge feats. Worcester’s Union Station is located directly off of highway 190 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Thousands of people pass by it on a daily basis without even realizing that it is something more than a “pretty train station”. Before we begin, let’s answer the…

Vancity`s, a Vancouver-based co-operative was founded in1946, competitive advantage is first achieved by their innovative approach. It was the first Canadian financial institution to offer mortgages to women, first to use traditional media to market directly to the gay and lesbian community, the first North American credit union to receive an R1 rating from the Dominion Bond Service, and the first financial institution to offer its own socially responsible mutual fund. (Schermerhorn,2011,p 40) …

Yesterday I visited Grand Central Station- or I should say terminal, the famous station as changed its names many times throughout the last hundred years. Grand Central’s birth was from a tragedy and underwent many changes from presidents, to abandoned tracks to restaurants, to rebuilding this station is an American Icon. The chief engineer was William J Wilgus and build two version of the terminal before the third and final station designed by Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore had been…

nine years ago, conversations about cancer in the fire service didn’t come up in the fire station. Sure, we talked about cancer, maybe a friend or relative that came down with it. Even if one of our colleagues came up in the conversation, as one of our most cherished brothers, Robert D. Henderson, perished after my first year in the Department, we never attributed the cancer to the job that we love so much. I think we knew that the great risk was there, and I’m not sure why it didn’t come up…

In “11:59” by Patricia C. Mckissack, Lester Simmons is a thirty-year retired Pullman car porter. After his time being a car porter, he would go down to the St. Louis Union Station and shine shoes just to stay in touch with things. Lester would hang out with the other car porters and they would talk about experiences and different times on the trains. Lester would brag about knowing the President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. All of the rookie porters loved hearing about Lester's…

could see myself using these in my classroom, especially if like my supervising teacher the students are at tables instead of personal desks. b. My supervising teacher has reading stations as the first subject every day. There are three stations; one station is self-read, one station is partner read, and the final station is called word work. My supervising teacher has each student select the order in which they will do their stations. However, if the station they chose is full they must move on…

phones are beginning to change our lives and the way we live daily. We tend to pay more attention to our phones than we do anything else around us. Some don’t tend to realize the risks they are taking. People don’t communicate as much in person as they used too. How many accidents occur from people being on their phones while driving? Are mother’s being distracted from taking care of their children because of their phones? What effects of cell phones changing our health? Cell phone are used…

Advantages of Transportation Transportation is the motion of people, animals or goods from one place to another. The modes of transport are air, rail, road, water, pipeline, cable and space. The field can be separated into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is significant because it allows trade between people, which is important for the growth of civilizations. Transport infrastructure is comprised of the fixed installations, which include roads, railways, airways,…

15. Chevrolet Suburban C1500 http://www.gmpartscenter.net/auto-parts/chevrolet/suburban-c1500 The Chevrolet Suburban C1500 is a half-ton SUV that carries a nameplate that has been used consecutively since 1933. These trucks are perfect for family outings and carrying a lot of cargo like camping or sporting equipment. They have towing and hauling capacity. When you replace any worn out part on your C1500, you like to use genuine OEM parts in order to get the replacement part that is the same as…