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    Henri Cartier-Bresson

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    people unsettled. In relation to the colours in the image, most are dull dark shades but with beams of light, which give a more gloomy effect. The lighting in this photo is odd because it seems there is light coming from every direction of the room. There are beams of light obviously coming from the right, then again in the back window and from above. But what I don’t understand is why is the right beams of light have no effect on the right side of her face, then the left side of her face is…

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    Trebuchet Research Paper

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    Once this is done, the counterweight (i.e. potential energy) is increased by weight (in this experiment those take the form of ~0.5 kg weights) being added. The sling and projectile are put into position below the hinge under the beam, and upon triggering the projectile is accelerated as the gravitational potential energy of the counterweight begins to turn into kinetic energy (energy of movement). The sling portion of the trebuchet serves to magnify this by first moving the projectile…

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    Ancient Indian architecture Intro Indian architecture goes all the way back to 2500 BC. In the Harrapan period in northern India now called modern Pakistan The Harrapan’s built big cities with large stone walls around them huge public baths and large warehouses but after the Harrapan empire crashed in 2000 BC two thousand years went past before anybody in India built a big stone building again. What did they build back then? When Indian architects started building big buildings again they…

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    death seemed better than the life the POWs were living. “Lying on the ground before them was a thick, heavy wooden beam, some six feet long. Pick it up, the Bird said. With some effort, Louie hoisted it up, and the Bird ordered him to lift it high and hold it directly above his head. Louie heaved the beam up… all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me… Louie had held the beam aloft for thirty seven minutes.” Louie was sick and sick POWs who can notcan’t do work get half rations so they…

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    The mesh global size was changed from 9 (coarse mesh) to 1 (fine mesh) in increments of 0.5 and a graph was derived from this. The graph (Fig. 8) was a plot of the stress at the bottom face of the support beam against the number of elements in the mesh for each mesh global size value. Mesh Convergence Analysis for Safe model (Fig. 8) This shows that the stress value converged at a value of 6.001 MPa. The convergence point is indicated by a ring on the…

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    Parthenon By: Evan French Thesis The Parthenon was a big influence on greek architecture (Specifically columns). How did it influence greek architecture? It was one of the biggest influence on using columns. It displayed all three types of columns. It also influenced Roman architecture when they conquered the Western World (they liked the ideas of the different types of columns, which they were fascinated by). Greek to Roman to American The Greeks influenced the Romans’…

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    In the editorial, "Is Harry Potter Evil?", the author Judy Blume discusses the danger of allowing people to censor books so freely. Alex Beam, author of "Why Stop with Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn'?", points his fingers towards the people whom he feels are making foolish decisions by banning books. Although both articles discuss the problems and dangers of banning books, they do so in different ways. They use many of the same techniques, but with different approaches. In "Is Harry Potter…

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    microns in diameter and can modify the light characteristics[15]. (b). Absorption Absorption occurs when the suspended water molecules in the terrestrial atmosphere extinguish photons. This causes a decrease in the power density (attenuation) of the FSO beam and directly affects the availability of a system[15].…

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    Miles screams as a beam falls on him arm. “Miles!” I stop in my tracks, making Cayleb fall over me. I climb back to my feet and jog back to my brother. Cayleb begs from me to leave him, but I refuse. Our parents died when we were only eleven years old, and I will not lose another piece of my family. Miles turns to the side moaning and places his other hand on the beam. I reach him and attempt to help him lift it, to no prevail. I jerk my head…

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    The Invisible Pink Slippers Before the worst night of my life happened, I lived a normal life of a 10-year-old ballerina. I could dance ballet every day after school. I would twist and turn, leap and soar above all my problems from the day. Ballet was my haven, away from my peers, pushy teachers, and school work. In my beautiful pink slippers, I could do and be anything. When I put on those slippers, I felt as if spring had taken over the winter inside of me. My skin glowed, my cheeks reddened,…

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