people from injury that may be caused by failure of, or impact with, glazing. FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT BF1.2 Glazing is to be installed in a building to avoid undue risk of injury to people. PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT BP1.3 BP1.3 inserted by BCA 2004 Glass installations that are at risk of being subjected to human impact must have glazing that— (a) if broken on impact, will break in a way that is not likely to cause injury to people; and (b) resists a reasonably foreseeable human impact without breaking;
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Symmetrical openings were typical. (Greek Revival) The First Presbyterian Church is made up of the finest of its type-mahogany wood, granite exterior, opalescent stained glass windows and interior dome, bronze light fixtures, and Carrara marble stairways. The First Presbyterian Church of Orange Texas features the only opalescent glass dome
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sustainability, and it is an important art of Adnams’s success. Many of the ways this company is reducing costs is also very environmentally efficient. The company reduced 37% of glass used in the bottles. This is good for the environment and good for the company as well because they save glass costs and can use less glass to produce more. The company’s new distribution center has many environmentally efficient things about it. The center is has an acre of grass on the roof and has walls made out of
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Michelle Cybularz January 4, 2010 “The Glass Menagerie” In Tennessee Williams’ ,“The Glass Menagerie,” there are relationships between the three main characters. The relationship between Tom and Laura is a typical brother sister relationship. They both get along and are nice to each other, but at the same time have their fighting moments. When Tom and Laura are bickering back and forth about their mother when she is talking about he seventeen gentlemen callers it really shows their true
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live their life. Maybe their choices or actions aren’t exactly admirable or necessarily considered “right”, but nevertheless they defend them if anyone were to ever challenge them about their legitimacy. In Jeannette Walls captivating memoir, The Glass Castle, the reader becomes enthralled with Jeannette’s constant battle between defending her family and the greatness she hopes the Walls will amount to, and settling for the fact that her family is based off of false hope and senseless lies with her
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The Broken Glass Unicorn: Laura’s New Normalcy The breaking of Laura’s glass unicorn represents Laura’s new normalcy that is thrust upon her by her first gentleman caller, Jim O’Connor. Of the many animals in Laura’s collection the unicorn is her favourite animal of them all. The unicorn represents Laura’s peculiarity. When Laura hands Jim the unicorn she says, “I shouldn’t be partial, but he is my favourite one” (83). Jim points out that unicorns are extinct in the real world. They are also lonesome
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that he will tell the story sometime in the future but with twists in the story saying he took the less traveled road. One of the themes that “The Road Not Taken” portrays is decision making, which relates to the decision Tom had to make in The Glass Menagerie. He had to choose between his dreams of pursuing adventure or keeping his job to support his family. Tom takes Laura to a magic show where a magician manages to escape from a nailed up coffin. As the show proceeds Tom relates his life
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The Symbolic Views of a Glass Menagerie Symbols play a vital role in everyone’s day-to-day life, now when you think of glass as a symbol, what’s the first thought that comes to mind? As you might have suspected, “The Glass Menagerie” is full of hidden symbols which are utilized throughout the play and are unique while playing a vital role in telling the story. The most obvious symbol in this play would be Laura's glass sculptures, also known as her glass menagerie. Besides the menagerie, there
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cooker. They do not need to be removed for cleaning. These elements have a greater thermal mass than radiant coil elements and are thus less efficient and have a slower response time. Ceramic top cookers have their elements below heat resistant ceramic glass. This improves appearance and improves cleaning. These types of cookers take longer to heat up than radiant coil and solid disc cookers. Their response is also slower than the above-mentioned cookers. The main function of the cooker is to heat the
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1970 question # 2- Analyze the complexities and contradictions to be found in a well-rounded character from a play of your choice. Tom Wingfield introduces himself as an ambitious man who wishes to escape his own reality in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie (1945). He is the breadwinner of his family, providing for his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura, by working at a “shoe factory where his father worked” (1612). Tom narrates the play from his dreamer perspective. He constantly goes to
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