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    Shinjuku

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    most busiest places in Japan‚ and it is a number one suggested place to visit in Japan. Shinjuku is a large city which lies in the western part of Tokyo‚ near Shibuya(渋谷) and Harajuku(原宿). It is a very busy district with flashing neon‚ giant skyscrapers‚ huge TV screens and all sorts of different shopping departments. More than 3.5 million people pass through Shinjuku station every day‚ making it into the top 5 busiest station in the world. Shinjuku station is another mall of itself‚ consisting

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    Renaissance Verona to stay true with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Whereas Luhrmann version is set in ‘Verona Beach’ which incorporated a L A style cityscape‚ modern-day city gang culture and gun crime with two separate skyscrapers bearing the name Montague and Capulet. The skyscrapers are both equal in size which is referring to the families being ‘both alike in dignity’. Similarly‚ both directors did include religious aspects; but Baz luhrmann is to religious symbolism as Michael bay is to explosions

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    The Fault in Our Stars Our lives are a set of building blocks‚ and we always yearn to be perceived as skyscrapers. But not everyone has this capability. People have faults‚ and sadly‚ it can get to the point where those wrecking balls intervene. And the thing that was once a set of building blocks is no more. Some people have it harder than others. People live with cancer‚ deadly diseases that could ruin their lives. The Fault in Our Stars is a story mainly about the life of a girl named Hazel

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    Chapter 32 1. How did territorial expansion affect Native Americans in North America? The Native Americans lost their “spirit”. Native Americans were considered savages and were either killed or conformed to the American control. The Indians lost their identity due to the American expansion. 2. How were the contradictions of economic expansion expressed by American artists? Walt Whitman linked the romantic‚ transcendental‚ and realist movements together to revolutionize literature. The American

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    Field Trip Report

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    palaces at one time drew residents and visitors into the area‚ but the district declined economically and suffered a downturn for decades until its recent renaissance starting in the early 2000s: Old buildings are being modified for new uses‚ and skyscrapers have been built. Downtown Los Angeles is known for its government buildings‚ parks‚ theaters and other public places. There are five things that I have learned about Los Angeles; that John Parkinson was the major architect that gave Los Angeles

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    AfterMath Population Zero

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    Zero Imagine if one minute from now‚ every single person on Earth disappeared. All 6.6 billion of us. What would happen to the world without humans? How long would it be before our nuclear power plants erupted‚ skyscrapers crumbled and satellites dropped from the sky? What would become of the household pets and farm animals? And could an ecosystem plagued with years of pollution ever recover? Similar to the History Channel’s special Life After People‚ Aftermath features

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    once in a while‚ I would stop and gaze at them‚ amazed by how such unremarkable plastic blocks could form something so powerfully breathtaking. Fast forward seven years. My medieval town is buried under so much dust that it resembles Pompeii. My skyscrapers were destroyed long ago when one of my planes crash landed. Memories of the glorious‚ golden armada I was once so proud of lay submerged under the ever-increasing depth of schoolwork‚ only resurfacing during rare discoveries of a piece of space

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    The Diagrid System

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    | Introduction The term Diagrid is a portmanteau of ‘diagonal grid’ and is a technique typically used for constructing large steel buildings by creating external triangular structures with horizontal support rings. The diagonal members intersect each other and the horizontal rings at a single node. The members combine to create an element similar to a moment frame. In a Diagrid structure‚ gravity and lateral loads are resisted by all of the members‚ creating efficiency and large amounts of structural

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    days. Having to spend so many days on the road‚ I actually got comfortable in the back seat and in my imagination I saw my car as my home. Finally‚ I arrived to our destination‚ New York City. I looked out my window and all I could see were skyscrapers‚ many cars and lots of lights. I was

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    throughout the story. That same window only changes to a different type of window on the last page accordingly to the story. Towards the end of the story on page 13‚ some of the most prominent features on the page is the increase of cars‚ buildings‚ skyscrapers‚ an industrial factory producing emissions and a plane. In comparison from what it was earlier of the simplicity of nature‚ the whole view is bombarded with human changes. On this page‚ the colour orange completely dominates the illustration‚ primarily

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