In the movie Escape from New York, there are many examples of the topic Transportation. Transportation is when you move the people that are the problem away from society so they don't create any more problems for the people around them. In Escape from NY the took the crazies and trapped them on the island and barricaded them inside of walls so he couldn't get out. The people in the movie feared that if theses crazy people were in the society that they would be a major problem so what the did was put them on the island. When Snake goes over to the island of NY city he sees many things while he is trying to save the president. Snake witnesses first hand how crazy these people acted and they were not like the normal people who were on the other
After the towers collapsed people where trying to get off the island of Manhattan any way that could. With all the tunnels, subways, and bridges closed, there was only one way off the island, by boat. In the documentary, a boat captain tells how people were so desperate to get off the island they were literally jumping in to the water or on to the side of boats. People with every kind of boat were letting people on, trying to get people off the island and help any way they could. There where so many people trying to get off the island, boats where getting so full that they were getting close to flipping or sinking.
In the book The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, is about two separate groups. One group is called the socs, and the other one is called the greasers. They have some difficulties getting along. The poem is called, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, written by Robert Frost. The poem is about that sometimes we have had a long, busy day and then the next day will be a brand new day. These are some ideas between the book and the book.
Once, a wise soul has spoken, “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful”. Adversity means having troubles and difficulties. It’s what you need to persevere through in order to do something you’ve wanted to do for a long time. If you want to pass that test, you’ve gotta conquer your fears and fight through all the troubles that arrive in front of you. Become your own hero. Adversity is a situation that took place in the novel “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton.
Since the beginning of the United States the American people have been on the move. Public transportation has played a major role in the development of this nation and in bringing its citizens together. In the book “Divided Highways”, author Tom Lewis takes the reader on a journey of the building of the Interstates and the consequences(good and bad) that came from them. Lewis believes that the Interstates are a physical characteristic of America and that it shows “all our glory and our meanness; all our vision and our shortsightedness”(xiv).
The movie Gangs of New York takes place in Lower Manhattan’s Five Points’ neighborhood. It begins in 1846. The main protagonist Amsterdam Fallon, Priest Fallon’s son, watches his father who is the leader of the Dead Rabbit gang prepare and die in battle. As his father is on his last breadths of life giving his son counsel, Billy “the Butcher” Cutting snaps the Priest Fallon’s head. Amsterdam runs away from Cuttings henchmen to hide his father’s knife before he is captured by the Natives gang. He is taken to Hellgate orphanage. In 1862 Amsterdam returns to Five Point’s neighborhood and finds his old friend Johnny Sirocco. Johnny works now for Billy “the Butcher” and introduces Amsterdam to Cutting. Amsterdam makes his way into Cutting’s inner circle of Natives. Amsterdam also meets Jenny Everdeane while hanging out with Johnny. She bumps into Johnny to pickpocket his watch. Amsterdam notices and lets Johnny know. Johnny claims he always lets her take things. As both Cutting and Jenny take a liking to Amsterdam Johnny becomes jealous. He notices young Vallon quickly making his way into Cutting’s gang’s high ranks and into Jenny’s heart. Out of jealousy, Johnny reveals Amsterdam’s true identity to Cutting. Cutting decides to make Vallon angry. He succeeds by playing a dangerous game that involves knives with Jenny at the annual celebration of Priests Vallon’s death. Amsterdam then attempts to assassinate Cutting but fails and is taught a lesson by Cutting. Amsterdam lives at the help of Jenny. To avenge his father he starts the outlawed Dead Rabbit gang up again. He proposes a challenge to Cutting after his friend “Monk” McGinn is killed by Cutting. The fight takes place at Five Points’ neighborhood on the day the ...
Gangs of New York, directed by Martin Scorsese, vividly depicts the experience Irish American immigrants endured when first arriving to New York. This film is a look into the social issues that were rampant in the Five Point neighborhood and America in the mid-19th century. The main points the movie focuses on are intolerance towards Irish immigrants and the Civil War. The tension and discord amongst the citizens of New York from the Five Points would flourish as gangs fought for respect, land, and control.
Such were the conditions of the Underground Railroad. It was a fictitous railroad but served the same purpose: to transport people from one place to another. This railroad, however, was not sanctioned by any government, in fact if it had been discovered many would have died. The Underground Railroad was a huge risk. If you used it, and were caught, you could die. For some that was better than being treated like pack animals or breeding animals by their southern owners. That was a risk they chose to take and conditions they must endure.
