Rail Essays

  • The View from the Bottom Rail

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    The View from the Bottom Rail The Lewinsky Scandal… A perfect example as to why we cannot accept everything at face value before carefully examining it first. Everyone thought President Clinton was behaving himself in the White House, but, as it turns out, he was most definitely not. This can be the same for history. We must carefully consider different aspects of articles so that we do no make the mistake of believing everything we read. In order to fully understand an article, we must understand

  • Rail Termini of London

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    result, the emergence of transport by train was developed. Some of London’s most important rail stations were developed at this time creating an extensive network of rails that would stretch in all directions from London to the rest of England and are still very active today. Euston Station Although the present station building is in the International Modern style, Euston was the first inter-city rail station built in London. The original station looked very different than the current structure

  • Slavery - Underground Rail Road

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    The underground railroad was a network of northerners that helped slaves reached the north and Canada for safety from their plantation. It was secret and railway terms were used to describe system as a way to hide the real nature of the operation. The underground railroad extended from Maine to Nebraska but was most concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indian, New York, and The New England States. More of the more specific spots were Detroit, Michigan, Erie, Pennsylvania, Buffalo and New York. The

  • rail road expansion

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    Following the Civil War, railroad construction took off at a fast pace. In the twenty-five years between 1865 and 1890, the miles of railroad track in the United States increased from 35,000 to 200,000. The enormous increase in track produced a boost in America's economy. The farming economy was greatly helped by the expansion of the railroad system, which became one of the main and most efficient ways to transport farmers' produce. This was especially helpful to farms in remote locations. The expanded

  • High-Speed Rail

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    The eight billion initial investments in the high-speed rail are expected to produce about 320,000 jobs and roughly thirteen billion dollars in economic benefit. These include construction and operation jobs, as well as manufacturing and supply chain options. By increasing mobility while decreasing crowding and spreading, high-speed rail makes our country more competitive while simultaneously creating economic development. The High Speed Rail could boost the economy and could provide alternate transportation

  • The Pros And Cons Of Ruby On Rails

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    Ruby on Rails is a web application structure that is designed to work with the Ruby programming language. Ruby is simple to learn and easy to use. Ruby on Rails was first released as an open source application in July 2004 and in December 2005 the first version was released. This paper about Ruby on Rails will cover some advantages of Ruby on Rails such as Ruby being an open source program, the representational state transfer (REST) architecture, and the many functions of Ruby on Rails. This paper

  • The Making of the Long Island Rail Road

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    essay will encounter The Long Island Rail Road first years making. The rail road was developed because the rail roads planners wanted to expand a way to get to Boston. In order for this view to happen, the service needed to make rail-road through Long Island, so they made the LIRR with the help of legislature supplying the money with 1,500,000$. This caused for New York or Brooklyn to be linked to Boston. Even though the money was good start for making the rail road, it was still very difficult to

  • Good and Evil on the Rail Case Study

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    Good and Evil on the Rail Case Study Sanchez’s love for trains since his early teenage days led him to his career as a Locomotive Engineer in Metrolink commuter rail system. He loved his job, had a few disciplinary issues here and there; absences and failure to follow rules set mostly in the use of his cell phone during operation hours. On September 12, 2008, a day like any other, he was up ready for his daily routine. On this day, Sanchez was chatting with a teenage rail fan that he planned on

  • Essay On High Speed Rail

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    The Singapore and Malaysia high-speed rail line is also known as the Penang - Singapore High Speed Rail. It was approved by the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib on September 2010. The rail line aims to connect Penang, Kuala Lumpur Johor Bahru and Singapore together. The entire distance will be about 400km in total and it will take roughly 90 minutes to travel from one end to the other. The total cost of the construction is about 40 billion Malaysian Ringgit, equating to roughly 7.3 billion pounds.

