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    Millegan Creek Apartments

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    Is This Project Likely To Be Successful? Location‚ Product‚ Pricing Given the information‚ this project seems promising for success assuming high occupancy levels. The Millegan Creek Apartments would be a 390 unit apartment project in Williamson County‚ for a proposed $15‚715‚000 loan. It would be about 11 miles northwest of the CBD and close to many of Austin’s high tech companies. This location would be beneficial because it can service many of the high tech companies’ employees and since

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    Buffalo Creek Incident

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    Coal Crimes of Buffalo Creek Sara Hauke Medical Anthropology May 26‚ 2011 Let us imagine that one day a natural disaster hits your town‚ you watched everyone you know lose their homes‚ and for some‚ their lives. Your life view most likely would be skewed for some time‚ but who could you blame? Nature? God? While tragic‚ an act of nature or god most often carries no great amount of blame with it. This is not the case in the Buffalo Creek incident however. It is important to note that the

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    Wolf Creek Dam

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    The Sustainability of Experience — Investing in the Human Factor 28th Annual USSD Conference Portland‚ Oregon‚ April 28 - May 2‚ 2008 Hosted by Portland General Electric On the Cover Portland General Electric’s North Fork Dam‚ on the Clackamas River southeast of Portland‚ is a thin‚ variable-radius concrete arch dam with a maximum height of 207 feet and a thickness varying from 32 feet at the base to 8 feet at the crest. The spillway is a 200-foot-long gated ogee-type structure with

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    Sand Creek Masacre

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    Sand creek massacre- Date November 29‚ 1864 Location Colorado Territory Present-day Kiowa County‚ Colorado Result United States Army massacres Native Americans. Belligerents United States Cheyenne Arapaho Commanders and leaders United States John M. Chivington Black Kettle Strength 700 [1] 60–200 Casualties and losses 24 killed‚ 52 wounded[2] 70–163 killed[2] *the aftermath-The Sand Creek Massacre resulted in a heavy loss of life‚ mostly among Cheyenne and Arapaho women and

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    Bending Bridges

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    What factors affect the bending of bridges? Abstract: This experiment was designed and conducted to find out how different factors affect the amount of bending of the beam. The two variables that were tested were the amounts of weight and the position of the weight on the plank. Aim: To find out how weight and different placements of the weight affect the bending of the beam. Hypothesis: It is predicted that the wood will bend more if there is more weight on it. When the weight is positioned

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    Bridge Paper

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    2/4/2013 Bridge improvements Building a bridge was trial and error. This is not something you can do over night. When building the bridge I have to focus on the structure‚ details and actually putting it together right. The structure of my frame I made with the thicker wood‚ but it should have been placed different. Looking at the data from testing other bridges‚ the bridges who double bonded their wood at the bottom last a lot longer that the one piece of wood. My bridge failed when one

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    Women of Hollering Creek

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    Professor Barclay ENG1002 12 October 2008 Literary Analysis Essay from Feminist Perspective When Sandra Cisneros wrote “Women of Hollering Creek” she reflected back on her own life experiences. This is a story that is told from the female perspective from start to finish. Like the lead character‚ Cleofilas‚ Cisneros is Mexican-American and the only daughter in a family that has seven children. Cisneros studied creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and earned her Masters of Fine Arts

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    Ruby Bridges

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    teacher from Boston‚ works with Ruby since none of the regular teachers will have anything to do with her. Through the hard work of the people who told Ruby to attend the white school and through the determination of Ruby‚ Miss Henry‚ and Mr. and Mrs. Bridges‚ Ruby overcame discrimination‚ racism‚ prejudice‚ stereotyping‚ and educational equalities. The discrimination Ruby faced went entering the schools everyday was horrible. The protesters yelled mean and very hurtful things at her. Discrimination

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    Bridge Building

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    Truck Drawing 12 * Truck Considerations 13 * Testing Rig Drawing 16 * Testing Rig Considerations 17 Background Research Information 18 * Four Factors Distinguishing all Types of Bridge Structure 18 Exploration of Bridge Structures 20 * Types of Span 20 * Materials 21 * Three Travel Surface Configurations 22 * The Different Structural Types 23 * The Different Types of Trusses 30 Initial Conceptual

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    The London Bridge

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    London Bridge The London Bridge is probably the most famous bridge ever built. After being in songs and being rebuilt a number of times the London Bridge is also one of the oldest bridges. The first London Bridge was built by Romans sometime after 43 AD and some of its wooden remains have been uncovered on the north side of the river. During its life the wooden structure was renewed several times‚ and it was probably to this earliest bridge that the nursery rhyme ‘London Bridge is falling

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