First green building:- Commerzbank Tower: The world’s first “Green Building. Frankfurt germany.1997 Definition of Green Building Green building is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-cycle from siting to design‚ construction‚ operation‚ maintenance‚ renovation and deconstruction. This practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy‚ utility‚ durability
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Remorseful dreams: Regret in Kansas “Kansas” is the story of an old man reflecting back on a life changing event. As a boy‚ the old man was faced with a difficult decision. He didn’t know who to help and if he’d be hurt himself if he did interfere. In this story Stephen Dobyns suggests that if people don’t stop wickedness when they have the chance‚ they may regret it for the rest of their life. He shows us how smart young man with potential life changed because of one event. The old man‚ at the
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Looking back at my Computer Analysis Project about my food intake‚ I found two major problems in my diet. The first problem is that I have high cholesterol. My intake of cholesterol is high. The DRI is < 300 mg and my intake is 357 mg. The percentage for my cholesterol is 118.9%. I didn’t expect that my cholesterol will be this high. Having high cholesterol can cause major health problems. It can cause you to have heart problems. There can be a blockage in the arteries. It is when the cholesterol
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begin to imagine imagery of the inner workings of the fish‚ “I thought of the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers‚ the big bones and the little bones‚ the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails‚ and the pink swim-bladder like a big peony” (Bishop‚ 6). On the surface‚ this tangent of imagery demonstrates the speaker’s own knowledge of fish and their inner anatomy‚ but it also serves to create a more complete picture of the fish as a living breathing being. The description
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Chuhong (Rebecca) Xu ARTH 1004 W | Fall 14 Dr. Minku Kim T.A Parisa A. Moghadam Oct 17th‚ 2014 A Study of The Lidded Chinese Canton Enamel Vase This paper is a study of The Lidded Chinese Canton Enamel Vase in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (M.I.A). On Friday October 3rd‚ I had the opportunity to visit the M.I.A and found this refined artwork extraordinarily attractive. The Lidded Chinese Canton Enamel Vase presents traditional Chinese porcelain elements as well as the unique element of Kwon-glazed
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1. In her commentary “Reading Blind‚” Margaret Atwood gives her opinions on factors that make a short story good. She writes that a good story has to have a voice that moves not only across pages but also through time. Most people are first introduced to stories at a young age by the “scandalous gossips” and “family secrets” that children overhear their mothers discussing in the kitchen‚ or the oral tales with “talking donkeys” and “definite endings” that their grandmother recites to them. All these
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“Digging” is the first poem of Seamus Heaney’s debut collection of poetry‚ Death of a Naturalist. It was a breakthrough for him. In his own essay “Feeling into Words‚” which was originally given as a lecture at the Royal Society of Literature in 1974‚ he said‚ “I wrote it in the summer of 1964‚ almost two years after I had begun to ‘dabble in verses.’ This was the first place where I felt I had done more than make an arrangement of words: I felt that I had let down a shaft into real life” (Heaney
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Ads use a variety of techniques to attract readers’ attention and convince them that the product advertised is the best they can get. This advertisement of Camel cigarettes was feature in Glamour Magazine. It features a photograph of a Caucasian woman that seems to be in her mid-twenties. This woman is beautiful and appears to have flawless skin. She is holding a lit cigarette in her hand and is blowing out cigarette smoke from her mouth. This image suggests that smoking Camel Cigarettes will make
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Mahiganting Langit Ni Francisco Balagtas December 10‚ 2013 The poem Mahiganting Langit is from the literary work of Francisco Balagtas entitled Florante at Laura and this was considered as one of the masterpiece on Philippine Literature. Francisco Balagtas wrote several poems but what makes him well-known is the poem Florante at Laura. Florante at Laura is a depiction of the unconditional love between two people despite of all the hardship given by the situation. The selection Mahiganting Langit
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In this story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ young Goodman Brown is on a journey of self discovery‚ exploring his spiritual beliefs. A walk through the forest at midnight becomes the focal point of the story of young Goodman Brown‚ detailing his thoughts and feelings of Satan‚ investigating how to resist Satan’s evil effects on his life and those he loves (Hawthorne‚ 1835). At the end of the story of young Goodman Brown he is described as a bitter‚ mean distrustful man and spouse‚ we will probe
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