Lotus Riverside Apartments The Lotus Riverside Apartment Complex was a newly built residential complex in Shanghai China that toppled over. It was a 13 story building that tumbled over before the building was all the way complete for move in. The building was built with a car garage attached to the bottom of the complex and the building collapsed while the workers were in process of excavating the area for the garage. The Lotus Riverside Complex failed due to many construction errors such
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inspirational speech that I have chosen is ‘Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter’. Mark begins by telling us a story of an act of heroism that didn’t quite go how he intended. He is a volunteer firefighter who showed up 2nd to the fire scene. The captain, in charge of assigning tasks, tells the first volunteer to go to the apartment and retrieve the dog of the homeowner, whose house was now in flames. He then tells Mark to go upstairs and get some shoes for the barefooted homeowner
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Theme Competition: The theme of competition has been shown in various ways throughout the chapters of "the Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins. It is specified in several chapters; starting in chapter 2 Katniss starts to describe her feeling which leads to the events that she believes that will take place in the arena. "I feel like I owe him something and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the
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Pwint Professor Prescott English 3 03 05 2013 The Capitalist Capitol versus Desolate District 12 Suzanne Collins’ 2008 book The Hunger Games is about a fictional country that has a reality entertainment show in which boys and girls, two from each of twelve districts, are forced to murder each other until only one is left. In 2012, director Gary Ross adapted Collins’ book into a film. On the surface, both the book and the film version of The Hunger Games seem to be just a form of entertainment
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basic skills and knowledge required to prevent, fight and extinguish fires on board an ocean-going commercial vessel.This unit incorporates the content of the previous two units TDMMF901A Fight and extinguish fires and TDMMF1201A Minimise the risk of fire and maintain a state of readiness to respond to emergency situations involving fire as the content applied to ocean-going vessels. It aligns with the AMSA approved course: SC002 ? Fire Prevention and Firefighting. | Unit Sector | Operational Quality
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Hypothesis Identification Danielle Rickards RES342 February 13, 2012 Dean Gualco Hypothesis Identification Algae are considered versatile in nature since it has much potential. Algae can be used for multiple purposes including food, bio-filters, industrial fuels and compounds, etc. It seems as though the more research conducted on algae, the more functions that are found. Recently more research studies have been conducted on the uses of algae. “Algae, being one of the widely cultivated species
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Executive Summary Introduction Fosse Commercial Contractors LLC is a small construction company formed from the merger of Fosse Painting & General Construction and West General Contractors. The company has successfully operated in the Houston area for the past ten years working on both small and large scale construction, repair, and alteration projects focusing on residential contracting. With the business boom that is occurring in our local area and the desire to improve overall
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Fire Extinguishers Fire extinguishers are divided into four categories, based on different types of fires. Each fire extinguisher also has a numerical rating that serves as a guide for the amount of fire the extinguisher can handle. The higher the number, the more fire-fighting power. The following is a quick guide to help choose the right type of extinguisher. | | Class A extinguishers are for ordinary combustible materials such as paper, wood, cardboard, and most plastics. The numerical
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A++PAPER;http://www.homeworkproviders.com/shop/acc-422-week-3/ ACC 422 WEEK 3 WILEYPLUS ASSIGNMENT EXERCISES ACC 422 Week 3 WileyPlus Assignment E9-1 (Lower-of-Cost-or-Market) The inventory of Oheto Company on December 31, 2011,consistsofthe following items. Part No. Quantity Cost per Unit Cost to Replace per Unit 110 600 $95 $100 111 1,000 60 52 112 500 80 76 113 200 170 180 120 400 205 208 121a 1,600 16 14 122 300 240 235 aPart No. 121 is obsolete and has a realizable value
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1/6 RIM SEAL FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM. FLOATING ROOF TANK (RIM SEAL) PROTECTION SYSTEM. 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Grishma's TANK GUARD - Floating Roof Tank protection is a fully automatic detection cum extinguishing system. The system is designed and manufactured for extremely fast detection and extinction of rim seal fires as per the International Safety Standards. 2. WORKING PRINCIPLE. To understand the complete working philosophy of the system, the system has been divided in the following
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