First of all, according to Wright, in his article, Underground Railroad the term Underground Railroad started in 1830 when trains started to appear in America. The Underground Railroad was known to be a hidden network of people and places who helped escaped slaves from the south to the north, sometimes all the way to Canada. Slaves that travelled were thought to be a pack of men ranging from all ages but typically fifteen to thirty years of age (1). They travelled at night through the two main routes. The first route went straight north to Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. That route was mostly slaves from Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The second route took slaves from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware north through New Jersey (1). Other routes included Texas who would lead their slaves south over the Mexico border and Southern Florida slaves who would travel to the Bahamas or to the Caribbean. In New Jersey, slaves entered through Delaware and Pennsylvania and would move into New York. Almost all of the major paths have been identified within New Jersey where only two counties have been recognized with ha...
For New Yorkers, The MTA is deeply embedded in our culture whether for better, or for the worst. One thing that is obvious is that our subway system is indeed breaking down and is in need of some serious reform. “The Subway” an art piece created by George Tooker in 1950 depicts, that’s right, you guessed it, the subway system circa the mid 20th century. In this painting I noticed some differences, as well as some similarities. Depending on how you interpret it, or from your own personal frame of reference, this panting might have different perspectives, or point of views. However, discussing this in class with some of my classmates, I soon learned that many of us had made similar observations. There are three main observations
Yelling, shouting, and arguing all around the room over an opinion causing chaos. When there’s a problem look for a solution and don’t base it off what others supposedly seen or heard. In the play “Twelve angry men” the problem is the jurors are blaming a young boy for stabbing his father with the descriptions from the old man who lived on the second floor right underneath where the murder took place, and the women who happened to get up because it was too hot and lived across the street and supposedly seen the boy stab his father while the train was passing by. Throughout the play all the jurors have their own opinion towards the case but jurors 3, 8, and 10 were the main ones who were causing the case to become chaotic instead of acting like
The number of sites connected with the Underground Railroad was immense. The Underground Railroad was any direction slaves traveled to freedom. It was a huge scheme of paths through marshes, over mountains, along rivers, and by sea. No real trains existed on the Underground Railroad, but guides were called conductors. Runaways escaped to the North along a series of routes that stretched through the southern Border States (“History and Geography”). Slaves who escaped into the western territories, Mexico and the Caribbean, then tried to blend in with the free African American communities, which lived in these areas (Slavery’s Past).
In the movie, “A Bronx Tale” the story is about the life of kid named Calogero, “C” for short, living and growing up in a neighborhood within his own type of culture. The time is around the 1960’s when the Italian mob was seen everywhere on the streets showing power and being feared. But also you had racial tension with other types of people and in the movie that is seen when two neighborhoods start waging war against each were African-American neighborhood against the Italian-American neighborhood. The story begins with C being a child and witnessing a murder down by Sonny the neighborhood mob boss. The explanation for the way the system worked was based on fear. When the police went to question young Calogero his father even told him
Transportation is one of the basic necessities of human civilization. If there is no transportation on land, sea, or air, there may not be communication between human beings on this planet. But there are also side effects of transportation, which includes pollution. Pollution means the harmful wastes produced by humans which damage our environment in many ways.
From its first moments, Brooklyn is both helped and blunted by its accessibility. John Crowley’s reworking of Colm Tóibín’s novel about a young Irish immigrant’s journey to America and combat with adaptation to her new world is subdued, in ways that this art form is lacks thrill but is full of emotion. The story is set in Eilis Lacey’s humble Irish hometown which is everything that us Americans would not think it would be. The town does not suffice to the painted picture of impoverished postwar immigration, but rather holds great emotion and subtle satire. Which is passionately and sensitively accomplished by screenwriter Nick Hornby and author Crowley. The movies originality is also many times saved from formulaic territory by our anchor Saoirse Ronan who portrays our modest and passionate Eilis.
Transportation is movement of people and goods from one location to another. Throughout history, the economic wealth and military power of a people or a nation have been closely tied to efficient methods of transportation. Transportation provides access to natural resources and promotes trade, allowing a nation to accumulate wealth and power. Transportation also allows the movement of soldiers, equipment, and supplies so that a nation can wage war.