Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Judith Rodin defines five characteristics of resilience as being aware‚ diverse‚ integrated‚ self-regulating and adaptive. I will examine awareness and integrated because I find these two characteristics interesting and an essential aspect of resilience. According to Rodin‚ being aware is an important characteristic of resilience because you have to know your weakness and strengths to be able to effectively prepare
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Construction and the Environment Assignment One The year 1992 and the Earth Summit ’ in Rio de Janeiro marked a paradigm shift in the attitude of the governments of the world‚ as over 150 delegates attended and recognised the importance of ecological issues to the future of humanity. This was of great significance to the construction industry‚ as one of the greatest consumers‚ and producers‚ of our economic system. Construction accounts for 40% of the total flow of raw materials into
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THE GLOBE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY The Globe Construction Company top management held a management workshop one weekend in April of 1989 for the purpose of discussing present policies and procedures with the ultimate objective of formalizing these in a new company operations manual. The company was established in the mid-50s by Mr. Eduardo Concepcion. The company grew at a very fast rate due to the construction boom in the government sector during the administration of ex-President Ferdinand E. Marcos
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“Road Construction and Conservation in the Congo Basin” A look inside the life‚ culture‚ and habitat of the CONGO. The Congo Basin is located in the continent of Africa‚ Central Africa. It is represented by the countries of democratic republic of Congo‚ Republic of Congo‚ Central Africa Republic‚ Cameroon Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. An area of many rivers‚ forest‚ savannas and swamps the Congo has many unique animals that reside there. According to (World Wildlife) “There are 10‚000 species
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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PAVEMENT DEFINITION Surface or pavement is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic‚ such as a road or walkway. In the past gravel road surfaces‚ cobblestones and granite settles were extensively used‚ but these surfaces have mostly been replaced by asphalt or concrete. Such surfaces are frequently marked to guide traffic. Today‚ permeable paving methods are beginning to be used for low-impact roadways
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Domestic Abuse Judith Ewing. Vital Speeches of the Day. New York: Dec 2006. Vol. 72‚ Iss. 26; pg. 793‚ 2 pgs Abstract (Summary) A speech by Judith Ewing‚ abuse counselor and deacon of Christ Episcopal church‚ is presented. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This year it was launched with the most tragic event people have experienced in many years: the murder of a wife and her four children by her husband. On the steps of the State House in Columbia‚ on Oct 2‚ 33 life-sized cutouts depicting
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The Non-Traditional structure that I chose to design is a log home. When doing research on styles of construction I was a little overwhelmed with the options that are available for construction methods. The first thing I needed to find out is what type of footing and foundation is needed to support the immense weight of the logs. An 8"x16" footing and 8" foundation is sufficient enough to support the weight of a log home. There are three different options available for supporting the floor joist
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to adjust to their life in these “warm caves” (8). On the other hand‚ living in those places foreshadows the women’s incessant frustration and extreme agony. In the 1950s‚ images of a successful wife and a happy mother dominated the media and social life in America. A satisfied wife is the one who consumes more and seems happier with her stable marital life. Doing the housework‚ feeding the children and staying home are the clues to an “American ideal of Capitalist Consumerism” in Allen Ginsberg’s
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Family cooperation is one of the most important things that keep the family running smooth and keeping the family happy. In the novel Ordinary People written by Judith Guest‚ she showed that a family cannot function properly without communications and caring of each other. Lack of these things would usually results in family separation. In the novel’s case‚ it didn’t turn out to be a disaster but it turn out to be another happy thing for this family. At some point of the novel‚ the relationship
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Abstract We have to complete an assignment for our Construction Technology about green building. Our lecturer‚ IR Han had also held an visit programme to one of the green building that located at Putrajaya which is Diamond Building to help us in obtaining more information for this assignment. Our assignment had inserted these information that we obtained from the visit to Diamond Building and also some other green buildings around the world. In the introduction part we can see that green
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