  • Bringing Light Rail To Vancouver Essay

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    bringing light rail transportation to Vancouver had been a topic ever since the Columbia Crossing Project started. Many peoples feel that Vancouver should bring light rail to Vancouver while others feel the opposite opinion. People thinks the idea that bringing light rail to Vancouver will reduce traffics and provide more safety in the streets. Although this may be true, I think that we should not bring the light rail to Vancouver because they will need to spend big money on the light rail, it will increases

  • Pros and Cons of Funding the Construction of the Express Rail Link in Hong Kong

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    In January of 2010, the Legislative Council have eventually approved the funding for the construction of Guandzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL), which costs $66.9 billion. This astronomical cost raised a lot of discussions that whether the railway worthed it or not. The whole alignment of the XRL railway is about 140 kilometres with its intermediate stations in Humen, Longhua and Futian. Some have argued that the new railway could contribute to Hong Kong's short-term and long-term development

  • Australia Should Not Adopt High Speed Rail as a National Infrastructure

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    High Speed Rail is modern passenger trains that have the capacity to move at an average speed of 250km/h or more, on purpose-built tracks. The Shinkansen in Japan, the French TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) and the German ICE (Inter-City Express) are just some of the example of High Speed Rail. Currently there are new railways under construction or being planned in countries including China, Portugal, Russia, Vietnam, United States, and India. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the feasibility

  • Riding The Rails

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    history. The Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression that was experienced in the Western World. The movie Riding the Rails is a good example of times during this depression. The movie presents a story of ten men and women in their youth, who gave their accounts about leaving their homes in search of a better life. I think Riding the Rails gives a very clear and accurate view of how life was for young teenagers during these historical times. During the 1930’s at the time of

  • 5 Modes Of Transportation

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    used to transport people. Although freight trains are still used all across the nation, rail intercity freight has accounted for a decreasing share of the total ton mileage over the past 30 years. This is mostly due to the increase in truck transport. Rail passenger traffic had also declined over the years until better service was offered by Amtrak and the price of fuel increased. Much of the decline in rail passenger traffic has been due to the increasing number of air passengers. Air transport

  • Fifth Business1

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    Fifth Business1 Canadian Heritage Commercial A railroad line is shown in the background as workers slave away at finishing the Canadian Pacific Rail line, which will run through all of Canada. Finally, the last stake is driven into the rail line thus completing it, rendering it useful for many years to come and effecting the lives of many in the present and future. The purpose of this essay is to reveal the importance of Canadian history in the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies.

  • The Kate Moss Effect

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    exposure were then observed. To be exact, researchers divided 91 Caucasian women, ages 18 to 31into two groups. One group was shown advertisements for various everyday products such as nail polish, toothpaste, and gum. However, these ads featured rail thin females, the virtual living, breathing representation of faultlessness. The second group was shown ads for the same types of merchandise. Except the second group’s ads didn’t have people in them. “Researchers found that women who looked

  • Critical analysis on Huckleberry Finn

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    comes a raging rush of people, with torches, and an awful whooping and yelling, and      banging tin pans and blowing horns; and we jumped to one side to let them go by; and as they went      by, I see they had the king and the dike astraddle of a rail--that is I knowed it was the king and the      duke, thought was all over tar and Feathers, and didn’t look like nothing in the world that was      human--just looking like a couple of monstrous big soldier-plumes. Well, it made me sick to      see

  • Analysis Of The Rail Rush

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    vocabulary from the game such as word? game. However, some game teaches us how we concentrate on the game like Rail Rush, which is an adventure game that you must travel to the depths of the mines to collect as many gold nuggets you can hold while avoiding barriers. Also, from the gold nuggets the player will have money to buy worlds, heroes, and cart stuff to have some fun in the game. Rail Rush is about a hero

  • Liberty Bell

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    Among the more obscure events in American history involves the Liberty Bell's travels by rail car around the United States to be placed on exhibit at numerous World's Fairs. From 1885 to 1915, the Liberty Bell traveled by rail on seven separate trips to eight different World's Fair exhibitions visiting nearly 400 cities and towns on those trips coast to coast. At the time, the Liberty Bell's trips were widely publicized so that each town where the Liberty Bell train stopped was well prepared

  • Nothing is Something in King Lear

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    warns that we cannot "get" to the transcendental center of meaning. King Lear, in its puzzling glory, is like my reaction to Cowles' attempt to explain deconstructive abstraction. I understand part of the play as the words rail at me from the page as vehemently as Lear rails at the heavens. Yet there is an aura of ambiguity that leaves the faintest trace of the text's essential truth, one that is alternately shrouded and then unveiled in the play's language. Despite my interpretive performance