Pennsylvania Station Essays

  • Pennsylvania Station Essay

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    Great architecture belongs to a time and place while simultaneously employing a sense of timelessness. Spatial expression is powerful because it can evoke any kind of emotion and is completely at the discretion of the architect. The original Pennsylvania Station in New York City was a work of great

  • Pennsylvania Station Research Paper

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    Landmarks Preservation Commission was formed to protect and preserve the buildings and neighborhoods that make the city unique, and are representative of its history and culture. Formed as a reaction to the controversial destruction of the original Pennsylvania Station, the Commission is the largest preservation agency in the nation . While the history of the city is certainly important, critics argue it prevents necessary and inevitable development. The land that is taken up by historical buildings is not

  • Madison Square Garden Research Paper

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    took a total of 249 days and had a maximum capacity of 18,496 fans/spectators.MSG III lasted from 1925-1969 when it was torn down and the new MSG was finished. The current MSG is now located where the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. This caused a little bit of an outcry by the public about the PA Station being torn down was a little bit of a setback but wound up leading to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is the first structure of its kind to be built atop of a

  • Megan Hipwell Analysis

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    Rachel Watson boards the 8:04 train on a morning just like any other. Little does she know that what she is about to witness will question everything she thought she knew. The girl on the train finds herself fantasizing about the lives of an ordinary, suburban couple (Jess and Jason) that she sees everyday while riding the train. She soon finds herself entangled in the disappearance of Megan “Jess” Hipwell. By offering what little information she knows, Rachel is determined to aid in clearing Scott

  • Why Does Madison Square Garden Use Facial Recognition?

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    Madison Square Garden is located in New York City, New York and is an arena that hosts several concerts and sporting events. Since Madison Square Garden is very famous and has many spectators that come to the arena, the arena managers had decided to secretly scan their spectators with facial recognition technology. This face id is a new type of technology and is usually found in smartphones such as the iPhone X. I strongly suggest that you read more to find out exactly why the Madison Square Garden

  • Penn Station Observation

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    My field of study is at Pennsylvania Station particularly the NJ Transit Terminal. Penn Station is located on the west side of Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenue and between 31st and 34th Street. Penn Stations main entrance is how most people get to the terminal but NJ transit has its own entrance is at the corner of 31st street and 7th Avenue. I arrived at the station on a Friday night around 7 p.m. and I left around 9 P.M. I chose his time because it is towards the end of rush hour which allowed

  • Slavery - Underground Rail Road

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    extended from Maine to Nebraska but was most concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indian, New York, and The New England States. More of the more specific spots were Detroit, Michigan, Erie, Pennsylvania, Buffalo and New York. The slaves and the people who housed the slaves spoke in a disguised language that was used words like "freight, lines, stations and conductors". Freight meant freed slaves, lines were routes, stopping places were stations and the people who helped the slaves along the way were the

  • Dr. John Henry doc Holliday

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    dentistry. He enrolled in dental school in 1870 and attended his first lecture session in 1870-1872. Each lecture session lasted a little over three months. He served his required two years apprenticeship under Dr. L.F. Frank. On March 1, 1872, the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in Philadelphia conferred the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery upon twenty-six men, one of whom was John Henry Holliday. Upon completion of his training and graduation, Dr. Holliday opened an office with a Dr. Arthur

  • Overworked Americans

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    society to get nice cars, big TV’s, and brand-name clothes. So, what if we can’t afford the nicest cars and other items? We can now use financing and credit cards to get thrown deep into debt,” Michael*, a financial consultant from Northeastern Pennsylvania said. He said people are forced to work longer hours and get multiple jobs to pay off their debt. The expensive products create stress and lead to family problems, including verbal and physical abuse, he said. Americans are overworked and

  • Television and Media - Censorship of TV Violence Not Necessary

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    dimension to the problem. Children who watch a lot of TV are less aroused by violent scenes, less bothered by violence in general, and less likely to find anything wrong with it ( Comstock 521). A study by George Gerbner, Ph.D., at the University of Pennsylvania, enlightens this subject. His research shows that TV programs made for children typically contain over 20 acts of violence per hour. 'Children who watch the violent shows, even 'just funny' cartoons, were more likely to hit out at their playmates

