resemble Islamic art motifs. The overall height of the Towers is 483ft. Petronas Towers spread over an area or around 3.7 million sq. ft. The sky-bridge of the Twin Towers is at 41st and 42nd level and is 192ft long. It weighs 750 tons. There are 10 escalators in each building of Petronas Towers. The entry to the Towers is free‚ but only a limited number of timed tickets are provided on a daily basis. It cost US $1.2 billion to build the Towers. After the initial design by the architects‚ structural
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years ago. Shenzhen’s subway was built only a few years ago‚ so it is “updated” and modern. Therefore‚ passengers can enjoy a quiet‚ comfortable environment. In a hot summer day‚ you can find air conditioning in the subway station starting from the escalator. Once I counted 18 TV screens per carriage used for entertaining subway-takers. In my eyes‚ it’s much better than the Shenzhen taxi because it is more reliable‚ economical‚ safer and faster (in some cases). That is just “hardware”‚ but on the “software”
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relationship between Gus‚ her autistic son‚ and Siri. Austism limits Gus’ ability to socialize and carry-on thought provoking conversations about random topics‚ but Gus loves to discuss topics he is passionate about such as “trains‚ planes‚ buses‚ escalators and‚ of course anything related to weather” (Newman 2). Siri is Apple’s voice control program that allows its users to quickly access applications and various information. Together‚ Gus and Siri establish a strong friendship in which Siri helps
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In Jeffrey Heit’s article that I read titled‚ Child Obesity Genetics Issue‚ Heit talks about how genetics is the main reason that affects childhood obesity. The article talks about how a child’s genes come from both parents and that they cannot help what kind of genes that they get. The article talks about how if both parents are obese than more than likely their child will be obese. Obesity is considered to be a hereditary problem because in most cases children become obese because of their genetic
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1 Duncan the dragon was swimming with his friend Carl The Crab on a hot summer day….. Want to know what I love about being a dragon? What? I can breath fire‚ whenever‚ wherever‚ I want. I wish I could do that‚ all I can do is pinch people. 2 When Duncan the dragon got out of the pool‚ he tried to warm himself with a burst of fire. Carl‚ I can breath fire! Well how could you not be able to?! Well a dragon could only lose fire if he loses the fire stone he is supposed to keep on him.
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When I was 12 years old my family and I were somewhere in Missouri‚ camping for a family reunion. One day we decided to go tubing down the river in rubber tubes. About halfway through my sister started to complain about the backs of her legs being itchy. My mom told her to take a dip in the river that she probably just brushed up against something. My sister can be a bit dramatic at times. At one point we hit a really rough current and started getting sucked into this one alcove of trees. Once we
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The gallery which I visited is the Juxtapoz x Superflat show located at the Vancouver Art Gallery. This exhibition is at the third floor of the building. Due to the theme and the style of Juxtapoz magazine is pop surrealist‚ which partly how the superflat culture‚ the influence of “flatness” of Japanese manga and anime culture. For the word pop surrealist‚ the first thing comes to my mind is paintings with vivid colours and odd images. This exhibition is trying to include multi-media to deliver
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Ch 10 What role does the media need to play in ending gender violence? What is the glass ceiling? Why are women a minority group? In what countries mentioned in the text has mass media helped create an incipient women’s movement by showing women that other gender relationships are possible? What was the result of the remarks made by the President of Harvard University suggesting women had inborn characteristics making them less competitive than men in fields such as engineering? What
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with it. The boat drops down a black hole in the darkness! I wasn’t expecting that. My heart is pounding. If that little dip frightened me‚ how will I cope with that big slide at the end? Oh‚ why did I let myself get talked into this? I love the escalators at the mall—but this is a little extreme. What if I have a heart attack? Who’ll feed my fishes back home?My thoughts spin in the darkness‚ like a kitten chasing its tail. Round & round & round. I feel the fear and I’m afraid of feeling the fear
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-0552.htm IJRDM 37‚3 RETAIL INSIGHT 286 Driving sales through shoppers’ sense of sound‚ sight‚ smell and touch Brenda Soars Sound Environments‚ London‚ UK Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain how sensory stimuli can influence environments‚ improve the shopper experience and change the nature of behaviour in ways beyond our consciousness. Design/methodology/approach
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