Journal The Rookery Building One of my favorite buildings in Chicago is the Rookery Building‚ which was built in 1888 by Daniel Burnham and John Root on the South-East corner of LaSalle and Adams streets. Eleven stories tall and 181 feet high‚ it is the oldest high rise building still standing in Chicago. The building is commonly called the “Rookery” because of the crows and pigeons that roosted in the roof and walls of the temporary city hall that previously stood at that site and the corrupt
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Practice Question Set for Bank Clerk Recruitment Exam 2012: General Awareness 2 1. Which of the following terms is used in the field of finance and banking? (A) Metabolism (B) Genetic process (C) Centrifugal force (D) Debt instrument (E) Experimental Error 2. The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) launched with a corpus of ~ 1000 crore will help which of the following groups of society? (A) Bank Employees (B) Central & State Government Employees (C) Workers of the unorganized
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we preserve old building as historical monuments? I believe that different people will hold different perspective to this question. In my point of view‚ a city should preserve the old historic buildings. Being a container of human activity‚ Building‚ obviously‚ is also a reservoir of human history and culture. To some extent‚ preserving old historic building means respecting the previous generations. An old building can insinuate historical events happened in the city. Old buildings‚ as a symbol of
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linear style. The Niagara Mohawk building exemplifies Art Deco like no other building in the city. Syracuse‚ an industrial city in the early to mid-1900s‚ required a lot of electricity. Many other cites used industrialization as an opportunity to build Art Deco buildings as well‚ due to their style and use of new technologies. Syracuse was a great place to erect a building housing the Niagara Mohawk Electric Company’s headquarters. This pyramid shaped building stands at seven stories. A new (and
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\\Megan Casey MW 1030-1150 Biehler Writing assignment 2 Building a New Nation Once the war was over and America became its own country they had to then come up with a government system. The state leaders had already come up with state constitutions that their state followed and when the states were putting together a national constitution they used most of what the states had already established to come up with the bill of rights. When the people gave powers to the governors they were very
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The views on children and their development and learning have evolved throughout history. In the 1600’s children were thought to need harsh religious teaching‚ strict guidance of virtues and morals. John Locke and Johann Amos Comenius‚ argued against the harsh educational theories. During the 1700’s the view on children shifted to a more romantic view‚ more harmonious methods of teaching. More playtimes was introduced‚ as was the introduction of hands on experiences. At that time Johann Heinrich
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ENG3U-04 Evolution of Female Concerns Women have fought for their equality between men throughout history. Women have fought for their right to vote‚ the right to receive education and more. Now in modern society‚ women legally possess equal rights as men. However‚ there is another huge wall women have to climb over; society’s gender norms and expectation. Gender norms and expectations are culturally constructed in a way that has historically been to the detriment of women; even though women
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members was rather lukewarm due to the presence of one familiar person and the other group members all relatively unknown to me. There was a stark contrast in backgrounds and ethnicities in our “informal” setting. I quickly realized that one of my team members was a long-time resident of Canada and related one of the treasures (the Earth stone ) to a football and the conversation was soon about the upcoming Superbowl Series .This was the ice breaker we all needed to kick-start our activity. The
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is a different brand) the Volkswagen brand is seen to be worth more than that of Ford while the Mercedes brand has a value above both. In each case‚ the brand is seen to be worth around 10 per cent of the retail value of the car. Over the last few years there have been many listings of the value of brands. One of the most famous is carried out by Interbrand for the journal‚ Business Week. This annual brand value research study of the world’s top 100 brands assess brand values on a variety of issues
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Blues of Career Building Actually‚ we are surrounded with polluted milieu that compiles of a lot of abortive feelings such as financial scarcity‚ impractical depression and blues of career building. Though financial constraints and depression are the vicissitudes of life‚ but blues of career building matters very much. In fact‚ blues of career affect our entire life. Analytically‚ if we see a person’s career building has been very tough now-a-days. Building a career is difficult
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