CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LUPU BRIDGE IN SHANGHAI L J H Ellis Dept. Civil & Architectural Engineering‚ University of Bath Abstract: This article provides a critical analysis of The Lupu Bridge in Shanghai. The bridge is currently the world’s longest spanning steel arch bridge with a span of 550m. The analysis of this report includes sections on aesthetics‚ loading‚ structural analysis and construction. The Lupu Bridge is a steel through-tied box-girder arch bridge and it is also the only steel arch
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this passage from Sarah Stickney Ellis’ The Women of England‚ although the inherent obligations of men and women in Victorian England were drastically different within their daily interactions‚ they both sought obey social expectations as well as overcome societal immorality. Ellis employs personification to portray the execrable‚ yet alluring‚ challenges of society that men must navigate through in order to attain financial stability for his family. By contrast‚ Ellis illustrates the image of a convivial
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Britain‚ where these practices still flourish. Not only do concepts such as history and politics appear throughout the deeper meaning of the story‚ but through symbolism and metaphors‚ Irving presents the sketches with respectives references to the Old world‚ Europe‚ and America‚ the New World. At the same time‚ Irving uses these concepts to address ethical matters such as authenticity among new authors‚ that also seems to be a present problem in the new republic. In the sketches “The Art of Bookmaking”
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Irving Fisher - His Life Fisher was born in New York state in 1867. He studied science and philosophy at Yale. Here he had a wide variety of interests. For example‚ he published poetry and works on astronomy‚ mechanics‚ and geometry. Despite all of these interests‚ Fisher was most interested in mathematics and economics. Yale did not have an Economics Department at the time. Regardless‚ Fisher continued with his interests and earned the first Ph.D. in economics ever awarded by Yale. Fisher stayed
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Washington Irving is a man who is questioned for being misogynistic or not. I believe Washington Irving wasn’t to be blamed for how the main characters are treated in his stories. I would blame at the time frame Washington Irving was living in. Irving lived from 1783 to 1859; in this timeline‚ women were viewed as caretakers of the family. Certain men had a different view of women such as being nuisance‚ a problem‚ or someone who is not trustworthy. There may have been stories from men that could
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The article “Island Civilization” provides different scenarios we can take to make mother nature a better place. Nash’s four perspectives are the wasteland‚ the garden world‚ the primitive world or the island civilization. I believe the island civilization will be the best option to try to better mother nature. The way we abuse mother nature is unnecessary and the author gives us ideas to try to better it. This could be a beginning to help the wildlife and our world with global warming and all the
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Rebecca McKenney Mrs. Garnet History and Sociology of Rock Music 7 September 2016 Irving Berlin Israel (later Irving) was born to Moses and Lena Berlin on May 11th‚ 1888. Together with his parents and five older siblings‚ Irving left his home of Mohilev‚ Russia for New York City in 1893. The Berlin family‚ like many immigrates‚ struggled to survive in America. In his book As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin‚ author Laurence Bergreen mentions that at age fourteen (when a child was no longer
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that Puerto Rico is known as “the Island” (1)‚ which holds significance because it reveals that people understand where she is talking about without having to explicitly mention Puerto Rico‚ even though there are hundreds of islands in the world. By her appearance alone‚ she is unable to truly leave the island because it follows her wherever she goes. In the same way‚ Cofer reinforces the idea of the island by claiming that “the same things can make you an island” (2) and that most people stereotypically
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In Julia Whitty’s essay‚ “All the Disappearing Islands” ‚ the author’s general argument is that global warming could cause the sea to expand and rise faster than the corals could fortify themselves against it and Tuvalu could eventually be submerged into the sea. She appeals to her audience logically with evidence when he writes‚”Corals are the backbone of the atoll-never recover their health‚ the island will eventually be swept away”. In this passage‚ the author is suggesting that the warming
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Islands‚ the Universe‚ Home by Gretel Ehrlich begins and ends at her ranch in Wyoming‚ but goes beyond‚ to the Islands off the California coast and to the mountains of Shinto temples in Japan‚ where Ehrlich made a pilgrimage. It was at the Sowell Collection here at Texas Tech where I would be able to do research on a successful author who has archived her work and journeys. Place and people play such a large role in these collections of essays. For Ehrlich‚ the many places she travels becomes her
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