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Huskie Bus System Jonathan Garcia Northern Illinois University Abstract The change of Northern Illinois University’s bus system is demanded throughout campus through various sources. The issue comes in hand of the student’s safety through afternoon times. Our current bus system puts not only the student’s safety on line but its staff as well. The fact of the line is, having one bus running throughout an 800 acres campus does not make it safe for students and staff to get from one place of campus

The number nine bus, packed full of students eager to get home, pulled into the bus lane at Lion 's Park train station. Halfway there, I thought, happy to be done with another stressful day of classes. After most of the other passengers disembark to board the train, those of us which stay on the bus each have our own seats. The bus driver steps off the bus, as he does each day, to smoke a cigarette. Each day I contemplate how the complex interplay of individuals can become simple routine, reduced

When I first rode the bus with Mr. Lach I did not know what to expect because I had never rode the bus. My mother had always drove my sisters and I to school but I no longer was at the elementary and needed a ride to school. The first day I stepped on that bus Mr. Lach greeted me to my surprise using my name. I then did not know where to sit so I sat with my friends Dylan Devier and Drew Meyers which was a mistake because they were the kids that caused trouble and hair loss to those who could not

In the book Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon, she explains her travels with her sister Beth. After recognizing that the two sisters have grown apart, Rachel promises Bath that she will ride the buses with her for a year. Beth Simon has intellectual disabilities, but with a great deal of studying and practicing she has mastered riding the bus and takes Rachel with her throughout her travels to everywhere and nowhere in the Pennsylvania city in which she lives. Whether Beth is going to

the 1955. One the thousand ways African Americans fought back was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The bus boycott was made successful by the will and perseverance of the African Americans in the late 1950’s. Furthermore to explain how the will and perseverance of the African Americans in the late 1950’s made the boycott successful is stated by Buggey J., Danzer, G., Mitsakos, C., & Risinger C. America! America!, ““The bus driver told Rosa Parks that she would have to give up her seat to a white person

They were willing to leave the discretion to the bus operator in determining who could occupy empty and available seats. Showing the significance of the front-to-back and back-to-front bus boarding, majority of the supporters who attended the mass meeting declined the offer and voted to keep the protest alive. As a result, approximately one hundred MIA members were

transportation many people commonly picture bus service. In the Bloomington-Normal urban area, the public bus service is Connect Transit, which recently embraced its new name, leaving behind the clunky name Bloomington-Normal Public Transportation System possibly in efforts to rebrand its entire image. The image of public transportation however, may not be able to be rebranded as there seems to be a certain stigma which is affiliated with relying on the bus service as a primary means of transportation

The Montgomery Bus Boycott changed the history on how people live and interact today. The key for this to succeed was two prominent activists, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks who were present during the Bus Boycott and led the people to unify to fight for equality. But this wouldn't be a possible success without the support, and determination of all African American community. During the twentieth century segregation among African American in the South was extremely inhuman. African American

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. The law said that black people had to sit in the back of the bus while the the white people sat in the front. Bus drivers often referred to black people on the bus as nigger, black cow, or black ape. Blacks had to pay in the front of the bus and they had to get off to go threw the side door to sit in the back. Dr. Martin Luther King jr., was born on January 15,1929 but died April 4, 1968

In “Social Movements and Social-Change Litigation: Synergy in the Montgomery Bus Protest” by Christopher Coleman, Laurence D. Nee, and Leonard S. Rubinowitz, they explored how the arrest of Rosa Parks created momentum in the Montgomery bus protest in a time oppression and mistreatment to the Black community on the city's buses. Colored citizens of Montgomery faced discrimination on daily bases, for they had to use the bus transportation in order to function in society. After the arrest of Rosa Parks