To answer the question am I an objectivist or subjectivist about art I will use this analogy to paint a picture. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's around to hear it does it make a sound or does it not? If you look at the tree as an objective you will say it has its own properties without someone giving it to them. Something is objective if it is independent of our opinions on it it. A property is objective if particular objects can have that properties regardless of any subject’s…
The world financial plaza needs a new quote on their fences on the Hudson River. At the moment the quote in the fence says, "City of the Sea!¦City of wharves and stores-city of tall facades of marble and iron! Proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!" It is always good to change things up. The quote should be changed, but it should still come from the famous words of Walt Whitman. As everyone knows New York City is one of the most competitive places on earth. You need…
Narrows Bridge, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into the Northwestern coast of Washington on November 7 of the same year. At the time of its construction, the bridge was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world in terms of main span length, behind the Golden Gate Bridge and…
Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges that span the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound in Pierce County, Washington. The bridges connect the city of Tacoma with the Kitsap Peninsula and carry State Route 16 over the strait. Historically, the name "Tacoma Narrows Bridge" has applied to the original bridge nicknamed "Galloping Gertie", which opened in July 1940 but collapsed because of aeroelastic flutter four months later, as well as the replacement of the original bridge which…
Like other countries in South and Central America, Panama has had some serious environmental issues. For a lot of the countrys history, money had more importance than conservation, and an ethic of man over nature pervaded the culture. Forests were chopped down routinely to make room for cattle. However, in the 20th century Panama started to take positive steps in the opposite direction. The country started to create protected areas (including parks and wildlife refuges), write environmental…
settled. Originally referred to as Brooklyn Village, Brooklyn Heights has been a prominent and relevant area of Brooklyn since 1834. Brooklyn Heights possesses a wide demographic of residents. Due to the extremely close proximity of the Brooklyn bridge, numerous artists decide to live in the less hectic, yet still convenient neighborhood. With Wall…
Ruby Bridges Ruby Bridges is famous for doing something most of us take for granted today: going to elementary school. But that simple act by one small girl played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement. Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, and grew up on the farm her parents and grandparents sharecropped in Mississippi. When she was 4 years old, her parents, Abon and Lucille Bridges, moved to New Orleans, hoping for a…
Penang Second Bridge is one of the largest civil engineering projects in Malaysia after the First Penang Bridge. Penang Second Bridge or also known as The Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah Bridge was a dual carriageway toll bridge in Penang, Malaysia. It was the second bridge which connects the mainland to the island after the first Penang Bridge. Once construction is completed, a maintenance management system plays an important role in maintaining the adequacy and the structure of the bridge so…
The I-35W Mississippi bridge was an eight lane, three span deck truss bridge which carried the interstate highway 35 across the Mississippi river. It was located in the biggest city of Minnesota, Minneapolis. It carried around 140,000 vehicles per day, making it the second busiest bridge in Minnesota. Construction repair and renew work was scheduled to be carried on the bridge again in 2020 or so. However, on August 1st, 2007, it collapsed all of a sudden, thereby killing 13 people and injuring…
The Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse Antonio Larios SYST 505 Professor Rochelle Jones February 6, 2017 George Mason University 2 Background The Interstate 35 West (I-35W) Mississippi River Bridge was a steel truss bridge built by the Industrial Construction Company and Hurcon Inc. between 1964 and 1967. Located in downtown Minneapolis, the bridge spanned over 1,900 feet across the Mississippi River and had a width of eight lanes (Minnesota, 2007). As early as 1991, the I-35W Bridge had already…