The Brooklyn Bridge After the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883‚ it was known as the longest bridge in the world during that time period. The bridge is also defined as the first bridge to have been built with steel wires. In addition‚ The Brooklyn Bridge is included among the most elegant inventions of humankind and the best architectural achievement of its period. The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is a classic written by the strength and forfeit of two brilliant engineers‚ John A. Roebling
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The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest and most iconic bridges in the world this majestic bridge is located in New York City‚ New York. In 1853‚ the only way to get from Brooklyn to New York City was by ferry boat. John Roebling‚ a famous bridge builder‚ was on a ferry stuck between ice chunks in the middle of winter. He set out to design and build a bridge connecting these two cities. Building the Brooklyn Bridge would not be an easy undertaking. The bridge would need to be high enough
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Global Crossing. A brief history/outline. In 2002‚ a huge corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy‚ despite announcing continual huge company growth the prior year. The company‚ who was audited by Arthur Anderson‚ is in the process of denying accounting irregularities. The company fat cats or executives have made a fortune despite the recent bankruptcy and the invested employees/shareholders have suffered major financial losses. Who is the company? You would not be alone in immediately thinking
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Year 11 English Unit 1 Outcome 1 - Reading and Responding Border Crossing (text response essay) This outcome is to be completed in class in one lesson. It is your responsibility to hand in all work to your teacher at the end of the lesson. You may bring in the following only: * Plastic pocket‚ dictionary‚ pens. Paper will be supplied for you. One page of hand-written‚ single side notes may be brought into the classroom. Length: 600 to 800 words. Date: Week beginning May 13th
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adversity... when things seem so bad that you’ve got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.” This quote states that life often hands us struggles that we must overcome. Some are often easy and others are rather hard. Mary Oliver’s poem‚ Crossing the Swamp supports the quote stated. Over all Oliver’s poem depicts a struggle of life that one must overcome‚ hence the title. In Mary Oliver’s poem poetic devices are used to achieve the literal meaning as well as establish a relationship between
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two famous poets and authors who expressed themselves through poetry and fiction. Their names were Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. Poe had lived a hard life losing‚ having lost both parents by the age of three and then having a bad relationship with his godfather John Allan. Sadly‚ not only did he have a hard life Poe had a short one living to be only forty years old. Whitman‚ on the other hand‚ had a good life living to the age of seventy-two. The only trouble he had being the Civil War. During
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Author Zulkin emphasizes Brooklyn by describing people who are living there. He mostly talks about Williamsburg in this essay. Such as Rubulad‚ which is an underground party is an example of how the contemporary trend of urban renewal is connected with people. The notion of “cool cultural notion” also has developed the attractive image of culture of Brooklyn which gave it a new meaning to this borough-specially Williamsburg. As Jane Jacob stated‚ it was destined for Williamsburg to be hipster since
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"Crossing the Bar" by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson is a poem that expresses a sailor’s death. The poem starts with the sailor getting to know that he is going to die very soon by hearing a call from the symbols "sunset and evening star" and "twilight and evening bell" both which represent the onset of the night. The sailor‚ in the entire poem is actually asking his family and friends not to be heartbroken or to cry when he dies. The phrase "moaning of the bar" refers to the sad sound made by the wind and
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During this week’s reading‚ Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde I found it entertaining. Throughout this reading‚ we view the story from different people’s point of view. The different characters within the reading made it hard to keep them separate. As the reader once I am brought to understand that each chapter would help comprehend the previous chapter and know how each individual looked at Francis Sancher I could appreciate the book in more details. The main point to me in this story is
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Crossing The story illustrates a relationship between clearly depressed father and his son. We glimpse the father’s deep depression on line 5 “… and he hadn’t been happy in a while”. The father might be depressed because of his own actions‚ on line 20 “and at some point he saw her watching them‚ leaning against the kitchen counter in her bathrobe‚ and when he looked at her she shook her head and looked away.”. We get the impression of it because of the woman shaking her head‚ when watching him.
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