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    Twin towers

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    entered the streets. The diving between the people was mayhem. I finally I got to work‚ at the twin towers‚ walking up the stairs to the 94th floor. To get todays assignments; Bumping into my boss on the way up. It wasn’t until I had just sat down I had caught something in the corner of my eye but the moment I looked at the object it was too late‚ a huge‚ snow white plane has heading straight for the tower. I ran raising all alarms for the soon impact but they already knew. About half of the workers on

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    York‚ developed concentrated groups of towers that prevailed the city skylines‚ as cathedrals had done centuries earlier in other parts of the world. The origin of the skyscraper or structures of large heights can be traced throughout architectural history. Though the phrase “skyscraper” was not a coined description‚ there were still buildings and structures of large scale‚ “scraping the skies”. The Egyptian pyramids‚ the Tower of Babel‚ the Leaning Tower of Pisa‚ and even the Pagodas‚ being

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    object travels at high speeds inside a narrow tube. Unless you have had the pleasure of traveling inside the Taipei 101 elevator‚ it really does sound like something from a Science Fiction movie‚ but without such a super fast elevator‚ the Taipei 101 tower would never have been built to such a lofty height since any conventional elevator would take forever to climb up to the top floors. Let us hope that the

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    Risky Business In the 1983 smash hit Risky Business‚ director Paul Brickman takes his audience on a wild ride through Chicago. The film spans across the Chicago land area‚ and beyond. From a small high school‚ to a world famous hotel‚ it really shows what Chicago is made of. But it also holds a dark side to itself‚ when the dangerous and socially perverse world of prostitution comes into play. Joel Goodman‚ played by Tom Cruise‚ is an average high school senior. He has regrets and doubts

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    INTRO Prader-Willi syndrome or PWS‚ is not a disease many people have knowledge about‚ or have even heard about it. Only about 1 in 25‚000 children are born with this rare syndrome. In 1956‚ Prader-Willi was first described by Andrea Prader‚ Heinrich Willi‚ and Alexis Labhart. Prader and Willi‚ both Swiss pediatricians‚ and Labhart‚ an internist‚ were the first people to publish a report on this syndrome (Nord‚ 2015). In the research‚ they described characteristics observed of the affected children

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    was created after being inspired by the flower Hymenocallis.  The central core of the tower supports the three elements that’s it is been made from. The tower has flat desert base‚ which then keeps narrowing down a spiraling pattern‚ until the tower has touched the sky. The Burj consists of 27 terraces. At the top‚ the central core emerges and is sculpted to form a finishing spire. At its tallest point‚ the tower sways a total of 1.5 m. To support the unprecedented height of the building‚ the engineers

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    Advantages of Having Burj Khalifa Tower built in U.A.E In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in Social Studies II- Asian History. Background of the study Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai‚ United Arab Emirates‚ and is the tallest manmade structure in the world. Construction began on 21 September 2004‚ with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010‚ The tower’s architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore

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    1) "The Antarctic is the vast source of frigidity on our planet‚ just as the sun is the source of our heat‚ and it exerts tremendous control on our climate ‚" [Jacques] Jacques Costeau told the television camera . "The cold ocean water around Antarctica period north to mix with heater water from the Torrid Zone ‚ and its upwellings help to aplomb both the open water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity‚" (Captain Jacques Yves Costeau

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    Spring Break Essay

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    we got a pretty good deal for the prices of our flight and on the hotel prices. Just for extra fun we drove to Chicago and stayed there for two nights. We explored downtown Chicago‚ all the amazing buildings. We even got to go into the old Sears Tower‚ which was something that I think everyone needs to see. It’s probably one of the best sights I’ve ever seen‚ other than the fact I’ve only seen a good view going down Quincy hill near my hometown. I forgot to mention that when we left for our flight

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    911 narrative Joseph Pfeifer chief of counter terrorism and preparedness Interviewed by Kate Pickert‚ New York City‚ July 9‚ 2011 witnessed the horror of terrorism at its greatest effect of the people in new york and for him 911 started off as a regular day at the fire house where he was stationed at. He saw the first plane crash into the north building world trade center as it was flying over the Hudson River at a very low altitude. He knew something was wrong after that point. He and his crew

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