originally made from stone and over time people discovered that iron and wood have great strength when used under tension and compression. The Importance of Trusses Before the industrial revolution almost all trusses in use were made of stone. But stone wasn’t as good as wood and iron when resisting tension and compression. Countries like the United States had much wood so they made many wooden truss bridges. Throughout the 19th centenary many types of trusses where patented from wood to iron but
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The bridge in San Francisco Since it was built in 1937 more than 16‚000 have jumped to their death. It is a site where most people have committed suicide than anywhere else in the world‚ in 2004 there were 24 deaths from this bridge. In my research reading I found that the bridge had a note at the entrance saying ‘CRISIS COUNSELING. There is hope make the call. The consequences for jumping from this bridge are fatal and tragic’ The people in the film spoke of how suicides of friends had affected
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Case study 7.2 The Tacoma narrows Suspension Bridge. In the Tacoma narrows bridge project the project planning was fairly planned‚ developers and Engineers did not coordinate proper strategies and a scope management for this project‚ even before its inauguration and opening‚ the bridge exhibited strange characteristics that were noticeable right away. I think the only appropriate project planning was the budget that was obtains by the federal
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Beowulf‚ 50 Years Wiser Beowulf is the epic hero of the Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name. He showed outstanding courage on the battlefield. He has slain many monsters in his time. He killed both Grendel and Grendel’s mother. After those two battles‚ 50 winters have passed and Beowulf has aged. Beowulf now has to battle a fierce‚ fire breathing dragon. In this battle however‚ Beowulf seems to be a different man. I believe that Beowulf has become and wiser‚ smarter man in this battle than in
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English Language Club The Bridge Franz Kafka I was stiff and cold‚ I was a bridge‚ I lay over a ravine. My toes on one side‚ my fingers clutching the other‚ I had clamped myself fast into the crumbling clay. The trails of my coat fluttered at my sides. Far below brawled the icy trout stream. No tourist strayed to this impassable height‚ the bridge was not yet traced on any map. So I lay and waited; I could only wait. Without falling‚ no bridge‚ once spanned‚ can cease to be a bridge. It was toward evening
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Available on the iPad THE 50 MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES April 15‚ 2010‚ 5:00PM EST The 50 Most Innovative Companies For the first time since Bloomberg BusinessWeek began its annual Most Innovative Companies ranking in 2005‚ the majority of corporations in the Top 25 are based outside the U.S. The reason: the new global leaders coming out of Asia By Michael Arndt and Bruce Einhorn In the past decade‚ as the U.S. was losing an estimated 2.4 million factory jobs to China‚ the Economic Policy Institute
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ANGEL OF THE BRIDGE You may have seen my mother waltzing on ice skates in Rockefeller Center. She’s seventy-eight years old now but very wiry‚ and she wears a red velvet costume with a short skirt. Her tights are flesh-colored‚ and she wears spectacles and a red ribbon in her white hair‚ and she waltzes with one of the rink attendants. I don’t know why I should find the fact that she waltzes on ice skates so disconcerting (=embarrassing)‚ but I do. I avoid that neighborhood whenever I can during
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Detailed Outline 23rd of October 2016 The Gift of Language "Monkey Bridge"‚ Cao’s first novel‚ tells the tale of a Vietnamese mother and little girl who leave their country soon after the Vietnam War to move to the United States‚ where they face difficulties of dealing with other cultures and generations‚ and in addition to mysteries from their own particular family’s past. Mai is the essential storyteller of Monkey Bridge‚ Cao utilizes the gadget of a journal inside the content to tell the story
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cellular telephone in the other‚ and who had what appeared to be a newspaper balanced on the steering wheel—all at approximately 70 miles per hour” (128). Another driver‚ Peter Cohen‚ says that after he was rear-ended‚ the guilty party emerged from his vehicle still talking on the phone (127). Admittedly‚ some drivers do use their cell phones irresponsibly.a cellular telephone was not being used” (433). Although this conclusion sounds dramatic‚ Redelmeier and Tibshirani caution against reading
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Ruby Bridges Shelbi- Ruby Bridges played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement. Ruby was born September 8‚ 1954 in Tylertown‚ Mississippi. A year later‚ her family moved to New Orleans‚ Louisiana. At that time‚ people wanted to keep blacks and whites separate because whites didn’t think that blacks were as good as them. For example‚ blacks and whites had separate drinking fountains‚ blacks had to sit in the back of buses‚ and blacks and whites each had their own separate schools. Ruby was
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