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    reason I found this piece so interesting is that the canvas are very tall‚ making it seem like you’re look out of a large window. The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge) was made with oil and tempera on canvas. It seem like Joseph Stella was trying to captured different parts the bridge and try to tell a story through the 5 canvases and it creates a uniqueness to it. “Italian immigrant Joseph Stella painted and O. Henry wrote their impressions of the essence‚ or

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    Tacoma Narrows Bridge

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    …5 Causes of failure……………………………………………….………6 Replacement bridge…………………………………….........……….10 Conclusions…………………………………………………………...10 References...........................................................................................11 Abstract (143 words) The Tacoma Narrows bridge was a one of a kind bridge at its time. Starting from its size and ending with the structure of the bridge‚ It was considered to be an outstanding bridge at that time. It looked perfect and flawless as it started

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    Popsicle Stick Bridge

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    Popsicle-Stick Bridge The goal: to build the strongest possible bridge to take a matchbox car‚ using wooden popsicle sticks. Constraints: The bridge must span a 55cm gap No more than 100 popsicle sticks may be used The sticks may not be cut Only white glue may be used Construction paper may be used for the deck only The test load is applied to a 4cm-wide section at the top of the arch. The test jig looks like this: (Well-built bridges can support over 200kg -

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    Truss Bridges Essay

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    Introduction What is a Truss? A truss is a structure made up of triangular components forming a very ridged structure. A truss can take the force form one location and distribute it over the whole structure. Trusses have been around since the start of modern history and where originally made from stone and over time people discovered that iron and wood have great strength when used under tension and compression.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

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    memory of a river. Someone may have a lot of memories of swimming in a river while someone else may have memories of journey by boat or launch on rivers. On the other hand‚ many of us also experience the cruel face of rivers during flood. But‚ memory of river is a common characteristic of the people of Bangladesh‚ a country crisscrossed by rivers. Actually‚ the rivers of Bangladesh mark both the psychology of the nation and the life of the people. But‚ unfortunately‚ our memories of rivers are declining

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    Building a Spaghetti Bridge

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    Spaghetti Bridge Abstract For this assignment our task was to build as a group a spaghetti bridge with the objective of carrying the most weight as possible using only spaghetti and hot glue‚ meeting the specifications. The bridges will be loaded until they fall. After testing to destruction‚ the bridges loading capacity was 14.4kg‚ with an initial mas of 0.840kg. This gave a weight to strength ratio of 17.1 putting the group at 4th/8th position in class. From this it was learned the

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    A View from the Bridge

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    INTRODUCTION A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller that was first staged on 1955. At the beginning was considered as a one-act verse drama but then it subsequently revised the play to contain two acts. The Drama presents different society taboos that happened at that time in the United States such as migration‚ sex-war‚ maleness and homosexuality. ANALYSIS It is set in 1950s‚ in an American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge NY; where most of the European

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    The Bridge by Franz Kafka

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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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    A View from the Bridge....

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    From the Bridge” is written by Arthur Miller who was born in New York to a Jewish family. Miller worked in the Brooklyn shipyards for two years‚ where he befriended the Italians he worked alongside. He heard a story of some men coming over to work illegally and being betrayed. The story inspired ‘A View from the Bridge‘‚ which was written in 1950s but set in late 1940s. The play is set in Red Hook‚ New York‚ Alfieri quotes “The slum that faces the bay on the seaward side of Brooklyn Bridge…the gullet

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    Ruby Bridges Essay

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    In Spring 1960‚ Ruby Bridges was one of several African-Americans in New Orleans to take a test to determine which children would be the first to attend integrated schools. Six students were chosen‚ however‚ two students decided to stay at their old school‚ and three were transfered to Mcdonough. Ruby was the only one assigned to William Frantz. Her father initially was reluctant‚ but her mother felt strongly that the move was needed not only to give her own daughter a better education‚ but to "take

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