Gabion retaining wall is form containers filled with stone. It provides a visual method for retaining earth or controlling soil erosion. As a method for retaining earth‚ gabion baskets are stacked atop one another to form retaining walls‚ culvert headwalls or bridge abutments. Erosion control uses involve laying baskets or mattresses side-by-side on the ground to develop channel lining‚ bank protection‚ weirs and drop structures. Gabion structures is semi permeable thus is also commonly used in
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The Wall Between Neighbors The poem‚ Mending Wall by Robert Frost‚ is mostly about a wall between neighbors. The wall is a metaphoric‚ as well as literal element in the poem. The speaker conveys not only the differences between himself and his neighbor‚ but the implications of those differences. The speaker is on one side of an issue/wall and the neighbor is on the other. The speaker conveys the difference between his neighbor and himself. The wall symbolizes the split of personalities and
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Report on wall follower robot using 8051 INTRODUCTION: The microcontroller incorporates all the features that are found in microprocessor. The microcontroller has built in ROM‚ RAM‚ Input Output ports‚ Serial Port‚ timers‚ interrupts and clock circuit. A microcontroller is an entire computer manufactured on a single chip. Microcontrollers are usually dedicated devices embedded within an application. For example‚ microcontrollers are used as engine controllers in automobiles and as
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) starting on 13 August 1961 that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls‚ which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches‚ "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements
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The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961 and lasted for 28 long years. I remember those years…a very difficult time for me‚ my family‚ relatives‚ and friends. There had been rumors that something might happen to tighten the border of East and West Berlin‚ but no one was expecting the speed nor the absoluteness of the Wall. That night just past midnight on the night of August 12-13‚ 1961‚ trucks with soldiers and construction
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Wall-E is the story of a trash compactor robot and a probe robot who fall in love. Wall-E was left behind on a garbage-ridden Earth when the human race abandons it to live in space. He is left there year after year until one day‚ a ship lands and the beautiful probe EVE comes to look for signs of life. Wall-E shows her a plant he had found‚ and she takes it back to the space station where the humans are living. After a struggle with the resistant auto pilot‚ EVE and Wall-E‚ together with the captain
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STONEWORKS 1 INTRODUCTION TO WALL 2 DEFINITION WALL _____________________________________ _____________________________________ as external or internal functional requirements to provide shelter against wind and rain to divide buildings into rooms/ compartments 3 CATEGORY OF WALL ___________________________ Support loads from floors and roof in addition to its own weight. Examples : strip foundation 4 CATEGORY OF WALL ______________________
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The poem “Mending Walls” by Robert Frost portrays a man and his neighbor mending a stone wall that separates their yards after winter. The narrator questions whether there is a real need to rebuild the wall every year since they farm two different plants. The neighbor insist that it is necessary to rebuild the wall because it is a tradition. By saying that we get the sense that the narrator and his neighbor are vastly different. The narrator depicts the differences between him and his neighbor in
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In his poem ’Mending Wall’‚ Robert Frost presents to us the ideas of barriers between people‚ communication‚ friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. His messages are conveyed using poetic techniques such as imagery‚ structure and humor‚ revealing a complex side of the poem as well as achieving an overall light-hearted effect. Robert Frost has cleverly intertwined both a literal and metaphoric meaning into the poem‚ using the mending of a tangible wall as a symbolic representation
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Ashley Rhodes-Courter: Story of a Survivor In a state of despair people can choose to let that break them or they can fight. Ashley had a childhood filled with foster home after foster home. She saw no light at the end of the tunnel. Abused and neglected‚ Ashley lost her innocence long before a child should. Some would let the world break them Ashley Rhodes-Courter did not. She was resilient and unbroken by cruelty. Even in early stages of life‚ Ashley faced many difficult situations. Ashley
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