Shear Walls 17 3 SHEAR WALLS by Timothy P. McCormick‚ P.E. Seismic Retrofit Training 18 Shear Walls Seismic Retrofit Training Shear Walls 19 SHEAR WALLS This section provides an introduction to shear walls and how they resist earthquake and wind forces. This section also shows how to properly construct the shear walls and the parts that make them up. With this knowledge‚ contractors can build proper shear walls and inspectors can recognize the errors untrained contractors
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Poem: Mending Wall Poet: Robert Frost The Historian 1. Robert Frost contemplated suicide when his future wife Elinor rejected him 2. Robert Frost was awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal 3. Robert Frost visited the Soviet Union in 1962 The Summarizer The poem “The Mending Wall” is about two neighbors who are both separated by a wall but disagree on whether the wall is necessary. The wall serves the main purpose of separating the property of each neighbor‚ but from the speaker’s eyes
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In his poem ’Mending Wall’‚ Robert Frost presents to us the ideas of barriers between people‚ communication‚ friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. His messages are conveyed using poetic techniques such as imagery‚ structure and humor‚ revealing a complex side of the poem as well as achieving an overall light-hearted effect. Robert Frost has cleverly intertwined both a literal and metaphoric meaning into the poem‚ using the mending of a tangible wall as a symbolic representation
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INTRODUCTION "Mending Wall" is a metaphorical poem written in blank verse‚ published in 1914‚ by Robert Frost (1874–1963). The poem appeared as the first selection in Frost’s second collection of poetry‚ North of Boston. It is set in the countryside and is about one man questioning why he and his neighbor must rebuild the stone wall dividing their farms each spring. SUMMARY The poem literally says that a stone wall separates the speaker’s property from his neighbor’s. Every year the wall is damaged from
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This amazing story of survival and dysfunction‚ of imagination and rationalization‚ and of shear ingenuity is a testimony to the flexibility and beauty of children. Jeannette Walls’ true story flashes back through a childhood with crazy addicted parents (the father to alcohol; the mother to art and idealism and the father) who raised three children in spite of recurrent poverty‚ nomadic tendencies‚ and a heritage of rebellion. The heiress-mother ends up rummaging in a dumpster‚ homeless in NYC
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Wall E is a animated movie that talks about a robot that help people to realize that they the worth of earth and they should take all work in computerized way. This movie makes me fascinated since it is a animated and the story is amazing. It is all about a robot named Wall-e‚ who is a designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth. The Earth for that days is just intend to be a trash can of all defective metals and wall-e is there to clean . Wall –e Found out a plant and bring it at home .As people
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Mending the Wall Barriers exist everywhere. They can be physical‚ like walls‚ doors‚ and even one’s own skin. They can also be emotional or figurative‚ when people block out certain aspects‚ or hide certain things from others. In Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” there is both a literal wall and a figurative wall between the two neighbors. Through imagery‚ diction and tone‚ and symbolism Frost conveys a double meaning of both the literal wall and the figurative one. At the beginning of the poem
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What Was the Berlin Wall? The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. Dates: August 13‚ 1961 -- November 9‚ 1989 Overview of the Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. Its destruction‚ which was nearly as instantaneous as its creation‚ was celebrated around the world. A Divided
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Factors that determine investment: 1. Marginal efficiency of capital:- The marginal efficiency of capital is called the expected return of capital or expected rate of profit on an investment. PV = R + R + R + …………… + R (1+i) (1+i) (1+i) (1+i) Keynes define the marginal efficiency of capital as “ MEC is being equal to that rate of discount which make the present value of
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Brad Picard Mrs. Brousseau English 12 3 January 2013 The Genre of Horror: The Rats in the Walls The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft is a horror story that portrays the overall mindset of a man who is trying to restore Exham Priory and the reputation of his family and ancestors from centuries ago. Delapore is a wealthy man who wants to rebuild his family home‚ even against the several horrible stories told by local villagers and his friend Capt. Norrys. Once his restoration of
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