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    Land Surveying EC4202 2013 Assignment One. Task- We did a levelling circuit around Union Street‚ Harbour Terrace‚ Forth Street and St David Street. The aim was to level around from point A through to point D with one inverse shot to find the height of A Block. We levelled the route completely once but swapped around and adjusting and moving the staff and tri pod each time. We all had turns at booking‚ shooting and holding the staff. We adjusted the lenses of the Dumpy Level to suit everyone’s

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    IN AN ANTIQUE LAND BY AMITAV GHOSH In An Antique Land is a very capturing and an educative chronicle of a traveler‚ Amitav Ghosh‚ who perfectly weaves Indian and Egyptian history into one single story spread across various time periods. As the contents of the book suggests‚ the novel is divided into six parts namely‚ the Prologue‚ Lataifa‚ Nashawy‚ Mangalore‚ Going Back and Epilogue. The story begins with the Prologue where Ghosh reads a “short article by the scholar E. Strauss‚ in the 1942 issue

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    I never promised you a rose garden Summary Deborah was a 16 year old girl that lived in the US. Her father was foreign and not fully accepted by the rest of the family from her mom’s side. He wanted her to be successful‚ to be what he never was‚ and because of that‚ a lot of pressure was put on her. She was always different from other children‚ and she had been through a lot of bad and traumatic experiences‚ which caused her to build up a great aversion to other humans. Because of this loneliness

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    Brother in the Land Character Sketch Danny: Danny is a main character of the play. He is a fifteen year old teenager who is a resident of Skipley. He is a son of Richard and Marry Lodge. He also had a brother Ben. Danny is a round character as he does not remain the same throughout the play. There was a huge difference in his personality after the nuclear war. Danny is a strong and brave boy. When Chris and Tracey were trying to steal Kim’s food‚ Danny helped Kim fight the thieves and get her food

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    behavior. The devastation left from WWI‚ the absence of hope and faith and the loss of values contributed to many authors’ feelings that the world lacked purpose. This is visible in literary works: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot. Modernism generally encompasses a variety of specific artistic and philosophical movements. The premodernist world is characterized by sense of order and stability‚ rooted in: morality‚ faith‚ collective

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    Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land The first thing that went through my mind once the movie started was that I was going to have no idea what Donald Duck was saying. His first couple of quotes I could barely understand but thankfully there was the “spirit” narrating. Also I was slowly able to understand what Donald Duck was saying. After that I became very interested in the rest of the movie starting with Pythagoras and the way he created music. I never really thought about music and math being that

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    As she offers the police the lamb she has cooked‚ they don’t realise that it is the murder weapon‚ as the police men say ‘the weapon could be right under our noses’… Land Lady‚ is a sort story from part of the collection Roald Dahls‚ ‘Tales of the unexpected’. The main character is soon introduced as the happy‚ welcoming‚ middle ages lady who is completely harmless‚ and couldn’t hurt a fly. With her ‘gentle blue‚ eyes’

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    Land Surveying

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    Application nb.1 SURVEYING CALCULATIONS Delivery date 24.02.2009 Student Application nb.1 Surveying calculations The ensemble of operations in order to obtain plans and maps is known as surneying.Because during land surveying‚ the calculations involve a large volume of work‚ it is proper that the way of doing these calculations to be well studied. Application theme In order to establish the position of points‚ depending on a reference coordinates system‚ related to the Earth’s

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    * FDI will lead to job losses. Small retailers and other small ‘Kirana store owners’ will suffer a large loss. Giant retailers and Supermarkets like Walmart‚ Carrefour‚ etc. will displace small retailers. * Supermarkets will establish their monopoly in the Indian market. Because of supermarket’s fine tuning‚ they will get goods on low price and they will sell it on low price than small retailers‚ it will decrease the sell of small retailers. * Jobs in the manufacturing sector will be lost

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    This Land is Your Land‚ Incomplete The poem “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie is originally a seven stanza poem that is often cut short in the recorded versions known to many. The poem’s main element is imagery of America’s landmarks to exorcise an emotion out of the reader. The first four stanzas have a much more celebratory tone compared to the final three. The last three stanzas are cut out‚ so as to not dampen the joyful tone of the song. The tone of the work takes a more serious

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