Broad Street Line

every morning to catch the Septa bus, so it can take me to the train station. I have to get up early, so I can arrive to class on time. To get to Temple University, I have to take two trains to get there which is the Market-Frankford Line and the Broad Street Line. I travel to the suburbs to the city every week and sometimes the weekend as well. Then, I have to travel back home, when I'm done with school or hanging out with friends on campus. I travel back and forth every day, which is a struggle

Despite its abandoned and rundown appearance, I have always said that this building had so much beauty and potential. The outside of the building has intricate arching and architecture, and has eye-catching brick and stone detailing. Driving down Broad Street, going from North Philly towards the center of downtown, my eyes always drifted to the left to stare at this building—a structure somewhat resembling the “Tower of Terror” from Disney World. After passing this building various times, my mind began

this new genre of music that people back then in the 60’s loved which was jazz. But it wasn 't for long until Philadelphia turned upside down due to the raging silence. In August 1964 things changed when a car broke down near the intersection of 22nd Street and Columbia Avenue. Two policemen one white, one black arrived and told the driver, a black woman named Odessa Bradford, to step out of her car. When she refused, they tried to

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson discusses the issues with the Victorian era and how they led to the cholera epidemic and greatly influenced science and today’s modern world. Underneath the central message of understanding that horrible week of the cholera epidemic as one that defined today’s world of invention of modern life lies three themes that helped Steven Johnson shape The Ghost Map. The three themes being sewage systems, medicine, and epidemiology. The Ghost Map takes place during the summer

Patrick Cooney 10/2/2017 Seminar: Ghost Map The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson examines London's spread of cholera. The big theme that connects to this semester would be the idea of class and the options people had during the 1840s-50s. In the story, it is shown right away that the living conditions for the lower classes were not a sanctuary at all. The lower class had to make ways for themselves to provide, so people like the night soil men would recycle and sell this to the urban workers. The gap

The story takes place during an epidemic outbreak that spread rapidly as well as vigorously. Steven Johnson begins the book in London during the nineteenth century (1854). The book discusses the contaminated conditions in England. More than two million people were living within a 10 mile radius. In particular, he starts by painting a picture of the lower class. He calls them rag-gatherers, deredgermen, bone-pickers, myud-larks, night soil men, and more. The main character in the story is a man

Extensive research has discussed the role of street-level bureaucrats in the administration of public services. Few people in the public consciously give a name to what front line service providers such as police, social workers, teachers, public health, legal-aid, city workers, and other public servants subconsciously perform day in and day out bureaucrat discretion. Many of these public servants themselves who are doling out bureaucratic discretion have not put a name to it because many

first fateful week of September ultimately influenced the way cities organized themselves. Second, he proved that the events of the Broad Street Outbreak changed how disease was studied and viewed. Third, he proved that urban intelligence could come to understand a massive health crisis of which most people refused to see the truth. Ultimately, the week of the Broad Street outbreak impacted the ways cities organized themselves. Solutions for problems such as cholera helped urbanization in advancing

water from Broad Street Pump on their way to work or school. Johnson (2006) says, “Many Soho residents who lived closer to other pumps – one on Rupert Street and another on Little Marlborough – opted to walk an extra few blocks for the refreshing taste of Broad Street`s water. It was colder than the water found at the rival pumps; it had a pleasant hint of carbonation” (p.30). He also discovered that there was not a single death recorded among the workers at Lion Brewery on Broad Street. They were

because of war, even the positive "spring" period of society has shifted towards a negative period. The final metaphor is thunder. Thunder is an important element of the 5th portion of the poem, titled "What the Thunder Said". In these stanzas, the lines talk about the sound of thunder: "Then spoke the thunder / DA" (399-400). Da is a Hindu word that forms the foundation for several principles of Hinduism, which represent peace: Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata. In the poem, the thunder is a metaphor for