How Does Public Transportation Affected Society?

As Carl Abbot and Sy Adler remind us in The Historical Analysis as a Planning Tool, history can be one of the most useful tools in solving many of the problems society faces. One quote explains how “The Second justification for planning history emphasizes the importance of knowing the background of specific problems or issues (Johnson and Schafter 1985). This quote brings up the problem on how public transit has failed in the past as well. An article regarding the rise of transportation, author Matt Novak nicely summarizes the fundamental flaw in LA’s planning history: “separating the traffic of the autos, pedestrians and streetcars were seen as a priority that would not be realized until the late 20th century” (Novak 2013). Although LA attempted to implement a streetcar system in the 1990s, these systems inevitably failed in comparison to the new and attractive transportation option of cars. As cars became more prolific, LA continued to grow and become more crowded. Much of that development was centered around roads, so now the most practical forms of mass transit are limited to these roads as

My project was about me coaching a U8 girls soccer team. My goal was to have every player on the team learn how to play soccer and be able to play every position on the field by the end of the season. I coached my players by teaching and mentoring them so that they could advance in necessary skills needed to play soccer which were dribbling, passing, shooting, and teamwork. I chose this as my project because my greatest passion in life is playing soccer. I spend around 15 hours a week practicing and playing soccer. So when I decided to choose a project based on my personal interests, soccer was my first choice. I also love to help out others and the community so I spent a lot of time researching ways to influence my community as

Roanoke Valley Governor’s School is known for its Project Forum. Students can work independently on creating a research study project that has a great potential for changing the world. Two subjects I am passionate about are improving the environment and finding the most efficient way to learn. My two ideas for Project Forum involve making a more friendly car for the environment and finding what type of note taking students learn the best from.

The Course Project enables students to integrate and build onto course materials and discussions by doing a Diagnostic Paper (Option 1) of a significant change initiative or by writing a Research Paper (Option 2) that goes beyond what has been covered in the course.

Researching this project was fun. I learned that when you are researching you can make your questions shorter. When asking questions online use important words only. Researching helped me by being more comfortable in searching harder questions. The harder questions are now easier for me. Cause now I know

It is the eighteenth century. American faces are dressed with age and exhaustion; they have learned to sleep with their eyes awake. The streets are crowded, the air smells of rusted metal, and the smoke from nearby factories can be felt in everyone's lungs. George Stephenson, a bearded, middle-aged man hears a faint, never-before heard, choo choo in the distance... in his mind. He is about to bring hope home to American families while changing the world with the first locomotive.

Fred DeVito once stated, if it does not challenge you it does not change you. In my opinion the most important project I have completed thus far had both challenged and changed me for the better. At the beginning of this school year I enrolled in Mr. Madden’s block theater class. All of his students were than instructed that we would be involved at Mariposa Elementary a local school to teach children the art of drama. We were than divided up in groups of five and sent off to teach elementary students about drama through theater games, readers theaters, wax museums, and dance shows.

The most interesting topic I earned while doing this exercise was about the role of the government in a market economy. It is interesting how the government is like the clockmaker. They watch the economy they have set up for the society, and fix it when it gets broken. Yes, it did change my perspective about the government because I thought the government was a big part of the market economy and that they would take the

In this essay I will be explaining to you three things that I have learnt from presentations during this inquiry. Here are the three presentations that I will be talking about. Mountain biking in the Redwood forest by Moss Stanford. Prisons by Tahuriwakanui, Thomas Poysden and Hoani Lawrence. And economic cars by Matt Crockett. I will be Talking about these topics because I found them interesting and I have some interesting information about them. The way I found out this information was by taking notes while I was listening to them present to the whole class. The first one I will be talking about is Moss’s MTB Project.

The project was an embodiment of my service to the community that served me years before and made me into the person I am today. Service is something that everyone should feel

The rise of mass transit in the beginning seemed like a great idea everything did seem to go well and it really benefited the majority of Americans. Many people used mass transit as a faster efficient way to get around that they had never seen before. Electric trolleys as started in the article “The Rise and Fall of mass transit” were the start of the urban expansion that came about. At the time real estate owners and transit owners developed a good system to ensure economic development in the cities. In the early 1900s there was a decline in mass transit development although there was a development in automobile technology. As said in the passage entrepreneurs and private corporations came together and invested more in street cars these were the reason as to why there was such a corruption in mass transit. During this time Americans demands a better control of the mass transit system which was necessary and these large corporations had no interest in the welfare of the citizens rather only in making a large profit.

My project was about minimum wage and my side of the argument. I enjoyed making my powerpoint.Since, the PowerPoint was the easiest part. The statistics surprised me the most when I was researching. Since, the statistics where higher than I thought. Also the history of minimum wage was surprising because minimum wage was very low from the beginning and now it is higher than

I enjoyed this project because you worked independently but also with a partner. You could see the differences that you could have made. Through the project you learned that seeing others results could help you get an idea of what to do to change your product. I enjoyed being able to go test the planes and be able to ask other people about their planes. The other thing I liked about this project is that I was able to get to know others

Public transportation is serious need of a massive overhaul in this nation. We are in desperate need to catch up to the European standard of public transportation in this country. In Europe, citizens can travel across cities, bodies of water, and even counties with their state of the art public transportation system. Europeans are not nearly as reliant on cars and oil as the United States is because they have the much more practical option of taking the transportation provided to them by the government to where ever they need to go. They have set a model that the United States needs to strive for and meet in the near future.

One of the biggest thing that grabbed my attention in the article was that “ The project based science Lessons seem to work for all kinds of kids”(Chen,2014) If a project based learning works on all kinds of student than of course this project can benefit science education. New york is one of the states that has a diverse population. Project based lesson can help close the gaps between diverse backgrounds. Have a project based lesson is a constructivist view, which us as teachers would want to