weekend off and the weather was nice, so I thought it be a great opportunity to complete an adventure for this class. So about several hours before departure I asked if my friends wanted to come and they were more than happy to come along. We bought Amtrak tickets and were set way to L.A. I have got to admit that I was excited but a bit nervous because I have never been on a train. You always hear stories about how “sketchy” trains are, but this train is as I found was an exception to that. It was
A violin song pulls us out of sleep, dreams of trains and pineapples, like a silk rope. He notices the morning light come to the wall. In the city we left only a few days ago, we learned about waking up before dawn, not to the light, but to the stirring that moves the blood in our thighs and hands. The morning was ancient before the sun even rose. Rising early in New York City allows you to hear the birds on the street. When we emerged from the tight doorway leading out of the apartment, I saw
Shakespeare, Loncraine, Donaldson, Richard, and Me Act 2.4 of Loncraine’s Richard III is where I started furiously scribbling notes in the margins of notes. After Rivers is shockingly murdered, Loncraine films a still shot of the countryside. A farmer leads an ox in the foreground, while a train noisily passes in the background. There is a quick cut to the train, smoke billowing from its engines, entering a dark tunnel and then another cut to a toy train in the palace. The young Yorks are playing
Transportation is one of the biggest things in our lives today. If there was no transportation, would we have been able to travel from one location to another so easily? Knowing that public transportation is provided every few minutes and hours, would we have been able to travel far and make it back? Consequently, imagining life without transportation seems fairly impossible. Traveling to work, school, home or anywhere else has been becoming a rapidly increasing issue that needs attention. People
I remember the day with clarity. Yet, I remember it with an ancient feel of age and a deep ache. I don't quite remember what she looked like in those last moments, but I do remember how her blood stained the earth a beautiful crimson. We were playing in a field, she was ranting on about how beautiful the day was, while I merely tried to walk nonchalantly back to the house so I could hopefully get out of the blistering heat. She would spastically tug on my arm, trying to get me to move faster towards
In the essay, “Boston and New York in the Eighteenth Century” by author Pauline Maier describes the duties and personalities to the American colonial cities and what made New York and Boston so exclusive and distinctive from one another by the point of the eighteenth century. Maier comes to an end of the cities that are being observed and concentrated functions of the Boston and New York were the local capitals and important to the cultural centers of newspapers and pamphlets being advertised, deliberated
My Coming of Age in NYC “Mom, when I grow up, I’m moving to New York City!” I remember telling my mother at the tender age of twelve. That dream of living in the Big Apple stayed on the back of my mind until it finally became a reality. At was twenty years old, I was ready to come into my own, so I made one of the most significant decisions of my life; a decision that is most responsible for the evolvement of a young boy having to quickly become a man. I moved to New York City. Soon, I would
reads an online Amtrak advertisement. A family of three sits happily aboard a train car, the parents smiling at one another, their son playing his handheld Nintendo. “Kids age 2-15 ride for half off” the advertisement goes on to say, followed by a website where viewers can find more information about the sale. When the advertisement was published in July 2012 to Amtrak email subscribers, countless amounts of people took to social media to express their dissatisfaction toward Amtrak for publishing
In the Amtrak case, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a business approach that contributes to ecological development by delivering economic, social and environmental benefits for all stakeholders. CSR is a concept with many definitions and practices. The four areas of corporate social responsibly these companies must show economic, legal, ethics and philanthropic and each company has an area to cover. Economic, All the companies must maintain effectiveness, be an asset to the community they
Amtrak is a state-owned, for profit, national railroad Company that provides efficient rail service both long and short distance transportation services. Being the primary provider of passenger-rail service in the U.S has a network that connects more than 500 cities and towns in 46 states. It offers long-distance and short-distance service corridors throughout nationwide operating daily, offering several choice of service class – first class sleeping car, custom class and economic services for different
over the Big Bayou Canot. A result of this horrific accident was the death of 47 passengers on board. The stakeholders in this case are Amtrak and employees (conductor, assistant conductor, crewmembers, etc.), (WGN) Warrior Gulf Navigation, CSX Transportation Inc., National Transportation Safety Board, passengers, and the Alabama Emergency Response Network. Amtrak was the primary stakeholder in the case with the greatest interest because it was their train the Sunset Limited that derailed. Amtrak’s
Danielle Woods A comparison of Microsoft and the railroad monopoly Microsoft and the Railroad monopoly are totally unrelated to most people, but in fact these two companies share quite a few similarities. The similarities that I will be outlining are how they started small and then expanded, how both these companies revolutionized the industry’s they are in and how the technology they presented becomes a necessity. Two friends named Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque. They
writer who found it difficult to complete his writing assignments from his white professor. The writer always wonders if he will ever have the writing skills to please this white professor. There is another great poem about Culture is called On the Amtrak from Boston to New York, by Sherman Alexie. This poem is about where the author sees that some of the Native Americans don’t have a choice but to get use to the culture of America. The Native American persons are worried that if they don’t abandon
Arizona on October 9, 1995, at 1:30 am (D’Angelo, 2015). The Sunset Limited is a passenger train from Amtrak that was traveling that evening from Miami, FL to Los Angeles, CA. That evening, “19 feet of rail was ripped loose and 29 spikes were pulled out and plates that connect the rails to the railroad ties were removed” (D’Angelo, 2015). When the train went off the track it killed 1 person an Amtrak employee and injured 112 passengers. One passenger name Hallford got off the training and started
delay a sum that goes beyond $10m, and Amtrak losing fares which pays for operating costs. In addition, for every derailment more damage is caused to the train tracks, thus having to close them down to make some quick not-so-good repairs to later on have them
Censorship What if all of your hard work was covered by the public? Everything you stood for and made. All of the time and dedication going into one thing, just for no one to see the whole piece or meaning of it. For a long time, art has been a way to express emotions, stories, a view of life, and so much more. Covering it hides the emotions, the stories, and whatever we put towards it. Censoring art has been a thing for a long time and it is something that should not be needed. Art has many
the cities of the US and abroad. More than 20 airlines operate their flights from SAN. Airport shuttles, taxis and other public transport connect the downtown and the SAN, so the city center is very accessible. By Train The national rail carrier Amtrak has a separate route called Pacific Surfliner that links San Diego to other cities along the Southern California Coast, such as San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. Due to the amazing seascapes and beaches for surfing on the route, it is
High speed rail is a great idea! How could anyone deny the unmistakable benefits that high-speed rail could offer California? Moving massive amounts of people, in a cost-efficient manner, is a marvelous idea. Taking thousands of commuters off the roads and highways would be an undeniably good thing. Lowering our dependence on fossil fuels will not only help lead us towards energy independence, but will also show benefits to the environment for our current and future generations. Who in their
, 2006). According to Largo v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Co. (2001), railroads have a common-law duty to provide and adequately maintain warnings at railroad crossings. Even though there were a stop sign and railroad crossing sign present , AMTRAK was negligent in not having the flashing lights working causing Stoller not to perceive any danger due to the fact that he could not see the train. The proximate cause of the accident was the poor maintenance of the railroad crossing signs and lack
Railway In Chicago The rail systems put into place in Chicago have always been a major factor in freight transportation. The city provides a centralized hub for the railways throughout the country. After a long run the system is bound to find flaws as old technologies are passed by new ones. The existing railroad structures have in time taken a toll over the years of service. “The railroad system of Chicago has been around for a long time now. After many years it has gone past time time of despair