* * The Bay Bridge Tunnel * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * By: Ryan Goldberg * Class: Drafting 3 * Date: 10-14-12 * * * * The CBBT (Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile long composite bridge composed of low-level trestles‚ high-level trestles‚ single-tube tunnels‚ and truss bridges. It was commissioned to be built in 1960 and
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20120625 Book Report Rifleman Dodd By C.S. Forester LCpl Barbaglia‚ Anthony General Support Platoon MTM Company 3rd Maintenance Battalion CLR 35 III MEF Rifleman Dodd is a very interesting book that tells a story of a young soldier who is separated from his comrades during the battle in the 1800’s. This book goes on to describe everything that Matthew Dodd had to go through in order to return back to the fight with his friends. Rifleman Dodd had ran into several problems during his journey
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The Book Report of Robinson Crusoe Reading Defoe’s" Robinson Crusoe"‚ it lets me know that the importance of the courage and knowledge. He dares to insist his own dream in the face of his father’s objection. In addition‚ it’s not a coincidence that Robinson could survive in a no human habitation on the island alone for 28 years‚ but his wisdom and knowledge. This figure impressed me a lot‚ and his courage and wisdom become a monument in my heart! I would like to share some pieces of this book
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1) Location Bandon Bay is a bay in the Gulf of Thailand in the Surat Thani Province‚ extending from the Sui cape in Chaiya district in the northwest to the Kanchanadit district to the east. The total coastline is about 100 km. The bay is dominated by the estuary of the rivers Tapi and Phum Duang. The islands of Ko Samui‚ Ko Phangan and Ko Tao enclose the bay from its eastern side 2) Bandon Bay is under threat because of … Sedimentation due to deforestation Near-shore coral reef systems are
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Book Report on "The Lost World" Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm‚ a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer. The man who set up the exploration‚ Richard Levine‚ is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his time and money exploring different places around the world and helps at a middle school to give students of ideas of careers in science. Sarah Harding is a zoologist who was hired to possibly deal with some of the
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The Long Tail Book Report The definition of "The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson is that the more a society advances‚ the more companies will expand the diversity of their products to cater to specific groups of people instead of turning to the popular ’hits’ as the only product. And as more products become available‚ people’s taste will expand creating more markets. As the book quotes Kevin Laws for saying‚ "The biggest money is in the smallest sales" (Anderson 23)‚ meaning that there are a huge amount
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I. Introduction My choice for my book report is the lightning thief by Rick Riordan‚ it was called the lightning thief because Percy Jackson who is the protagonist of the story was accused of stealing the weapon of Zeus (the lightning bolt) Percy had two friends in camp half-blood namely Grover and Annabeth. These two people help our hero Percy in his quest to prove that he did not steal the lightning bolt from Zeus. There is also Luke‚ the real lightning thief‚ who acted nice to Percy in order
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Jackson and the Olympians‚ Book 1) The book is funny and witty‚ effortlessly matching old mythology and tradition with modern culture in a way that makes the book engrossing and unpredictable. There is talk of gods having affairs with mortals‚ and quite a bit of married gods having affairs with other gods. In the following book report‚ I will first introduce the plot of the story. Then‚ I will talk about the writing of the author and the strengths and weaknesses of the books. After that‚ I will talk
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On August 5th‚ 1864‚ Rear Admiral David Farragut led the Union navy into Mobile Bay‚ Alabama‚ to face a smaller Confederate fleet under the command of Admiral Franklin Buchanan and neutralize three forts surrounding Mobile Bay to complete the Union blockade of the Gulf of Mexico. The battle would prove pivotal in the Union victory‚ as well as President Abraham Lincoln’s re-election three months later. The Union fleet‚ under Farragut‚ used sheer power and numbers to decimate the Confederates. The
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Book Report: The Judgement of Paris The Judgement of Paris: Manet‚ Meissonier‚ and an Artistic Revolution contrasts the lives and artistic struggles of two painters against the backdrop of life in Paris. In the 1860s Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in Europe. His fame was built on his thoroughly detailed‚ realistic depiction of historical subjects. Meissonier sold his works for record prices and could afford to spend years working on them (he took 13 years to paint Napoleon’s
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