obstacle in our lives is a challenge that would teach us how to get back on our feet unscathed or at least still relatively whole. Mary Lawson conveyed how such obstacles could shape a person's identity through the characters of her novel, The Other Side of the Bridge. They were written to be as close as possible to real people hence, they also go through difficulties that change not only their future but the core of their being. Arthur, undoubtedly, is a character that has been heavily affected by different
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|Spaghetti Bridge | Abstract For this assignment our task was to build as a group a spaghetti bridge with the objective of carrying the most weight as possible using only spaghetti and hot glue, meeting the specifications. The bridges will be loaded until they fall. After testing to destruction, the bridges loading capacity was 14.4kg, with an initial mas of 0.840kg. This gave a weight to strength ratio of 17.1
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decided on doing a Bridge building task. The aim of this task was to build a bridge out of the resources provided. Our bridge had to be strong enough so it could to manage to hold a glue stick and other objects the bridge could hold. We first decided to a draw a plan for the bridge on a piece of paper. We then decided to distribute roles based on the skills certain individuals had. Freddie was the leader of the team; he started by rolling the paper to make pillars to support the bridge. At first we struggled
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Why was the bridge built? The Sydney Harbour Bridge (also known as ‘The Coat hanger’) was built to connect the City of Sydney (at Dawes Point) to The North Shore (at Milsons Point). It was built to resolve the continuing and growing transport problems of the Sydney Harbour. Everyday dozens of ferries carried people to and from the North and South Shore. There was only one other way to get to the other side of the shore other than taking a ferry and it was by road but it took 20 kilometers and a
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Analyse * Suspension bridge – they are likely to be used to span a wide expanse of water I find it appropriate for it to be built in this scenario because it is not possible to build a beam bridge * Cable stayed bridge- this is a versatile bridge because it can be suitable for short and long spans 1. The community of drakensburg has been struggling with a problem of primary kids and residencies having trouble to cross to the other side of the river to go to school therefore the municipality
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teacher describes the settings and the rules. The story of the game is about a boy who lives in house next to a lake and wants to go play in the playground on the other side of the lake. He needs to form a bridge using blocks to pass the lake. The first screen starts with a display of a house on one side and playground on the other side where there is a lake in the middle and a boy standing next to the house. On the top of the screen, a beginning of a story will be displayed as “The boy wants to go
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Senior Design Project Submittal May 4 2012 Bleser Park Pedestrian Bridge The following is a 2011-2012 Senior Design Project report for the Fenn College of Engineering at Cleveland State University. Senior Design Project Submittal 2012 Table of Contents 1.0.0 Introduction........................................................................................................................................ 5 1.1.0 1.2.0 2.0.0 2.1.0 2.2.0 2.3.0 2.4.0 Objective ....................
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Disaster: Tacoma Washington Bridge Disaster The Tacoma Washington Bridge was built in Washington state during the 1930’s. The bridge was made available to traffic on July 1, 1990. The bridge spanned the Puget Sound from Gig Harbor to Tacoma, which is 40 miles south of Seattle. The main font of the bridge on the Tacoma, Washington side was 28,000 feet long, 39 feet wide and the steel stiffening girders were 8 feet tall. There were four months of active life on the bridge before the failure. Many transverse
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Project Management PM3110 Victor Nyankah 10/24/14 Tacoma Narrow Bridge Executive Summary The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in 1940 at the cost of $6.4 million funded mostly by the federal government’s Public Works Administration. The purpose of the brigde was to connect Seattle and Tacoma with the Puget Sound Navy at Bremerton, Washington. It was said to be the third largest of its kind. Though it was a long bridge, it was very narrow because it only had one way traffic from each direction
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battery charging applications of hybrid plug in electric vehicles full bridge dc-dc converters are commonly used. The fundamental problem regarding the conventional full bridge DC/DC converter topology is the voltage spikes across output diodes due to
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