San Jose, California

The Market Street Railway, Sutter Street Railroad, and the San Francisco & San Mateo Railway merged in 1902 to become the United Railroads of San Francisco (URR). The URR was created by the aggressive capitalist consolidator and modernizer named Patrick Calhoun. An early project was to make uniform the rolling stock and track gauges, which led to the abandonment of the last four miles of horsecars that had been the backbone of transportation just a generation earlier. By this stage, the company

moved down to Costa Rica. It is in Central America, everyone speaks spanish and a very relational culture. Costa Rica has only two seasons consisting of winter and summer. Winter is rainy while summer is hot and sunny. We moved August of 2004 to San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, and started a language school there. We attended the school for a year and learned spanish. We move about two and a half hours away to a place called Siquirres. We worked with an orphanage of about one hundred kids in

Sam Crawford lived and breathed Sitnalta Bay. Sitnalta Bay is a small Bay on the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. Sam Crawford depends on Sitnalta Bay for food, income, and recreation. Sam owns a small fishing boat, his father gave it to him when he was younger It was his father's fishing boat when he was younger. Sam's father died in a boat accident right after his younger sister was born, and that was 5 years ago. Since then Sam's mother has had to get a job as a nurse at the local hospital making a low

that is deeper than its corporates exterior. One of poverty and hopelessness that swallows the city like a pothole yet ultimately lets light to a valuable idea of freedom and self-expression. In his poem “The RailRoad Earth”, Kerouac presents the real San Francisco. He disregards the city’s fancy and sophisticated corporate image that many believe it to be for the real and raw, poverty stricken city it is. In fact the corporate exterior is composed of commuters, who are not native to the city, while

The definition of finance is rather complex but Merriam Webster seems to provide the most comprehensive explanation, stating, “the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment” (Merriam Webster). The management of revenues is essentially the core of what separates the jobs of finance majors, compared to other business-related majors such as accounting and economics. While accountants

Landon Donovan was born on March 4, 1982 in Ontario, California. Donovan, his sister Tristan and older brother Josh, were raised primarily by their mother. Their father played semi-pro hockey. Donovan was a natural athlete. At the age of 5, he began playing competitive soccer. By the time he entered High School he was also known for his gymnast ability, but soccer was what he truly loved. As a sophomore, he scored 17 goals, paving the way for league MVP honors. The year after, he scored 16 goals

Dark Alliance GARY Webb book review In the book Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, is about the conspiracy of how the CIA had monitored the selling of crack cocaine in America to help fund the Nicaraguan contras secretly. And also during this process the Nicaraguan drugs were being sold to inner cities to create a drug known as crack that harmed the black population drastically. First of all Gary Webb had made a newspaper over this topic Gary was once a news paper reporter and when he released the

Reality television is one of the most popular genres featured on broadcast media. Although its name implies an honest and impartial story, reality television is one of the most-edited and manipulated forms of television, where producers decide what is seen by the audience through their careful selection of music, footage, camera angles, and lighting among many other important features. Through their design choices and careful edits, producers are able to create narratives and meanings that otherwise

The entrepreneurial company I have decided to do my analysis on is Inboard. Their pitch was shown in episode 10 on Shark Tank. Inboard is a company centered on the sale of electric skateboards to urban areas. There are many electric skateboards out on the market, but the Inboard team believes that their product provides significant value over their competition. The main value that differentiates them from their competition lies within the product design. The skateboard that Inboard is selling has

The Bribri civilization of Costa Rica/Panama and the Kogi civilization of Colombia were believed to be a secondary area to the Mesoamerican and South American civilizations. However, differences began to surface that distinguished the Bribri and the Kogi from civilizations of Mesoamerica. They formed part of the Isthmo Colombian Area, therefore similarities were expected to exist between the Bribri and the Kogi. These similarities were understood through the rituals that the Bribri and Kogi practiced