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A Season For All Of America: Understanding The American Seasonal Imaginary, Marcos Luna
A Season For All Of America: Understanding The American Seasonal Imaginary, Marcos Luna
Marcos Luna
Since the earliest days of settlement, American references to the seasons (i.e. winter, spring, summer, fall) have invoked a remarkably consistent set of images, ideas and tropes – the notion of four seasons and specific seasonal associations (e.g., snow in winter, planting in spring, summer verdure, harvest in autumn). This is the American seasonal imaginary. This seasonal imaginary has constituted an integral part of American culture and identity. Despite wide climatic diversity in the U.S. and its seasonal experiences, Americans have clung to this climatically and geographically specific seasonal imaginary.
In this presentation I present how the American seasonal imaginary …
Analysis Of The Salem State University Transit Network: An Assessment Of Commuter Travel Timeliness And Efficiency, Marcos Luna
Analysis Of The Salem State University Transit Network: An Assessment Of Commuter Travel Timeliness And Efficiency, Marcos Luna
Marcos Luna
The purpose of this analysis was to assess the timeliness and efficiency of the public transit systems that service Salem State University and to identify ways that this system can be improved in order to encourage greater public transit use. The public transit systems include the MBTA busses that stop at campus, regional commuter trains servicing the Salem Depot, and campus-provided coaches and shuttles that run between campuses and the Salem Depot. The analysis shows that the current transit system serving SSU is too often neither timely nor efficient for commuters. The weakest links in the system are the campus-based …