Author: Joan Nieh

Global Warming flooding into Politics

In The New York Times article titled “How We Know It Was Climate Change,” Noah S. Diffenbaugh examines how changes in the climate consequently creates conditions for extreme climate disaster such as hurricanes. By examining all the contributing factors to Hurricane Harvey, Diffenbaugh noticed how global warming played a significant role in the disaster. Because …

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Times Square: center of mass transit

Times Square has been defined in multiple different ways: from literally referring to the “lower portion of the bowtie-shaped traffic islands formed by the diagonal intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, between Forty-second and Forty-seventh Streets” or simply being the center of the city of lights. It was officially created when the Times Square station …

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