The growth of transport brings forth all other good things that a society longs for. Road is one of the most common transport infrastructure use and it is often the primary transport infrastructure to be developed in growing and developing regions. Due to its nature of being the easiest infrastructure mode‚ most people have adopted it as their basic means of transport all over the world. This has resulted into roads congestion condition in which during rush hours and in urban centers the situation
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The Pedestrian The Pedestrian is a short story by Ray Bradbury. The theme of the short story is all about technology in which it deals with the dangers living in a society which is not only reliant on technology‚ but uses technology to control its citizens and to destroy those individuals who dare to exercise freedom of expression. At the start of the short story the writer sets the scene for the reader‚ both in time and place but also by describing the kind of society that exists in the future
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Technology is becoming increasingly popular; we are forced to confront it everyday. Ray Bradbury has noticed this trend of people becoming more and more dependent on technology; after all we use the television‚ computers‚ and even automobiles everyday. In the pedestrian Ray Bradbury has used insect images in The Pedestrian that suggests that with the increasing number of people using technology it will trap and destroy us. Bradbury writes "During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars‚ the gas stations
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coincides with the theme of the short story‚ The Pedestrian‚ by Ray Bradbury. Leonard Mead‚ the main character‚ struggles with a society that is overtaken by technology. Mr. Mead isn’t considered normal in his time‚ but would be normal in the world today. He is arrested by a police car for his unordinary behavior and then taken to a Psychiatric Center. In the future‚ technology is going to become individual’s social lives‚ and ruin society. In The Pedestrian‚ people are antisocial and society doesn’t support
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Occupational Health and Safety responsibilities All hospitality establishments need to be safe and healthy environments‚ whether they are food and beverage restaurants‚ commercial kitchens‚ clubs‚ hotels and accommodation‚ tourist enterprises or cafes. Employers and employees all have a shared responsibility to promote a safe secure and healthy workenvironment that minimises risk of harm to any person. This responsibility is called duty of care. Employer responsibilities Employers have the prime
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Introduction Highway traffic operations are influenced by the behavior of drivers. A highway can be used by a finite number of vehicles‚ and the driver perceived safe distances between vehicles determine this limit. For a given speed‚ as distances become shorter‚ more vehicles can use the highway. Both the volume of drivers choosing to use the highway (demand) and the maximum volume that can be served (supply) depend on driver behavior. Congestion results from too many people attempting to reach their
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Road Accident Road accident is a global tragedy with ever-raising trend. In Malaysia‚ it represents a major public problem because of the high number of victims involved and also the seriousness of the consequences for the victim themselves and to their families as well. Accidents are generally classified as single vehicle accidents in which the vehicle is either colliding with fixed objects or with pedestrians or the vehicle may fall in a ditch and multiple vehicle accidents in which two or more
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Do Not Take The Risk For most people in America‚ the idea of war is far off‚ something experienced from a far. However‚ in many other countries across the world‚ war is an everyday life. Thousands of children from places like the Central African Republic‚ Chad‚ Somalia‚ Uganda‚ Myanmar‚ Sudan‚ Iraq‚ Colombia and Sri Lanka‚ fight in armies and battle every day. For them‚ killing is all they know. People have witnessed parents‚ siblings‚ and friends be gunned down by young‚ violent adolescents who
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CHEM 1000 May 10‚ 2012 Is BPA Safe? The Swedish government has elected to discontinue the use of bispenol A or BPA‚ in protective coatings in food packaging for children up to three years old. Though children’s food packaging is currently free of BPA due to the chemical industry volunteering to use BPA alternatives‚ the decision to ban the endocrine system disrupting chemical guarantees it is phased out permanently. Swedish officials have said they are taking such measures as a “matter of precaution
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