DISCUSSIONS AND CLOSURES Downloaded from ascelibrary.org by INDIAN INST OF TECHNOLOGY - ROORKEE on 03/07/13. Copyright ASCE. For personal use only; all rights reserved. Discussion of “Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations in Anisotropic Non-Hoek-Brown Rock Masses” by Mahendra Singh and K. Seshagiri Rao August 2005‚ Vol. 131‚ No. 8‚ pp. 1014–1023. DOI: 10.1061/ ASCE 1090-0241 2005 131:8 1014 Brian C. Burman‚ M.ASCE1 1 Principal‚ Burman Consulting Pty. Ltd.‚ 21 Telegraph Road‚ Pymble
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The poem “War is Kind” was written by Stephen Crane in 1899. He was born after the civil war‚ but died before WWI. Crane wrote this poem about the civil war and the men who fought in it. The poem has three different themes: Warfare‚ The Home‚ and Patriotism. “War is Kind” does not mean that war is actually kind it is just saying that people are willing to go into battle and sacrifice their lives for their country. War is cruel‚ not kind‚ the exact opposite of what Crane repeats throughout the poem
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loss of a loved one. He tries to justify the means in which these loved ones were lost but he cannot justify war. It is ironic that Stephen Crane’s title of the poem and basically his most common phrase or chorus throughout‚ is the phrase “war is kind.” In reality‚ war is the opposite‚ it is disastrous‚ destructive‚ and catastrophic not only to the cities and towns it touches but also to the families and people of that nation or other nations involved. There are five stanzas‚ two of which are
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(1) “America was where all my mother’s hopes lay.” (2) In these words from “Two Kinds‚” the narrator describes her mother’s belief that you can be anything you want to be in America even famous. (3) In her search for a better life than the one she left in China‚ the narrator’s mother pushes her daughter to become a child prodigy. (4) The narrator tries to fulfill her mother’s expectations at first. (5) Eventually‚ she does not want to be a prodigy. (6) The differing values between mother and daughter
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Mother Teresa 1910-1997 Albanian missionary Mother Teresa has dedicated her life to helping the poor‚ the sick‚ and the dying around the world‚ particularly those in India. introduction Mother Teresa is among the most well-known and highly respected women in the world in the latter half of the twentieth century. In 1948 she founded a religious order of nuns in Calcutta‚ India‚ called the Missionaries of Charity. Through this order‚ she has dedicated her life to helping the poor‚ the sick‚ and
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Throughout history philosophers and scholars have widely debated the theory of comedy and laughter‚ the types of laughter and the reasons why we laugh. In his essay “Ontological Laughter: Comedy as Experimental Possibility Space” Timothy Morton‚ discusses his views on laughter and states that “comedy is the genre closes to the ontological structure of how things are” (332). Morton begins by proposing that “a thing is exactly what it is‚ yet never exactly as it appears” (Morton 322-323)‚ therefore
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engage in reflective and independent thinking. In other word it is the thinking beyond just regular thinking. It is thinking of numerous ways that you can solve a problem instead of sticking to just one maneuver. In this class I learned plenty of things. If I have to choose just three it would have to be the type of thinker that I am and ways that I can improve that. The second thing would be understanding and anticipating why people would reject my ideas. I used to think that learning why wasn’t
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War is Kind: Stephen Crane I. In the introduction the poem opens up with the speaker mentioning Maiden in this poem simply refers to a girl A. The man tells the girl not to cry because war is kind. Even though this is to sound ironic the phrase really means the opposite of what the character is trying to tell the girl. B. The maiden had been crying for her dead lover who had thrown his hands towards the sky‚ in which a horse appears to get scared and leaves the man alone on his own
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in literature. This week I would like to delve deeper in the human psyche and struggle. I often marvel at the fine line that separates humans from other animals that do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival. In Stephen Crane’s poem‚ War is Kind‚ he illustrates how war forces men to discard their humanity‚ and they effectively become dehumanized. The word “humble” is used in the poem to show how war diminishes the importance of
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All I can say is that through my opinion zoos are really very cruel to wild animals. Why is this so ? Well because they don’t think of the wild animals habitat and the liberty which they need. The shock of being in captivity would actually depress the animals; they would even act violently and might hurt people near them. And it is not the animal to be fault. Firstly‚ the ecosystem became unbalanced. Secondly If the humans kept the wild animals in the zoo‚ they will ruin their food chain. Animals
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