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…

In the story Greasy Lake written by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the author tells the story of three boys and their thirst for being bad. As the boys have learned, they are capable of evil that they couldn’t have even dreamed of. Throughout the story, there are symbols that are in direct correlation with the word “evil” and well as escape and relief from it. First symbol was the keys to the car, which were lost and later found, kind of like a jail cell and being stuck in there (the lake) until unlocked…

The transportation need of older adults in the United States has grown as the population rose by 9.7% between 2000 and 2010 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2013). According to Rosenbloom, many older adults in the United States prefer to drive instead of using public transportation system. According Rosenbloom only eight percent of older adults over the age of 65 uses the transportation system in comparison to sixty percent of older adults in the same age group that drives (2009). Some of the challenges…

Each station has various types of tracheostomy tubes on the table so they can hold it, manipulate it and visually see the differences. Each station also has a mannequin with a tracheostomy with an oxygen delivery system, as well as cleaning supplies and suctioning supplies. Participants should hold and manipulate the items, getting comfortable with each one. Each participant should take turns practicing trach care and suctioning. While participants are at are the stations, circulate answering…