meters and feet. Note that this list is for buildings and does not include towers or other structures such as antennas. A building specifically is a structure designed for residential‚ business‚ or manufacturing use‚ and it has floors. Taipei 101‚ Taipei‚ Taiwan (2004‚ 509m‚ 1‚670 ft.) Petronas Tower 1‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia (1998‚ 452 m‚ 1‚483 ft.) Petronas Tower 2‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia (1998‚ 452m‚ 1‚483 ft.) Sears Tower‚ Chicago‚ IL USA (1974‚ 442m‚ 1‚450 ft.) Jin Mao Building
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of the construction companies involved in the market. For example‚ Samsung Engineering‚ which is the main construction company of the Burj Khalifa project‚ was able to involve itself in Dubai as its previous construction experiences for the Taipei 101 Tower and Petronas Tower. Companies obtain a reputation as the constructor of the world’s tallest skyscraper‚ a development that required the use of various cutting edge technologies throughout the process of construction of Burj Khalifa. On the other
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thousand four hundred and eighty-two feet) are thirty-two feet taller than Chicago’s Sears Tower (or Willis Tower‚ as it is now called); the Shanghai World Financial Center is about a hundred and thirty feet taller than the Petronas Towers; Taipei 101‚ in Taiwan‚ is fifty feet taller than the Shanghai tower; and so on. But the Burj Khalifa represents a quantum leap over these midgets. Even if you put the Chrysler Building on top of the Empire State Building‚ that still wouldn’t equal its height.
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Original paragraphs 1. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year‚ three-fourths are caused by head injuries. Half of those killed are school- age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident‚ a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head. From "Bike Helmets: Unused life savers"‚ consumer reports (May 1990): 348. 2. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far
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Appreciating Our Real Values The idealized images‚ the pictures of perfection‚ are what we usually see in advertisements nowadays. Commercials have become a great part that we encounter in our daily life; as a consequence‚ we are all affected by the perfect outlook of what showed on mass media. As a case in point‚ Americans are usually attracted by the greatly designed sport utilities vehicles. These vehicles are usually a symbol of an ideological value through the image of a powerful‚ break-through
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Welty - “One Writer’s Beginnings” * Excerpt from Welty’s autobiography * Significance of the title – “one writer’s” rather than “my” – larger purpose to the piece‚ even though it’s about herself * What her parents read influenced who she read and that influenced her writing * Knows what her parents favourite books are – those help indicate their personalities * “Expressive readers” and direct/indirect meanings (end of par. 1) * The physicality of books is important (par.
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One World: Motion Topic: Write an article that explores how the Physics of Motion is (or can be) used to solve a specific problem in a local or global context. Millions of people everywhere around the world make use of the principles of motion to travel up and down quickly within a tall building. The use of elevators has been around since ancient medieval times since then has grown from being powered by a hoist and winder to electric and hydraulic motors1. An elevator
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Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and communicating data. Since its inception it has broadened to find applications in many other areas‚ including statistical inference‚ natural language processing‚ cryptography generally‚ networks other than communication
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EVOLUTION OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS 1.Historical Development In High-Rise Buildings Ancient Skyscrapers - The Great Ziggurat of Babylon Perhaps the most impressive structure in the ancient Middle East‚ the Great Ziggurat of Babylon was built over a span of several decades in the Sixth Century BC. Its seven stories‚ built upon a square foundation‚ stretched 300 feet into the sky. Some think it was the inspiration for the infamous Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis. In this illustration‚ King Nebuchadnezzar
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1.0 Introduction Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world‚ standing at 828 metres (2‚716.5 feet) with more than 160 stories. This is the first world’s tallest tower to include residential space. It located in Dubai‚ United Arab Emirates. The building was named in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates‚ Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The cost to build this building is around USD $ 1.5 billion. The purpose of this building is designed to be the centerpiece
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