1. Briefly describe at least three strategies for noise mitigation for airports‚ highways‚ or railways. Under what circumstances would you considered each to be appropriate? -The most fertile areas for the highways noise mitigation are in urban planning decisions‚ highway design‚ noise barrier design‚ speed control‚ surface pavement selection and truck restrictions. Speed control is effective since the lowest sound emissions arise from vehicles moving smoothly at 30 to 60 kph. Above that range
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necessarily includes hatred for such sins‚ as well as the determination to avoid them in the future. In the first stanza‚ this “spiritual sorrow” is apparent by the contrast Eliot uses‚ of the Magi’s difficult journey. In fact‚ the central focus of criticism has been on the journey; the “A cold coming…” (Line 1) during “…the worst time of the year…” (Line 2)‚ emphasizing the climatic statement of the stanza: “A hard time we had of it.” (Line 16) The Magi talks of their sorrowful past life of ease‚ the times
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T.S Eliot-"The Wasteland" In T.S Eliot’s wide-ranging poem "The Wasteland‚" the reader journeys through the industrial metropolis of London by means of multiple individualistic narratives concerning the inert existence of those living in a place consumed by a fast paced economy. Eliot focuses on the negativity that a cold and synthetic setting can impose on the natural human qualities of a society‚ almost completely wiping out necessary characteristics like compassion and enthusiasm. The city
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“Four Quartets” Thomas Stearns Eliot The Battle After the Battle "The battle is going very heavily against us. We ’re being crushed by the enemy weight...We are facing very difficult days‚ perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo” (Erwin Rommel). During World War II‚ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel says on behalf of Germany that his army faces the most difficult days they have ever been through. This relates to all soldiers in all wars‚ as well as to people who lost their loved ones from
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Analysis of T.S. Eliot ’s The Waste Land Anita Grace Simpson‚ Yahoo Contributor Network Oct 12‚ 2007 "Share your voice on Yahoo websites. Start Here." * ------------------------------------------------- MORE: * ------------------------------------------------- T. S. Eliot FlagPost a comment Thomas Stearns Eliot‚ author of The Waste Land‚ has been called the most influential poet of the twentieth century. He was born in St. Louis‚ Missouri‚ but became a British subject in 1927. For
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The Ford Model T is a vehicle that was produced by Henry Ford’s Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. It is generally regarded as the first affordable auto‚ the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford’s innovations‚ including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting. The first production Model T was produced on August 12‚ 1908 and left the factory
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George Eliot on God and the Good Well known for her atheism‚ Eliot maintained a serious concern with morality and community throughout her life‚ evidenced in her novels and personal letters. She was persistently concerned with how to live a moral life outside organised religion‚ and how to maintain a sense of personal and community responsibility. First I’ll look at some influences on the development of her atheism‚ (and the limits of their influence)‚ then at the kind of religion she rejected
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Alfred Prufrock‚ written by TS Eliot‚ there is a consistent use of the words ’you’ and ’I’. Not much is said about the narrator or who he is talking to and after conducting research on TS Eliot himself as well as reading opinions of critics on this topic‚ my understanding of who the ’you’ and ’I’ is has changed quite significantly. The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock was originally written‚ primarily‚ between February 1910 and July or August 1911. The poem was not first published until June 1915 in
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Jessica Joy T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” Final Paper Eliot imparts to us the Grail quest’s influence on “The Waste Land” in the notes: “Not only the title‚ but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston’s book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance (Macmillan). Indeed‚ so deeply am I indebted‚ Miss Weston’s book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem much better than my notes can do; and I recommend it (apart
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Muskan Hossain Memoir Report Sheet Title: Warrior’s Don’t Cry Author: Melba Pattillo Beals Copyright Date: 1994 1 The book‚ Warrior’s Don’t Cry is a memoir written by Melba Pattillo Beals. A way to know that the book is a memoir is that the book is written entirely in 1st person from Melba’s point‚ an example from the book would be the note she wrote before she began writing the book in which she had stated that the names of the characters had been changed to protect their identity
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