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    . Introduction Public transportation includes buses, light rail, subways, commuter, trains; streetcars are vehicles efficiency and high reliability (www.apta.com ). Furthermore, many cities are trying to invest in public transportation to put serve the needs better and provide more in contrives for citizens particular low-income households and student. Public transport services become attract, which can lead to reduce money by many people. Besides, on an individual level, public transportation saves

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    Small et al. (1997) provide a summary of theoretical on the review of congestion measures demonstrated at the outset of this project that a number of different approaches are used to quantify the level of congestion for an urban area. Although there are a number of different congestion measures, travel time measures offer the best means for estimating the economic impacts of the congestion. There are several reasons for this: 1. Travel time corresponds directly to the traveler’s experience of congestion

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    movements with his use of non-violent protest and activism. This non-violence led to popular support for the civil rights and voting rights acts that would be passed in 1964. James Farmer’s stand for racial harmony and nonviolence, led to freedom rides, sit-ins, and the founding of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). He used many different mediums for his (stand taking) throughout his (career), of which include: Congress of Racial Equality, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored

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    You can hear the crunching of the gravel under Nelson’s black combat boots as he walked towards the old, tall, rusty metal fence that are blocking the woods from the outside world. “Beep, beep!” he turned around and saw an old, black Jeep pull up on the loose gravel road, with the dirt temporarily staining the shiny black paint. When Peggie hopped out of her car, Nelson fell into relaxation, she is the only person in the world that knows where to find Nelson in a matter of minutes, but this time

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    Traffic congestion is a major urban issue and is not only environmentally harmful, but also costs the travelers time and money. For these reasons, most of the cities in the world offer public transportation methods so that more people can be moved efficiently to the same destination at once. However, people living outside of these cities need to be inside of it in order to gain access to the benefits of public transportation. Therefore, it has become an important project for Europe to offer travelers

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    “If not us then who? If not now then when? Will someone else’s children have to risk their lives instead of us risking our own?” (John Lewis, a former Freedom Rider). The Freedom Riders were a group of more than 400 blacks and whites who endured great amounts of hate and violence, simply for riding together on buses and trains in the South. They impacted the civil rights movement by creating a large public outcry for their struggles, which eventually led to laws prohibiting segregated transportation

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    [music] We're gonna talk about how to choose a beachhead market. That's very exciting. So you're in the whole ed-tech space and that's a burgeoning field. But let's focus now on the process of how Maro and Tom chose a beachhead market and why that's important. A few points about first of all, it was something that you and Tom had a passion about and you had some assets. Can you talk about Toms background and your background about why this was such a good fit? We actually paid our way through school

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    Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly into outer space. She was born on May 26th, 1951 in Los Angeles, California and she passed away July 23, 2012 at the age of 61 (Dunbar, 2014). Sally attended and graduated from Westlake High School in Los Angeles, California, in 1968. While Sally was in high school, her dream was to be a professional tennis player, however soon after graduating she took her success to Stanford University. Sally graduated from Stanford University with bachelor’s degrees

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    1. For many years, the women of a village in northwestern India have walked five miles, once a week, to do their laundry. 2. They bind up the sheets and clothes when they are done. 3. Then, they walk the five miles back to their homes. Foreign aid workers who came to help the villagers believed that five miles was too far to walk with all the laundry. 4. They built a place for washing near the village, the women praised the washing place, which was designed to let them do their laundry in the

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    1983 Sally Ride was the first woman astronaut is the American history. She set the base for all young girls and women to think about all they could do even though they were “just girls” She was one of the primary sources of women empowerment in that time. Sally Ride was a very important person in the 1980s and was important to the US, her becoming an astronaut has led to many realizations of what women can do now. Sally Ride was the first woman to join NASA in the United States. Ride worked very

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