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    ‘West Gate Bridge’ is described as being a gigantic monitor lizard poised in an elongated ‘S’ astride the River Yarra linking Melbourne’s Western suburbs with Eastern Victorian suburbs between Central Business District as imagined by Carmel Egan‚ a fine journalist. (Brown‚ 2002) 1. An Analysis of the Project’s Structure and Management: 1.1 Project Structure: The West Gate Bridge in Melbourne was going to be‚ undoubtedly‚ the largest bridge of Australia‚ with four lanes in each direction

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    The title of this book is To Heaven and Back. The author is Mary C. Neal. This book is about Mary C. Neal’s life and her trip to heaven and back. Mary is an orthopedic surgeon who had a kayak accident and died‚ went to heaven‚ but came back to Earth. Why did God not keep her in Heaven? Was there something on Earth she needed to fulfill? To Heaven and Back is a non-fiction book. Mary went through several hardships and trials in her life and had to depend on God with her faith to get through

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    Memories are more important than history in showing us our past. Do you agree with this statement based on your reading of the Fiftieth Gate? History alone is insufficient in understanding the past as it discounts the personal perspective that memory provides. However‚ this distinctiveness results in varying viewpoints of individual or collective memories‚ making memory alone insignificant as it does not have a singular truth. Memory forms the basis of history‚ while history clarifies certain

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    In Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven the story’s protagonist‚ Balian‚ is the epitome of a true and perfect knight. Balian hasn’t always been a knight though. He used to be a simple blacksmith‚ but his life changes after his wife committed suicide after they lost their child. Then a knight named Godfrey came to him and told Balian that he was his illegitimate son and that started Balian’s journey to being a great knight just like his father. In order for Balian to be a true and perfect knight he has

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    lyric to Rossetti‚ by whom Yeats was greatly influenced. The courtly tradition ‘reverses the normal distribution of sexual power’‚ placing the male at the feet of the female. For example‚ in ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’‚ the ‘poor’ (6) poet cannot afford ‘the heavens’ embroidered cloths’ (1) so can only ‘spread’ his dreams under the woman’s feet and begs her to ‘tread softly because you tread on my dreams.’ (8) The woman is placed alongside the gods‚ presented as being worthy of being a

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    What Happened To “All Men Are Created Equal”? Both Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and the essay “In the Kitchen” by Henry Louis Gates help give readers an image of life in America as outsiders‚ as minorities‚ as black. In the letter that Martin Luther King writes to the clergymen from the Birmingham Jail‚ he begins by calling them “men of genuine good will‚” and claims that he knows their “criticisms are sincerely set forth.” Dr. King tries to remain polite but an undertone

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    The Five People You Meet in Heaven by: Mitch Album Character and Setting Notes Purpose for starting with the end: draws the reader in‚ and for emphasis “…all endings are also beginnings.” background information is all done in flashback when in heaven meeting his five people it is written in present tense‚ and flashes back to retell the story from the perspective of the other person and Eddie’s perspective. Sequence/order of events- at the beginning it counts down from how much time he has

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    Douglas Sirk’s film All that Heaven Allows follows a well off widow‚ Cary Scott‚ who falls in love with her landscaper‚ Ron Kirby. After confiding in her family and friends about her love for Ron‚ they criticize her since a relationship between and older woman and a younger man is considered taboo. Drama ensues and and Cary is ultimately left with the decision to either keep pursuing her romance with Ron or to move on. In the scene “The Wedgwood Teapot” the director conveys Cary Scott’s control

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    BENSON Bill Gates and Steve Jobs When IBM wanted an operating system for its Personal Computer‚ it turned to Gates. When Apple needed software for its Macintosh‚ it gave Microsoft a test model to use in writing the programs. Gates helped with the design of Radio Shack’s Model 100‚ the first truly portable computer… Thanks to that business (and more)‚ Gates… has become America’s software tycoon.1 — 1984 Time article‚ “Bill Gates: A Hard-Core Technoid” Jobs is‚ in a sense‚ the anti-Gates: a master of

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    the “Mandate of Heaven” is definitely the essential concept to link the chapters together. However‚ the “Mandate of Heaven” model‚ like most philosophical concepts‚ actually provides a utopian representation of China’s historical reality due to its over-simplicity. This is not‚ of course‚ to completely reject the “Mandate of Heaven” model as a way of understanding imperial succession and dynastic transmission. Originating in the Zhou dynasty (1045-256BC)‚ the Mandate of Heaven

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