  • The Life and Accomplishments of Thomas Paine

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    Independence. Thomas Paine was born in England on January 29, 1737. Paine travelled to American 1774, He landed, then went to Pennsylvania. When he landed he started teaching two children with the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin. After he got a job as a journalist and essayist and helped a Scotsman named Robert Aitkin start a magazine called the Pennsylvania Magazine. They talked all night about it. Aitkin taught Paine everything he would need to know about the job. Atkin gave Paine

  • Why I Chose An All Womens College

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    came to start planning and searching for colleges, I searched for schools that I felt fit my persona, that I would be comfortable attending for some of the most integral years of my life. My search included schools such as Temple University, and Pennsylvania State University, higher education institutions that allowed me to challenge myself, but at the same time would put me in a setting where I would be with others just like myself, fitting into the standard American university fashion. The thought

  • The Rise and Fall of Newspapers

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    Boston New-Letter. It was heavily controlled by the colonial government and had a limited circulation that caused the paper to almost be a complete failure. The idea was very slowly catching and a few other newspapers starting popping up such as the Pennsylvania Journal and Maryland Gazette. As the papers were starting to spring up and gather movement in 1765, the British Parliament was trying to pass the Stamp Act, which would place a tax on the American newspapers. The papers upset by this tax calling

  • Demographics in Census Data from 1790 and 2000

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    but the rest of the list has seen some major differences. In 1790, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was in second place with 28,522 people, but falls to fifth place in 2000 with one and a half million people! There are cities in the 2000 census that did not exist in 1790, like Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and of course, Forney. But ironically, one of the two cities that tied for 10th place in 1790 - Southwark, Pennsylvania - doesn't exist today. What is interesting to research is how historical events

  • The Benefits Of The Marcellus Shale

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    It is a known fact Pennsylvania is greatly impacted by the Marcellus Shale. The Marcellus Shale is a layer of black shale located under the Appalachian basin from Prehistoric times. Natural gas and oil are being extracted from this layer for their increasing economic value, with natural gas having a worth of $10 for every thousand cubic feet of it. Furthermore, improved technology such as “hydraulic fracturing” and “horizontal wells” has made Marcellus drilling more efficient and has increased the

  • Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

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    Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews Have you ever imagined living locked up in an attic for 3 years and 5 months? Have you ever imagined not growing up with your mother's care and love at the time you were

  • Delaware: The Breadbasket Colony

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    somewhere in between. The Proprietary Colonies were originally founded in order to repay certain debts and favors and give leadership to those who were most trustworthy. Other Proprietary Colonies include colonial New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Carolinas. Proprietors, the governors of the lands, were given immense powers in order to create profitable enterprises in their given land. Some of these powers include the establishment of churches, towns, ports, and other

  • An Ethnographic Study of Social Change in Amish Society

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    to spend a full Sunday (March 23, 1998), with an Amish family. I attended church services at the Westhaven Amish-Mennonite Church in New Holland, Pennsylvania, and afterward spent the day observing and interviewing with an Amish dairy farmer named Aaron and his wife Anna. They have six children and live on a dairy farm in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, which is a large farming community. I met Aaron and his family roughly four years ago while in Lancaster County with my family and since then our

  • A Perspective Community: The Anacostia Area

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    “A Perspective Community: The Anacostia Area” In 1890, the opening of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge spanned the Anacostia River to connect the community of Anacostia with the rest of D.C. Since that time, a lot of things in this marriage have changed. Anacostia, then a working- and middle- class area for whites and blacks, is today an almost entirely black community whose struggles with unemployment, welfare and crime. These characteristics are well-documented in the local press; the community

  • Catcher In The Rye

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    Catcher in the Rye The setting of this story takes place in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. The home of Pency boarding school. Pency is a college prep schools that advertises only the best things about it and never mentions how much the students will hate going there. On the brochure there is a fake, imaginary student that does not exist playing polo. In real life, there are a couple hundred spoiled little rich students whose parents do not want the trouble of raising them. In the beginning of the story