amusement park

(noun)

A commercially-operated collection of rides, games and other entertainment attractions, which became highly popular among Americans during the first decades of the 20th century.

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Examples of amusement park in the following topics:

  • Cheap Amusements

    • During the Gilded Age, free time and disposable income were spent on new forms of leisure such as amusement parks, burlesque shows, dime museums, and vaudeville shows.
    • By the early 1900s, hundreds of amusement parks were operating in the United States and Canada.
    • These amusement parks, with names such as "Coney Island," "White City," "Luna Park," and "Dreamland," often were based on nationally known parks or world's fairs.
    • The American Gilded Age was, in fact, the Golden Age of amusement parks that reigned until the late 1920s.
    • Although the development of the automobile provided people with more options for satisfying their need for entertainment, after the war, amusement parks continued to be successful.

  • Conditioned Behavior

    • Over time, the animal can be induced to perform behaviors that they would not have done in the wild, such as the "tricks" dolphins perform at marine amusement park shows .

  • Reasoning

    • An example of this would be observing that a child is not riding on a specific amusement park ride, and abducing that the child must not be old enough to ride, as other children of similar age are not on the ride either.

  • Outdoor Recreation

    • The railroad had 3,000 riders its first week (for amusement instead of for commuting).
    • Several others were built for amusement in Atlantic City, Ocean City, and Gloucester City, New Jersey (the first two in 1893 and last in 1894).
    • Olmsted was famous for codesigning many well-known urban parks with his senior partner, Calvert Vaux, including Prospect Park and Central Park in New York City, as well as Elm Park (Worcester, Massachusetts), which is considered by many to be the first municipal park in America.
    • Olmsted not only created numerous city parks around the country, but he also conceived of entire systems of parks and interconnecting parkways to connect certain cities to green spaces.
    • The state appointed a Central Park Commission to oversee the development of the park, and in 1857, the commission held a landscape design contest.

  • Imagining Your Ideal Workplace

    • A while back I assigned my English composition students at Clover Park Technical College an essay called "My Ideal Workplace."
    • At any time, two or three GSCs circulates through the building telling jokes, performing tricks, distributing cartoons and treats, singing amusing songs, and pulling non-embarrassing pranks.

  • Building a closed-loop eco-industrial park

    • Most eco-industrial park projects start by estimating the material, water and energy needs of interested businesses.
    • According to industrial ecology planners, the most common characteristics of a successful eco-industrial park include:

  • How successful are eco-industrial parks?

    • A study of eco-industrial parks in Denmark (Kalundborg), Texas (Brownsville and Pasadena), New Hampshire (Londonderry) and Mexico (Matamaros), revealed that the annual economic benefit enjoyed by participating companies in an industrial ecology arrangement is as high as $8 million, with an annual return on investment reaching 59%.
    • (Hollandar, Justin B., and Lowitt, Peter C., Applying Industrial Ecology to Devens: A Report for the Devens Enterprise Council) The longevity of the Harjavalta industrial area in Finland, however, best demonstrates the amount of success an eco-industrial park can enjoy.
    • (Jyrki, Heino, and Tuomo, Koskenkari, ‘Industrial Ecology in the Metallurgy Industry: The Harjavalta Industrial Ecosystem') Eco-industrial parks, it seems, have staying power.
    • For over 20 years, Indigo Development (headed by Ernest Lowe) has worked to cultivate, and provide information about, industrial symbiosis and eco-industrial parks.

  • Montgomery and Protests

    • However, Parks was not the first person to do so.
    • The decision to choose Parks and not Colvin as the symbol of the boycott was political.
    • Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake.
    • At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake.
    • Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H.

  • Additional Reading

  • The Importance of Paid and Unpaid Work

    • Examples of unpaid workers include members of a family or cooperative; conscripts or forced labor; volunteer workers who work for charity or amusement; students who take intern positions as work experience; or conventional workers who are not paid because their enterprise is short of money.
    • These may be members of a family or cooperative; conscripts or forced labor; volunteer workers who work for charity or amusement; students who take intern positions as work experience; or conventional workers who are not paid because their enterprise is short of money.