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
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Chilean Mining Accident BCOM 275 Donald Marrin 4/8/12 Brittney Preece "On Aug. 5‚ 2010‚ a gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapó‚ Chile caved in‚ trapping 33 miners in a chamber about 2‚300 feet below the surface. For 17 days‚ there was no word on their fate. As the days passed‚ Chileans grew increasingly skeptical
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1. Ronald is experiencing a cerebral vascular accident also known as a CVA or in layman’s terms‚ he is experiencing a stroke. Cerebral vascular accidents are very serious medical emergencies that are life threatening. Stroke is a generalized term that explains injury or death of the brain tissue due to interruption of cerebral blood flow (Bledsoe‚ p.g.197). A stroke occurs when the flow of blood to a part of the brain is stopped completely or significantly reduced. With no oxygen supply from the
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English Essay Island Voices “The use of symbolism is interestingly used to express the theme of ‘seeing’ and the effects of modernism in Tanjong Rhu and Lee” The stories in Island Voices were compiled to highlight the consequences faced by Singaporean as the city transformed from a traditional society to a cosmopolitan Asian city. Many of the authors of these short stories use literary devices to emphasize their message. I feel that Tanjong Rhu and Lee both use symbolisms to emphasize the
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Driving a car may not seem as dangerous as it is due to it being a daily routine‚ but in truth everyday people risk lives by letting themselves get distracted. On average in the U.S. alone there over 6 million car accidents per year of which over 1060 accidents per day involve a distracted party. The causes of these distracted drivers are caused by anything for the surroundings of the vehicle‚ the components inside‚ and the condemned cell phone usage. Cars and trucks all have their downsides‚ nevertheless
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metropolitan area in the United States. It is most often referred to by its IATA airport code LAX‚ with the letters pronounced individually. LAX is located in south-western Los Angeles along the Pacific coast in the neighbourhood of Westchester‚ 16 miles (26 km) from the downtown core and is the primary airport of Los Angeles World Airports(LAWA)‚ an agency of the Los Angeles city government formerly known as the Department of Airports. In 2011‚ LAX was the sixth busiest airport in the world after Hartsfield-Jackson
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The Philippines & the Spratlys Islands History The Sultanate State of Sulu is the legal owner of the Spratlys Archipelago but since the Sultan Kiram turnover his territorial and proprietary rights of the State to the Republic of the Philippines including the Palawan and the Spratlys in 1960’s‚ then legally it belongs to the Philippines. Archipelagic Bases Under the UN International Laws of Sea‚ despite the opposition of maritime powers‚ the Philippines and four other states (Indonesia
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Rockstar Mile: Improve Your 1600m Performance When people are gauging how fast someone is‚ you always hear “so what’s your mile time?” I get it all the time and you probably hear it as well. It’s the barometer that most non runners use put into context how fit you are because that’s the only run that gets timed in PE class. The distance known as the mile draws all types of runners to its doorstep. It sits at the convergence of speed and endurance. Runners who compete in 5Ks and 10Ks and beyond
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To some people the words "Book-report" mean rent the movie and write a report on that. Yes‚ it is easier to watch a three-hour movie rather than read a 536-page book. With most books turned movies‚ though‚ the book is far too detailed to fit everything. This is how it is with the book The Green Mile and the movie The Green Mile. There are similarities but‚ there are also a lot of differences between the two. The main parts of the book and movie are alike: Coffey being caught with the two
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A Case of Cerebrovascular Accident by David F. Dean‚ Department of Biology‚ Spring Hill College Case Presentation Samuel Dexter is a -year-old African-American man who is both a husband and father. He is moderately obese (bmi of )‚ and has smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for the past years. He awakes one morning with weakness on his right side. He is a bit confused‚ sees double‚ and his speech is slurred. When he attempts to walk to
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