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    building codes

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    new Structure- Building Codes The information in this document should be useful in making design-related decisions that will not only satisfy the move to our new building Information Technology (IT) requirements but also meet the needs of the building and its future occupants with respect to voice‚ video and data communications. The intention of this document is to provide a comprehensive understanding and reference guide that can be referred to when moving to our new building. Moving into

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    Introduction The "Building Envelope" is the area that separates conditioned space from unconditioned space or the outdoors. A building envelope includes all elements of a building that enclose conditioned space. Building envelope components separate conditioned spaces from unconditioned spaces or from outside air. For example‚ walls and doors between living areas are part of the building envelope; walls separating a garage from the living areas are not. Besides that‚ floors of conditioned basements

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    Literary Term #9 Metaphor: A type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but‚ literally‚ it is not. In connecting one object‚ event‚ or place‚ to another‚ a metaphor can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important. Metaphoric language is used in order to realize a new and different meaning. As an effect‚ a metaphor functions primarily to increase stylistic colorfulness

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    Atticus Finch Metaphors

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    The meaning behind the metaphor is that dont kill or harm anything or anyone that is not doing anything bad. That metaphor also ties in with racism‚ because Atticus relates it to the horrible racism that witnesses weather it is from his corruption or just in everyday life. The first time that Atticus said that to his children

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    What is the Calm Waters Metaphor? by SREE RAMA RAO on MARCH 4‚ 2010 Until recently the calm waters metaphor dominated the thinking of practicing managers and academics. The prevailing model for handling change in calm waters is best illustrated in Kurt Lewin’s three step description of the change process. According to Lewin‚ successful change requires unfreezing the status quo‚ changing to a new sate‚ and freezing the new change to make it permanent. The status quo can be considered an equilibrium

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    the father of modern western philosophy‚ Rene Descartes‚ one might assume that‚ even then‚ the quote does not apply. But one of Descartes’ most well-known arguments is almost born from it. Descartes’ dream argument fuels

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    tells Torvald how she has always been a doll for him and her father. How she was only moved from one house to another‚ yet was never able to be herself‚ she was influenced and controlled by Torvald himself. In A Doll’s House‚ Henrik Ibsen uses the metaphor of a dollhouse in order to illustrate and emphasize the controlling of women during the late 1800s as well as the imperfections of a family. When Nora describes how she feels to Torvald‚ she says how Torvald has “only thought it pleasant to be in

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    Descartes’ Argument for the Existence of God Descartes’ Meditations serve as a faithful yet skeptical support for the existence of God. He uses a method of doubt‚ calling all of knowledge into question‚ to pursue a deep level of God and human’s existence. He creates controversial circular reasoning when he creates rules to define the existence of God through the use of the Truth Principle‚ the causal principle‚ and the belief that God is no deceiver‚ which all support one another. To argue the existence

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    A Buffalo Common Metaphor

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    A Buffalo Common Metaphor Over the past few decades the High Plains have consistently been losing its population. So‚ in 1987 Doctors Frank and Deborah Popper introduced the idea of Buffalo Commons. They described this project as “A combination of literary metaphor‚ public-policy proposal‚ futurist prediction and ecological restoration project” (The Buffalo Commons: Its Antecedents). The essential focus of this project was to replace the ever decrease population by returning buffalo back to the

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    Emily Dickinson Metaphors

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    In “We grow accustomed to the Dark‚” Emily Dickinson uses eloquent metaphors‚ obsidian imagery‚ and repetitious structure to explain how when you “learn to see” the bad events in your life can get a little better. After reading the whole poem‚ the eloquent metaphors used by Emily Dickinson can be better brought to light in order to help explain her point of view. Throughout this poem‚ she uses dark as a metaphor which explains why it is always capitalized. Once the importance is recognized‚ a reader

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