The Staten Island Ferry The Staten Island Ferry has been a municipal service since 1905. It carries over 19‚000‚000 people a year. It runs between the St. George Terminal in Staten Island‚ and the Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan. The Staten Island Ferry runs 24 hours a day‚ seven days a week. You can ride it 365 days a year. It is the most reliable form of mass transit in New York City. It is on schedule 96 percent of the time. It is the only direct form of transportation
Premium New York City Manhattan New Jersey
May 1999 From Mercantilism to The Wealth of Nations By Michael Marshall The Age of Discovery gave rise to an era of international trade and to arguments over economic strategies that still influence the policies of commerce. Michael Marshall is executive editor of The World & I. We live in an era when continual economic growth is almost considered a birthright‚ at least in the developed world. It has become the benchmark of the health of a society‚ guaranteeing an ever-expanding prosperity
Premium Economics International trade Mercantilism
Why did the Bay Area’s housing become so expensive to live in? How did it get so expensive? These questions were often asked by visitors that came from that were cities far from the Bay Area like Fremont and Sacramento. Over the past seven years‚ the Bay Area’s housing prices have increased exponentially as more people come in for technology job opportunities. According to a scholarly article‚ called Zillow: Tech Workers’ Silicon Valley Home Values Are Outpacing Neighbors’ ‚“Bay Area home values
Premium San Francisco Bay Area San Francisco Employment
Why the Hawaiian Islands were Valuable to American Interest in the Pacific Can eight little islands really defeat an entire empire? Maybe not on their own‚ but even the most insignificant of lands can prove overwhelmingly decisive in the most colossal of conflicts. The Hawaiian Islands were important to the United States (U.S.) for strategic‚ tactical‚ and logistical reasons in planning for a war in the Pacific. Had it not been for this archipelago‚ the Pacific War might have lasted much longer
Premium World War II Empire of Japan Attack on Pearl Harbor
Amadeo Ignacio Daniel Francis Sr. Career Spanned over 60 years Taught Virgin Islands History Received a Special Pension from the Government Spoke Danish fluently Lionel Balthazar Fraser Dean of Tougaloo College Worked at Jackson College Director of Project MARK (Medical Action for Research and Knowledge) Written Articles for the Crisis and Opportunity Rehenia A. Gabriel First Woman in the Virgin Islands to Earn a Doctorate in Education Assistant Principal of
Premium High school
they go unchecked. Two such works are Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem and Michael Bay’s science fiction film The Island .Although these two works have varying settings‚ plot-lines‚ and styles‚ they both serve to develop the same point. Anthem and The Island both use the dystopian genre to stress the importance of the individual. The value of the individual is squandered by the antagonist authority figures in both Anthem and The Island. By showing the disastrous results of doing as such‚ they demonstrate
Premium Ayn Rand
Philippines go to war against China? If china attacks the philippines what will happen? Why shouldn’t the philippines give up its claims for scarborough shoal? Who will gain control of the spratleys in the end?The Philippines or China? Who owns spratly islands? Philippines or China? China vs. Philippines War China vs Philippine War: President Obama personal war and stance on Asia as a whole While China and the Philippines look to avoid a China vs. Philippines war‚ President Obama remains strong in
Premium Philippines
Reel Bad Arabs--Discussion Prompt--50 Minutes Current Word Count: 214. Required Word count: 514 1. Shaheen’s research has led him to view over 1000 films in which Arabs are represented. He argues that Arabs are “the most maligned group in the history of Hollywood.” Would you agree with this claim? And why? 2. Shaheen identifies what he terms the mythical location “arabland.” From where did this image first come? It first came from the European travel writers and artist about
Premium Arab Jordan United Arab Emirates
Vanessa Hernandez 12 Smith St. Port Chester‚ NY 10-15-13 Dr.Combs 1 Tamarack Rd. Dear Dr.Combs‚ Being in high school does not give you the time to wait in line for lunch now in days. There are many students who have tests or labs to finish in class before lunch. This makes students run late. Some students do not have the time to take advantage of using their lunch period in a right manner. Why not bring back the healthy snacks? School vending machines bring many benefits into consideration
Premium Nutrition Health Sugar
Michael Buda Professor Trujillo English 60 MW 8:15pm 25 February 2013 Word Count: 2‚600 I Will Conquer Veni‚ Vidi‚ Vici (I came‚ I saw‚ I conquered) - Julius Caesar It was March 31‚ 2008 and I my alarm woke me up at 7AM as it usually did. However‚ this wasn’t a normal morning. I was throwing up in the morning for the past 2 weeks. I went to doctors at Kaiser Permanente to get blood tests and everything seemed fine. They always had me in the room with the little bed thing and the weird
Premium Cancer