Essays on Freeway

Focusing Events & Dates

According to the case, the Loma Prieta Earthquake occurred in northern California on October 17, 1989. The disaster caused massive destruction, particularly the collapse of Admiral Nimitz Freeway. Since the freeway was destroyed, it caused fatality of more than forty motorists and drivers collectively. Moreover, there was a major disturbance in gas lines and multiple fire ignitions damaged residential buildings. Northridge Earthquake was the second occurrence on January 17, 1994 in Los Angeles. It was considered as the most destructive earthquake of the decade, since government paid approximately $6.97 billion as damages. USA had experienced Hurricanes, which was another ...

Island Style Café

The Restaurant chosen for this assignment is Island Style Café, 5950 Santa Road, Suite K, San Diego, California (“Island Style Café” 2014). It is located in a good neighborhood not far from San Celemente Canyon Freeway. Although the area is not very quiet because of the freeway and all the traffic, it is easy to get to the place by car. The café is half an hour away from Tierrasanta Community Park. The restaurant represents Hawaiian culture mainly through the menu and greetings of “Aloha!” It could have been expected that the interior ...

It is located beneath the San Diego- Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan, central of San Diego, California, and occupies 7.9 acres of the land. The occupants of this area are mostly Mexicans; both Mexican- American and Mexican- immigrants. The first Mexicans occupied this area in the 1890’s and were soon followed by others who were fleeing from the Mexican Revolution, which had started in 1910. In 1905, the name of this area was changed to Logan Heights, from East End. As the time went by, many Mexicans occupied the area and the Southern portion of it were later ...

1. The video entitled “Repairing the Santa Monica Freeway after the 1994 Earthquake” shown online through YouTube illustrated the exemplary capacity and dedication of the project leader (the contractor), C.C. Myers, to complete the repair of the Santa Monica Freeway in 74 days ahead of schedule . Likewise, the video also proved that in government projects, the ability to cut through red tape had significantly assisted in completing the project ahead schedule of 140 days – which is significantly less than the initial assertion that the project would take 12 to 18 months for repair and rebuilding . 2. Therefore, this ...

Literature

QUESTION ONE: Love in LA The setting of this story is located at the Freeway in Los Angeles. The protagonist is Jake, an irresponsible, lazy and self-absorbed person. The other character is Mariana, an innocent and naïve woman. Jake caused a careless accident by hitting Mariana’s car. Jake being a dishonest person, he cheated Mariana by giving her fake insurance and phone numbers. The freeway in the story symbolized freedom of Jake to daydream leading to an accident (Perrine, 2002). The themes of this story are deception, lies and fantasy. The irony is indicated by the fact it ...

Analysis of registration of vehicles’ influence on road accidents in Korea

Abstract This paper will evaluate the hypothesis that there is a relationship between registered vehicles and road accidents in Korea. The paper will highly seek to understand the role of vehicles’ registration in reduction of road accident in Korea. This will be based on analysis of accidents that have been reported in the country. Regression analysis will be a critical formula to analyze what has been happening between road accidents and registration of vehicles. The research shows that there is minimal relationship between registration of vehicles and road accidents. There are minimal changes in the level of accident as a result ...

the Promotion of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in Hollywood, California

Overview

In California, the Los Angeles Metro, government, public organization and communites have worked hard to develop TOD projects in several locations in California. Los Angeles County (LAC) in Southern California is bordered by the Pacific Ocean; and near enough to the southern border of the U.S. that many people have migrated north to LA. Hollywood acts like a magnet for people looking for work in the movie industry and for tourists. years. In fact, the congestion of people and their cars in LAC has made it one of the most crowded ...

710 Expansion

Introduction

For over forty years the planning of extension of 710 state routes has been in the planning, the main aim was to ease traffic congestion and to facilitate air quality within the metropolitan area of Los Angeles County .The department of transportation in California and metropolitan transportation authority of the county of Los Angeles came up with proposal of a tunnel concept by extending the SR-710.With over 15.2 m in diameter and 17.7 km in length, the tunnel would stand to be among the world’s largest highway tunnels .This project has been challenged by a lot of opposition ...

1. Toypurina She was believed to be a medicine woman who resisted the administration of colonization of the Spanish missionaries in California. Her rebellion was however unsuccessful. She began her rebellion by leading an uprising in conjunction with Nicolas Jose in 1775, San Gabriel uprising, aimed at contradicting the established myth of the good fathers and submissive Indians. She was motivated by intra-Indian rivalries and anti-colonial reasons. The outcome was that twenty one Indians were arrested among the Jose who was sentenced to 6years hard labor while Toypurina was exiled to Monterey. The temple’s depiction of Toypurina illustrates ...

Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

The book of Banham has provided a different perspective to implement an analytic city planning. Banham centered his study on Los Angeles by providing a complete landscape to represent an architectural object on its own. He developed a total revolutionary perspective on urban architecture which has given a significant influence on the improvement of discipline in architecture. In Banham’s Four ecologies, he explored the traditional modes of residential and commercial buildings and scrutinized how the beaches, flat lands, freeways, and the foothills comprising the city of L.A. Banham’s philosophies on the concept of ecology has made a major contribution in understanding architectural ...

The police are a body of persons that are constituted and empowered by the government of a given state. The primary responsibility of the police is to maintain law and order, protect property and to enforce law. Among the powers of the police is the legitimized use of power or force when executing their duties but the use of force is only applicable where necessary. A police force is quite different from a military force. As far as the police force is concerned, cases of corruption and of extra judicial killings have been reported all over the world therefore sullying its reputation. ...