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    What Are Truss Bridges?

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    Truss Bridge is a one bridge style from a variety other bridges types. The truss bridge is made with a simple skeletal structure. This type of bridges is conceded as a one of the strongest simple design and cost less. Truss bridges were founded early in the history‚ and they were built from wood and iron at the first time‚ which was different than any other bridge that was made of stone. However‚ nowadays‚ truss bridges are made of steel. Truss bridges have many types include‚ the Pratt‚ the Warren

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    Tacoma Narrows Bridge

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    Tacoma Narrows Bridge A lot of things can go wrong when building or designing a major building‚ plane‚ bridge‚ or even a road. Engineers face the challenges to overcome these flaws or problems everyday when they are trying to design structures. The primary causes of engineering disasters are usually: Human factors‚ design flaws‚ material failures‚ extreme conditions or environments‚ and combinations of these reasons put together. There are many things an engineer has to look for when designing

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    with two bridges‚namely‚ Bogazici and Fatih sultan mehmet bridges. Morever‚ Turkish government anounced that they are planning to build the third bridge in Northern Istanbul.Whereas some people are in favour of a new bridge‚others are totaly against it for some reasons.Fom my point of view‚the third bridge should not be erected in Istanbul. Some people may claim that the third bridge will ease traffic jam. There will be aproximately 75 new route. Drivers will use this bridge instead

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    Rock Creek Golf Club.

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    REVIEW OF FACTS Rock Creek Golf Club is a public golf course owned by a private company and managed by Lee Jeffries. The case entails a debate about the golf carts used to take players around the course instead of walking around. The carts they already owned were old and there was a need for new golf carts. Approached by two salesman‚ Lee Jeffries was forced to chose to make a deal with one of them. Salesman A offered carts at $2‚240 each and at the end of five years the expected salvage value

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    Golden Gate Bridge

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    lthough the idea of a bridge spanning the Golden Gate was not new‚ the proposal that eventually took hold was made in a 1916 San Francisco Bulletin article by former engineering student James Wilkins.[15] San Francisco’s City Engineer estimated the cost at $100 million‚ impractical for the time‚ and fielded the question to bridge engineers of whether it could be built for less.[9] One who responded‚ Joseph Strauss‚ was an ambitious but dreamy engineer and poet who had‚ for his graduate thesis‚ designed

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    Padma Bridge Project

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    Padma Bridge is possible to build without World Bank MGT372.7 Prepared For: Shahid Hossain (ShH) North South University | Prepared by: Name ID | Date of submission: 4th April‚ 2013 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Padma Bridge is a long cherished

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    The Battle Creek Sanitarium started in 1866 as a “water-cure” or hydro-therapy unit called the Health Reform Institution. The organization began with a vision that was played out by the religious couple‚ James and Ellen Smith‚ with the support of their church. The building was a spacious two-story farm house that started with 2 patients and quickly grew into 4 building complex which held over 700 patients. After some time‚ with new management and new policies‚ the name was changed from the Health

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    Bridge on the River Kwai

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    Bridge On The River Kwai. The film deals with the situation of British and American prisoners of war‚ who were captured by the Japanese during World War II and were forced to build a bridge over the river Kwai‚ in order to accommodate Japanese Burma-Siam railway. At first the prisoners were planning to sabotage the construction of the bridge‚ and to not finish the construction at the scheduled date. Because of that decision‚ the Japanese were forcing British officers to be working along the ordinary

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    comers told the Native Americans what to do‚ when to do it‚ and if they didn’t do exactly as asked‚ there would be war. hese three documents are an exerpt of an autobiography‚ a report for the accounts of what happened at Wounded Knee Creek‚ and a recollection from someone who was there. The audience for whom these documents were directed are the people who need or want to know what happened at Wounded Knee in 1890. What I found interesting about these three documents was the point of

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    (Saito) was a leader who believed in commanding and making people work indifferently. His rules did not differentiate between the working style and respect given to an officer from a soldier. He was assigned to build a bridge within a deadline and his focus was to complete the bridge with the prisoners of war (British soldiers) who were led by a few officers and a colonel (Nicholson). I am in awe of the never say die leadership style of the British Colonel Nicholson. He was a leader who wanted the

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