River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler’s memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze chronicles his two-year experience as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching at the Fuling Teachers College in Fuling‚ a remote village in China’s Sichuan province. In addition to writing about his life and experiences in Fuling‚ Hessler provides detailed descriptions of the landscape‚ its people‚ and history. The village of Fuling had not seen foreigners in at least fifty years prior to the arrival of Peter
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The River Mersey narrows to 0.7 miles wide between the Liverpool landing stage on its east bank and the Woodside and Seacombe landing stages on its west bank. The River has the world’s fourth highest tidal range with up to 10 meter high spring tides and 7 meter high neap tides. Due to the narrowing of the river from over 3 miles wide in parts and the size of the tides‚ speeds of water behind all three landing stages can regularly get up to 7 Knots (8MPH). This causes numerous under currents around
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In the short story’s‚ “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Shelia Mant” written by W.D Wetherall and “Catch the Moon” written by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the two main characters realize who they truly are by the end of the story. In “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Shelia Mant the narrator is in love with a girl he meets at his cottage in the summer. The narrator describes her in the story as “There was a summer in my life when the only creature that seemed lovelier to me than a largemouth bass was Sheila Mant.”The story
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Case Problem VALLEY SWIM CLUB The Valley Swim Club has 300 stockholders‚ each holding one share of stock in the club. A share of club stock allows the shareholder’s family to use the club’s heated outdoor pool during the summer‚ upon payment of annual membership dues of $175. The club has not issued any new stock in years‚ and only a few of the existing shares come up for sale each year. The board of directors administers the sale of all stock. When a shareholder wants to sell‚ he or she turns
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A BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR A 3-STOREY BUILDING ABSTRACT This paper discusses the structure and features of the modern day Building automation system (BAS). Building automation describes the functionality provided by the control system of a building. The control system is a computerized‚ intelligent network of electronic device designed to perform the maintenance of the mechanical systems in a building. The field technology used in this is a distributed control system with Lonworks technology
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Carol Sheriff’s The Artificial River The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress‚ 1817-1862 APUS‚ Section 4
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Valley forge When I walked into a valley forge camp I almost threw up the smell and site of the dead bodies there was at least a thousand sick people I started to walk around the camp. I saw people with almost no clothes they were also barefoot in cold weather. I heard people saying “I need meat and warm clothes under their breath”I started walking a little bit more deeper into the camp and I saw the hut so I went in right when I stepped into the hut and all I saw was smoke I didn’t even see
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The Caura area was once an Arawak settlement and it lay in the valley along the Tacarigua river approximately five miles north of the eastern main road. When the British captured Trinidad in 1797‚ nineteen lots were marked along the river area. This represented a strip that began from the Caura Valley entrance and lead right up to the head waters of Tacarigua River. This distance covered became known as Caura River. The location and climate in the mountain area lead to the inhabitation of settlers
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LIFE-CYCLE OF BUILDINGS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ‚ UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELORS OF SCIENCE (BSc) IN ARCHITECTURE BY WHENU MAUTON .A. 100501059 OCTOBER
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data collection * research planning introduction introduction Maintenance suggests actions that restore something to its original specification‚ rather than actions designed to make it exceed its original specification. In relation to buildings‚ which have very long lives‚ there may be difficulty in sourcing the materials and skills needed to meet the original specification exactly‚ but maintenance is taken to imply an intention to keep to what was there as much as possible. Two definitions
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