Naser Naser American History 2 Honors

Transcontinental Railroad By: Naser Naser A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous network of railroad track that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad, or over those owned or controlled by multiple railway companies along a continuous route. Although Europe is crisscrossed by railways, the railroads within Europe are usually not considered transcontinental. Transcontinental railroads helped open up underpopulated interior regions of continents to exploration and settlement that would not otherwise have been feasible. In many cases they also formed the backbones of cross-country passenger and freight transportation networks. The government also agreed with the Transcontinental Railroad because it gave people a reason to travel from place to place and also because it opened a new way of communication all acros...

Does the Past affect the Present, and How By : Naser Naser    The past most definitely effects the present in a countless number of ways. Without the past we would have nothing to improve on in the present. The past was the birth of all the objects and things that we have enhanced to be better for our needs in the present.    An example of how the past is very important towards the present is the development of the iPhone over the course of its years. Today we look down on the old iPhone's such as the iPhone 4 and 5, but if it wasn't for those early phones, than there would have been no further improvement of thought into the phone. Another example that clearly shows how the past affects the present is the concept of habits and hobbies. If you have experienced something and began to make a habit of it, its because what you have acknowledged yourself about has affected you and made you change into something new in the present. Therefore if you began to start a...